🔥Idaho Legislature: Ask Legislators to VOTE NO on H0206 - Emergency medical services (posted 02/13/25)

• Bill: legislature.idaho.gov/s…

• Contact Legislators: emailidaho.com

(Check the linked page or use My Bill Tracker for the bill’s current status.)

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During COVID, emergency services were militarized, citizens rights stripped, untold gobs of money spent, and the world suffered devastating results. This may be the scariest bill on the 2025 legislative docket; the resulting financial and human costs could be devastating.

H0206 – shocking 64-pages long – transfers Emergency Medical Services (EMS) responsibilities from Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (DHW) to Idaho Military Division. It ties Idaho more tightly to federal cost structure and strips away local community control.

Key Provisions (gleaned from AI as no mere human can digest a 64-page bill):

• Establishes new law governing emergency medical services

• Creates EMS program within Military Division.

• Defines comprehensive framework for managing EMS across Idaho.

• Creates new EMS Fund and EMS Vehicle and Equipment Grant Fund to distribute funds to qualifying nonprofit and governmental EMS entities (bright shades of USAID debacle).

• Establishes statewide Time Sensitive Emergency (TSE) System Council to oversee trauma, stroke, and heart attack care.

• Establishes licensing requirements for EMS personnel and agencies.

• Creates medical director oversight position.

• Creates TSE registry for analyzing emergency medical incidents.

• Specifies disciplinary procedures against EMS personnel and agencies, including grounds for license suspension or revocation.

Fiscal:

• Transfers FY 2026 base appropriations from DHW to Military Division.

• Requires additional appropriation for FY 2026 Variable and Health Benefits adjustments and Change in Compensation to maintain parity with federal military compensation. Also:

  • $150,000 one-time EMS funding for transition expenses.

  • $60,000 General Fund operating expenditures for part-time state EMS medical director.

  • Moves EMS from DHW to Military Division.

  • Revenue sources to EMS dedicated funds will absorb on-going EMS administrative costs, subject to future legislative appropriation.

• Preparedness program staff and applicable federal funding remain in DHW's Division of Public Health.

Related:

Sasha Latypova – expert in militarized response and uncovering fraud in pharmaceutical R&D and manufacturing – addresses militarized healthcare in great detail. The titles should be enough to encourage you to VOTE NO.

• EUA Countermeasures: Military medical countermeasures, removal of informed consent and meaningful consumer protections: tinyurl.com/pyae68fd

• Pandemic Preparedness Racket and DOD: Department of Defense, BARDA, DARPA and other US government bioterrorism agencies together with industry "stakeholders": tinyurl.com/3ku2fxwh

See Also:

• H0207 Substack Note: