Category | Title | Description |
Workforce | Indiana SB 232 - Exposure Risk Diseases | Adds any variant of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), including coronavirus disease (COVID-19), to the list of diseases considered an exposure risk disease for purposes of emergency and public safety employee death and disability presumed in the line of duty before Jan. 1, 2022. |
Medicaid Reimbursement | Indiana B 1454 - Nonemergency Ambulance Service and Physician Order | The bill specifies that Medicaid may not deny payment for nonemergency advanced life support or basic life support ambulance services, when all policies and procedures have been followed, when rendered to a Medicaid recipient. |
Workforce | New Hampshire HB 224 | Governor signed into law legislation that expands the types of EMS and search and rescue providers who can receive $100,000 state benefit. |
MIH-CP | Montana MIH Statute | Allowing emergency care providers to offer non-emergency medical assistance in their communities to reduce noncritical calls to 911, especially in rural areas. |
Violence Against EMS Practitioners | Vermont H.321 | Expands Vermont's aggravated murder statute to include the killing of a firefighter or an emergency medical provider. |
Workforce | Idaho SB 1028; Signed by Governor | Provides first responders with "clear and convincing" evidence of physiological injury treatment under worker's compensation. |
Workforce | MN HF3873 | Provides legal protections to first responders diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorders. |
Workforce | Florida SB376 | Provides access to treatment for PTSD |
Unauthorized Use of EMS Vehicles | Texas HB1249 | Relating to a prohibition of certain motor vehicles resembling emergency medical services vehicles; creating a criminal offense. |
MIH-CP | Wisconsin AB 151 | An Act to amend, repeal and recreate statutes relating to community paramedics, community emergency medical technicians, community emergency medical services providers, and services provided by emergency medical technicians. |
MIH-CP | Massachusetts transformative healthcare Initiative | Report to Massachusetts legislature re: MIH-CP and funding. |
Violence Against EMS Practitioners | Colorado SB15-067 | Increase in the class of offense for certain acts of assault against persons engaged in performing their duties as emergency responders |
Data Reporting | New Jersey A4925 | Establishes data reporting requirements for emergency medical services providers and dispatch centers. |
Stroke Protocol | Indiana HB1145 | Stroke protocols for emergency services personnel. |
Volunteers | Montana SJ21 | Interim study of EMS and volunteer firefighters |
Reimbursement | Nebraska LB578 | Adopt the Ground Emergency Medical Transport Act |
Reimbursement | California SB523 | Medi-Cal: emergency medical transport providers: quality assurance fee. |
Data Reporting | Oregon SB 52 | Relating to emergency services; and declaring an emergency. |
EMS Rights and Working Conditions | California AB263 | Emergency medical services workers: rights and working conditions. |
Violence Against EMS Practitioners | New York SB4839 | AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to assault in the second degree on an emergency medical service paramedic, or emergency medical service technician. |
MIH-CP | Washington Engrossed Second Substitute HB 1358 | Fire Departments - Community Assistance Referral and Education Services Programs - Reimbursement |
MIH-CP | Massachusetts Outside Section 93 | Mobile Integrated Health Care - SECTION 93. The General Laws are amended by inserting after chapter 111N. |
MIH-CP | Nevada AB305 | Authorizes and provides for the regulation of community paramedicine services. (BDR 40-167) |
MIH-CP | Idaho HB153 | Relating to Emergency Medical Services; amending sections of Idaho Code to define terms, revise language, authorize provision and provide legislative intent. |
MIH-CP | Arkansas HB1133 | An act to create a program for licensure of Community Paramedics; and for other purposes. |
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