New York Senate Bill S10434

New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

Caption

Directs the department of health to collect certain data from relevant entities, and designated public safety answering points to receive 911 service calls, regarding calls and dispatches for emergency medical services; establishes reporting requirements.

Summary

S10434 would require the New York State Department of Health to collect and analyze a broad set of emergency medical services (EMS) dispatch data from relevant entities and designated public safety answering points, including 911 call centers, the state police, and the office of homeland security. The bill focuses on measuring how EMS calls are handled across the state, with data points covering total dispatches, mutual aid dispatches, response times, staffing levels, and the timing of dispatch, en route, and arrival for both life-threatening and all EMS calls. The bill also requires the department to produce an annual report within 12 months of the effective date and every year thereafter for the governor, Senate temporary president, and Assembly speaker. The report must summarize county- and region-level data on call volume, dispatch counts, average response metrics, staffing, and year-over-year comparisons when available, while ensuring that individual EMS agencies are not identifiable in the published data.

Impact

This bill would amend the Public Health Law by adding a new data-collection and reporting mandate for the Department of Health. It would not directly change EMS response standards or funding formulas, but it would create a statewide framework for tracking EMS performance, staffing, and mutual-aid activity, which could inform future policy, oversight, and resource allocation. The affected parties would include EMS agencies, public safety answering points, and state entities involved in 911 dispatch and emergency response data reporting.

Sentiment

The available context shows no recorded committee debate or votes, so there is no documented opposition or support in the materials provided. Based on the bill text, the measure appears administrative and oversight-oriented rather than controversial, suggesting a generally neutral or favorable posture toward improving transparency and system performance monitoring. The absence of votes or transcripts means sentiment cannot be measured beyond the bill’s apparent policy purpose.

Contention

No specific points of contention are documented in the provided materials. Potential areas of concern, if raised in later discussion, could include the reporting burden on EMS agencies and dispatch centers, the feasibility of collecting consistent statewide data, and privacy or identifiability issues for smaller agencies. The bill addresses the last concern by requiring that reported data be aggregated so individual EMS agencies are not identifiable.