SB145 Alabama 2023 Session

Under existing law, the Volunteer Rescue Squad Tuition Reimbursement Act of 2018, provides tuition reimbursement for students who successfully complete an Emergency Medical Technician or Paramedic certification program offered by a member institution of the Alabama Community College System or the Alabama Fire College and contract to provide three years of service to a volunteer rescue squad or fire department

This bill would decrease the required contracted for service time after graduation and licensing from three years to two years

This bill would expand the program to include students who contract and provide service to an ambulance service

This bill would provide for exclusions from reimbursement

This bill would increase the maximum amount of operational expenses reimbursed by the program to the Alabama Community College System for administering the program from two percent to 10 percent of the funding for the program per fiscal year

This bill would also provide for the retroactive reimbursement of certain related necessary fees and required expenses

Relating to the Volunteer Rescue Squad Tuition Reimbursement Act of 2018; to amend Sections 22-18-60, 22-18-61, and 22-18-64, Code of Alabama 1975, to decrease the required contracted for service time after graduation and licensing from three years to two years; to expand the program to include students who contract and provide service to ambulance services; to provide exclusions from reimbursement; and to increase the amount of operational expenses reimbursed to the Alabama Community College System; and to add Section 22-18-61.1 to the Code of Alabama 1975, to provide for the retroactive reimbursement of certain fees and expenses.