HOUSE BILL 439

57th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2025

INTRODUCED BY

Tara L. Lujan

 

 

 

 

 

AN ACT

RELATING TO EMERGENCY MEDICINE; REQUIRING PUBLIC SAFETY TELEPHONE LINE TELECOMMUNICATORS TO BE TRAINED IN HIGH-QUALITY TELECOMMUNICATOR CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO:

     SECTION 1. Section 29-7C-2 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 2003, Chapter 320, Section 4, as amended) is amended to read:

     "29-7C-2. DEFINITIONS.--As used in the Public Safety Telecommunicator Training Act:

          A. "board" means the law enforcement certification board;

          B. "certified" means meeting the training standards established by statute and rule as determined by the board;

          C. "council" means the New Mexico law enforcement standards and training council;

          D. "director" means the director of the New Mexico law enforcement academy;

          E. "dispatch" means the relay of information to public safety personnel by all forms of communication;

          F. "high-quality telecommunicator cardiopulmonary

resuscitation" means the instructions that a telecommunicator provides to a bystander of a cardiac emergency on how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation;

          [F.] G. "safety agency" means a unit of state or local government, a special purpose district or a private business that provides police, firefighting or emergency medical services; and

          [G.] H. "telecommunicator" means an employee or volunteer of a safety agency who:

                (1) receives calls or dispatches the appropriate personnel or equipment in response to calls for police, fire or medical services; and

                (2) makes decisions affecting the life, health or welfare of the public or safety employees."

     SECTION 2. Section 29-7C-4.1 NMSA 1978 (being Laws 2022, Chapter 56, Section 19) is amended to read:

     "29-7C-4.1. PUBLIC SAFETY TELECOMMUNICATOR TRAINING.--The curriculum of each basic telecommunicator training class and in-service training each year for telecommunicators shall include:

          A. crisis management and intervention;

          B. dealing with individuals who are experiencing mental health issues;

          C. methods of de-escalation;

          D. peer-to-peer intervention;

          E. stress management;

          F. racial sensitivity; [and]

          G. reality-based situational training; and

          H. high-quality telecommunicator cardiopulmonary resuscitation using the most current nationally recognized emergency cardiovascular care guidelines. Training on high-quality telecommunicator cardiopulmonary resuscitation shall include instruction on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest protocols and compression-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation."

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