[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1060 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1060

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

                              May 23, 2013

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) of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254c-
15(c)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (7), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (8), by striking the period and inserting 
        ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(9) 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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