116-hr-8272116th Congress

Emergency Services Access Act

Sponsored By: Representative Higgins, Clay [R-LA-3]

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Summary

Emergency Services Access Act This bill establishes a new criminal offense for preventing emergency medical technicians assigned to ambulances or other emergency vehicles from providing medical care. It also makes it a criminal offense to block an emergency vehicle that is transporting an individual in need of treatment from a hospital entrance. An individual who engages in this conduct is subject to criminal penalties--a fine, a prison term of up to five years, or both. If death results, the prison term may be for any term of years or for life.

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Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Higgins, Clay [R-LA-3]

LA • R

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