Title 22

(a) In addition to all other fees payable, the department shall establish, by rule, a fee for EMSP and air or ground provider service licenses. Each license issued to an EMSP shall be valid for a period of 24 calendar months. Each license issued to a provider service shall be val…

(a) Beginning January 1, 2025, the Alabama Department of Public Health shall require each emergency medical services personnel to annually complete one hour of training on interacting with individuals with sensory needs or invisible disabilities. (b)(1) The Alabama Department of …

(a) It shall be a Class A misdemeanor for any person, firm, company, corporation, organization, facility, or agency to do any of the following: (1) Deliberately hinder, obstruct, or interfere with an officer, inspector, or duly authorized agent of the board while in the performan…

This article is cumulative and shall not be construed as limiting any power or authority of any municipality to set standards equal to, or above, state standards as provided in this chapter. (Acts 1971, No. 1590, p. 2717, §8.)

In those instances in which EMSP of any municipality, county, fire district, or the state are employed by the State of Alabama, any county, fire district, or another municipality, within 24 months after completing the training requirements mandated by this chapter, or by rules ad…

(a) When reviewing an applicant for initial licensure under this article, the Board of Health may require a fingerprint-based state and national criminal background check through the Alabama State Law Enforcement Agency for purposes of determining the applicant’s suitability for …

(a) The board shall be assisted in formulating rules and policy pertaining to emergency medical services by the State Emergency Medical Control Committee (SEMCC). Each member of the SEMCC shall have voting privileges. Members of the SEMCC shall serve without compensation but shal…

(a) The board may by rule designate certain procedures as advanced life support techniques, which may be performed by EMSP during emergencies, such as situations where the life, health, or safety of a prehospital patient is in immediate jeopardy. The board may prescribe by rule t…

This chapter shall govern and it shall authorize the Board of Health to regulate only emergency medical care provided outside of hospitals, EMSP who provide care outside of hospitals, provider services ground ambulances, air ambulances, ALS nontransport services, the training of …

In carrying out its duties and responsibilities under this chapter, the board shall follow the Administrative Procedure Act. (Acts 1995, No. 95-276, p. 488, §6.)

Neither the provisions of this chapter nor rules of the board adopted thereunder shall apply to volunteer fire departments which are not regularly engaged in the provision of emergency medical care and which offer only Basic Life Support response and do not transport. Volunteer f…

(a) The Legislature finds and declares the following: (1) Emergency medical services are an essential public service and a part of the health care safety net for many residents of this state. (2) It is in the public interest to assure that high quality emergency and urgent medica…

(a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the Lakyn Canine Act. (b) For the purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES PERSONNEL. The same meaning as provided in Section 22-18-1. (2) POLICE DOG. Any dog with…

The Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact is hereby enacted into law and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally joining therein in form substantially as follows: SECTION 1. PURPOSE In order to protect the public through verification of compe…

For the purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) ACCS. The Alabama Community College System. (2) AMBULANCE SERVICE. An ambulance service located in this state which is a member of the Alabama Association of Ambulance Services. (3) ASSOCIATION…

(a) Eligible educational institutions, in consultation with the associations, shall jointly develop and administer a student tuition reimbursement program for students who contract to provide two years of emergency medical services for volunteer rescue squads, volunteer fire depa…

Upon written request by an association or a member of an association, the ACCS may retroactively consider reimbursement of actual tuition costs, excluding required fees, provided by the association or its members to a student to pay his or her eligible tuition costs. (Act 2023-35…

(a) Member institutions of the ACCS, the fire college, the University of South Alabama, and designated EMS regional agencies may enter into contracts with new students seeking to obtain certification as an EMSP. (b) The Alabama Department of Public Health shall adopt rules settin…

(a) The tuition reimbursement program is subject to direct appropriations from the Education Trust Fund. (b) Any monies appropriated for the program that are unexpended at the end of a fiscal year shall not revert, but shall be carried forward for use of the program in the next f…

(a) The ACCS shall annually report on the condition and accomplishments of the tuition reimbursement program to the Governor, Speaker of the House of Representatives, President Pro Tempore of the Senate, the Chair of the House Ways and Means Education Committee, the Chair of the …