S 1060
113th Congress
Senate
Health
Emergency medical services and trauma care
First responders and emergency personnel
Health care coverage and access
Health personnel
Health programs administration and funding
Rural conditions and development
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Veterans to Paramedics Transition Act
Everywhere this bill has been
2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 23, 2013
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
May 23, 2013
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Veterans to Paramedics Transition Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to revise the grant program to improve emergency medical services in rural areas to include as a permissible use of grant funds the provision to military veterans of required coursework and training to enable them to satisfy emergency medical services personnel certification requirements. Requires such coursework and training to take into account, and not be duplicative of, previous medical coursework and training received by such veterans in the Armed Forces.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1