File #: Int 1229-2025    Version: Name: Reporting on emergency medical services units.
Type: Introduction Status: Laid Over in Committee
Committee: Committee on Fire and Emergency Management
On agenda: 4/10/2025
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reporting on emergency medical services units
Sponsors: Joann Ariola , Chris Banks, Julie Menin, Mercedes Narcisse, Robert F. Holden, Kamillah Hanks, Lynn C. Schulman, Christopher Marte, Susan Zhuang, Selvena N. Brooks-Powers, Nantasha M. Williams, Crystal Hudson, Rita C. Joseph, Vickie Paladino, Frank Morano, Inna Vernikov, Kristy Marmorato
Council Member Sponsors: 17
Summary: This bill would require monthly reports from the Fire Department (FDNY) on the average number of emergency medical services (EMS) units available each day to respond to medical emergencies, categorized by EMS unit type and borough. The reported information would include for each borough, the average number of EMS units scheduled to respond to emergencies, and the average number of EMS units that are unable to respond to emergency call, disaggregated by the reason for such inability.
Indexes: Report Required
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 1229-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 1229, 3. Int. No. 1229, 4. April 10, 2025 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 4-10-25, 6. Committee Report 11/17/25, 7. Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 8. Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB, 9. Hearing Testimony 11/17/25, 10. Hearing Transcript 11/17/25, 11. Proposed Int. No. 1229-A - 12/17/25, 12. Int. No. 1229-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - City Council, 13. Int. No. 1229-A - Fiscal Impact Statement - OMB

Proposed Int. No. 1229-A

 

By Council Members Ariola, Banks, Menin, Narcisse, Holden, Hanks, Schulman, Marte, Zhuang, Brooks-Powers, Williams, Hudson, Joseph, Paladino, Morano, Vernikov and Marmorato

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reporting on emergency medical services units

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Chapter 1 of title 15 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new section 15-154 to read as follows:

§ 15-154 Report on emergency medical services units. a. Definition. As used in this section, the following term has the following meaning:

Emergency medical services unit. The term “emergency medical services unit” has the same meaning as set forth in section 15-137.

b. Report. No later than 6 months after the effective date of the local law that added this section, and monthly thereafter, the commissioner shall submit to the mayor and the speaker of the council, and post on the department’s website, a report regarding emergency medical services units. Such report shall include the following information for each day of the month preceding the month in which such report is due, disaggregated by emergency medical services unit type and borough:

1. The daily average number of emergency medical service units scheduled to respond to emergency calls; and

2. The daily average number of emergency medical services units that are unable to respond to emergency calls, disaggregated by the reason for such inability.

§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately.

PS/JDK

LS# 17898

12/10/2025