September 2006

Washington Monitor

By Aimee J. Frank, Contributing Writer

The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a Labor and Health and Human Services (Labor-HHS) fiscal year 2007 appropriations bill that would restore funding for EMS programs eliminated under the President’s budget proposal. Under the proposed Senate bill, EMS for Children would receive $20 million in funding, up slightly from the $19.8 million appropriated for the program in 2006. Rural Hospital Flex Grants would be funded at $38.5 million, down from the $63.5 million in 2006, and Trauma/EMS, not funded at all in 2006, would receive $1 million. The Rural and Community Access to AEDs and Traumatic Brain Injury programs, eliminated in the President’s proposal, would receive $1.5 million and $8.9 million, respectively, the same amounts as were appropriated in 2006.

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