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_ 358 Item Details($) Appropriations($) ITEM 271. First Year Second Year First Year Second Year FY2025 FY2026 FY2025 FY2026 graduation. Full-time employment during school is not required and does not count towards the required one-year service obligation. G. The Virginia Department of Health shall publish and regularly update on its website information about all health and behavioral health care scholarship and loan repayment programs so that information is readily available to the public. In addition, the department shall notify nursing schools and nursing programs throughout the Commonwealth of the availability of nursing scholarship and loan repayment program funding, including information about the Nursing Preceptor Incentive Program, prior to each academic year in a timely manner to accept applications and process them. H. Out of this appropriation, $4,000,000 the first year and $4,000,000 the second year from the general fund shall be provided to the Earn to Learn Nursing Education Acceleration program. The department shall establish criteria for making grants from the program, including application guidelines and metrics for evaluation. Grants shall be awarded for the purpose of forming collaborative clinical training arrangements between high schools, colleges and universities, hospitals, and health providers, increasing the number of nursing students receiving necessary clinical training to achieve certification, and creating and ensuring employment opportunities for nursing students. To be eligible for grants, applicants must provide employment opportunities to students at each student's current certification level with compensation consistent with other employees at identical certification levels and must demonstrate that the grant application will increase on a net basis the number of nursing graduates achieving sufficient clinical hours to achieve higher nursing certifications when compared to averages over the past five years. I. The Virginia Department of Health (VDH) shall expand the Mary Marshall Scholarship Program to include humanitarian parolees as eligible participants. In addition, VDH shall expand the program to provide scholarships of up to 100 percent of the fees required to obtain a Credential Service Evaluation Profession Report and the English Language Proficiency Report for those individuals who graduated from a nursing education program in a foreign country as required by VDH prior to admission for licensure. 272. Emergency Medical Services (40200) $51,079,420 $51,079,420 Financial Assistance for Non Profit Emergency Medical Services Organizations and Localities (40203) $33,892,001 $33,892,001 State Office of Emergency Medical Services (40204) $17,187,419 $17,187,419 Fund Sources: General $430,000 $430,000 Special $21,223,640 $21,223,640 Dedicated Special Revenue $29,016,692 $29,016,692 Federal Trust $409,088 $409,088 Authority: §§ 32.1-111.1 through 32.1-111.16, 32.1-116.1 through 32.1-116.3, and 46.2-694 A 13, Code of Virginia. A. Distributions made under § 46.2-694 A 13 b (iii), Code of Virginia, shall be made only to nonprofit emergency medical services organizations. The Virginia Department of Health shall develop and implement a plan to ensure timely quarterly distributions of $4.25 for Life funding to the Virginia Association of Volunteer Rescue Squads beginning quarterly in May 2021. B.1. Out of this appropriation, $1,045,375 the first year and $1,045,375 the second year from the Virginia Rescue Squad Assistance Fund and $2,052,723 the first year and $2,052,723 the second year from the special emergency medical services fund shall be provided to the Department of State Police for aviation (med-flight) operations. 2. The Office of Emergency Medical Services shall determine an amount of funding for each hospital, eligible for funding from the Trauma Center Fund, that receives patients through Virginia State Police's (VSP) med-flight operations in the Richmond area in order to support the paramedics or flight nurses provided by Chesterfield County. The Office shall take into account the overall costs of such paramedics or flight nurses, excluding any direct state appropriation, and determine a cost allocation for the hospital based on their share of the total number of VSP med-flight patients transported to the hospital for the prior fiscal year.