AB654: Bill Text

2017 - 2018 LEGISLATURE

2017 Assembly BILL 654

November 14, 2017 - Introduced by Representatives Pronschinske, Bernier, Crowley, Fields, Genrich, Goyke, Horlacher, Jacque, Kolste, Kremer, Krug, Kulp, Mursau, Nygren, Petryk, Ripp, Rohrkaste, Sinicki, Skowronski, Subeck, Tittl and Young, cosponsored by Senators Petrowski, Bewley, Carpenter, Darling, Feyen, Hansen, Harsdorf, Olsen, Risser, Testin, Vinehout and Wanggaard. Referred to Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety.

AB654,1,3 An Act to create 20.465 (3) (fm) and 256.35 (2m) of the statutes; relating to: dispatcher assisted bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation and making an appropriation.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

This bill requires public safety answering points to provide, in appropriate circumstances, telephonic assistance on administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation. The bill also requires the Department of Military Affairs to distribute grants for the purpose of training dispatchers to provide telephonic assistance on administering CPR.

Under the bill, every public safety answering point must either 1) have dispatchers certified in CPR and trained to provide, using an evidence-based protocol, telephonic instruction on administering CPR to a person who has called 911 and provide continuing education on that protocol; or 2) transfer callers to a dedicated telephone line, telephone center, or another public safety answering point that will provide the caller with assistance on administering CPR. If transferring callers, the public safety answering point must use an evidence-based protocol for the identification of a person in need of CPR, provide appropriate training and continuing education, and ensure that any dedicated telephone line, telephone center, or public safety answering point to which calls are transferred uses dispatchers that have the appropriate training to provide telephone assistance on administering CPR. The bill also requires every public safety answering point to conduct ongoing quality assurance of its dispatcher assisted bystander CPR program.

Finally, the bill requires DMA to distribute grants to public safety answering points that employ one or more dispatchers that have not completed training as described in the bill. A grant recipient must use grant moneys to provide the required dispatcher training in telephonic assistance on administering CPR. The bill authorizes DMA to request, during the 2017-19 fiscal biennium, supplemental funding from the Joint Committee on Finance and requires DMA to include in its 2019-21 biennial budget request a proposal for additional funding to provide grants under this program.

For further information see the state and local 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:

AB654,1 Section 1. 20.005 (3) (schedule) of the statutes: at the appropriate place, insert the following amounts for the purposes indicated: - See PDF for table

AB654,2 Section 2. 20.465 (3) (fm) of the statutes is created to read:

AB654,2,7 20.465 (3) (fm) Emergency dispatcher cardiopulmonary resuscitation training grants. Biennially, the amounts in the schedule for awarding grants for training public safety answering point dispatchers to provide telephonic assistance on administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation under s. 256.35 (2m).

AB654,3 Section 3. 256.35 (2m) of the statutes is created to read:

AB654,2,10 256.35 (2m) Dispatcher assisted bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation. (a) In this subsection, “department” means the department of military affairs.

AB654,3,4 (b) Beginning on the first day of the 25th month that begins after the effective date of this paragraph .... [LRB inserts date], every public safety answering point shall, in appropriate circumstances, provide telephonic assistance on administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation by doing any of the following:

AB654,3,6 1. Providing each dispatcher with training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation that includes all of the following:

AB654,3,7 a. Certification in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

AB654,3,10 b. Use of an evidence-based protocol or script for providing cardiopulmonary resuscitation instruction recommended by an academic institution or a nationally recognized organization specializing in medical dispatch.

AB654,3,11 c. Appropriate continuing education, as determined by the department.

AB654,3,16 2. Transferring callers to a dedicated telephone line, telephone center, or another public safety answering point to provide the caller with assistance on administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation. If a public safety answering point transfers callers under this subsection, the transferring public service answering point shall do all of the following:

AB654,3,18 a. Use an evidence-based protocol for the identification of a person in need of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

AB654,3,21 b. Provide appropriate training and continuing education, as determined by the department, on the protocol for identification of a person in need of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

AB654,3,25 c. Ensure that any dedicated telephone line, telephone center, or public safety answering point to which calls are transferred under this subdivision uses dispatchers that meet the training requirements under subd. 1. to provide assistance on administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

AB654,4,4 (c) Beginning on the first day of the 25th month that begins after the effective date of this paragraph .... [LRB inserts date], every public safety answering point shall conduct ongoing quality assurance of its dispatcher assisted bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation program.

AB654,4,8 (d) 1. From the appropriation under s. 20.465 (3) (fm), the department shall distribute grants to public safety answering points for dispatcher training on telephonic assistance on administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation, as required under par. (b).

AB654,4,13 2. A public safety answering point is eligible to receive a grant under this paragraph if it employs one or more dispatchers that have not completed training as described under par. (b). A grant recipient shall use grant moneys received under this paragraph to provide dispatchers with training in accordance with the standards under par. (b).

AB654,4,15 3. Subject to subd. 2., the department shall establish criteria for approving and distributing grants under subd. 1.

AB654,4 Section 4. Nonstatutory provisions.

AB654,4,23 (1) During the 2017-19 fiscal biennium, the department of military affairs may submit one or more requests to the joint committee on finance under section 13.10 of the statutes to supplement the appropriation under section 20.465 (3) (fm) of the statutes from the appropriation under section 20.865 (4) (a) of the statutes for the purpose of distributing grants under section 256.35 (2m) (d). Notwithstanding section 13.101 of the statutes, the joint committee on finance is not required to find that an emergency exists before making a supplementation under this subsection.

AB654,5,2 (2) The department of military affairs shall include in its 2019-21 biennial budget request a proposal for funding grants to public safety answering points for dispatcher training on telephonic assistance on administering cardiopulmonary resuscitation under section 256.35 (2m) of the statutes.

AB654,5,3 (End)