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…

Introduced: February 5, 2025

Last action: February 7, 2025

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This bill would create a new fund called the EMS Professionals Foundation Program to provide financial support for emergency medical services workers in Kentucky. The fund would help cover out-of-pocket costs for mental health treatment related to post-traumatic stress, provide annual payment supplements to ambulance services for each EMS professional they employ, and extend line-of-duty death benefits to certain ambulance service providers. The fund would be supported through an existing insurance premium surcharge and administered…

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