HOUSE BILL No. 4033


     January 8, 1997, Introduced by Rep. Middaugh and referred to the Committee on Local Government.


        A bill to amend 1931 PA 328, entitled

   "The Michigan penal code,"

   (MCL 750.1 to 750.568) by adding section 89a.

               THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN ENACT:

 1         SEC. 89A.  (1) AN INDIVIDUAL WHO ASSAULTS, BATTERS, OR OTH-

 2    ERWISE INTENTIONALLY HINDERS, OBSTRUCTS, ENDANGERS, OR INTERFERES

 3    WITH AN EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE PROVIDER HE OR SHE KNOWS OR HAS

 4    REASON TO KNOW IS ACTING WITHIN THE SCOPE OF HIS OR HER DUTIES AS

 5    AN EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE PROVIDER IS GUILTY OF A FELONY PUN-

 6    ISHABLE BY IMPRISONMENT FOR NOT MORE THAN 4 YEARS OR A FINE OF

 7    NOT MORE THAN $2,000.00, OR BOTH.

 8         (2) AS USED IN THIS SECTION, "EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE

 9    PROVIDER" MEANS AN INDIVIDUAL LICENSED UNDER SECTION 20950 OR

10    20952 OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH CODE, 1978 PA 368, MCL 333.20950 AND

11    333.20952.



   00101'97                                                 JOJ