Bill Text: TX HB3577 | 2017-2018 | 85th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the establishment of the emergency medical services educational program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-30 - Referred to Public Health [HB3577 Detail]
Download: Texas-2017-HB3577-Introduced.html
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By: Sheffield | H.B. No. 3577 |
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relating to the establishment of the emergency medical services | ||
educational program. | ||
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
SECTION 1. Chapter 773, Health and Safety Code, is amended | ||
by adding Subchapter I to read as follows: | ||
SUBCHAPTER I. EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM | ||
Sec. 773.251. DEFINITIONS. In this subchapter: | ||
(1) "Educational curriculum" means a | ||
distance-learning emergency medical services curriculum that | ||
provides remote courses of instruction and training to emergency | ||
medical services personnel who serve a rural area. | ||
(2) "Postsecondary educational institution" means any | ||
institution, public or private, which provides courses of | ||
instruction beyond that offered in secondary schools. | ||
(3) "Program" means the emergency medical services | ||
educational program established under this subchapter. | ||
Sec. 773.252. ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM. The department | ||
shall establish the emergency medical services educational program | ||
to provide an educational curriculum for training rural emergency | ||
medical services personnel. | ||
Sec. 773.253. RULES. (a) The executive commissioner shall | ||
adopt rules necessary to implement this subchapter, including rules | ||
for: | ||
(1) establishing requirements for the educational | ||
curriculum; and | ||
(2) establishing requirements for a postsecondary | ||
educational institution that develops and offers the educational | ||
curriculum. | ||
(b) The rules must require that: | ||
(1) a postsecondary educational institution applying | ||
to offer the educational curriculum demonstrate the qualifications | ||
necessary to develop and offer the educational curriculum; and | ||
(2) the educational curriculum provide to rural | ||
emergency medical services personnel the remote instructional | ||
courses and training necessary for the personnel to achieve | ||
department certification under Subchapter C. | ||
Sec. 773.254. EDUCATIONAL CURRICULUM. (a) A postsecondary | ||
educational institution may apply to the department in the form and | ||
manner provided by department rule to develop and offer the | ||
educational curriculum under this subchapter. | ||
(b) The department may contract with not more than three | ||
qualified postsecondary educational institutions to develop and | ||
offer the educational curriculum under this subchapter. | ||
Sec. 773.255. ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT. The department may | ||
provide administrative support to the program. | ||
Sec. 773.256. EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES EDUCATIONAL | ||
ACCOUNT. (a) In this section, "account" means the emergency | ||
medical services educational account established under this | ||
section. | ||
(b) The emergency medical services educational account is | ||
established as a dedicated account in the general revenue fund. | ||
(c) The account is composed of: | ||
(1) money deposited to the credit of the account under | ||
Section 542.4031, Transportation Code; and | ||
(2) notwithstanding Section 404.071, Government Code, | ||
interest earned on the investment of money in the account and | ||
depository interest allocable to the account. | ||
(d) Money in the account may be appropriated to the | ||
department only for the purposes described by Subsection (e). | ||
(e) The commissioner may use the money appropriated from the | ||
account to provide funding to a postsecondary educational | ||
institution offering the educational curriculum under this | ||
subchapter. | ||
SECTION 2. Section 542.4031(g), Transportation Code, is | ||
amended to read as follows: | ||
(g) Of the money received by the comptroller under this | ||
section, the comptroller shall deposit: | ||
(1) 50.5 [ |
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portion of the general revenue fund; [ |
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(2) 33 percent to the credit of the designated trauma | ||
facility and emergency medical services account under Section | ||
780.003, Health and Safety Code; and | ||
(3) 16.5 percent to the credit of the emergency | ||
medical services educational account under Section 773.256, Health | ||
and Safety Code. | ||
SECTION 3. Section 542.4031(g), Transportation Code, as | ||
amended by this Act, applies only to the distribution of revenue | ||
collected on or after the effective date of this Act. The | ||
distribution of revenue collected before the effective date of this | ||
Act is governed by the law in effect at the time the revenue was | ||
collected, and that law is continued in effect for the purpose of | ||
the distribution of that revenue. | ||
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017. |