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<meta><dc:title>118 S 265 ENR: To reauthorize the rural emergency medical service training and equipment assistance program, and for other purposes.</dc:title>
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<preface><dc:type>S.</dc:type><docNumber>265</docNumber>

<congress style="-uslm-lc:I665502" value="118">One Hundred Eighteenth Congress of the United States of America</congress><session style="-uslm-lc:I665503" value="2">A T T  H  E S  E  C  O  N  D S  E  S  S  I  O  N</session>
<enrolledDateline style="-uslm-lc:I665504">Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday, the third day of January, two thousand and twenty four</enrolledDateline>
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<docTitle class="centered fontsize18" style="-uslm-lc:I665505">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="centered fontsize8" style="-uslm-lc:I665511">To reauthorize the rural emergency medical service training and equipment assistance program, and for other purposes.<?GPOvSpace 08?></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><i>  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa­tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</i></enactingFormula>
<section id="d276e62" identifier="/us/bill/118/s/265/s1" style="-uslm-lc:I650146"><num class="bold" value="1">SECTION 1. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  This Act may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="act">Supporting and Improving Rural EMS Needs Reauthorization Act</shortTitle>” or the “<shortTitle role="act">SIREN Reauthorization Act</shortTitle>”.</content></section>
<section id="d276e75" identifier="/us/bill/118/s/265/s2" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650141"><num class="fontsize12" value="2">SEC. 2. </num><heading>RURAL EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE TRAINING AND EQUIPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.</heading><chapeau class="indentUp0 firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="x46835afa-761c-11ef-8845-cf8bf40f2a01" style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  Section 330J of the Public Health Service Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t42/s254c–15">42 U.S.C. 254c–15</ref>) <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction>—</chapeau><paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y46835afb-761c-11ef-8845-cf8bf40f2a01" identifier="/us/bill/118/s/265/s2/1" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">(1) </num><content>in subsection (a), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (referred to in this section as the ‘Secretary’)</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>the Assistant Secretary,</quotedText>”;</content></paragraph><paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y46835afc-761c-11ef-8845-cf8bf40f2a01" identifier="/us/bill/118/s/265/s2/2" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="2">(2) </num><chapeau>in subsection (c)—</chapeau><subparagraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y46835afd-761c-11ef-8845-cf8bf40f2a01" identifier="/us/bill/118/s/265/s2/2/A" style="-uslm-lc:I650124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="A">(A) </num><chapeau>in paragraph (1)—</chapeau><clause class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y46835afe-761c-11ef-8845-cf8bf40f2a01" identifier="/us/bill/118/s/265/s2/2/A/i" style="-uslm-lc:I650126"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="i">(i) </num><content>in subparagraph (C), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>; and</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> a semicolon; and</content></clause><clause class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y46835aff-761c-11ef-8845-cf8bf40f2a01" identifier="/us/bill/118/s/265/s2/2/A/ii" style="-uslm-lc:I650126"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="ii">(ii) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following:<quotedContent><subparagraph class="indentDown1 firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y46835b00-761c-11ef-8845-cf8bf40f2a01" style="-uslm-lc:I650124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="E">“(E) </num><content>ensure emergency medical services personnel are trained on mental health and substance use disorders and care for individuals with such disorders in emergency situations; and”</content></subparagraph></quotedContent>; and</content></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y46835b01-761c-11ef-8845-cf8bf40f2a01" identifier="/us/bill/118/s/265/s2/2/B" style="-uslm-lc:I650124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="B">(B) </num><chapeau>in paragraph (2)—</chapeau><clause class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y46835b02-761c-11ef-8845-cf8bf40f2a01" identifier="/us/bill/118/s/265/s2/2/B/i" style="-uslm-lc:I650126"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="i">(i) </num><content>in subparagraph (B), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>; or</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> a semicolon;</content></clause><clause class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y46835b03-761c-11ef-8845-cf8bf40f2a01" identifier="/us/bill/118/s/265/s2/2/B/ii" style="-uslm-lc:I650126"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="ii">(ii) </num><content>in subparagraph (C), by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> the period and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>; or</quotedText>”; and</content></clause><clause class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y46835b04-761c-11ef-8845-cf8bf40f2a01" identifier="/us/bill/118/s/265/s2/2/B/iii" style="-uslm-lc:I650126"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="iii">(iii) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="add">adding</amendingAction> at the end the following:<quotedContent><subparagraph class="indentDown1 firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y46838215-761c-11ef-8845-cf8bf40f2a01" style="-uslm-lc:I650124"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="D">“(D) </num><content>acquire drugs or devices approved, cleared, or otherwise legally marketed under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act for emergency treatment of known or suspected overdose.”</content></subparagraph></quotedContent>;</content></clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y46838216-761c-11ef-8845-cf8bf40f2a01" identifier="/us/bill/118/s/265/s2/3" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="3">(3) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> subsection (f);</content></paragraph><paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y46838217-761c-11ef-8845-cf8bf40f2a01" identifier="/us/bill/118/s/265/s2/4" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="4">(4) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="redesignate">redesignating</amendingAction> subsection (g) as subsection (f);</content></paragraph><paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y46838218-761c-11ef-8845-cf8bf40f2a01" identifier="/us/bill/118/s/265/s2/5" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="5">(5) </num><content>in subsection (f)(1), as so redesignated, by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>2019 through 2023</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>2024 through 2028</quotedText>”;</content></paragraph><paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y46838219-761c-11ef-8845-cf8bf40f2a01" identifier="/us/bill/118/s/265/s2/6" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="6">(6) </num><content>by <amendingAction type="redesignate">redesignating</amendingAction> such section 330J as section 553 of the Public Health Service Act; and</content></paragraph><paragraph class="firstIndent0 fontsize10" id="y4683821a-761c-11ef-8845-cf8bf40f2a01" identifier="/us/bill/118/s/265/s2/7" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num class="fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="7">(7) </num><content>by transferring such section 553, as so redesignated, to appear at the end of part D of title V of the Public Health Service Act (<ref href="/us/usc/t42/s290dd/etseq">42 U.S.C. 290dd et seq.</ref>).</content></paragraph></section>
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<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Speaker of the House of Representatives.</role></signature>
<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Vice President of the United States and  President of the Senate.</role></signature>
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