KRS 311A.140: Emergency medical technicians -- Administrative regulations -- Renewal

of certification and licensure -- Paramedics to be certified as emergency

medical technicians.

(1) The board shall promulgate administrative regulations relating to emergen cy

medical technicians. The administrative regulations may include the classification

and certification of emergency medical technicians, instructors, instructor -trainers,

and students and trainees; examinations; standards of training and experience;

curricula standards; issuance or renewal of certificates; hearing of appeals; and

other administrative regulations as may be necessary for the protection of public

health and safety in the delivery of emergency medical services. No additional

testing or examina tions shall be required for recertification, except for proficiency

testing of new skills or knowledge, or areas in which there is documented evidence

of deterioration of skills.

(2) Recertification programs shall be organized to include continuing educati on and in-

service training approved by the board.

(3) An applicant for initial certification as an emergency medical responder, emergency

medical technician, or advanced emergency medical technician, or licensure as a

paramedic, shall be certified using th e requirements and testing established by the

National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians or other agent chosen by the

board.

(4) An applicant for certification renewal as an emergency medical responder,

emergency medical technician, or advanced eme rgency medical technician, or

renewal of licensure as a paramedic, shall meet the educational requirements for

renewal of the appropriate certification or licensure credential as required by

administrative regulations promulgated by the board or the requirements established

by the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians or other agent chosen

by the board in lieu of the standards established by the board.

(5) Except as provided in KRS 311A.060, the board shall not require any additional

course work, in-service training, testing, or examinations of a person who chooses

the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians or other agent chosen by

the board for certification or recertification as an emergency medical technician.

(6) Any person licensed by the board as a paramedic shall be certified as an emergency

medical technician by the board. The certification shall be issued without fee,

without additional training, in -service training, testing, or examination. The

emergency medical technician c ertification shall be issued and expire at the same

time that the paramedic license is issued or expires, and if a paramedic voluntarily

gives up his or her license prior to the expiration of his or her paramedic license, his

or her emergency medical techn ician certification shall be unaffected thereby. If a

paramedic chooses not to be relicensed as a paramedic but chooses to retain his

emergency medical technician certification, the paramedic shall, prior to the

expiration of his paramedic license, complet e the requirements for recertification as

an emergency medical technician utilizing one (1) of the methods provided for in

this section.

(7) A paramedic whose license as a paramedic or certification as an emergency medical

technician is suspended, revoked, or denied by the board shall have the same action

taken automatically with regard to his emergency medical technician certification or

paramedic license.