Sec. 19a-184. (Formerly Sec. 19-73ff). Functions of regional emergency medical services councils. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 19a-184. (Formerly Sec. 19-73ff). Functions of regional emergency medical services councils. (a) Each emergency medical services council shall (1) forward to the Commissioner of Public Health the emergency medical services plan for its region, and (2) review and within sixty days forward to the commissioner, together with its recommendations, all grant and contract applications for federal and state funds pertaining to emergency medical services from the following entities within its region: (A) A unit of local government, (B) a public entity administering a compact or other regional arrangement or consortium, or (C) any other public entity or any nonprofit private agency.

      (b) The chairpersons, or their designees, of said councils shall meet as a group, at least bimonthly, with the Office of Emergency Medical Services to discuss the planning, coordination and implementation of the state-wide emergency medical care service system.

      (P.A. 74-305, S. 13, 19; P.A. 75-112, S. 11, 18; P.A. 77-268, S. 6; 77-614, S. 323, 610; P.A. 87-420, S. 7, 14; P.A. 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-257, S. 12, 21, 58; P.A. 98-195, S. 11.)

      History: P.A. 75-112 replaced commission on hospitals and health care with commissioner of health; P.A. 77-268 replaced "b" agencies with "health systems" agencies and added Subsec. (c) re monthly meetings of council chairpersons and director of office of emergency medical services; P.A. 77-614 replaced commissioner of health with commissioner of health services, effective January 1, 1979; Sec. 19-73ff transferred to Sec. 19a-184 in 1983; P.A. 87-420 deleted all references to health systems agencies, the thirty-day limit for review and the provision requiring comments from the emergency medical services council; P.A. 93-381 replaced commissioner of health services with commissioner of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Commissioner and Department of Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner and Department of Public Health, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 98-195 amended Subsec. (b) by deleting "the director of" before "Office of Emergency Medical Services".