Designating Emergency Medical Services Essential Services

Added a legislative declaration stating that emergency medical services are essential to public health, safety, and welfare, and that access to timely care is critical, especially in rural and frontier areas.

Declared that EMS providers are expected to respond during declared disasters, prescribed closures, crises, or emergencies, and that their work falls within the duties and demands of their jobs.

Recognized that EMS providers, including those offering nonemergency services, are providing essential services regardless of their location when acting on duty or responding as volunteers.

Added new definitions for 'Air ambulance service,' 'Ambulance service,' 'Emergency ambulance service,' 'Nonemergency ambulance service,' and 'Out-of-hospital services' to clarify what constitutes these services under the law.

Clarified that 'Patient' means any individual who is sick, injured, or otherwise incapacitated or helpless.

Updated the definition of 'Prehospital setting' to include the site of an emergency, during emergency transport, during interfacility transport, and while providing out-of-hospital services.

Added new Senate sponsors (Amabile, Carson, Coleman, Daugherty, Exum, Jodeh, Kipp, Liston, Marchman) to the bill's sponsorship list.

Updated the document header to indicate the version is 'REREVISED' and includes amendments adopted in the Second House.

Added a date stamp indicating the 3rd Reading Unamended occurred in the Senate on April 7, 2026.

Removed a section of text regarding emergency medical service providers' expectations during declared disasters.

The header was updated to reflect the bill's new procedural stage as 'Revised' instead of 'Reengrossed', indicating it has passed the second reading in the second house.

A specific section outlining state policy on EMS providers traveling unencumbered and the wear/usage of their vehicles was deleted, likely as part of a broader amendment to the bill.

The list of bill sponsors was updated to include 22 new names (Bacon, Boesenecker, Brown, Caldwell, Duran, Flanell, Froelich, Garcia, Gonzalez R., Hamrick, Jackson, Keltie, Lindsay, Mabrey, Marshall, McCormick, Paschal, Rutinel, Rydin, Smith, Stewart K., Story, Titone, Weinberg), expanding the coalition of supporters.

The bill summary header was updated to indicate the bill has passed the third reading in the House of Introduction and is unamended, with a new date of March 12, 2026.

A specific section (lines 13-18) declaring that emergency medical services are essential and recognizing providers as essential regardless of location was removed from the text.

The definition of 'Air ambulance service' was removed and replaced with a new definition for 'Emergency medical service providers' that explicitly includes both emergency and non-emergency ambulance services.

A new legislative declaration was added stating that emergency medical services are essential and that this status applies regardless of the provider's location.

The text was updated to recognize that emergency medical service providers are essential when acting on duty or responding as volunteers, covering both emergency and non-emergency contexts.