Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Emergency Services Access Act”.
Emergency Services Access Act
A BILL
To amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit physically impeding an ambulance from providing emergency medical treatment, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Prohibition on blocking ambulances at hospital entrances
In general— Chapter 65 of title 18, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
“1370. Blocking ambulances at hospital entrances
“Whoever travels in interstate or foreign commerce or uses any facility of interstate or foreign commerce, and thereafter knowingly physically impedes an ambulance or other emergency vehicle, or an emergency medical technician assigned to such vehicle from—
“(1) providing treatment to an individual in need of emergency medical treatment; or
“(2) accessing the entrance to a hospital, in the case of a vehicle transporting an individual in need of emergency medical treatment,”
Clerical amendment— The table of sections for such chapter is amended by adding at the end the following: