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2025 - 2026 LEGISLATURE
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2025 ASSEMBLY BILL 970
January 30, 2026 - Introduced by Representatives
Snyder
,
Doyle
,
Novak
,
Gundrum
,
McCarville
,
Taylor
,
Armstrong
,
DeSmidt
,
Donovan
,
Fitzgerald
,
Mursau
,
O'Connor
,
Ortiz-Velez
and
Subeck
, cosponsored by Senator
James
. Referred to Committee on Health, Aging and Long-Term Care.
AB970,1,3
1
An Act
to repeal
20.435 (1) (ck);
to create
20.435 (1) (ck) of the statutes;
2
relating to:
grants for community emergency medical services, grants for
3
falls prevention awareness and initiatives, and making an appropriation.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Community emergency medical services grants
This bill requires the Department of Health Services to award grants to six emergency medical services (EMS) programs that are conducted by a county, city, village, or town, or any combination thereof, to provide community EMS and hire a full-time community paramedic or community EMS practitioner. DHS must prioritize awarding the grants to two rural, two suburban, and two urban EMS programs. The bill provides $600,000 for the grants. If funding is available after DHS awards the grants to six EMS programs, the bill allows DHS to award a grant to a seventh EMS program. The bill prohibits DHS from awarding a grant to an EMS program that already employs a community paramedic or community EMS practitioner. Within one year after receiving a grant, the bill requires grant recipients to submit a report to DHS and the legislature detailing the effectiveness of the grant.
Under current law, community paramedics and community EMS practitioners are licensed paramedics or EMS practitioners who have two years of experience, have completed a DHS-approved training program, have obtained DHS approval to provide services, and provide services in affiliation with a community EMS provider, hospital, clinic, or physician that are not duplicative of services already being provided to a patient.
Grants for falls prevention awareness and initiatives
The bill also directs DHS to award a grant in the amount of $200,000 in both fiscal years 2025-26 and 2026-27 to the Wisconsin Institute for Healthy Aging for the purpose of statewide falls prevention awareness and initiatives and appropriates $200,000 in both fiscal years 2025-26 and 2026-27 for that purpose.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
AB970,1
1
Section
1
.
20.005 (3) (schedule) of the statutes: at the appropriate place,
2
insert the following amounts for the purposes indicated:
-
See PDF for table
AB970,2
9
Section
2
.
20.435 (1) (ck) of the statutes is created to read:
AB970,2,13
10
20.435
(1)
(ck)
Community emergency medical services grants.
As a
11
continuing appropriation, the amounts in the schedule for the community
12
emergency medical services grants under 2025 Wisconsin Act .... (this act), section
13
4
(
1
) (
b
) and (
c
).
AB970,3
14
Section
3
.
20.435 (1) (ck) of the statutes, as created by 2025 Wisconsin Act
15
.... (this act), is repealed.
AB970,4
16
Section
4
. Nonstatutory provisions.
AB970,3,1
1
(
1
)
Community emergency medical services grants pilot program.
AB970,3,2
2
(
a
)
In this subsection:
AB970,3,4
3
1
. “Community emergency medical services practitioner” has the meaning
4
given in s. 256.21 (1).
AB970,3,5
5
2
. “Community paramedic” has the meaning given in s. 256.205 (1).
AB970,3,8
6
3
. “Municipal emergency medical services program” means an emergency
7
medical services program under s. 256.12 (2) (a) that is conducted by a county, city,
8
village, or town, or any combination thereof.
AB970,3,15
9
(
b
)
From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (1) (ck), the department of health
10
services shall award grants to 6 municipal emergency medical services programs to
11
provide community emergency medical services under s. 256.215 (2) and hire a full-
12
time community paramedic or community emergency medical services practitioner.
13
The department of health services shall give preference in awarding the grants
14
under this paragraph to 2 rural, 2 suburban, and 2 urban municipal emergency
15
medical services programs.
AB970,3,21
16
(
c
)
From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (1) (ck), if funding is available in
17
that appropriation after the department of health services awards the grants under
18
par. (
b
), the department of health services may award a grant to a 7th municipal
19
emergency medical services program to provide community emergency medical
20
services under s. 256.215 (2) and hire a full-time community paramedic or
21
community emergency medical services practitioner.
AB970,4,2
22
(
d
)
The department of health services may not award a grant under par. (
b
) or
23
(
c
) to a municipal emergency medical services program that, at the time of applying
1
for the grant, employs a community paramedic or community emergency medical
2
services practitioner.
AB970,4,5
3
(
e
)
The department of health services may not award a grant under par. (
b
) or
4
(
c
) after the last day of the 12th month beginning after the effective date of this
5
paragraph.
AB970,4,12
6
(
f
)
Within one year after receiving a grant under par. (
b
) or (
c
), a grant
7
recipient shall submit to the department of health services and the appropriate
8
standing committees of the legislature under s. 13.172 (3) a report that details the
9
effectiveness of the grant, including, since the receipt of the grant, the estimated
10
cost savings and the estimated number of individuals served by the community
11
paramedic or community emergency medical services practitioner who was hired as
12
a result of the grant.
AB970,4,17
13
(
2
)
Grants for statewide falls prevention awareness and initiatives.
14
From the appropriation under s. 20.435 (1) (a), the department of health services
15
shall award a grant of $200,000 in each of fiscal years 2025-26 and 2026-27 to the
16
Wisconsin Institute for Healthy Aging for the purpose of statewide falls prevention
17
awareness and initiatives.
AB970,5
18
Section
5
. Fiscal changes.
AB970,5,2
19
(
1
)
Grants for statewide falls prevention awareness and initiatives.
20
In the schedule under s. 20.005 (3) for the appropriation to the department of
21
health services under s. 20.435 (1) (a), the dollar amount for fiscal year 2025-26 is
22
increased by $200,000 to award a grant under
Section
4
(
2
) of this act. In the
23
schedule under s. 20.005 (3) for the appropriation to the department of health
1
services under s. 20.435 (1) (a), the dollar amount for fiscal year 2026-27 is
2
increased by $200,000 to award a grant under
Section
4
(
2
) of this act.
AB970,6
3
Section
6
. Effective dates.
This act takes effect on the day after
4
publication, except as follows:
AB970,5,6
5
(
1
)
Community emergency medical services grants; repeal.
The repeal
6
of s. 20.435 (1) (ck) takes effect on July 1, 2027.
AB970,5,7
7
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