IIB 

111TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 3199 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010 

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 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, 


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1 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

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

3 Transition Act of 2010’’ or the ‘‘EMT Act of 2010’’. 

4 SEC. 2. ASSISTING VETERANS WITH MILITARY EMERGENCY 

5 MEDICAL TRAINING TO BECOME STATE-LI6 CENSED OR CERTIFIED EMERGENCY MED7 ICAL TECHNICIANS (EMTS). 

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 BECOME 

13 STATE-LICENSED OR CERTIFIED EMERGENCY 

14 MEDICAL TECHNICIANS (EMTS). 

15 ‘‘(a) PROGRAM.—The Secretary shall establish a pro16 gram consisting of awarding grants to States to assist vet17 erans who received and completed military emergency 

18 medical training while serving in the Armed Forces of the 

19 United States to become, upon their discharge or release 

20 from active duty service, State-licensed or certified emer21 gency medical technicians. 

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

23 under this section may be used to assist veterans described 

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

25 emergency medical technicians as follows: 


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

2 work and training that take into account, and are 

3 not duplicative of, medical course work and training 

4 received when such veterans were active members of 

5 the Armed Forces of the United States, to enable 

6 such veterans to satisfy emergency medical services 

7 personnel certification requirements in the civilian 

8 sector, as determined by the appropriate State regu9 latory entity. 

10 ‘‘(2) Providing reimbursement for costs associ11 ated with— 

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

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

14 ‘‘(3) Expediting the licensing or certification 

15 process. 

16 ‘‘(4) Entering into an agreement with any insti17 tution of higher education, or other educational in18 stitution certified to provide course work and train19 ing to emergency medical personnel, for purposes of 

20 providing course work and training under this sec21 tion if such institution has developed a suitable cur22 riculum that meets the requirements of paragraph 

23 (1). 

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

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


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1 satisfaction that the State has a shortage of emergency 

2 medical technicians. 

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

4 Congress an annual report on the program under this sec5 tion. 

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

7 carry out this section, there are authorized to be appro8 priated $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2011 through 

9 2015.’’. 

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

11 General of the United States shall— 

12 (1) conduct a study on the barriers experienced 

13 by veterans who received training as medical per14 sonnel while serving in the Armed Forces of the 

15 United States and, upon their discharge or release 

16 from active duty service, seek to become licensed or 

17 certified in a State as civilian health professionals; 

18 and 

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

20 enactment of this Act, submit to the Congress a re21 port on the results of such study, including rec22 ommendations on whether the program established 

23 under section 315 of the Public Health Service Act, 

24 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. 

Passed the House of Representatives September 23, 

2010. 

Attest: LORRAINE C. MILLER, 

Clerk. 


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