Tennessee § 68-140-331 - Limited pilot project for purpose of determining impact of EMT/AEMT training centers.

§ 68-140-331. Limited pilot project for purpose of determining impact of EMT/AEMT training centers.

A limited pilot project is established for the purpose of determining the impact of EMT/AEMT training centers operated by ambulance services licensed in this state. Under this limited pilot project, a total of fifteen (15) training centers authorized by this section may be operated. The emergency medical services board shall oversee this pilot project. In order to be certified by the board pursuant to § 68-140-304(13), a training program offered by an EMT/AEMT training center must follow the National EMS Scope of Practice Model for Emergency Medical Service Personnel as promulgated by the United States department of transportation, national highway traffic safety administration. Ambulance services licensed in this state may establish an EMT/AEMT training program. Additionally, the ambulance service must have an instructor coordinator approved by the division of emergency medical services who serves as the training coordinator or lead instructor for the ambulance service. The ambulance service must charge a special enrollment fee of one hundred seventy-five dollars ($175) to each student to be paid directly to the division of emergency medical services to be allocated to the general fund. When considering a pilot EMT/AEMT training center application under this section, the board shall consider whether an EMT/AEMT training center exists in the relevant service area in which the pilot EMT/AEMT training center is seeking to be located. A training program offered by an EMT/AEMT training center may not offer training to more than two (2) classes of students per year, per type of class. A training program offered by an EMT/AEMT training center may not have more than ten (10) total students per class. An ambulance service located in a county with a population of less than fifty thousand (50,000), according to the 2010 federal census and any subsequent federal census, may send students to another county for training. The receiving training center may then have classes of no more than twenty (20) students per class. Any ambulance service that operates an EMT/AEMT training center must document, for each student, the student name, the course the student takes, the date the course begins and is completed, and the exam score for each time the student takes the standard certification test. For each course taught, the ambulance service training center must also report the total number of students that started the course, the total number of students that completed the course, and the percentage of those who completed the course that passed the standard certification test on the first attempt. The documentation required by subdivision (d)(1) must be submitted to the emergency medical services board and to the chancellor of the Tennessee board of regents on a quarterly basis, beginning in the quarter that the first course offered by the training center is completed. The emergency medical services board shall compile an annual report based on the documentation received from ambulance services operating an EMT/AEMT training center and shall submit the annual report to the chairs of the health committee of the house of representatives and the health and welfare committee of the senate. This report must be submitted by June 30 of each year the pilot project is in operation. Acts 2018, ch. 998, § 2; 2019, ch. 489, § 1. Amendments. The 2019 amendment rewrote the section which read: “(a) In order to be certified by the board pursuant to § 68-140-304(13) , a training program offered by an EMT/AEMT training center must follow the National EMS Scope of Practice Model for Emergency Medical Service Person- nel as promulgated by the U.S. department of transportation, national highway traffic safety administration. Ambulance services licensed in this state may establish an EMT/AEMT training program. Additionally, the ambulance service must have an instructor coordinator approved by the division of emergency medical services who serves as the training coordinator or lead instructor for the ambulance service. The ambulance service must charge a special enrollment fee of one hundred seventy-five dollars ($175) to each student to be paid directly to the division of emergency medical services to be allocated to the general fund.“(b)(1) A training program offered by an EMT/AEMT training center may not offer training to more than two (2) classes of students per year, per type of class. “(2) A training program offered by an EMT/AEMT training center may not have more than ten (10) total students per class.“(3) An ambulance service located in a county with a population of less than fifty thousand (50,000), according to the 2010 federal census and any subsequent federal census, may send students to another county for train- ing. The receiving training program may then have classes of no more than twenty (20) total students per class. “(c)(1) Any ambulance service that operates an EMT/AEMT training center must document, for each student, the student name, the course the students take, the date the course begins and is completed, and the exam score for each time the students take the standard certification test.“(2) The documentation required by subdivision (c)(1) must be submitted to the emergency medical services board and to the Tennessee board of regents.“(3) The emergency medical services board shall compile an annual report based on the documentation received from ambulance services operating an EMT/AEMT training center, and shall submit the annual report to the chairs of the health committee of the house of representatives and the health and welfare committee of the senate.“(d) The training centers authorized by this section are a limited pilot project for the purposes of assessing the impact of EMT/AEMT training centers on the provision of emergency medical services in the state. Under this limited pilot project, an EMT/AEMT training center authorized by this section may only be operated in counties having a population, according to the 2010 federal census or any subsequent federal census, of: not less than: nor more than: 156,800 156,900122,900 123,00057,400 57,50056,800 56,90018,200 18,300” Effective Dates. Acts 2018, ch. 998, § 3. May 21, 2018. Acts 2019, ch. 489, § 2. May 24, 2019.