This bill aims to make the current paramedic scholarship program permanent and includes several amendments to existing laws. It establishes that the commissioner of the Office of Higher Education will create a program to annually support paramedic programs, removing the previous deadline of 2026 for program establishment. Additionally, the reporting requirements have been updated to mandate annual reports by February 1 of each year, rather than just in 2025 and 2026, detailing information about postsecondary programs, demand for paramedics, and scholarship issuance.

Furthermore, the bill appropriates $3,200,000 for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 from the general fund to support the paramedic scholarship program, with specific allocations for student scholarships, program promotion, and administration. It also includes a directive for the revisor of statutes to codify the amended section into Minnesota Statutes and repeals the previous expiration clause of the program, which stated that it would end on June 30, 2026.