Section 68-140-335 - Pay supplement for in-service training course—Eligibility—Eligibility for service members(a) A licensed Tennessee ambulance service with full-time employed emergency medical services personnel who successfully complete in each year an in-service training course, appropriate to the emergency medical services personnel's rank and responsibility, of at least forty (40) hours duration at a training center must receive from the board of emergency medical services a pay supplement of eight hundred dollars ($800) for each emergency medical services personnel who completes the in-service training course to be paid to the emergency medical services personnel in addition to the emergency medical services personnel's regular salary.(b) Full-time, ambulance service-employed emergency medical services personnel are eligible for the educational incentive described in subsection (a) upon satisfactory completion, as determined by the board, of forty (40) hours of such training in each year.(c) Notwithstanding another law to the contrary, emergency medical services personnel who served, or serve, on active duty in the armed forces of the United States during a period of armed conflict prescribed by presidential proclamation or federal law must receive the cash salary supplement provided pursuant to this section, if such service prevented, or prevents, such emergency medical services personnel from attending the in-service training program pursuant to this section.Added by 2023 Tenn. Acts, ch. 372, s 1, eff. 1/1/2024.