SIREN Reauthorization Act

Subjects: Health, Drug, alcohol, tobacco use, Emergency medical services and trauma care, First responders and emergency personnel, Medical education, Mental health, Rural conditions and development

Summary:  <p><b>Supporting and Improving Rural EMS Needs Reauthorization Act or the SIREN Reauthorization Act</b></p> <p>This bill reauthorizes through FY2028 and otherwise modifies a grant program for improving emergency medical services (EMS) in rural areas. The modifications include requiring the use of grant funds to train EMS personnel on caring for individuals with mental health and substance use disorders in emergency situations and permitting the use of grant funds to acquire overdose reversal drugs and devices.</p>

<html><body><pre>[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 265 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 265

    To reauthorize the rural emergency medical service training and 
         equipment assistance program, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 2, 2023

Mr. Durbin (for himself and Ms. Collins) introduced the following bill; 
     which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, 
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
    To reauthorize the rural emergency medical service training and 
         equipment assistance program, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Supporting and Improving Rural EMS 
Needs Reauthorization Act'' or the ``SIREN Reauthorization Act''.

SEC. 2. RURAL EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE TRAINING AND EQUIPMENT 
              ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

    Section 330J of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254c-15) 
is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``the Administrator of 
        the Health Resources and Services Administration (referred to 
        in this section as the `Secretary')'' and inserting ``the 
        Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use,'';
            (2) in subsection (c)--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)--
                            (i) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``; 
                        and'' and inserting a semicolon; and
                            (ii) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(E) ensure emergency medical services personnel 
                are trained on mental health and substance use 
                disorders and care for individuals with such disorders 
                in emergency situations; and''; and
                    (B) in paragraph (2)--
                            (i) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``; 
                        or'' and inserting a semicolon;
                            (ii) in subparagraph (C), by striking the 
                        period and inserting ``; or''; and
                            (iii) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(D) acquire overdose reversal drugs and 
                devices.'';
            (3) by striking subsection (f);
            (4) by redesignating subsection (g) as subsection (f); and
            (5) in subsection (f)(1), as so redesignated, by striking 
        ``2019 through 2023'' and inserting ``2024 through 2028''.
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