S.B. 5007 Enrolled

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES
SURCHARGE AMENDMENTS
2002 FIFTH SPECIAL SESSION
STATE OF UTAH
Sponsor: David H. Steele
This act amends the Emergency Medical Services Systems Act. The act amends the
emergency medical services grant program by deleting the 6% cap on the funds that may be
used for administrative costs. This act provides an effective date.
This act affects sections of Utah Code Annotated 1953 as follows:
AMENDS:
26-8a-207, as renumbered and amended by Chapter 141, Laws of Utah 1999
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
Section 1. Section 26-8a-207 is amended to read:
26-8a-207. Emergency medical services grant program.
(1) (a) The department shall receive as dedicated credits the amount established in Section
63-63a-3 . That amount shall be transferred to the department by the Division of Finance from
funds generated by the surcharge imposed under Title 63, Chapter 63a.
(b) Funds transferred to the department under this section shall be used for improvement
of statewide delivery of emergency medical services and administrative costs as described in
Subsection (2)(a). Appropriations to the department for the purposes enumerated in this section
shall be made from those dedicated credits.
(c) All funding for the program created by this section shall be nonlapsing.
(2) (a) The department may use [up to 6% of] the funds transferred to it under Subsection
(1):
(i) to provide staff support; and
(ii) for other expenses incurred in:
(A) administration of [those] grant funds[.]; and
(B) other department administrative costs under this chapter.
(b) After funding staff support, administrative expenses, and trauma system development,

the department and the committee shall make emergency medical services grants from the remaining
funds received as dedicated credits under Subsection (1). A recipient of a grant under this
Subsection (2)(b) must actively provide emergency medical services within the state.
(i) The department shall distribute 42-1/2% as per capita block grants for use specifically
related to the provision of emergency medical services to nonprofit prehospital emergency medical
services providers that are either licensed or designated and to emergency medical services that are
the primary emergency medical services for a service area. The department shall determine the grant
amounts by prorating available funds on a per capita basis by county as described in department rule.
(ii) The committee shall award 42-1/2% of the remaining funds as competitive grants for use
specifically related to the provision of emergency medical services based upon rules established by
the committee.
(iii) The committee shall use 15% of the remaining funds to fund high school emergency
medical training programs.
Section 2. Effective date.
If approved by two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, this act takes effect upon
approval by the governor, or the day following the constitutional time limit of Utah Constitution
Article VII, Section 8, without the governor's signature, or in the case of a veto, the date of veto
override.

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