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HF4622 • 2026
Ambulance services required to report prehospital care data.
This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.
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Introduction and first reading, referred to Health Finance and Policy
Ambulance services required to report prehospital care data.
A bill for an act relating to emergency medical services; requiring ambulance services to report certain prehospital care data; amending Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 144E.123, subdivision 1, by adding a subdivision. BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: Section 1. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 144E.123, subdivision 1, is amended to read: Subdivision 1. Collection and maintenance. A licensee shall collect and provide prehospital care data to the director in a manner prescribed by the director. At a minimum, the data must include new text begin the prehospital care data listed in subdivision 6, paragraph (b), and new text end items identified by the director that are part of the National Uniform Emergency Medical Services Data Set. A licensee shall maintain prehospital care data for every response. new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE. new text end new text begin This section is effective August 1, 2026. new text end Sec. 2. Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 144E.123, is amended by adding a subdivision to read: new text begin Subd. 6. new text end new text begin Reporting to Office of Emergency Medical Services. new text end new text begin (a) For purposes of this subdivision, "municipality" means a town or a statutory or home rule charter city. new text end new text begin (b) A licensee must annually collect the following prehospital care data for all emergency responses provided by the licensee within the boundaries of each municipality in the licensee's primary service area: new text end new text begin (1) total number of emergency ambulance calls; new text end new text begin (2) for each emergency ambulance call: new text end new text begin (i) dispatch reason; new text end new text begin (ii) type of emergency service requested; new text end new text begin (iii) response mode to scene; new text end new text begin (iv) response mode to hospital; new text end new text begin (v) transport destination; and new text end new text begin (vi) patient pay fee schedule; new text end new text begin (3) percent transport disposition; and new text end new text begin (4) mutual aid given and received, disaggregated by municipality. new text end new text begin (c) A licensee must report the prehospital care data collected under paragraph (b) for the previous calendar year to the director. new text end new text begin (d) The director must make prehospital care data collected under paragraph (b) publicly available annually. new text end new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE. new text end new text begin This section is effective August 1, 2026. new text end