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A4450
ASSEMBLY, No. 4450
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
222nd LEGISLATURE
�
INTRODUCED FEBRUARY 24, 2026
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman� STERLEY S. STANLEY
District 18 (Middlesex)
Assemblywoman� MITCHELLE DRULIS
District 16 (Hunterdon, Mercer, Middlesex and Somerset)
SYNOPSIS
���� Amends law related to EMT eligibility for receiving
funds from �Emergency Medical Technician Training Fund.�
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
���� As introduced.
��
An Act
concerning emergency medical tiechnicians and amending
P.L.1992, c.143.
����
Be It
Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of New Jersey:
���� 1.��� Section 4 of P.L.1992,
c.143 (C.26:2K-57) is amended to read as follows:
���� 4.��� a. The commissioner, in
accordance with recommendations adopted by the council, and within the limits
of those monies in the fund, shall annually reimburse any private agency,
organization, or entity which is certified by the commissioner to provide training
and testing for ambulance, first aid, and rescue squad personnel who are
seeking certification or recertification as a volunteer emergency medical
technician, for which costs that agency, organization, or entity is not
otherwise reimbursed.� An agency, organization, or entity that provides
training and testing to volunteer emergency medical technicians and volunteer
emergency medical technician candidates shall be eligible for reimbursement
from the fund regardless of whether the ambulance, first aid, and rescue squad
employing or utilizing the services of the volunteer emergency medical
technician receives any payment or reimbursement for providing emergency
medical services.� The priority for reimbursement from the fund to an agency,
organization, or entity for training and testing of ambulance, first aid, and
rescue squad personnel shall be in the following order:� initial emergency
medical technician certification
[
and
]
,
emergency
medical technician
[
refresher
]
recertification
classes
, and select continuing education classes as recommended by the
advisory council established pursuant to section 6 of P.L.1992, c.143
(C.26:2K-59)
.
���� b.��� All reimbursements from
the fund shall be promptly paid upon receipt of a qualifying application for
reimbursement, which payment shall be made to the agency, organization, or
entity that provided training to the volunteer emergency medical technician.
���� c.���� (1) The head of the
ambulance, first aid, and rescue squad employing or utilizing the services of
an emergency medical technician, who received initial emergency medical
technician training from an agency, organization, or entity that received
reimbursement from the fund for providing the initial emergency medical
technician training to that emergency medical technician, shall determine the
emergency medical technician to be a volunteer in good standing, provided that
the emergency medical technician works at least
[
one
]
12
service
[
call
]
calls
per
[
month
]
year, or
150 duty hours per year,
during the initial three-year certification period
as a volunteer emergency medical technician.
���� (2)�� The head of the
ambulance, first aid, and rescue squad shall seek reimbursement from the
emergency medical technician, if the emergency medical technician ceases to be
a volunteer in good standing, for monies paid out of the fund in connection
with that emergency medical technician's training, testing, certification, or
recertification, as appropriate, in connection with the initial three-year
certification period in which the emergency medical technician ceased to be a
volunteer in good standing.� However, an emergency medical technician who
ceases to be a volunteer in good standing in order to attend a public or
private institution of higher education shall not be responsible for
reimbursing the fund.� The Department of Health shall exercise oversight authority
over the collection of funds pursuant to this paragraph.
���� d.��� As used in this section:
���� "Public or private
institution of higher education" means any public university or college
,
or any private college, university, or institute
,
[
incorporated
and
]
located in
[
New
Jersey
]
the United States
, which by virtue of law or character or license is a
nonprofit educational institution authorized to grant academic degrees,
provides a level of education equivalent to the education provided by the
State's public institutions of higher education
[
as attested by the receipt of and
continuation of regional accreditation by the Middle States Association of
Colleges and Schools, and is eligible to receive State aid under the provisions
of the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of
New Jersey
]
.
���� "Volunteer emergency
medical technician" means an emergency medical technician who provides
basic life support services without receiving compensation in the form of an
hourly wage,
or
a salary,
[
or
any other form of financial remuneration
]
provided for or in connection with the provision of basic life support
services.�
[
A
volunteer emergency medical technician shall not include an individual employed
full-time by a general or special hospital licensed pursuant to P.L.1971, c.136
(C.26:2H-1 et seq.) as an emergency medical technician
]
A length
of service award administered pursuant to a length of service award program as
established under the provisions of P.L.1997, c.388 (C.40A-14-183 et seq.)
shall not be considered financial remuneration
.
(cf: P.L.2024, c.68, s.1)
���� 2.��� This act shall take
effect immediately.�
STATEMENT
���� This bill would amend section
4 of P.L.1992, c.143 (C.26:2K-57) to clarify that a volunteer emergency medical
technician (EMT) who receives a length of service award would be eligible to
receive funds from the �Emergency Medical Technician Training Fund� for the
purposes of certification or recertification as an emergency medical technician
(EMT).� This bill amends the definitions of �public or private institution of
higher education� and �volunteer emergency medical technician.�� Under this
bill, the definition of �public or private institution of higher education�
would be amended to include those universities that are located out-of-State.�
And, the definition of �volunteer emergency medical technician� would be
amended to mean an EMT who provides basic life support services without
receiving compensation in the form of an hourly wage, or a salary, provided for
or in connection with the provision of basic life support services, and
eliminates duplicative language, excluding individuals employed full-time, by a
general or a special hospital, as EMTs, from the definition of volunteer EMT.
���� Lastly, this bill changes the
requirements of an EMT in good standing during the initial three-year
certification period to one who works at least 12 service calls, or 150 duty
hours, per year.