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115TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 4390 

To reauthorize the rural emergency medical service training and equipment 

assistance program under section 330J of the Public Health Service Act. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

NOVEMBER 14, 2017 

Mr. GIANFORTE (for himself and Mr. DUFFY) introduced the following bill; 

which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce 

A BILL 

To reauthorize the rural emergency medical service training 

and equipment assistance program under section 330J 

of the Public Health Service Act. 

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 ‘‘Hometown Heroes Re5 lief Act of 2017’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. REAUTHORIZATION OF RURAL EMERGENCY MED2 ICAL SERVICE TRAINING AND EQUIPMENT 

3 ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. 

4 Section 330J of the Public Health Service Act (42 

5 U.S.C. 254c–15) is amended by striking subsections (c) 

6 through (g) and inserting the following: 

7 ‘‘(c) USE OF FUNDS.—An entity shall use amounts 

8 received under a grant made under subsection (a) of this 

9 section, either directly or through grants to emergency 

10 medical service squads that are located in, or that serve 

11 residents of, a nonmetropolitan statistical area, an area 

12 designated as a rural area by any law or regulation of 

13 a State, or a rural census tract of a metropolitan statis14 tical area (as determined under the most recent Goldsmith 

15 Modification, originally published in a notice of availability 

16 of funds in the Federal Register on February 27, 1992, 

17 57 Fed. Reg. 6725), to— 

18 ‘‘(1) train emergency medical service personnel 

19 in emergency response, injury prevention, safety 

20 awareness, and other topics relevant to the delivery 

21 of emergency medical services; 

22 ‘‘(2) fund specific training to meet Federal or 

23 State certification requirements; 

24 ‘‘(3) develop new ways to educate emergency 

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1 enhanced educational methods (such as distance 

2 learning); 

3 ‘‘(4) acquire emergency medical services equip4 ment; and 

5 ‘‘(5) acquire personal protective equipment for 

6 emergency medical services personnel as required by 

7 the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. 

8 ‘‘(d) EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES.—In this sec9 tion, the term ‘emergency medical services’— 

10 ‘‘(1) means resources used by a qualified public 

11 or private nonprofit entity, or by any other entity 

12 recognized as qualified by the State involved, to de13 liver medical care outside of a medical facility under 

14 emergency conditions that occur as a result of the 

15 condition of the patient; and 

16 ‘‘(2) includes services delivered by an emer17 gency medical services provider (either compensated 

18 or volunteer) or other provider recognized by the 

19 State involved that is licensed or certified by the 

20 State as an emergency medical technician or its 

21 equivalent (as determined by the State), a registered 

22 nurse, a physician assistant, or a physician that pro23 vides services similar to services provided by such an 

24 emergency medical services provider. 

25 ‘‘(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.— 


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1 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized to be 

2 appropriated to carry out this section $10,000,000 

3 for each fiscal years 2018 through 2022. 

4 ‘‘(2) ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS.—The Secretary 

5 may use not more than 10 percent of the amount 

6 appropriated under paragraph (1) for a fiscal year 

7 for the administrative expenses of carrying out this 

8 section.’’. 

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