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Last action · January 14, 2026

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Introduced January 7, 2026

House

Adjourned Sine Die

2026 Regular Session

HB106

AN ACT relating to emergency medical services.

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…

Actuarial Analysis Local Mandate Funds Administrative Regulations and Proceedings Boards and Commissions Budget and Financial Administration Deaths Emergency Medical Services Insurance Local Government

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This bill would create a new funding program called the EMS Professionals Foundation Program to support Kentucky's emergency medical services workers. The fund would help cover out-of-pocket costs for mental health treatment related to post-traumatic stress, provide annual financial supplements to ambulance providers for each EMS professional they employ, and extend line-of-duty death benefits to certain ambulance service providers. Funding would come through an existing insurance premium surcharge. Who it may affect: emergency medical services professionals, ambulance service providers, and families of EMS workers who die in the line of duty.

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