HB4931 Summary

• Designates the third Friday in May as "First Responder Mental Health Awareness Day" and explicitly includes emergency medical dispatchers and public safety telecommunicators alongside firefighters, police officers, and other first responders in the observance.

• Requires the Office of the Statewide 9-1-1 Administrator to revise guidelines and standards to classify emergency medical dispatchers and public safety telecommunicators as "first responders" comparable to other emergency services personnel in the state's occupational classification system.

• Adds emergency medical dispatchers and public safety telecommunicators to multiple public health, mental health, and emergency response statutes, including provisions related to crisis intervention training, suicide prevention, and workplace protections.

• Establishes that COVID-19 cases for emergency medical dispatchers and public safety telecommunicators meet the rebuttable presumption of work-related injury under workers' compensation law when contracted during the specified period (March 9, 2020 through June 30, 2021).