Bill Text: IL SB3975 | 2023-2024 | 103rd General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act. Extends the final report deadline for the EMT Training, Recruitment, and Retention Task Force from September 1, 2024 to February 1, 2025. Effective immediately.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-06 - Referred to Assignments [SB3975 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2023-SB3975-Introduced.html

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103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2023 and 2024 SB3975 Introduced 10/16/2024, by Sen. Kimberly A. Lightford SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
210 ILCS 50/3.22
Amends Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems Act. Extends the final report deadline for the EMT Training, Recruitment, and Retention Task Force from September 1, 2024 to February 1, 2025. Effective immediately.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Systems
Act is amended by changing Section 3.22 as follows:
(210 ILCS 50/3.22)
Sec. 3.22. EMT Training, Recruitment, and Retention Task
Force.
(a) The EMT Training, Recruitment, and Retention Task
Force is created to address the following:
(1) the impact that the EMT and Paramedic shortage is
having on this State's EMS System and health care system;
(2) barriers to the training, recruitment, and
retention of Emergency Medical Technicians throughout this
State;
(3) steps that the State of Illinois can take,
including coordination and identification of State and
federal funding sources, to assist Illinois high schools,
community colleges, and ground ambulance providers to
train, recruit, and retain emergency medical technicians;
(4) the examination of current testing mechanisms for
EMRs, EMTs, and Paramedics and the utilization of the
National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians,

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including current pass rates by licensure level, national
utilization, and test preparation strategies;
(5) how apprenticeship programs, local, regional, and
statewide, can be utilized to recruit and retain EMRs,
EMTs, and Paramedics;
(6) how ground ambulance reimbursement affects the
recruitment and retention of EMTs and Paramedics; and
(7) all other areas that the Task Force deems
necessary to examine and assist in the recruitment and
retention of EMTs and Paramedics.
(b) The Task Force shall be comprised of the following
members:
(1) one member of the Illinois General Assembly,
appointed by the President of the Senate, who shall serve
as co-chair;
(2) one member of the Illinois General Assembly,
appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives;
(3) one member of the Illinois General Assembly,
appointed by the Senate Minority Leader;
(4) one member of the Illinois General Assembly,
appointed by the House Minority Leader, who shall serve as
co-chair;
(5) 9 members representing private ground ambulance
providers throughout this State representing for-profit
and non-profit rural and urban ground ambulance providers,
appointed by the President of the Senate;

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(6) 3 members representing hospitals, appointed by the
Speaker of the House of Representatives, with one member
representing safety-net hospitals and one member
representing rural hospitals;
(7) 3 members representing a statewide association of
nursing homes, appointed by the President of the Senate;
(8) one member representing the State Board of
Education, appointed by the House Minority Leader;
(9) 2 EMS Medical Directors from a Regional EMS
Medical Directors Committee, appointed by the Governor;
and
(10) one member representing the Illinois Community
College Systems, appointed by the Minority Leader of the
Senate.
(c) Members of the Task Force shall serve without
compensation.
(d) The Task Force shall convene at the call of the
co-chairs and shall hold at least 6 meetings.
(e) The Task Force shall submit its final report to the
General Assembly and the Governor no later than February 1,
2025 September 1, 2024, and upon the submission of its final
report, the Task Force shall be dissolved.
(Source: P.A. 103-547, eff. 8-11-23; 103-563, eff. 11-17-23.)