HOUSE BILL No. 4811


     June 17, 1999, Introduced by Reps. Switalski, Hale, Callahan, Dennis, Quarles, Gieleghem
and Wojno and referred to the Committee on Employment Relations, Training and Safety.


        A bill to amend 1969 PA 312, entitled

   "An act to provide for compulsory arbitration of labor disputes
   in municipal police and fire departments; to define such public
   departments; to provide for the selection of members of arbitra-
   tion panels; to prescribe the procedures and authority thereof;
   and to provide for the enforcement and review of awards thereof,"

   by amending section 2 (MCL 432.232).

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 1         Sec.  2.  (1) AS USED IN THIS ACT:

 2         (A) "Public police and fire departments" means any depart-

 3    ment of a city, county, village, or township having employees

 4    engaged as,  policemen, or in fire fighting or subject to
             the

 5     hazards thereof, emergency  OR SUBJECT TO THE
                       HAZARDS OF, ANY OF

 6    THE FOLLOWING:

 7         (i) POLICE OFFICERS, CORRECTIONS OFFICERS, OR
             FIREFIGHTERS.

 8         (ii) EMERGENCY medical service personnel employed by a

 9    police or fire department.  , or an emergency 


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 1         (iii) EMERGENCY telephone  operator 
             OPERATORS employed by a

 2    police or fire department.

 3         (B)  (2)  "Emergency medical service
             personnel"  for pur-

 4     poses of this act  includes a person who 
                       provides  DOES ANY OF

 5    THE FOLLOWING:

 6         (i) PROVIDES assistance at dispatched or observed
             medical

 7    emergencies occurring outside a recognized medical facility,

 8    including  instances of  MEDICAL EMERGENCIES SUCH
             AS heart

 9    attack, stroke, injury accidents, electrical accidents, drug

10    overdoses, imminent childbirth, and other instances  where
             there

11     is  INVOLVING the possibility of death or further
                       injury.  ;

12     initiates 

13         (ii) INITIATES stabilizing treatment or transportation
             of

14    THE injured from the emergency site.   notifies 

15         (iii) NOTIFIES police or interested departments of
             certain

16    situations encountered including criminal matters, poisonings,

17    and the  report  EXISTENCE of contagious diseases.

18         (C) "Emergency telephone operator"  for the purpose of
             this

19     act  includes a person employed by a police or fire
                       department

20    for the purpose of relaying emergency calls to police, fire, or

21    emergency medical service personnel.

22         (2)  (3)  This act  shall 
             DOES not apply to persons

23    employed by a private emergency medical service company who work

24    under a contract with a governmental unit or personnel working in

25    an emergency service organization whose duties are solely of an

26    administrative or supporting nature and who are not otherwise

27    qualified under subsection  (2)  (1).



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