S.B. 5007

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EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES
2 SURCHARGE AMENDMENTS
3 2002 FIFTH SPECIAL SESSION
4 STATE OF UTAH
5 Sponsor: David H. Steele
6 This act amends the Emergency Medical Services Systems Act. The act amends the
7 emergency medical services grant program by deleting the 6% cap on the funds that may be
8 used for administrative costs. This act provides an effective date.
9 This act affects sections of Utah Code Annotated 1953 as follows:
10 AMENDS:
11 26-8a-207, as renumbered and amended by Chapter 141, Laws of Utah 1999
12 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Utah:
13 Section 1. Section 26-8a-207 is amended to read:
14 26-8a-207. Emergency medical services grant program.
15 (1) (a) The department shall receive as dedicated credits the amount established in Section
16 63-63a-3 . That amount shall be transferred to the department by the Division of Finance from
17 funds generated by the surcharge imposed under Title 63, Chapter 63a.
18 (b) Funds transferred to the department under this section shall be used for improvement
19 of statewide delivery of emergency medical services and administrative costs as described in
20 Subsection (2)(a). Appropriations to the department for the purposes enumerated in this section
21 shall be made from those dedicated credits.
22 (c) All funding for the program created by this section shall be nonlapsing.
23 (2) (a) The department may use [up to 6% of] the funds transferred to it under Subsection
24 (1):
25 (i) to provide staff support; and
26 (ii) for other expenses incurred in:
27 (A) administration of [those] grant funds[.]; and

28 (B) other department administrative costs under this chapter.
29 (b) After funding staff support, administrative expenses, and trauma system development,
30 the department and the committee shall make emergency medical services grants from the
31 remaining funds received as dedicated credits under Subsection (1). A recipient of a grant under
32 this Subsection (2)(b) must actively provide emergency medical services within the state.
33 (i) The department shall distribute 42-1/2% as per capita block grants for use specifically
34 related to the provision of emergency medical services to nonprofit prehospital emergency medical
35 services providers that are either licensed or designated and to emergency medical services that
36 are the primary emergency medical services for a service area. The department shall determine the
37 grant amounts by prorating available funds on a per capita basis by county as described in
38 department rule.
39 (ii) The committee shall award 42-1/2% of the remaining funds as competitive grants for
40 use specifically related to the provision of emergency medical services based upon rules
41 established by the committee.
42 (iii) The committee shall use 15% of the remaining funds to fund high school emergency
43 medical training programs.
44 Section 2. Effective date.
45 If approved by two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, this act takes effect
46 upon approval by the governor, or the day following the constitutional time limit of Utah
47 Constitution Article VII, Section 8, without the governor's signature, or in the case of a veto, the
48 date of veto override.




Legislative Review Note
as of 7-9-02 11:53 AM

A limited legal review of this legislation raises no obvious constitutional or statutory concerns.

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