IIB 

113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 235 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

FEBRUARY 13, 2013 

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, 

Labor, and Pensions 

AN ACT 

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide grants 

to States to streamline State requirements and procedures for veterans with military emergency medical training to become civilian emergency medical technicians. 

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


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

2 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Veteran Emergency 

3 Medical Technician Support Act of 2013’’. 

4 SEC. 2. ASSISTING VETERANS WITH MILITARY EMERGENCY 

5 MEDICAL TRAINING TO MEET REQUIRE6 MENTS FOR BECOMING CIVILIAN EMER7 GENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS. 

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

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

10 by inserting after section 314 the following: 

11 ‘‘SEC. 315. ASSISTING VETERANS WITH MILITARY EMER12 GENCY MEDICAL TRAINING TO MEET RE13 QUIREMENTS FOR BECOMING CIVILIAN 

14 EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS. 

15 ‘‘(a) PROGRAM.—The Secretary shall establish a pro16 gram consisting of awarding demonstration grants to 

17 States to streamline State requirements and procedures 

18 in order to assist veterans who completed military emer19 gency medical technician training while serving in the 

20 Armed Forces of the United States to meet certification, 

21 licensure, and other requirements applicable to becoming 

22 an emergency medical technician in the State. 

23 ‘‘(b) USE OF FUNDS.—Amounts received as a dem24 onstration grant under this section shall be used to pre25 pare and implement a plan to streamline State requireVerDate Mar 15 2010 18:10 Feb 14, 2013 Jkt 029200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H235.RFS H235

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1 ments and procedures as described in subsection (a), in2 cluding by— 

3 ‘‘(1) determining the extent to which the re4 quirements for the education, training, and skill level 

5 of emergency medical technicians in the State are 

6 equivalent to requirements for the education, train7 ing, and skill level of military emergency medical 

8 technicians; and 

9 ‘‘(2) identifying methods, such as waivers, for 

10 military emergency medical technicians to forego or 

11 meet any such equivalent State requirements. 

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

13 this section, a State shall demonstrate that the State has 

14 a shortage of emergency medical technicians. 

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

16 Congress an annual report on the program under this sec17 tion. 

18 ‘‘(e) FUNDING.—Of the amount authorized by section 

19 751(j)(1) to be appropriated to carry out section 751 for 

20 fiscal year 2014, there is authorized to be appropriated 

21 to carry out this section $1,000,000 for the period of fiscal 

22 years 2014 through 2018.’’. 

23 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 751(j)(1) 

24 of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 294a(j)(1)) 

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1 priated’’ and inserting ‘‘Subject to section 315(e), there 

2 is authorized to be appropriated’’. 

Passed the House of Representatives February 12, 

2013. 

Attest: KAREN L. HAAS, 

Clerk. 


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