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Conference committee weighs House amendments to ‘distressed ambulance’ bill, focuses on local stakeholder process and hiring grants
Summary
Representative Figley told the conference committee the House amendment would require local stakeholder meetings and a 60-day plan submission to the Health Department, add a representative of adjacent ambulance services to those meetings, and adjust the Health Department grant program to assist hiring.
Representative Figley, speaking for House members, told the conference committee the House amendment to the distressed ambulance-area bill would emphasize local stakeholder planning and set deadlines for notifying the Health Department.
"The whole process, reading this bill and then, had people talk to me about it, and they said, vaguely, can you rewrite this? And so I spent quite a while trying to come up with what we really wanna do," Representative Figley said, describing revisions that direct affected communities to hold stakeholder meetings and produce a plan to the Health Department within 60 days.
The amendment discussed by the committee would also add a provision allowing a representative of an adjacent ambulance service to attend stakeholder meetings (noted as added at "line 25…
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