SB 526

This bill adds two voting members to the Emergency Medical Services Board,

which is attached to the Department of Health Services. The bill provides that at

least two members of the board must be an emergency medical responder, emergency

medical technician, advanced emergency medical technician, or emergency medical

technician - intermediate and have a local credentialing agreement solely with a

volunteer department that serves a rural area or multiple volunteer departments

that serve a rural area. For purposes of that requirement, the bill defines “rural

area” as an area for which the population of the largest single municipality in the

volunteer department's service area is less than 10,000. The bill specifies that the

two new members of the board appointed on or after the effective date of the bill must

meet the new criteria established under the bill, specifically, that each is an

emergency medical responder, emergency medical technician, advanced emergency

medical technician, or emergency medical technician - intermediate who has a local

credentialing agreement solely with a volunteer department that serves a rural area

or multiple volunteer departments that serve a rural area.