(a) The Emergency Medical Services Advisory Council shall recommend for adoption by the State Board of Health rules on all matters relating to emergency medical services, including without limitation:
(1) Standards for licensure of ambulance and advanced life support rescue personnel;
(2) Standards for equipment required on ambulance and advanced life support rescue vehicles;
(3) Standards for vehicles used in patient transportation and advanced life support rescue response, including communications requirements;
(4) A statewide communications system for emergency medical services;
(5) Operational standards for providers of ambulance and advanced life support rescue services, including reporting requirements and standards for air ambulance and air ambulance services; and
(6) Procedures for summoning and dispatching aid.
(b) The Department of Health shall have evidence that the standards imposed are important to the quality of patient care.
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