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AN ACT relating to emergency medical services; authorizing a district board of health in certain health districts to regulate emergency medical services within the district with certain exceptions; providing that certain persons are eligible for licensure as an attendant of an ambulance or air ambulance or certification as an emergency medical technician; revising provisions governing persons who are authorized to occupy an ambulance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto. Close title AN ACT relating to emergency medical services; authorizing a district board of health in certain health districts to regulate emergency medical services within the district with certain exceptions; providing that certain persons are eligible for licensure as an attendant of an ambulance or air ambulance or certification as an emergency medical technician; revising provisions governing persons who are authorized to occupy an ambulance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Introduction Date
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Primary Sponsor
Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services
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AN ACT relating to emergency medical services; authorizing a district board of health in certain health districts to reg
Existing law: (1) creates a health district in each county whose population is 700,000 or more (currently only Clark County); and (2) authorizes the creation of a health district in counties whose population is less than 700,000 (currently all counties other than Clark County) under certain circumstances. (NRS 439.361, 439.362, 439.369, 439.370) Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of emergency medical services by: (1) in a county whose population is 700,000 or more, the district board of health; and (2) in all other counties, the State Board of Health and the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department of Health and Human Services. (NRS 450B.060, 450B.077, 450B.120, 450B.160) Sections 1-6, 9 and 10 of this bill authorize a district board of health in a health district that includes a county whose population is 100,000 or more but less than 700,000 (currently only Washoe County) to elect, by affirmative vote of a majority of all the members of the board, to regulate emergency medical services within the district in the same manner as a county whose population is 700,000 or more. However, section 10.5 of this bill prohibits a district board of health in a health district that elects to regulate emergency medical services from establishing a program for the treatment of trauma, thereby keeping the program for the treatment of trauma in such a health district under the authority of the State Board of Health. Existing law sets forth the requiremen
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