HB 312 will take effect July 15

By JOHN HULTGREN
Kentucky EMS Connection

LOUISVILLE — House Bill 312, signed into law last week by Governor Patton, will change the recertification requirements for emergency medical technicians.

But these changes won't take effect until July 15.

The law will not change initial certification, which will continue to be done using the requirements and testing procedures established by the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians.

And, any EMT who chooses to recertify under the requirements established  by the NREMT may continue to do so.

However, an EMT will soon be able to recertify as a Kentucky EMT under new requirements that will be established and maintained by the Kentucky Cabinet for Health Services. These requirements will include a minimum of 16 hours of required topics and eight hours of elective topics over a two year recertification period. 

"Since the bill did not declare an emergency nor contain an alternate effective date, the bill would go into effect on July 15th, the standard implementation date
for all new legislation," Calhoun said. "Until that time the current law requiring NREMT registration for recertification of some EMTs is still in effect."

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