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Federal Trauma Legislation: The 101st United States Congress

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Larry Jordan
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The United States Congress presently is considering comprehensive legislation regarding emergency medical services (EMS) and trauma systems planning. This legislation amends the Public Health Service Act and, if enacted, would represent the federal government's first significant statutory mandate to exercise a leadership role in EMS since the federal EMS program was abolished in the early 1980s. On 14 November 1989, the House passed House Resolution (H.R.) 1602, Trauma Care Systems Planning and Development Act of 1989, authored by Representative Jim Bates. The Senate is considering similar legislation (S. 15) by Senator Alan Cranston, titled the Emergency Medical Services and Trauma Care Improvement Act of 1989. The Senate Bill is awaiting final action by the full Senate. If the Senate approves S. 15, a joint House and Senate conference committee will meet to present its own conference report to each of those bodies for consideration and passage.

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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , September 1990 , pp. 255 - 259
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1990

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References

1. The 1981 Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act eliminated the categorical federal EMS program and incorporated it into the Preventative Health and Human Services block grant program.Google Scholar
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