MN HF4171

Establishes an 11-member Emergency Medical Services Task Force to evaluate and make recommendations on improving emergency medical services in Minnesota, including modernization, education and training requirements, and coordination between ambulance services and hospitals.

Task force membership includes one state senator, one state representative, the commissioners of public safety and health (or designees), six gubernatorial appointees, and one Emergency Medical Services Regulatory Board appointee, with appointments due by August 1, 2020.

Co-chairpersons must convene the first meeting no later than August 15, 2020, and the task force must submit a written report by January 1, 2022, after which it expires.

Appropriates $250,000 in fiscal year 2021 to the Department of Health for task force operations and $200,000 to the Department of Employment and Economic Development for a grant program to publicize and promote retention of ambulance service volunteers and volunteer reserve law enforcement officers.