HB106
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Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311A to create the EMS Professionals Foundation Program fund; specify the ambulance services and EMS professionals that are eligible to share in the distribution of the fund; provide that the Board of Emergency Medical Services shall administer the fund and may promulgate administrative regulations to facilitate its administration; authorize reimbursement for an EMS professional's out-of-pocket costs for mental health treatment for a diagnosed post-traumatic stress injury or post-traumatic stress disorder; provide for annual supplements to ambulance providers for each EMS professional it employs; amend KRS 42.190 and 136.392 to include the EMS Professionals Foundation Program fund to the premium surcharge; amend KRS 61.315 to include eligibility for in the line of duty death benefits to specified ambulance service providers.
Introduced: January 7, 2026
Last action: January 14, 2026
Plain-language summary
This bill would create a new fund called the EMS Professionals Foundation Program to provide financial support to emergency medical services workers and the ambulance services that employ them. The fund would help cover out-of-pocket costs for mental health treatment when an EMS professional is diagnosed with PTSD or a post-traumatic stress injury, and would provide annual payments to ambulance providers for each EMS worker on staff. It would also extend line-of-duty death benefits to certain ambulance service providers. Who it may affect: emergency medical services professionals, ambulance service providers, and families of EMS workers who die in the line of duty.
Legislative History
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