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A RESOLUTION
20-710
IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
December 2, 2014
To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to the District of Columbia Health Occupations Revision Act of 1985 to extend the transition period for persons currently meeting the requirements for licensure as trauma technologists in the District
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RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “Trauma Technologists Licensure Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2014”.
Sec. 2. (a) On January 25, 2014, the Trauma Technologists Licensure Amendment Act, D.C. Law 20-0064, went into effect. Its intent, among other things, was to require the Board of Medicine to draft regulations that would require trauma technologists to become licensed.
(b) A provision of that act allows individuals who have already met certain qualifications to be deemed trauma technologists for a period of 12 months following January 25, 2014. The purpose of this provision was to cover individuals who have already been working full-time as trauma technologists.
(c) The Department of Health’s Board of Medicine planned to have the regulations in place prior to January 25, 2014, but have recently acknowledged that they will not have them completed by this time.
(d) Without this emergency measure, hundreds of individuals who have done the work of trauma technologists will be prevented from obtaining a license for work that they have already done for years.
(e) The Trauma Technologists Licensure Emergency Amendment Act of 2014 will extend the transition period by an additional 12 months, thus allowing for the Board of Medicine to complete the regulations and to permit individuals who are already doing the work of trauma technologists to do so without interruption.
Sec. 3. The Council of the District of Columbia determines that the circumstances enumerated in section 2 constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the Trauma Technologists Licensure Emergency Amendment Act of 2014 be adopted after a single reading.
Sec. 4. This resolution shall take effect immediately.
