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ARIZONA STATE SENATE
Fifty-Sixth Legislature, First Regular Session
AMENDED
election
board workers; political party
(NOW: police dogs; emergency treatment)
As passed by the Senate, S.B. 1068 required the inspector, marshal and judges of an election board for an election precinct, voting center or other voting location to include board members who are members of the two political parties that cast the highest number of votes in the state at the last general election.
The House of Representatives adopted a strike-everything amendment that does the following:
Purpose
Requires each ambulance service to authorize the service's properly trained emergency medical care technicians (EMCTs) to provide emergency treatment to a police dog and to transport the police dog by ambulance or another emergency medical services vehicle to a veterinary clinic or hospital equipped to provide emergency treatment to dogs.
Background
An ambulance is any privately or publicly owned surface, water or air vehicle that contains a stretcher and necessary medical equipment and supplies and that is especially designed and constructed or modified and equipped to be used, maintained or operated primarily to transport individuals who are sick, injured, wounded or who require medical monitoring or aid. Ambulances provide emergency medical services following an accident or an emergency medical situation, including: 1) on-site emergency medical care; 2) transportation of the sick or injured; 3) emergency communications media; 4) use of emergency receiving facilities; and 5) administering initial care and preliminary treatment procedures by EMCTs. An ambulance service is any person who owns or operates one or more ambulances (A.R.S. § 36-2201).
An emergency medical care technician is an individual who has been
certified by the Department of Health Services (DHS) as an emergency medical
technician, an advanced emergency medical technician, an emergency medical
technician I-99 or a paramedic (A.R.S.
§ 36-2201). DHS rules
outline the medical services included in the scope of practice of an EMCT,
including airway clearage, oxygen therapy, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, defibrillation,
medication administration, intravenous fluid administration and maintenance, childbirth
and blood glucose monitoring (A.A.C. R9-25-502).
There is no anticipated fiscal impact to the state General Fund associated with this legislation.
Provisions
1. Requires each ambulance service to authorize the service's properly trained EMCT to:
a) provide emergency treatment to a police dog that is injured in the line of duty; and
b) transport the police dog, along with a police officer or other police personnel who are medically trained, by ambulance or another emergency medical services vehicle to a veterinary clinic or veterinary hospital equipped to provide emergency treatment to dogs.
2. Specifies that EMCTs are authorized to provide emergency medical care to police dogs only if a person is not requiring emergency medical treatment or transport at that time.
3. Allows each ambulance service to develop written policies and procedures for:
a) appropriate training of the ambulance service's EMCT personnel to provide police dogs with basic level first aid, cardiopulmonary resuscitation and life-saving interventions, including administering Naloxone, that are developed in consultation with a veterinarian who is licensed in Arizona;
b) safe handling procedures for injured police dogs, including the use of a box muzzle, and response coordination with a law enforcement agency member who is trained in handling police dogs, that are developed in consultation with a veterinarian who is licensed in Arizona and a law enforcement police dog handler or trainer;
c) identification of local veterinary facilities that will provide emergency treatment of injured police dogs on short notice;
d) proper and complete decontamination of stretchers, the patient compartment and all contaminated medical equipment after a police dog has been transported by an ambulance or other emergency medical services vehicle; and
e) sterilization of the interior of an ambulance or other emergency medical services vehicle, including complete sanitizing of all allergens and disinfection to a standard safe for human transport before the ambulance or other vehicle is returned to human service.
4. Provides that EMCTs and any other certified personnel who, in the performance of the person's duties and in good faith, render emergency first aid, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, transportation or other emergency medical services to an injured police dog, are not personally liable as a result of rendering such aid or services.
5. Defines police dog as a specifically trained dog that is owned or used by a law enforcement department or agency of Arizona or any political subdivision and that is used in the course of the department's or agency's official work, including:
a) search and rescue dogs;
b) service dogs;
c) accelerant detection canine; or
d) any other dog that is in use by the law enforcement agency for official duties.
6. Makes technical changes.
7. Becomes effective on the general effective date.
Amendments Adopted by the House of Representatives
· Adopted the strike-everything amendment.
House Action
MAPS 3/27/23 DPA/SE 15-0-0-0
3rd Read 4/25/23 56-2-1-0-1
Prepared by Senate Research
April 26, 2023
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