Bills › 91st General Assembly
Modifying the costs eligible for emergency medical services fund expenditures, and including effective date provisions
Sponsored by Sen. Mark S. Lofgren (R)
Where it is now
- Done: IntroducedJanuary 14, 2025
- Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 15, 2025
- Done: Senate committeeFebruary 10, 2025
- Done: Passes the SenateMarch 10, 202547–0
- Skipped: House committeeSkipped
- Done: Passes the HouseMarch 10, 202589–0
- Done: To the GovernorMarch 28, 2025
- Done: Signed into lawMarch 28, 2025
Signed into law What’s a funnel?
What’s in it
AI summary Counties that collect special taxes to fund emergency medical services can now use that money to pay the salaries or wages of medical workers. This change allows local emergency medical care providers to be paid directly from the emergency medical services trust fund.1
Read the official explanation
This bill modifies the costs eligible for emergency medical services fund expenditures. Under current law, upon adoption of a resolution declaring emergency medical services to be an essential county service, a county board of supervisors may offer for voter approval the authorization to impose a local option income surtax or an ad valorem property tax. The proceeds from such a tax are deposited into an emergency medical services trust fund. The bill expands the costs which are eligible for emergency medical services trust fund expenditures to include the salary or wages of an emergency medical care provider providing emergency medical services. The bill defines “emergency medical care provider” and “emergency medical services”. The bill takes effect upon enactment.
Senate subcommittee
Named January 15, 2025. On January 16, 2025 it recommended passage.
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