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Legislative committees consider transferring Emergency Medical Services program to Military Division; mixed committee actions recorded
Summary
Members discussed moving the state's Emergency Medical Services program from the Department of Health and Welfare to the Idaho Military Division and approved related budget shifts and a part-time medical director appropriation, but several motions were routed to the Senate after mixed committee votes.
Committee members discussed a multi-step plan to move the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) budgeted program out of the Department of Health and Welfare and into the Idaho Military Division, a transfer tied to House Bill 206. Analysts explained the Office of Emergency Management within the Military Division already provides related services (backup dispatch, HazMat programs and rural EMS) and that the move is intended to provide a more operational, mission-oriented home for the state EMS function.
The committee considered (1) reductions to the DHW public health appropriation that reflect the EMS program moving out of that agency and (2) an incoming appropriation…
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