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Comprehensive rural EMS bill would create operational-deficit grant pool; testimony estimates $40 million annual need
Summary
Senate File 10-80 would establish annual operational-deficit grants for licensed ambulance services outside the metro area and requires reporting and audit authority; witnesses estimated roughly $40 million per year in funding need.
Senate File 10-80, presented by Senator Hauschildt and amended in committee (A2 adopted), would establish a structured grant program to assist licensed ambulance services that can demonstrate operational deficits, with an emphasis on Greater Minnesota and rural primary service areas.
Under the amendment and bill text, eligible applicants include licensed services that can document an operational deficit; licensees whose primary service area lies mostly within the seven-county Twin Cities metro or within Duluth, Mankato, St. Cloud, or Rochester would be excluded.…
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