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118TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 118-694
EMS COUNTS ACT
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the
State of the Union and ordered to be printed
Ms. Foxx, from the Committee on Education and the Workforce,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 2574]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Education and the Workforce, to whom was
referred the bill (H.R. 2574) to require the Secretary of Labor to
revise the Standard Occupational Classification System to accu-
rately count the number of emergency medical services practi-
tioners in the United States, having considered the same, reports
favorably thereon with an amendment and recommends that the
bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the EMS Counts Act.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) Emergency medical services (in this Act referred to as EMS) personnel
provide a critical role in emergency response. EMS consists of a diverse group
of health care practitioners, such as paramedics, emergency medical technicians
(in this Act referred to as EMTs), dual-role firefighter/EMTs, firefighter/para-
medics, and volunteer personnel serving in each of such roles.
(2) EMS is an integral component of the response capacity of the United
States to disasters and public health crises, such as outbreaks of infectious dis-
eases, bombings, mass shootings, earthquakes, tornadoes, and hurricanes. EMS
personnel respond to more than 22,000,000 emergency calls each year including
strokes, heart attacks, cardiac arrest, and trauma.
(3) The Bureau of Labor Statistics compiles information on the number of in-
dividuals working in roles across the entire United States workforce. The Bu-
reau of Labor Statistics completes this work by maintaining the Standard Occu-
pational Classification system which classifies workers and jobs into occupa-
tional categories for the purpose of collecting, calculating, analyzing, or dissemi-
nating data.
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