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Union Calendar No. 353 

111TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 3199 

[Report No. 111–608] 

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 

JULY 14, 2009 

Ms. HARMAN (for herself, Ms. BEAN, and Ms. HERSETH SANDLIN) introduced 

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

Commerce 

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010 

Additional sponsors: Mr. NYE, Ms. ZOE LOFGREN of California, and Mr. 

MCNERNEY

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 

House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 

[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 

[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on July 14, 2009] 


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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. 


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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 Tran5 sition Act of 2010’’ or the ‘‘EMT Act of 2010’’. 

6 SEC. 2. ASSISTING VETERANS WITH MILITARY EMERGENCY 

7 MEDICAL TRAINING TO BECOME STATE-LI8 CENSED OR CERTIFIED EMERGENCY MEDICAL 

9 TECHNICIANS (EMTS). 

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

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

12 inserting after section 314 the following: 

13 ‘‘SEC. 315. ASSISTING VETERANS WITH MILITARY EMER14 GENCY MEDICAL TRAINING TO BECOME 

15 STATE-LICENSED OR CERTIFIED EMERGENCY 

16 MEDICAL TECHNICIANS (EMTS). 

17 ‘‘(a) PROGRAM.—The Secretary shall establish a pro18 gram consisting of awarding grants to States to assist vet19 erans who received and completed military emergency med20 ical training while serving in the Armed Forces of the 

21 United States to become, upon their discharge or release 

22 from active duty service, State-licensed or certified emer23 gency medical technicians. 

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

25 under this section may be used to assist veterans described 


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1 in subsection (a) to become State-licensed or certified emer2 gency medical technicians as follows: 

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

4 work and training that take into account, and are 

5 not duplicative of, medical course work and training 

6 received when such veterans were active members of 

7 the Armed Forces of the United States, to enable such 

8 veterans to satisfy emergency medical services per9 sonnel certification requirements in the civilian sec10 tor, as determined by the appropriate State regu11 latory entity. 

12 ‘‘(2) Providing reimbursement for costs associ13 ated with— 

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

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

16 ‘‘(3) Expediting the licensing or certification 

17 process. 

18 ‘‘(4) Entering into an agreement with any insti19 tution of higher education, or other educational insti20 tution certified to provide course work and training 

21 to emergency medical personnel, for purposes of pro22 viding course work and training under this section if 

23 such institution has developed a suitable curriculum 

24 that meets the requirements of paragraph (1). 


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

2 this section, a State shall demonstrate to the Secretary’s sat3 isfaction that the State has a shortage of emergency medical 

4 technicians. 

5 ‘‘(d) REPORT.—The Secretary shall submit to the Con6 gress an annual report on the program under this section. 

7 ‘‘(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—To carry 

8 out this section, there are authorized to be appropriated 

9 $5,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2011 through 2015.’’. 

10 (b) GAO STUDY AND REPORT.—The Comptroller Gen11 eral 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 report 

21 on the results of such study, including recommenda22 tions on whether the program established under sec23 tion 315 of the Public Health Service Act, as added 

24 by subsection (a), should be expanded to assist vet25 erans seeking to become licensed or certified in a 


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1 State as health providers other than emergency med2 ical technicians. 


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Union Calendar No. 353 

111TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 3199 

[Report No. 111–608] 

A BILL 

To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide 

training, and for other purposes. and licensing of veterans with prior medical partments to provide for the expedited training grants to State emergency medical service deSEPTEMBER 16, 2010 

Reported with an amendment, committed to the Comand ordered to be printed mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 


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