Senator Kennedy proposes the following amendment (SR-4763.CEM0002S):

Amend the bill, as and if amended, SECTION 2, by striking Section 16-3-1092(A)(1), (2), (3), and (4) and inserting:

  (1) "Emergency medical care provider" means a registered nurse, physician, physician assistant, medical director, and hospital volunteers that are providing medical care or assisting in the providing of medical care within the confines of a hospital's emergency department.
  (1)(2) "First Responder" includes a law enforcement officer, a firefighter, an emergency medical technician, certified EMS worker, and a paramedic.
  (2) "Harass" means to wilfully engage in a course of conduct directed at a first responder which serves no legitimate purpose and intentionally causes and would cause a reasonable person in his position to suffer substantial mental and emotional distress in that first responder.
  (3) "Healthcare Facility" shall mean any hospital, health clinic or any other location providing health care services.
  (4) "Healthcare Worker" means registered nurse, physician, physician's assistant, medical director, or employees, agents, or volunteers of any healthcare provider who are employed, under contract, or otherwise authorized by a healthcare provider to perform duties directly associated with the care and treatment rendered by the healthcare provider.

Amend the bill further, SECTION 2, by striking Section 16-3-1092(C) and (D) and inserting:

 (C) It is unlawful for a person, after receiving a verbal warning not to approach from a person he knows or reasonably should know is a healthcare worker an emergency medical care provider providing emergency medical care specific to the emergency at hand within a healthcare facility hospital emergency departmentor on a healthcare facility campus, to knowingly and wilfully violate the warning and approach or remain at a reasonable distance that would not allow safe and unencumbered treatment of the patient as determined by the healthcare facilityhospital emergency department with the intent to:
  (1) impede or interfere with the healthcare worker's emergency medical care provider's ability to perform his duty including, but not limited to, obstructing a healthcare worker'semergency medical care provider's movement or distracting a healthcare worker emergency medical care provider from administering medical care to another; or
  (2) offer or attempt to cause physical harm or injury to an emergency medical care provider a healthcare worker with apparent present ability under circumstances reasonably creating fear of imminent peril.; or
  (3) harass the healthcare worker.
 (D) A person who violates the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than five hundred dollars and imprisoned not more than thirtysixty days.

Renumber sections to conform.

Amend title to conform.