This bill does the following.
1. It establishes a permanent Maine Emergency Medical Services Commission to monitor and evaluate the State's emergency medical services system on a continuing basis
44 and to provide recommendations to the appropriate state agencies and to the Legislature
45 regarding necessary changes in the emergency medical services system.
2. It permits the municipal officers of a municipality to adopt and post a plan stipulating the method by which transporting emergency medical services will be delivered within the municipality. A municipality is not required to directly or indirectly provide or fund the delivery of transporting emergency medical services within the municipality.
3. It amends the Maine Emergency Medical Services Act of 1982 to authorize an emergency medical services provider to render emergency medical services within a hospital or health care facility where the provider is a contractor of the hospital or facility.
4. It directs the Department of Public Safety, Maine Emergency Medical Services to conduct a funding needs analysis of communities seeking to engage in regional collaboration or the adoption of a regional model in the delivery of emergency medical services and to submit a report describing the findings of its analysis and any associated recommendations on or before December 3, 2025 to the Joint Standing Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety. The committee may report out related legislation to the Second Regular Session of the 132nd Legislature.
5. It directs the Department of Public Safety, Maine Emergency Medical Services to submit to the Joint Standing Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety by December
3, 2025 a proposal, including draft legislation, regarding the reorganization of the Emergency Medical Services' Board consistent with the document titled "Maine EMS: Two-Year Action Plan" published by Maine Emergency Medical Services on October 27,
2023. The committee may report out related legislation to the Second Regular Session of the 132nd Legislature.
6. It directs the Department of Public Safety, Maine Emergency Medical Services, as resources allow, to develop and, not later than July 1, 2026, implement a public information campaign designed to enhance the public's understanding and appreciation of the delivery of emergency medical services, the design and funding of the emergency medical services system in the State and the essentiality of the services provided by emergency medical services entities. On or before December 3, 2025, Maine Emergency Medical Services is required to submit a report to the Joint Standing Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety regarding its development and anticipated implementation of the public information campaign. The committee may report out related legislation to the Second Regular Session of the 132nd Legislature.

Statutes affected:
Bill Text LD 245, SP 111: 32.85