Emergency Medical Services
Maryland 2024 Regular Session
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Physician Assistants - Revisions (Physician Assistant Modernization Act of 2024) [SB-167]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Disaster Relief ]
Requiring that a physician assistant have a collaboration agreement, rather than a delegation agreement, in order to practice as a physician assistant; altering the scope of practice of a physician assistant; altering the education required for licensure as a physician assistant; authorizing physician assistants employed by the federal government to perform certain functions during a certain disaster; and requiring the State Board of Physicians to review and update the list of advanced duties for physician assistants.
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Gettr Maryland 2024 Regular Session
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Health Insurance - Conformity With Federal Law [SB-217]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Conforming provisions of State health insurance law with existing federal requirements, including by updating effective dates for federal regulations, clarifying federal consumer protection regulations resulting from changes to the federal No Surprises Act, altering the material errors that trigger special enrollment periods, and authorizing the Maryland Health Benefits Exchange to adopt an expanded open enrollment period under certain circumstances.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Workers' Compensation - Occupational Disease Presumptions - First Responders [HB-190]
[Workers' Compensation ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Safety ]
[Mental Health ]
[Healthcare ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Providing that a first responder who is diagnosed by a licensed psychologist or psychiatrist with post-traumatic stress disorder is presumed under certain circumstances to have an occupational disease that was suffered in the line of duty and is compensable under workers' compensation law; and specifying that the presumption does not limit any other right or claim an individual may have under workers' compensation law.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
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Income Tax - Subtraction Modification - Police Auxiliary and Reserve Volunteers [SB-108]
[Taxes ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Public Safety ]
Increasing, from $5,000 to $7,000, a subtraction modification under the Maryland income tax for an individual who is a qualifying police auxiliary or reserve volunteer; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after December 31, 2023.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to immunity from criminal liability for health care providers. [HB-159]
[Healthcare ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Health ]
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to define “health care provider” and “health services,” and to establish that health care providers providing health services are immune from criminal liability for harm arising from a health services-related act or omission other than gross negligence or wanton, willful, malicious, or intentional misconduct.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to ad valorem taxes. [HB-150]
[Taxes ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Property Tax ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 132 to exempt motor vehicles, recreational vehicles, trailers, and semitrailers from state and local ad valorem taxes; amend various sections of KRS Chapters 92, 132, 133, 134, 136, 141, 186, 186A, and 235 to conform; repeal KRS 132.227. 132,485, 132.4851, 132.487, 136.188, 186.193, and 186A.030; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2025.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
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Emergency Medical Services - Paramedics - Immunization Administration - Effective Date [SB-210]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Delaying the effective date to January 1, 2030, of certain provisions of law that repeal the authority of paramedics to administer influenza and COVID-19 immunizations under certain circumstances.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
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Health Insurance – Conformity With Federal Law [HB-30]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Health ]
Conforming provisions of State health insurance law with existing federal requirements, including updating effective dates for federal regulations, clarifying federal consumer protection regulations resulting from changes to the federal No Surprises Act, altering the material errors that trigger special enrollment periods, and authorizing the Maryland Health Benefits Exchange to adopt an expanded open enrollment period under certain circumstances.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
Health Occupations - Licensed Direct-Entry Midwives - Previous Cesarean Section [SB-62]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Allowing a licensed direct-entry midwife to assume or take responsibility for a client who had a previous cesarean section and regulating the circumstances under which the responsibility may be assumed or taken; altering the required contents of a certain informed consent agreement; and requiring the State Board of Nursing, in consultation with certain stakeholders, to develop a transport protocol for clients who had a previous cesarean section.
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Maryland 2024 Regular Session
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Public Safety - Volunteer Company Assistance Fund - Alterations [SB-255]
[Public Safety ]
[Military ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Disaster Relief ]
Transferring certain duties relating to the Volunteer Company Assistance Fund from the Military Department to the Maryland Department of Emergency Management.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to automated external defibrillators. [HB-22]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Amends KRS 311.667 to remove the requirement for medical oversight of an automated external defibrillator program.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coal mining. [HB-85]
[Mining ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
[Public Safety ]
Amend KRS 351.127 to change the number of emergency medical or mine emergency technicians required to be on shift from two to one, if the number of employees on the shift is 10 or less.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to certificates of death. [HB-32]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 311.601 to require an option of one-half hour of continuing education on the completion of a certificate of death for physicians to meet the 7.5 hours of approved continuing education in KRS 218A.205; amend KRS 311.844 to require an option of one-half hour of continuing education on the completion of a certificate of death for a physician assistant; amend KRS 311A.135 to requrie an option of one-half hour of continuing education on the completion of a death certificate for paramedics; amend KRS 310.175 to require an option of one-half
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to emergency medical services and declaring an emergency. [HB-57]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Amends KRS 311A.030 to remove the classifications of ambulance services, mobile integrated healthcare programs, and medical first response providers; amends KRS 311A.142 to permit an emergency medical responder, emergency medical technician, advanced emergency medical technician, or paramedic in good standing in another state to be eligible for reciprocity at the same level of certification or licensure; amends KRS 142.301, 205.5602, 211.9523, 311A.010, 311A.170, and 405.075 to conform; and repeals KRS 311A.185, relating to determination of death
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to the rights of property owners and declaring an emergency. [HB-18]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
[Property Tax ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Creates new sections of KRS Chapter 65 to prohibit local governments from adopting or enforcing ordinances that prohibit owners of housing accommodations from refusing to lease or rent the housing accommodation to a person whose source of income to pay rent includes funding from a federal housing assistance program, and to prohibit local governments from requiring an owner of property occupied by an individual other than the owner to pay an emergency response fee that arises out of the actions of a person for which the owner has no control; and
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Maine 131st Legislature
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An Act to Authorize the Provision of Emergency Medical Treatment for Certain Dogs [HB-2156]
[Animals ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
An Act to Authorize the Provision of Emergency Medical Treatment for Certain Dogs
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Maine 131st Legislature
An Act Regarding Licensure of Emergency Medical Services Persons [HB-2123]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Public Safety ]
An Act Regarding Licensure of Emergency Medical Services Persons
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Maine 131st Legislature
An Act to Create Parity in the Licensing of Emergency Medical Services Professionals and Other Health Care Professionals Who Enter Private Residences [HB-2122]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Law Enforcement ]
An Act to Create Parity in the Licensing of Emergency Medical Services Professionals and Other Health Care Professionals Who Enter Private Residences
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Maine 131st Legislature
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Resolve, to Fill All Vacant and Expired Seats on the Emergency Medical Services' Board [SB-2071]
[Public Health ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Safety ]
Resolve, to Fill All Vacant and Expired Seats on the Emergency Medical Services' Board
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North Carolina 2023-2024 Session
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General Assembly Appointments [SB-754]
General Assembly Appointments