Emergency Medical Services
Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Employment Discrimination - Fire and Rescue Public Safety Employees - Use of Medical Cannabis [HB-1408]
[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.
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Gettr Maryland 2025 Regular Session
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Health Care Facilities - Hospitals and Freestanding Birthing Centers - Perinatal Care Standards [HB-1380]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Requiring the Maryland Department of Health, in coordination with the Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems, to adopt regulations establishing minimum perinatal care standards for hospitals that meet or exceed the Maryland Perinatal System Standards for each hospital that provides obstetrical services; and requiring each hospital that provides obstetrical services and freestanding birthing centers, as a condition of licensure, to comply with certain minimum perinatal care standards.
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Arizona Fifty-seventh Legislature - First Regular Session (2025)
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Ground ambulances; registration [HB-2787]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Safety ]
Ground ambulances; registration
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
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Property Tax - Credit for Law Enforcement Officer or Rescue Worker - Expansion to Judicial Officer [HB-1200]
[Property Tax ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Taxes ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Authorizing the governing body of a county or municipal corporation or the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore City to provide a certain property tax credit to certain judicial officers, surviving spouses, or cohabitants; requiring the county or municipal corporation to define, by law, who is a correctional officer and judicial officer; and applying the Act retroactively to all taxable years beginning after June 30, 2022.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to emergency medical services. [HB-343]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311A to create the EMS Professionals Foundation Program fund; specify the ambulance services and EMS professionals that are eligible to share in the distribution of the fund; provide that the Board of Emergency Medical Services shall administer the fund and may promulgate administrative regulations to facilitate its administration; authorize reimbursement for an EMS professional's out-of-pocket costs for mental health treatment for a diagnosed post-traumatic stress injury or post-traumatic stress disorder; provide
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to tuition benefits. [HB-322]
[Education ]
[Veterans ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
[Public Safety ]
Amend KRS 164.2841 to include tuition benefits for spouses and children of emergency medical services personnel who have died in the course of their duties on or after July 1, 2000; amend KRS 164.2842 to include tuition benefits for spouses and children of emergency medical services personnel who have been totally and permanently disabled in the course of their duties, specify that the beneficiary is eligible for up to a maximum of 128 credit hours of undergraduate instruction.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
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Maryland Behavioral Health Crisis Response System – Integration of 9–8–8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Network and Outcome Evaluations [HB-1146]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
[Human Services ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring the Maryland Behavioral Health Crisis Response System to have a State 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, rather than a crisis communication center, in each jurisdiction; requiring each State 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline in the System to coordinate with the national 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Network to provide supportive counseling, suicide prevention, crisis intervention, referrals to additional resources, and direct dispatch to other services as needed; etc.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
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Local Government - Local Personnel - Leave With Pay [HB-1080]
[Disaster Relief ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Safety ]
[Human Services ]
Establishing that governmental units may provide disaster service leave with pay to certain employees; establishing that an employee of a governmental unit of a county or a municipality in the State may be entitled to disaster service leave with pay under certain circumstances; authorizing certain governmental units to waive certain requirements for disaster service leave; and authorizing a governmental unit of a county or a municipality to provide leave with pay under certain circumstances.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
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Public Health - Buprenorphine - Training Grant Program and Workgroup [HB-1131]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Mental Health ]
Establishing the Buprenorphine Training Grant Program to assist counties with offsetting the cost of training paramedics to administer buprenorphine; including the Program as an authorized use of funding from the Opioid Restitution Fund; requiring the Governor to include in the annual budget bill an appropriation of at least $50,000 from the Opioid Restitution Fund for the Program; and requiring the Maryland Office of Overdose Response to convene a workgroup to study access to buprenorphine in the State.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to sexual assault emergency response training. [HB-219]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Amend KRS 216B.400 to require hospitals that offer emergency services to develop and provide training for emergency department staff on sexual assault emergency response requirements, protocols, and resources; amend KRS 314.011 and 403.707 to conform.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for emergency ground ambulance services. [HB-245]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Health ]
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require coverage for emergency ground ambulance services; establish minimum allowable reimbursement for out-of-network emergency ground ambulance services; establish requirements for reimbursement of out-of-network ground ambulance providers; prohibit balance billing by out-of-network ground ambulance providers; establish construction clause in the event of conflicts; amend KRS 304.17A-099 to exempt emergency ground ambulance coverage and payment requirements from the cost defrayal payment
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North Carolina 2025-2026 Session
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Freedom to Carry NC [SB-50]
[Public Safety ]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Freedom to Carry NC
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South Dakota 2025 Regular Session
Require counties and municipalities to provide emergency medical services within their jurisdictions. [HB-1219]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Public Safety ]
[Community Development ]
Require counties and municipalities to provide emergency medical services within their jurisdictions.
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
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Maryland Behavioral Health Crisis Response System - Integration of 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Network and Outcome Evaluations [SB-900]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
[Human Services ]
[Public Safety ]
Requiring the Maryland Behavioral Health Crisis Response System to have a State 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, rather than a crisis communication center, in each jurisdiction; requiring each State 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline in the System to coordinate with the national 9-8-8 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Network to provide supportive counseling, suicide prevention, crisis intervention, referrals to additional resources, and direct dispatch to other services as needed; etc.
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Utah 2025 General Session
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Emergency Medical Services Modifications [SB-215]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Public Safety ]
Emergency Medical Services Modifications
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Utah 2025 General Session
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Emergency Medical Services Revisions [HB-391]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Public Safety ]
Emergency Medical Services Revisions
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North Carolina 2025-2026 Session
Enhance Firefighter Benefits & Representation [HB-37]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Safety ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
[Healthcare ]
[Pensions ]
Enhance Firefighter Benefits & Representation
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
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Consumer Protection - Credit Reporting - Medical Debt (Fair Medical Debt Reporting Act) [HB-1020]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Healthcare ]
[Data Privacy ]
Prohibiting a consumer reporting agency from furnishing any consumer report containing certain adverse information relating to a consumer's medical debt, or any collection action against a consumer for medical debt, or maintain a file on a consumer related to medical debt or collections; prohibiting a person from using medical debt information from a consumer report for certain purposes; prohibiting a health care facility, a health care practitioner, or an ambulance service from disclosing medical debt to a consumer reporting agency; etc.
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Utah 2025 General Session
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Emergency Medical Services [SB-209]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Public Safety ]
Emergency Medical Services
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Venue-Specific Emergency Action Plans - High School Football Games - Requirements [HB-935]
[Sports ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Safety ]
Altering the requirements of a venue-specific emergency action plan to include the on-site presence of certain health care professionals or an ambulance staffed with certain emergency medical services personnel, except under certain circumstances, at each high school football game.