• Date Due: November 01, 2024
  • Author: Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security
  • Enabling Authority: Appropriation Act - Item 377 E. (Special Session I, 2024)
  • Description:
    Report on the review and assessment of the sufficiency of fire and emergency medical services funding in the Commonwealth, including (i) identification of local, state, and federal funding provided to support local fire and emergency medical services by locality or region, and to the extent possible, trends in funding by source; (ii) consideration of identifiable fire or emergency medical service funding needs by locality or region; (iii) identification of factors that influence or differentiate the ability of localities or regions to meet the funding needs of local and regional fire and emergency medical services; (iv) factors influencing the ability of localities or regions to meet fire and emergency medical services funding needs; and, (v) consideration of the costs and benefits of consolidating state-level administration of fire and emergency medical services funding and oversight, to include an assessment of administrative models used in other states.