3003-A - EMS program agencies.
§ 3003-a. EMS program agencies. 1. As provided by agreement with the commissioner or regional councils based on needs identified by the regional emergency medical services councils, an EMS program agency may be responsible for facilitating quality improvement of emergency medical care within its region, staffing the regional emergency medical advisory committees provided for in section three thousand four-a of this article, providing prehospital education programs approved by the department, and other activities to support and facilitate regional emergency medical services systems. 2. The programs developed by the agencies established by subdivision one of this section shall be implemented beginning in nineteen hundred ninety-three using funds collected by the New York state emergency medical services training account, established within the miscellaneous special revenue fund - 339 by section ninety-seven-q of the state finance law. 3. The portion of the funds collected by the emergency medical services training New York state account, established and allocated within the miscellaneous special revenue fund - 339 by section ninety-seven-q of the state finance law, shall be adequate to support the costs incurred in implementing the programs described in subdivision one of this section.