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A104
ASSEMBLY, No. 104
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
222nd LEGISLATURE
�
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2026 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman AL BARLAS
District 40 (Bergen, Essex and Passaic)
Assemblyman� GERRY SCHARFENBERGER
District 13 (Monmouth)
SYNOPSIS
���� Streamlines emergency medical technician
certification process for certain veterans.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
���� Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative
Counsel.
��
An Act
concerning emergency medical services and amending
P.L.2013,
c.101.
����
Be It
Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of New Jersey:
���� 1.� Section 1 of P.L.2013,
c.101 (C.26:2K-65) is amended to read as follows:�
���� 1.���
a.�������� As used in
this section, �servicemember� means an enlisted person of any branch of the
active duty or reserve component of the Armed Forces of the United States or
the National Guard of any state, or a veteran thereof who has been honorably
discharged or released under honorable circumstances
.
����
b.
��� The Commissioner
of Health
[
and
Senior Services
]
,
with the approval of the State Board of Medical Examiners, shall establish
written standards which
[
a
person
]
an applicant, who is not a servicemember,
shall successfully complete in
order to be certified as an EMT-Basic.
����
[
Applicants
]
c.�
Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, an applicant
for
EMT-Basic certification, who
[
have
equivalent military training or experience in any branch of the active duty or
reserve component of the Armed Forces of the United States or the National
Guard of any state
]
is a servicemember
, shall be certified by the commissioner
[
if the
commissioner determines that the applicant's military training and experience
exceed or are equivalent to the certification standards established by the
commissioner
]
as an EMT-Basic,
if the applicant:
����
(1) possesses a current
emergency medical technician certification from the National Registry of
Emergency Medical Technicians;
����
(2) has served or currently
serves as a Combat Army Medic, a Navy Hospital Corpsman, or as the equivalent
of a Combat Army Medic or a Navy Hospital Corpsman in a separate branch of the
Armed Forces or the National Guard of any state; and
����
(3) completes and passes a criminal
history record background check under standards established by the commissioner
.
����
d.��� The commissioner
shall publish a clear and comprehensible explanation of the current EMT-Basic
certification requirements for eligible servicemembers on the Department of
Health�s Internet website, which can be easily found and navigated by the
general public following an Internet search.
(cf: P.L.2013, c.101, s.1)
���� 2.��� (New section) The
Commission of Health shall adopt rules and regulations pursuant to the
�Administrative Procedure Act,� P.L.1968, c.410 (C.52:14B-1 et seq.) if
necessary to implement the provisions of this act.
���� 3.��� This act shall take
effect immediately.
STATEMENT
���� This bill streamlines the emergency
medical technician certification process for certain veterans.
���� The bill amends current law to
provide that an applicant for emergency medical technician (EMT-Basic)
certification, who is a servicemember, is to be certified by the Commissioner
of Health (commissioner) as an EMT-Basic, if the applicant:� (1) possesses a
current emergency medical technician certification from the National Registry
of Emergency Medical Technicians; (2) served or currently serves as a Combat
Army Medic, a Navy Hospital Corpsman, or as the equivalent of a Combat Army Medic
or a Navy Hospital Corpsman in a separate branch of the Armed Forces or the
National Guard of any state; and (3) completes and passes a criminal history
record background check under standards established by the commissioner.
���� The bill defines
�servicemember� to mean an enlisted person of any branch of the active duty or
reserve component of the Armed Forces of the United States or the National
Guard of any state, or a veteran thereof who has been honorably discharged or
released under honorable circumstances.
���� Under the bill, , the
commissioner is to publish a clear and comprehensible explanation of the
current EMT-Basic certification requirements for eligible servicemembers on the
Department of Health�s Internet website, which can be easily found and
navigated by the general public following an Internet search.