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Committee advances bill requiring EMS to report overdoses to state tracking database
Summary
The House Veterans Affairs & Emergency Preparedness Committee adopted an amendment clarifying that a patient care report satisfies reporting requirements and advanced Senate Bill 89, which would require EMS providers to report known or suspected overdoses into an online system integrated with the Pennsylvania State Police overdose database.
The House Veterans Affairs & Emergency Preparedness Committee voted to send Senate Bill 89 to the full House after adopting an amendment clarifying how emergency medical services must report overdoses.
The amendment to the bill, A1094, "clarifies that a patient care report shall satisfy the requirements of the bill for an EMS provider," Mike Hillman, committee staff, said. After the amendment was adopted, the committee chair announced that Senate Bill 89 would move to the House floor as amended.
Senate Bill 89, offered by Senator Mastriano, would require EMS providers to report known or suspected overdoses through an online platform integrated into the Pennsylvania State Police's overdose tracking database, Hillman told the committee. The amendment adopted at the hearing specifies that the patient care report is sufficient to meet the bill's reporting requirement.
Committee members did not record a roll-call vote in the public transcript; the chair announced the amendment was adopted and that the bill "moves to the House floor as amended." No further amendments or fiscal projections were presented at the hearing.
The bill next goes to the House floor for consideration; the committee did not provide a fiscal note during the hearing and did not identify implementation timing for the online reporting platform in the session transcript.
