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Archive #46082
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Bill Number
HB26-1238
HTTP Status
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Archived At
2026-03-19 10:45:04 MDT
Created At
2026-03-19 10:45:04 MDT
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emergency fund to the emergency medical services account to finance emergency medical services needed in response to a declared disaster emergency.</strike></li></ul></p><p> <i>The bill also declares that emergency medical service providers, whether responding on duty or as a volunteer and regardless of location, provide essential services when providing emergency ambulance services and nonemergency ambulance services.</i> </p><p> The bill also updates certain definitions related to emergency medical services, including the addition of a definition of 'out-of-hospital <strike>setting</strike> <i>services</i> ', which term <strike>is included in and may be used interchangeably with the existing defined term 'prehospital setting'</strike> <i>is defined to mean the furnishing of necessary health-care goods and services outside of a hospital setting but does not include prehospital setting transports</i> .</p><p> The bill clarifies that an off-duty emergency medical service provider is not 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Raw Response
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users tax fund to counties and cities and counties that authorize ambulance services within their boundaries; and</strike></p><p> <li><strike></strike> <strike>The governor to direct the transfer of money from the disaster emergency fund to the emergency medical services account to finance emergency medical services needed in response to a declared disaster emergency.</strike></li></ul></p><p> <i>The bill also declares that emergency medical service providers, whether responding on duty or as a volunteer and regardless of location, provide essential services when providing emergency ambulance services and nonemergency ambulance services.</i> </p><p> The bill also updates certain definitions related to emergency medical services, including the addition of a definition of 'out-of-hospital <strike>setting</strike> <i>services</i> ', which term <strike>is included in and may be used interchangeably with the existing defined term 'prehospital setting'</strike> <i>is defined to mean the 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