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Committee amends EMS assistance formula; amendment to phase down loss for services near new thresholds passes unanimously
Summary
The Senate Human Services Committee heard House Bill 1597 to revise the rural EMS assistance grant formula. An amendment providing phased 'step down' reductions for services that fall above or below the new 800-run threshold passed 6-0.
Bill Kolonik, representing the North Dakota EMS Association, presented House Bill 1597 to the Senate Human Services Committee as an update to the formula used to distribute the state’s rural EMS assistance grant.
Kolonik told the committee the bill adjusts the average cost per run and raises the threshold for eligibility while implementing phased reductions to avoid abrupt grant losses for services whose call volume fluctuates near the cutoff. He described a proposed amendment that would apply a step-down approach for both low-volume services…
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