Section 16-4C-24 - [Effective 7/1/2024] Emergency Medical Services Equipment and Training Fund; establishment of a grant program for equipment and training of emergency medical service providers and personnel(a) There is continued in the State Treasury a special revenue fund to be known as the Emergency Medical Services Equipment and Training Fund. Expenditures from the fund by the Office of Emergency Medical Services and Bureau for Public Health, are authorized from collections. The fund may only be used for the purpose of providing grants to equip emergency medical services providers and train emergency medical services personnel, as defined in § 16-4C-3 of this code, and for the program established in § 16-4C-6(p). Any balance remaining in the fund at the end of any fiscal year does not revert to the General Revenue Fund but remains in the special revenue fund.(b) The secretary shall establish a grant program for equipment, training of emergency medical services providers and personnel, and for the program established in § 16-4C-6(p). Such grant program shall be open to all emergency medical services personnel and providers, but priority shall be given to rural and volunteer emergency medical services providers.(c) The secretary shall propose legislative rules for promulgation in accordance with § 29A-3-1et seq. of this code to implement the grant program established pursuant to this section and for the program established in § 16-4C-6(p).Amended by 2024 Acts, ch. TBD (HB 5347), eff. 7/1/2024.Amended by 2024 Acts, ch. TBD (HB 4274), eff. 1/22/2024.Added by 2018 Acts, ch. 211 (SB 625), eff. 6/8/2018.This section is set out more than once due to postponed, multiple, or conflicting amendments.