STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 541 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 4, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. YOUNG -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Local Government AN ACT to amend the general municipal law, in relation to directing municipalities to submit a report to the local social services district on the circumstances surrounding the summoning of emergency medical services on four or more occasions for any individual during a thirty day period of time The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The general municipal law is amended by adding a new 2 section 122-a to read as follows: 3 § 122-a. Reports of frequent emergency medical service calls for an 4 individual. 1. Every county, city, town and village, which receives and 5 responds to four or more calls or demands for the provision of emergency 6 medical service, as defined in subdivision one of section three thousand 7 one of the public health law, to any individual during any period of 8 thirty days, shall report the circumstances of each such call or demand 9 and response to the local social services district and office of the 10 medicaid inspector general, in such form as shall be determined by the 11 commissioner of health. 12 2. Every report submitted by a municipality pursuant to subdivision 13 one of this section shall include such information as shall be required 14 by the commissioner of health, including whether the individual for whom 15 emergency medical service is being summoned appears to be receiving 16 adequate care and support at his or her place of residence, and whether 17 the summoning of emergency medical service appears to be unwarranted. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 19 ing the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05740-01-7