Texas

The EMS Compact is State Law

TX Health & Safety Code § 778A.001: Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact (REPLICA).
Read the state law here.

About Texas’s EMS System

EMS Compact Legislation
In Texas, the REPLICA legislation was signed into law on September 1, 2015, making Texas the second state to enact the EMS Compact.

National EMS Coordinated Database Status

• ✅ Texas is fully integrated with NEMSCD

Texas’s EMS Rules

• Rules in Revision
• EMS/Trauma System Policies

Texas’s EMS Statutes

• Chapter 773, Emergency Medical Services
• Chapter 780, Trauma Facilities and Emergency Medical Services
• Gov’t Code § 403.106, Permanent Fund for EMS & Trauma

State EMS Office Links

• Contact the EMS/Trauma Systems Office
• EMS–Trauma Systems Website
• Texas EMS Applications and Forms
• Online Licensing Services
• EMS Reciprocity Certification

Current Commissioner Appointment

Commissioner Joseph Schmider was seated to the Interstate Commission for EMS Personnel Practice at the inaugural meeting on October 11, 2017, and served over five years as the Commission’s first Chair. Commissioner Schmider remains a member of the Executive Committee as the Immediate Past Chair (non-voting).