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[S. 265 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        S.265

                     One Hundred Eighteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

         Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday,
         the third day of January, two thousand and twenty four


                                 An Act


 
    To reauthorize the rural emergency medical service training and 
          equipment assistance program, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
    This Act may be cited as the ``Supporting and Improving Rural EMS 
Needs Reauthorization Act'' or the ``SIREN Reauthorization Act''.
SEC. 2. RURAL EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE TRAINING AND EQUIPMENT 
ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.
    Section 330J of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 254c-15) 
is amended--
        (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``the Administrator of the 
    Health Resources and Services Administration (referred to in this 
    section as the `Secretary')'' and inserting ``the Assistant 
    Secretary,'';
        (2) in subsection (c)--
            (A) in paragraph (1)--
                (i) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``; and'' and 
            inserting a semicolon; and
                (ii) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(E) ensure emergency medical services personnel are 
        trained on mental health and substance use disorders and care 
        for individuals with such disorders in emergency situations; 
        and''; and
            (B) in paragraph (2)--
                (i) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``; or'' and 
            inserting a semicolon;
                (ii) in subparagraph (C), by striking the period and 
            inserting ``; or''; and
                (iii) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(D) acquire drugs or devices approved, cleared, or 
        otherwise legally marketed under the Federal Food, Drug, and 
        Cosmetic Act for emergency treatment of known or suspected 
        overdose.'';
        (3) by striking subsection (f);
        (4) by redesignating subsection (g) as subsection (f);
        (5) in subsection (f)(1), as so redesignated, by striking 
    ``2019 through 2023'' and inserting ``2024 through 2028'';
        (6) by redesignating such section 330J as section 553 of the 
    Public Health Service Act; and
        (7) by transferring such section 553, as so redesignated, to 
    appear at the end of part D of title V of the Public Health Service 
    Act (42 U.S.C. 290dd et seq.).

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.