LRB-1464/P1
ZDW:amn
2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Bollhorst, BB0332 - Ambulance inspection program
For 2023-2025 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Transportation
Drivers and motor vehicles
Ambulance inspection
Under current law, prior to issuing a registration for an ambulance, DOT must inspect the ambulance to determine whether it meets requirements for specifications, medical equipment, supplies, and sanitation.
This bill provides that DHS, rather than DOT, must inspect an ambulance to determine whether it meets requirements for medical equipment and prohibits DOT from issuing a registration for an ambulance until DHS has conducted the inspection. The bill authorizes DHS to promulgate rules to establish these medical equipment requirements for ambulances.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1. 341.085 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
341.085 (1) The department shall inspect all ambulances prior to issuing an original or renewal registration to determine that the vehicles meet requirements specified by law or administrative rule as to specifications, medical equipment, supplies, and sanitation.
Section
2. 341.085 (1m) of the statutes is created to read:
341.085 (1m) Prior to the department issuing an original or renewal registration for an ambulance under sub. (1), the department of health services shall inspect the ambulance to determine whether the vehicle meets requirements specified by law or administrative rule as to medical equipment.
Section
3. 341.085 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
341.085 (2) The department may adopt rules necessary for administration of this section and prescribe ambulance service equipment and standards therefor, except that any ambulance which does not conform to rules adopted by the department may be used until December 30, 1979. The department of health services may adopt rules necessary to administer sub. (1m) and establish ambulance medical equipment standards.
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