Emergency Medical Services
North Carolina 2025-2026 Session
No Surprises for Ambulance Services Act [HB-456]
[Healthcare ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Health ]
[Insurance ]
No Surprises for Ambulance Services Act
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Idaho 2025 Regular Session
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Amends House Bill 206 to revise provisions regarding use and distribution of emergency medical services funds and county accountability. [SB-1159]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Public Safety ]
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES -- Amends House Bill 206 to revise provisions regarding use and distribution of emergency medical services funds and county accountability.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Property Tax - Charter Counties - Application of County Tax Limitation on Public Safety Budget [SB-1041]
[Property Tax ]
[Public Safety ]
[Taxes ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Authorizing a county council of a charter county, notwithstanding certain provisions of law, to set by simple majority vote a property tax rate that is higher than the property tax rate authorized under a county's charter or collect more property tax revenues than the revenues authorized under the county's charter for the purpose of funding the approved public safety budget of the county; and applying the Act to all taxable years beginning after June 30, 2025.
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North Carolina 2025-2026 Session
Counties/Franchise Ambulance Service [HB-219]
[Healthcare ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Health ]
[Public Safety ]
Counties/Franchise Ambulance Service
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Maine 132nd Legislature
An Act to Require Bleeding Control Kits in State-owned Buildings [HB-774]
[Public Safety ]
[Healthcare ]
An Act to Require Bleeding Control Kits in State-owned Buildings
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public health and safety. [HB-745]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Insurance ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
Amend KRS 214.450 to define "autologous donation" and "directed donation"; amend KRS 214.452 to require blood establishments to test for spike proteins, antibodies to the nucleocapsid protein on the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and synthetic mRNA; provide that a person shall not be compelled to donate blood; require blood establishments to inform donors of the potential uses for donations; require blood to be sold to hospitals before any other entity; prohibit blood from sale for pharmaceutical production if there is a hospital blood shortage; amend KRS 214.454
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Maine 132nd Legislature
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An Act to Support Informed Community Self-determination in Emergency Medical Services Planning [SB-583]
[Public Health ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Safety ]
[Community Development ]
[Disaster Relief ]
An Act to Support Informed Community Self-determination in Emergency Medical Services Planning
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Baltimore County and Baltimore City - Vehicle Laws - Lighting on Privately Owned Vehicles [HB-1520]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Authorizing, under the commercial ambulance service license held by Hatzalah of Baltimore, no more than five of the highest ranking officers may have their privately owned vehicles equipped with red or red and white lights or signal devices which may be displayed only while on route to or at the scene of an emergency.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
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Baltimore County and Baltimore City - Vehicle Laws - Lighting on Privately Owned Vehicles [SB-1030]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Authorizing not more than five of the highest ranking officers under the commercial ambulance service license held by Hatzalah of Baltimore to have their privately owned vehicles equipped with red or red and white lights or signal devices which may be displayed only while on route to or at the scene of an emergency.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to blood donation. [HB-601]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Amend KRS 214.452 to add receipt of a COVID -19 vaccine to the blood donor risk factor statement collected by a blood establishment; amend KRS 214.458 to add donor receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine to the donor identification information affixed to a unit of donated blood; add that except in an emergency, a patient be informed if the donor of the blood to be transfused had received a COVID-19 vaccine.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to certificate of need. [HB-609]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Amend KRS 216B.020, relating to certificates of need, to reformat the list of facilities and services exempt from certificate of need provisions; amend KRS 216B.095 to require rather than permit the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to grant a nonsubstantive review to listed health facilities and services; add a presumption of need and state health plan consistency to health facilities and services granted a nonsubstantive review; amend KRS 216B.062 to prohibit the cabinet from batching applications for certificate of need applications that
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Kentucky Office of the Attorney General to create the Threat Response and Accountability Task Force to determine the chain of command and accountability matrix for a critical incident and declaring an emergency. [SJR-72]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Direct the Kentucky Office of the Attorney General to create a Threat Response and Accountability Task Force to determine the chain of command and accountability matrix for a critical incident; establish task force membership; require the task force to submit a report to the Legislative Research Commission by January 1, 2026; EMERGENCY.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to opioid antagonists. [HB-547]
[Healthcare ]
[Education ]
[Public Health ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
[Funding ]
Amend KRS 217.186 to require each public postsecondary educational institution to provide access to opioid antagonists on campus; permit access to be provided by emergency opioid antagonist cabinets; permit application for funds from the opioid abatement trust fund and other available sources to coordinate, maintain, and supply the opioid antagonists; amend KRS 15.291 to add providing access to opioid antagonists on the campuses of public postsecondary educational institutions to the list of projects that may be provided with funding from the opioid
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Employment Discrimination - Fire and Rescue Public Safety Employees - Use of Medical Cannabis [SB-1023]
[Cannabis ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Safety ]
Prohibiting an employer from taking certain discriminatory employment actions against a fire and rescue public safety employee based on the employee's use of medical cannabis, subject to certain conditions; and requiring an employer to report an incident of a fire and rescue public safety employee reporting for work while impaired by cannabis to the State Emergency Medical Services Board.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to emergency response fees. [HB-478]
[Public Safety ]
[Housing ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Amend KRS 65.111 to prohibit collection of an emergency response fee from a landlord if the response was not the result of the landlord's failure to maintain the building; specify authority to collect from the responsible party.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Medicaid copayments for nonemergent emergency room visits. [HB-461]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
Amend KRS 205.6312 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to impose a cost sharing requirement on Medicaid beneficiaries for nonemergent services provided in a hospital emergency department; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to seek federal approval if they determine that such approval is necessary and comply with KRS 205.525.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation for first responders. [HB-420]
[Workers' Compensation ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Mental Health ]
[Healthcare ]
Amend KRS 342.0011, relating to workers' compensation, to expand the definition of "injury" to include psychological injuries for police officers, firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, front-line staff members, or members of the National Guard; create a new section of KRS Chapter 342 to establish when psychological injuries are valid workers' compensation claims when not a direct result of a physical injury.
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Idaho 2025 Regular Session
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Repeals and adds to existing law to provide for the recognition of the EMS personnel licensure interstate compact. [HB-207]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES -- Repeals and adds to existing law to provide for the recognition of the EMS personnel licensure interstate compact.
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Idaho 2025 Regular Session
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Amends, repeals, and adds to existing law to transfer emergency medical services responsibilites to the Idaho Military Division. [HB-206]
[Healthcare ]
[Military ]
[Public Health ]
[Public Safety ]
EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES -- Amends, repeals, and adds to existing law to transfer emergency medical services responsibilites to the Idaho Military Division.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to emergency medical services. [HB-406]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Amend KRS 311A.155 to add training and education to uses of grant funds; change grant fund amounts that may be awarded; delete discretion for a county to hold unspent funds for two years; require all grants to be used during the fiscal year for authorized purposes; amend KRS 311A.055 to delete transfer of complaints regarding ambulance services to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; repeal KRS 216B.106 relating to ambulance service investigations and hearings.