311A.140 Emergency medical technicians -- Administrative regulations -- Renewal
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of certification and licensure -- Paramedics to be certified as emergency
medical technicians.
(1)The board shall promulgate administrative regulations relating to emergency
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 examinations 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 education 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 the 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 emergency 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 certification 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 technician 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, complete 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.