Title: Emergency Medical Service Providers Protection Act
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement

Summary:
Emergency Medical Service Providers Protection Act
This bill modifies the requirements for a member of a rescue squad or ambulance crew to qualify as a public safety officer for purposes of death benefits under the Public Safety Officers' Benefits program.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2887 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2887

   To include nonprofit and volunteer ground and air ambulance crew 
           members and first responders for certain benefits.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 21, 2019

Mr. Zeldin (for himself and Mr. Suozzi) introduced the following bill; 
          which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

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                                 A BILL


 
   To include nonprofit and volunteer ground and air ambulance crew 
           members and first responders for certain benefits.

    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 ``Emergency Medical Service Providers 
Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. ELIGIBILITY.

    Section 1204 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe 
Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10284) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (7) to read as follows:
            ``(7) `member of a rescue squad or ambulance crew' means an 
        officially recognized or designated employee or volunteer 
        member of a rescue squad or ambulance crew (including a ground 
        or air ambulance service) that--
                    ``(A) is a public agency; or
                    ``(B) is (or is a part of) a nonprofit or private, 
                for-profit entity serving the public that is officially 
                authorized or licensed to engage in rescue activity or 
                to provide emergency medical services; and
                            ``(i) engages in rescue activities or 
                        provides emergency medical services as part of 
                        an official emergency response system; or
                            ``(ii) is officially designated as a pre-
                        hospital emergency medical response agency;''; 
                        and
            (2) in paragraph (9), by inserting after ``and by the 
        applicable agency or entity'' the following: ``(and as 
        designated by such agency or entity)''.

SEC. 3. OFFSET.

    Of the unobligated balances available under the Department of 
Justice Assets Forfeiture Fund, $12,000,000 are permanently cancelled.

SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by section 2 shall apply only to injuries 
sustained on or after March 1, 2007, and shall take effect beginning on 
the date that is 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act. Any 
person who had made an application under part L of title I of the 
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 and whose 
application was denied by reason of the date an injury was sustained 
may reapply.

SEC. 5. CONFORMING AMENDMENT.

    Section 1086(d)(2)(A) of the National Defense Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Year 2013 (Public Law 112-239) is amended by striking ``June 1, 
2009'' and inserting ``March 25, 2007''.
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