Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of emergency medical services personnel, including ambulance attendants and firefighters, by: (1) in a county whose population is 700,000 or more (currently Clark County), the district board of health; and (2) in all other counties, the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department of Health and Human Services. (NRS 450B.077, 450B.160) Existing law authorizes the Division to impose an administrative penalty against any person who violates a provision of law governing emergency medical services. (NRS 450B.900) Existing law requires the Division to use money generated from such administrative penalties, fees from the issuance or renewal of a license as an ambulance attendant or a firefighter or certain Legislative appropriations to carry out certain training programs. (NRS 450B.1505) Section 1 of this bill additionally authorizes the Division to use such money to create and maintain an information system containing the records of persons who have completed the training program. Existing law authorizes the Division or the district board of health, as applicable, to issue annual permits and provisional permits for the operation of an ambulance, an air ambulance or certain vehicles of a fire-fighting agency. Existing law requires the State Board of Health or district board of health, as applicable, to establish fees for such annual and provisional permits. (NRS 450B.200, 450B.210) Sections 2 and 3 of this bill provide that revenue from such fees collected by the Division of Public and Behavioral Health must be accounted for separately and does not revert to the State General Fund at the end of any fiscal year.

Statutes affected:
As Introduced: 450B.1505, 450B.200, 450B.210
As Enrolled: 450B.1505, 450B.200, 450B.210
BDR: 450B.1505, 450B.200, 450B.210