2025 bills / S.B. 215
S.B. 215 Emergency Medical Services Modifications (2025)
- Introduced
- Senate committee
- Senate vote
- House committee
- House vote
- Signed into law
What this bill does
The bill requires cities and counties to make sure a minimum level of ground ambulance transfers between medical facilities is available in their area, and to review their emergency medical service providers every four years. It also has local governments use competitive sealed proposals to evaluate alternative providers, gives the state Bureau of Emergency Medical Services investigative power and authority to discipline non-911 ambulance providers, and makes willfully ignoring a bureau subpoena or cease and desist letter a class B misdemeanor.
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Official description
- grants authority to and requires municipalities and counties to ensure that a minimum level of ground ambulance interfacility transport services are provided within the respective municipality or county
- requires a municipality or county to conduct a review and evaluation of emergency medical service provider's sevices every four years
- requires a municipality or county to request competitive sealed proposals for the purpose of evaluating alternative qualified emergency medical service providers
- removes the Bureau of Emergency Medical Services Management (bureau) from involvement in the process by which a municipality or county selects emergency medical service providers, except verifying and providing notice that an applicant emergency medical service provider meets minimum requirements
- recognizes the bureau's jurisdiction to discipline non-911 ambulance service providers
- requires a county or municipality to:
- offer a first right to provide interfacility transports to the current 911 ambulance service provider
- conduct formal reviews of 911 service providers and interfacility transport service providers
- 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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Every vote
- 5 yes, 0 no, 2 absentSenate Government Operations and Political Subdivisions Committee: vote to approve it · 2/6/2025 4:24 PMWho voted how
- 23 yes, 0 no, 6 absentFirst of two Senate votes · 2/18/2025 11:59 AMWho voted how
- 25 yes, 0 no, 4 absentFinal Senate vote · 2/19/2025 10:53 AMWho voted how
- 7 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Political Subdivisions Committee: vote to change the bill · 3/3/2025 5:04 PMWho voted how
- 7 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Political Subdivisions Committee: Amendment Recommendation · 3/3/2025 5:04 PMWho voted how
- 7 yes, 0 no, 3 absentHouse Political Subdivisions Committee: vote to approve it · 3/3/2025 5:05 PMWho voted how
- 72 yes, 0 no, 3 absentFinal House vote · 3/7/2025 10:22 AM
- 26 yes, 0 no, 3 absentSenate vote to accept the other chamber's changes · 3/7/2025 6:03 PM