SECTOR: Social Services
SONA YEAR: 2022
Pass a bill establishing Medical Reserve Corps
PROMISE STATUS - DATE: In progress as of 07/17/2023
- This is another priority measure that failed to meet the June 2 goal.
- Eleven bills providing for the Medical Reserve Corps are pending at the committee level in the Senate.
- The House passed a version of a medical reserve corps bill in December. HB 6518 seeks to create a Health Emergency Auxiliary Reinforcement Team (HEART), composed of volunteer medical professionals and health care workers and graduates of medicine and allied health courses, that will help in times of disaster and public health emergencies.