§22-18-23. Expenditure of appropriated funds; grants.

(a) The commission shall expend the funds that are appropriated for such purpose by the Legislature by making grants to state junior colleges, state technical colleges, and other public institutions of higher learning for the purposes of providing emergency medical services education.

(b) To be eligible for a grant from the commission, an institution shall be certified by the Alabama Department of Public Health as having an emergency medical services primary education program whose graduates are eligible to be examined for state licensure as emergency medical technicians at the EMT-basic, EMT-intermediate, or EMT-paramedic level or a combination thereof.

(c) Grants from the commission shall contain such conditions that in the view of the commission are necessary to assure that grant funds are expended for emergency medical services education purposes. The commission may require audited financial statements as a condition of grant acceptance.

(Acts 1993, No. 93-663, p. 1146, §3(d).)