(1) The State Board of Health is authorized to promulgate and enforce rules and regulations to provide for the best and most effective emergency medical care by medical first responders, and to comply with national standards for medical first responders. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, medical first responder personnel may be authorized to provide medical first responder services as defined by rules and regulations promulgated by the State Board of Health.

Rules and regulations promulgated under this authority shall, as a minimum:

(a) Define and authorize functions and training programs for medical first responder personnel; however, all those training programs shall meet or exceed the performance requirements of the most current training program “First Responder: National Standard Curriculum” as developed by the United States Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

(b) Specify minimum testing and certification requirements and provide for continuing education and periodic recertification for all medical first responder personnel.

(2) Counties, municipalities and designated EMS districts may regulate the activities of medical first responders in addition to the regulation imposed by rules and regulations promulgated by the State Board of Health.

(3) The State Board of Health and the State Department of Health shall not be authorized to regulate the activities of, or require the state certification of, those first responders who are not medical first responders.