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Committee approves EMS licensure compact to ease cross-border response
Summary
The committee voted to pass House Bill 1253 to join the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) licensure compact, enabling Arkansas paramedics and EMTs to practice across bordering states under a shared framework.
The Senate Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee voted to pass House Bill 1253, the EMS Licensure Compact, which sponsors said would allow Arkansas-licensed emergency medical services personnel to practice in multiple compact member states without obtaining separate licenses.
Rep. Lee Johnson, sponsor of the measure, introduced Dr. Brandon Morchetti, an emergency medicine and EMS physician and longtime medical director, who explained the compact has been enacted by 24 states and includes all six states that border Arkansas. Morchetti said,…
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