An act to amend and reenact section 23-27-04.3 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to emergency medical services personnel training., the official text

Sixty-ninth Legislative Assembly of North Dakota In Regular Session Commencing Tuesday, January 7, 2025
SENATE BILL NO. 2100 (Senator Beard)
(Representatives Fegley, Richter)
AN ACT to amend and reenact section 23-27-04.3 of the North Dakota Century Code, relating to emergency medical services personnel training.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF NORTH DAKOTA: SECTION 1. AMENDMENT. Section 23-27-04.3 of the North Dakota Century Code is amended and
reenacted as follows: 23-27-04.3. Emergency medical services personnel training, testing, certification, licensure,
and quality review - Penalty. 1. The department of health and human services shall adopt rules prescribing minimum training, testing, certification, licensure, and quality review standards for emergency medical services personnel, including community emergency medical services personnel, instructors, and training institutions. 2. Rules adopted must include a definition of minimum applicable standards, a definition of emergency medical services personnel, provide for a mechanism for certifying or licensing persons who have met the required standards, provide a mechanism to review and improve the quality of care rendered by emergency medical services personnel, and define minimum standards for emergency medical services training institutions. 3. Rules adopted must allow emergency medical services instructors to provide direct, entrylevel certification training for the levels of emergency medical responder and emergency medical technician, under the oversight of the department and without the requirements of an emergency medical services training institute. 4. Licensing as an emergency medical services training institution is optional. 5. It is a class B misdemeanor for an individual to willfully misrepresent that individual's certification or licensing status as emergency medical services personnel. 6. Quality review and improvement information, data, records, and proceedings are not subject to subpoena or discovery or introduction into evidence in any civil action.

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____________________________ President of the Senate

____________________________ Speaker of the House

____________________________ Secretary of the Senate

____________________________ Chief Clerk of the House

This certifies that the within bill originated in the Senate of the Sixty-ninth Legislative Assembly of North Dakota and is known on the records of that body as Senate Bill No. 2100.

Senate Vote: House Vote:

Yeas 44 Yeas 91

Nays 1 Nays 0

Absent 2 Absent 3

____________________________ Secretary of the Senate
Received by the Governor at ________M. on _____________________________________, 2025. Approved at ________M. on __________________________________________________, 2025.

____________________________ Governor
Filed in this office this ___________day of _______________________________________, 2025, at ________ o’clock ________M.

____________________________ Secretary of State