Section 3003-A. EMS program agencies  


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  • 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.