[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1553 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1553

To amend the Public Health Service Act to facilitate emergency medical 
services personnel training and certification curriculums for military 
                               veterans.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           September 14, 2011

Ms. Klobuchar (for herself and Mr. Enzi) introduced the following bill; 
     which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, 
                     Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Public Health Service Act to facilitate emergency medical 
services personnel training and certification curriculums for military 
                               veterans.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Veterans to Paramedics Transition 
Act''.

SEC. 2. GRANTS FOR EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES PERSONNEL TRAINING FOR 
              VETERANS.

    Section 330J(c)(8) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
254c-15(c)(8)) is amended by inserting before the period the following: 
``, including, as provided by the Secretary, may use funds to provide 
to military veterans required coursework and training that take into 
account, and are not duplicative of, previous medical coursework and 
training received when such veterans were active members of the Armed 
Forces, to enable such veterans to satisfy emergency medical services 
personnel certification requirements, as determined by the appropriate 
State regulatory entity''.
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