2025 bills / S.B. 209
S.B. 209 Emergency Medical Services (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
AI summary from the official description
The bill creates a state account for emergency medical services critical needs and directs leftover year-end grant money into it. It lets rural counties use larger emergency medical services grants to buy vehicles, requires the state to set designation rules for training centers, and gives the state bureau investigative power and disciplinary authority, including making it a misdemeanor to willfully disobey its subpoenas or cease and desist letters.
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Official description
- defines terms
- establishes that 911 ambulance services are essential services
- addresses the respective duties of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Public Safety, and the Bureau of Emergency Medical Services (bureau)
- where applicable, indicates the proper government agency or division, where an incorrect entity or agency is indicated
- creates the Emergency Medical Services Critical Needs Account
- for an emergency medical services grant in a rural county, increases the maximum allowable amount that the grant recipient may receive for use toward the purchase of vehicles
- directs available but undistributed grant funds at the end of the year to be deposited into the Emergency Medical Services Critical Needs Account created under Section 53-2d-109
- requires the bureau to establish designation requirements for training centers
- modifies a notice requirement to require the bureau to provide a class A notice
- subjects training centers to the disciplinary jurisdiction of the bureau
- subjects an issuance of a notice of violation or order under the Emergency Medical Services Act to Title 63G, Chapter 4, Administrative Procedures Act
- grants investigative authority to the bureau
- makes it a class B misdemeanor to willfully disobey a valid subpoena or cease and desist letter from the bureau
- makes technical changes
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What members get
- An alert the day S.B. 209 is put on a committee agenda, with time and room, so you can be there to speak
- When S.B. 209 is rewritten, exactly which words changed
- Its hearings in your own calendar
- Your own scorecard: pick the side you favor and see how every legislator voted
Every vote
- 3 yes, 0 no, 4 absentSenate Health and Human Services Committee: Amendment Recommendation · Feb 13, 2025Who voted how
- 4 yes, 0 no, 3 absentSenate Health and Human Services Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 13, 2025Who voted how
- 24 yes, 0 no, 5 absentFirst of two Senate votes · Feb 21, 2025Who voted how
- 25 yes, 0 no, 4 absentFinal Senate vote · Feb 24, 2025Who voted how
- 11 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Health and Human Services Committee: vote to change the bill · Feb 28, 2025Who voted how
- 11 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Health and Human Services Committee: vote to approve it · Feb 28, 2025Who voted how
- 71 yes, 0 no, 4 absentFinal House vote · Mar 7, 2025Who voted how
- 27 yes, 0 no, 2 absentSenate vote to accept the other chamber's changes · Mar 7, 2025Who voted how