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Committee hears support for HB 4053 to create EMS fund and ease training barriers
Summary
Representative Dacia Graber introduced HB 4053 to create a state EMS fund and make technical fixes to licensure and advisory structures; EMS providers and associations testified in support citing workforce shortages and the potential to use Rural Health Transformation funds.
Representative Dacia Graber told the House Healthcare Committee that HB 4053 is a technical and policy package to modernize emergency medical services in Oregon. The bill would create an Emergency Medical Services Grant Fund (no appropriation in 2026), authorize OHA to develop workforce and training programming (but not mandate it), clarify licensure/placement rules for…
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