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112TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 3884 

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide grants to State emergency 

medical service departments to provide for the expedited training and 

licensing of veterans with prior medical training, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

FEBRUARY 2, 2012 

Mrs. CAPPS (for herself and Mr. YOUNG of Indiana) introduced the following 

bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 

A BILL 

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide grants 

to State emergency medical service departments to provide for the expedited training and licensing of veterans 

with prior medical training, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Emergency Medic 

5 Transition Act of 2012’’ or the ‘‘EMT Act of 2012’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. ASSISTING VETERANS WITH MILITARY EMERGENCY 

2 MEDICAL TRAINING TO BECOME STATE-LI3 CENSED OR CERTIFIED EMERGENCY MED4 ICAL TECHNICIANS (EMTS). 

5 (a) IN GENERAL.—Part B of title III of the Public 

6 Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 243 et seq.) is amended 

7 by inserting after section 314 the following: 

8 ‘‘SEC. 315. ASSISTING VETERANS WITH MILITARY EMER9 GENCY MEDICAL TRAINING TO BECOME 

10 STATE-LICENSED OR CERTIFIED EMERGENCY 

11 MEDICAL TECHNICIANS (EMTS). 

12 ‘‘(a) PROGRAM.—The Secretary shall establish a pro13 gram consisting of awarding grants to States to assist vet14 erans who received and completed military emergency 

15 medical training while serving in the Armed Forces of the 

16 United States to become, upon their discharge or release 

17 from active duty service, State-licensed or certified emer18 gency medical technicians. 

19 ‘‘(b) USE OF FUNDS.—Amounts received as a grant 

20 under this section may be used to assist veterans described 

21 in subsection (a) to become State-licensed or certified 

22 emergency medical technicians as follows: 

23 ‘‘(1) Providing to such veterans required course 

24 work and training that take into account, and are 

25 not duplicative of, medical course work and training 

26 received when such veterans were active members of 


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1 the Armed Forces of the United States, to enable 

2 such veterans to satisfy emergency medical services 

3 personnel certification requirements in the civilian 

4 sector, as determined by the appropriate State regu5 latory entity. 

6 ‘‘(2) Providing reimbursement for costs associ7 ated with— 

8 ‘‘(A) such course work and training; or 

9 ‘‘(B) applying for licensure or certification. 

10 ‘‘(3) Expediting the licensing or certification 

11 process. 

12 ‘‘(4) Entering into an agreement with any insti13 tution of higher education, or other educational in14 stitution certified to provide course work and train15 ing to emergency medical personnel, for purposes of 

16 providing course work and training under this sec17 tion if such institution has developed a suitable cur18 riculum that meets the requirements of paragraph 

19 (1). 

20 ‘‘(c) ELIGIBILITY.—To be eligible for a grant under 

21 this section, a State shall demonstrate to the Secretary’s 

22 satisfaction that the State has a shortage of emergency 

23 medical technicians. 


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1 ‘‘(d) REPORT.—The Secretary shall submit to the 

2 Congress an annual report on the program under this sec3 tion. 

4 ‘‘(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—To 

5 carry out this section, there are authorized to be appro6 priated $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2013 through 

7 2017.’’. 

8 (b) GAO STUDY AND REPORT.—The Comptroller 

9 General of the United States shall— 

10 (1) conduct a study on the barriers experienced 

11 by veterans who received training as medical per12 sonnel while serving in the Armed Forces of the 

13 United States and, upon their discharge or release 

14 from active duty service, seek to become licensed or 

15 certified in a State as civilian health professionals; 

16 and 

17 (2) not later than 2 years after the date of the 

18 enactment of this Act, submit to the Congress a re19 port on the results of such study, including rec20 ommendations on whether the program established 

21 under section 315 of the Public Health Service Act, 

22 as added by subsection (a), should be expanded to 

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1 tified in a State as health providers other than emer2 gency medical technicians. 

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