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Legislation, Regulation, Government / Tracking Pennsylvania legislat...
Last post by old gray stone - Jul 27, 2025, 14:59
2025-06-04 State Rep. Causer Introduces Plan to Create Pennsylvania State Office of EMS Commissioner (H.B. 1491)
2025-06-05 Proposed Pennsylvania bill aims to save 911 EMS providers State Rep. Jill Cooper is the sponsor of H.B. 1152
2025-06-05 Federal legislation...H.R. 3791 - EMS Counts Act. The bill would increase the granularity of the firefighter occupational classification. "...under the occupational series "33–2011 Firefighters" of the 2018 Standard Occupational Classification System of the Bureau of Labor Statistics to include the following detailed occupations: (1) Firefighters; (2) Firefighter/EMTs; (3) Firefighter/Paramedics; (4) Firefighters, All Other.
2025-06-19 More local governments in Pa. would be able to tax more to cover fire, EMS costs under new bill. State Rep. Chris Pielli, prime sponsor for House Bill 393. Also mentioned, Act 54.
2025-06-30 Pa. House Approves Phillips-Hill Measure to Support EMS Providers, Expand Naloxone Access S.B. 95
2025-07-10 House Bill 1712 Introduced to require PEMA to have one phone number to use to communicate with legislators during weather emergencies.
#22
General Discussion / Member Permissions
Last post by Administrator - Jul 27, 2025, 14:01
There are several types of "members" of the forum.

Guests can post without registering. They can read the boards, topics, and posts that are visible to the internet without logging-in. Guests can also post in these areas without registration (the form requires some answers, but no answers are kept or recorded.)

Guests can only see what anyone else without an account can see.

Registered users can log-in. They can see more and access more features.

The benefits of registering (creating an account) are: you can see your unread/read posts, you can read and post in boards not visible to guests or the whole internet, you have a forum profile, you can see other members profiles, and you can private message other users.

For registered users there are two main types of members. Regular Members and Verified Members. They have forum profiles and can see boards and topics that guests (anyone without registration and profile) can't see.

Verified Members have additional permissions enabled:

Profile:
  • Edit custom title...The custom title is shown on the topic display page, under the profile of each user that has a custom title.
  • Choose a remotely stored avatar
  • Choose a Gravatar

Account:
  • View warning status...Allows users to view their own warning status and history.

Calendar:
  • Create events in the calendar...An Event is a topic linked to a certain date or date range.
  • Edit events in the calendar...An Event is a topic linked to a certain date or date range. The event can be edited by clicking the red asterisk (*) next to the event in the calendar view. In order to be able to edit an event, a user must have sufficient permissions to edit the first message of the topic that is linked to the event.

Topics (only topics they created...their own topics):
  • Move topic...Move a topic from one board to the other.
  • Lock topics...This permission allows a user to lock a topic. This can be done in order to make sure no one can reply to a topic. Only users with a 'Moderate board' permission can still post in locked topics.
  • Remove topics...Delete topics as a whole. Note that this permission doesn't allow to delete specific messages within the topic!
#23
Pa. EMS News & Events / Pennsylvania EMS Conference (o...
Last post by Administrator - Jul 25, 2025, 20:20
Get a bunch of con-ed credits for only $10. You don't have to attend the live sessions. The conference is available on-demand until November 30.

https://paemsconference.vfairs.com/

For nearly half a century, PEHSC has worked in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Department of Health to provide accessible and high-quality EMS continuing education. Since 2020, our virtual conferences have been able to reach thousands of EMS providers across Pennsylvania and beyond.

Based on continued overwhelmingly positive feedback, we have decided to once again keep the event virtual.

Although we miss seeing everyone in person, we believe that this format is the best way to keep affordable, high-quality education accessible to as many of Pennsylvania's EMS providers as possible, given the current state of the EMS industry.

We are excited to offer a wide selection of webinars on a variety of relevant topics, presented by both national and local subject matter experts.
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