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 proce-
dures for veterans with military emergency medical train-
ing to become civilian emergency medical technicians. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Veteran Emergency 
Medical Technician Support Act of 2013’’. 
SEC. 2. ASSISTING VETERANS WITH MILITARY EMERGENCY 
MEDICAL 
TRAINING 
TO 
MEET 
REQUIRE-
MENTS 
FOR 
BECOMING 
CIVILIAN 
EMER-
GENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Part B of title III of the Public 
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 243 et seq.) is amended 
by inserting after section 314 the following: 
‘‘SEC. 315. ASSISTING VETERANS WITH MILITARY EMER-
GENCY MEDICAL TRAINING TO MEET RE-
QUIREMENTS 
FOR 
BECOMING 
CIVILIAN 
EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS. 
‘‘(a) PROGRAM.—The Secretary shall establish a pro-
gram consisting of awarding demonstration grants to 
States to streamline State requirements and procedures 
in order to assist veterans who completed military emer-
gency medical technician training while serving in the 
Armed Forces of the United States to meet certification, 
licensure, and other requirements applicable to becoming 
an emergency medical technician in the State. 
‘‘(b) USE OF FUNDS.—Amounts received as a dem-
onstration grant under this section shall be used to pre-
pare and implement a plan to streamline State require-
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ments and procedures as described in subsection (a), in-
cluding by— 
‘‘(1) determining the extent to which the re-
quirements for the education, training, and skill level 
of emergency medical technicians in the State are 
equivalent to requirements for the education, train-
ing, and skill level of military emergency medical 
technicians; and 
‘‘(2) identifying methods, such as waivers, for 
military emergency medical technicians to forego or 
meet any such equivalent State requirements. 
‘‘(c) ELIGIBILITY.—To be eligible for a grant under 
this section, a State shall demonstrate that the State has 
a shortage of emergency medical technicians. 
‘‘(d) REPORT.—The Secretary shall submit to the 
Congress an annual report on the program under this sec-
tion. 
‘‘(e) FUNDING.—Of the amount authorized by section 
751(j)(1) to be appropriated to carry out section 751 for 
fiscal year 2014, there is authorized to be appropriated 
to carry out this section $1,000,000 for the period of fiscal 
years 2014 through 2018.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 751(j)(1) 
of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 294a(j)(1)) 
is amended by striking ‘‘There is authorized to be appro-
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priated’’ and inserting ‘‘Subject to section 315(e), there 
is authorized to be appropriated’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives February 12, 
2013. 
Attest: 
KAREN L. HAAS, 
Clerk. 
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