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Senate committee votes 11-0 to move EMS training oversight to state EMS board, study overlapping‑district taxes
Summary
The Senate Licensing and Occupations Committee adopted a substitute for House Bill 236 on March 31, 2026, moving oversight of for‑profit EMS training providers solely to the Kentucky Board of EMS and creating a task force to study tax issues where fire and ambulance districts overlap; the measure passed 11‑0 and was placed on the consent calendar.
The Senate Standing Committee on Licensing and Occupations voted 11‑0 on March 31, 2026, to adopt a committee substitute for House Bill 236 that would shift oversight of for‑profit emergency medical services training providers to the Kentucky Board of EMS and create a task force to study taxation where overlapping fire and ambulance districts operate.
Rep. Jared Bauman, House of Representatives, District 28, presented the bill to the committee and said the measure removes a duplicate licensing and oversight requirement that currently places some EMS training providers under both the Kentucky Commission on Proprietary Education and the Kentucky Board of EMS. "Really at its core, what House Bill 236 is going to do is remove dual licensure and relicensure and oversight requirements from those for‑profit entities that are providing EMS training and services," Bauman said.
Bauman told the committee the training providers in question "are held to very stringent national standards," and said the substitute also establishes a task force to study tax treatment in areas where Chapter 75 suburban fire districts overlap with Chapter 108 ambulatory service districts. He said the bill’s original language that would have altered taxation immediately has been paused so the interim task force can review the issues and provide feedback to the committee.
Also at the table were Wayne Briscoe, deputy executive director of the Kentucky Board of EMS, and Michael Donn, an EMS educator with decades of service; both were introduced for the record but the transcript records no sustained dispute or opposing testimony on the substitute. After Bauman’s presentation the committee chair asked for questions; none were raised and members proceeded to a roll‑call vote.
Several senators verbally recorded "Aye" during the roll call; the chair announced the tally as 11 to 0 in favor, and the committee reported the bill with favorable expression. The committee then voted to place House Bill 236, as amended by the committee substitute, on the consent calendar.
Chair Rocky Adams said the next agenda item, House Bill 904, would not be called that day while the chair and leadership address housekeeping items and coordinate with interested parties; the committee adjourned thereafter. The scheduling and substance of any future action on HB 904 were not specified in the hearing record.
What happens next: House Bill 236, having been reported favorably from the committee and placed on the consent calendar, will move forward in the Senate process under the chamber’s calendar rules. The committee directed that the task force review taxation overlaps and report back to inform potential future policy changes.
