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LD1387 • 2025

Resolve, to Increase the Emergency Medical Workforce by Allowing Military Medical Personnel to Become Eligible for Licensure as Emergency Medical Services Persons

Resolve, to Increase the Emergency Medical Workforce by Allowing Military Medical Personnel to Become Eligible for Licensure as Emergency Medical Services Persons

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Sponsor
Representative Dani O'Halloran
Last action
2025-05-28
Official status
Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)
Effective date
Not listed

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Resolve, to Increase the Emergency Medical Workforce by Allowing Military Medical Personnel to Become Eligible for Licensure as Emergency Medical Services Persons

Resolve, to Increase the Emergency Medical Workforce by Allowing Military Medical Personnel to Become Eligible for Licensure as Emergency Medical Services Persons Sponsor: Representative Dani O'Halloran Reference committee: Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

What This Bill Does

  • Resolve, to Increase the Emergency Medical Workforce by Allowing Military Medical Personnel to Become Eligible for Licensure as Emergency Medical Services Persons Sponsor: Representative Dani O'Halloran Reference committee: Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

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Bill History

  1. 2025-05-28 Senate

    Pursuant to Joint Rule 310.3 Placed in Legislative Files (DEAD)

  2. 2025-05-27 Committee

    Reported Out; ONTP

  3. 2025-05-08 Committee

    Work Session Held

  4. 2025-05-08 Committee

    Voted; ONTP

  5. 2025-04-01 House

    Committee on Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services suggested and ordered printed. The Resolve was REFERRED to the Committee on HEALTH COVERAGE, INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL SERVICES . Sent for concurrence. ORDERED SENT FORTHWITH.

  6. 2025-04-01 Committee

    Referred to Committee on Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services.

Official Summary Text

Resolve, to Increase the Emergency Medical Workforce by Allowing Military Medical Personnel to Become Eligible for Licensure as Emergency Medical Services Persons
Sponsor:
Representative Dani O'Halloran
Reference committee:
Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services
Latest committee action:
Reported Out; ONTP

Current Bill Text

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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST SPECIAL SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 1387
H.P. 909 House of Representatives, April 1, 2025
Resolve, to Increase the Emergency Medical Workforce by Allowing
Military Medical Personnel to Become Eligible for Licensure as
Emergency Medical Services Persons
Reference to the Committee on Health Coverage, Insurance and Financial Services
suggested and ordered printed.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative O'HALLORAN of Brewer.
Cosponsored by Representatives: FAIRCLOTH of Bangor, FREDETTE of Newport, LEE of
Auburn, MILLIKEN of Blue Hill, SUPICA of Bangor, WEBB of Durham.

Page 1 - 132LR2315(01)
1Sec. 1. Military medical corps personnel licensure as emergency medical
2services persons. Resolved: That the Department of Public Safety, Maine Emergency
3 Medical Services shall establish procedures through rulemaking to allow an individual who
4 served on active duty in the medical corps of any branch of the Armed Forces of the United
5 States to become eligible for licensure as an emergency medical services person, as defined
6 in the Maine Revised Statutes, Title 32, section 83, subsection 12. Rules adopted pursuant
7 to this section are routine technical rules as defined in Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2-A.
8Sec. 2. Report. Resolved: That, no later than December 3, 2025, the Department
9 of Public Safety, Maine Emergency Medical Services shall submit a report to the Joint
10 Standing Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety on the establishment of the
11 procedures under section 1.
12SUMMARY
13 This resolve directs the Department of Public Safety, Maine Emergency Medical
14 Services to establish procedures to allow an individual who served on active duty in the
15 medical corps of any branch of the Armed Forces of the United States to become eligible
16 for licensure as an emergency medical services person and directs the department to submit
17 a report on the establishment of those procedures to the Joint Standing Committee on
18 Criminal Justice and Public Safety no later than December 3, 2025.
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