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Senate committee advances trio of EMS bills to expand treat‑in‑place protocols, create EMS advisory authority and set a funding formula
Summary
The Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee approved three related measures to refine ambulance treat‑in‑place telehealth rules, reconstitute EMS governance and create a county‑tiered reserve formula for EMS grants if funds become available.
A package of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) bills moved forward in the Senate Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee after extended policy discussion about governance, clinical safety and funding equity.
Representative Lee Johnson led discussion of three measures: (1) House Bill 12‑85, which allows the Department of Health’s emergency medical advisory committee to create defined clinician‑approved protocols exempting some low‑acuity 911 calls from the statutorily required telehealth physician contact for treat‑in‑place billing; (2) House Bill 17‑67, which restructures the existing EMS advisory council into a smaller, physician‑and‑provider‑heavy council with explicit authority over EMS protocols and adjudication; and (3) House Bill 18‑41, which establishes a county‑tiered formula and guardrails for distributing potential EMS grant funding modeled loosely after Arkansas’s fire funding allocation.
On HB 12‑…
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