Open a jurisdiction to review its dated requirements and official sources. Use the compact tables to compare which states participate.
All 51 jurisdictions · Compact status table · Plan the crossing: offshore · 911 ground · IFT
Can I work a 13-week contract here on my home-state licence?
Yes — privilege alone covers a contract here
The Commission states privilege carries no time limit and is not restricted to declared emergencies, so a 13-week contract is covered provided the medic holds an unrestricted licence in another Member State, is affiliated with an agency authorised in Arkansas, and practises under a physician medical director.
The Commission states privilege carries no time limit and is not restricted to declared emergencies, so a 13-week contract is covered provided the medic holds an unrestricted licence in another Member State, is affiliated with an agency authorised in Arkansas, and practises under a physician medical director. Confidence is medium and quote_supports is partial because this is the Commission speaking nationally, not Arkansas speaking about Arkansas. It is reversed for anyone who already holds a Arkansas licence of any status — see compact.privilege.home_state_licenses.
EMS Compact Commission · emscompact.gov · verified 4 Oct 2026 · Partly supported
Requirements include source links and review dates. Expand each source quotation for the supporting text. Unverified and incomplete information is labelled alongside the relevant requirement.
The items most likely to cost you a start date.
Adds a requirement
Arkansas grants reciprocity only where the other jurisdiction's licensure qualifications themselves require NREMT, CPR and — where applicable — ACLS certification. The test is applied to the issuing state's standards, not only to the individual applicant's credentials.
A medic personally holding every one of those cards can still fall outside the pathway if their home state does not require them for licensure. Since Arkansas joined the compact in March 2025, a medic from a member state can usually bypass this entirely by working on privilege instead — the reciprocity route matters most to medics from non-member states.
State EMS office · healthy.arkansas.gov · verified 9 Aug 2026
The applicant shall hold a substantially similar EMSP license in another United States jurisdiction if the other state's licensure qualifications require: 1) Current ACLS certification, if applicable; 2) NREMT certification, CPR certification, and ACLS certification, if applicable;
healthy.arkansas.gov · State EMS office
Worth knowing
The Arkansas EMS rules state that EMS personnel may not provide patient care without a current Arkansas EMSP licence, and contain no compact or REPLICA provisions, despite Arkansas's compact law taking effect in March 2025.
Recorded because a traveller relying on privilege in Arkansas should know the state's own rulebook does not yet mention the compact. This is not a finding that privilege fails here — compact law is state law and the Commission lists Arkansas as active and submitting data — but it is the kind of unreconciled text that produces an argument with a medical director or a compliance officer. Ask the agency, not the rulebook.
State EMS office · healthy.arkansas.gov · verified 9 Aug 2026
EMSPs may not provide patient care without a current Arkansas EMSP license.
healthy.arkansas.gov · State EMS office
The office that issues the card, and the law it issues it under.
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Who actually issues an EMS licence in Arkansas?
Arkansas Department of Health, Section of Emergency Medical Services
ADH lists licensing EMS personnel as a function of its EMS programme. The office styles itself both 'Section of EMS' and 'Office Emergency Medical Services' across its own pages.
Licenses all Emergency Medical Services Personnel (EMSP) in Arkansas.
healthy.arkansas.gov · State EMS office
Where is Arkansas's EMS licensing office online?
Partly supported
Arkansas files EMS under a licensing-and-permits path rather than under health services, so the URL is long and unguessable. Several shorter healthy.arkansas.gov EMS paths return 403 to non-browser clients.
Arkansas EMS Program The Arkansas Department of Health (ADH) is committed to the health of all Arkansans.
healthy.arkansas.gov · State EMS office
Where do I actually submit an application in Arkansas?
Not yet verified
Not attempted in the spine pass. Arkansas publishes its EMS rules as a single long PDF; only the licensure, reciprocity and renewal sections were read, and anything outside them has not been established.
Who do I call or email about Arkansas licensure?
501-661-2262 (mainline); Licensure Administrator Britt Matthews 501-661-2257
Arkansas is unusually forthcoming — it names the Section Chief, the Licensure Administrator and the Regulatory Administrator with direct numbers. It directs licensure questions to the mainline first.
Office Emergency Medical Services Freeway Medical Tower 5800 West 10th Street, Suite 800 Little Rock, AR 72204 Phone: 501-661-2262
healthy.arkansas.gov · State EMS office
Which statute or rule governs EMS licensure in Arkansas?
Arkansas Rules for Emergency Medical Services (Arkansas State Board of Health); Ark. Code Ann. § 20-13-1106 (offences); Ark. Code Ann. § 17-1-108 (occupational licensing reciprocity)
Partly supported
The rules themselves are the operative instrument and cite these two code sections for offences and for the state's general occupational-licensing reciprocity duty. The quote supports the offences citation only.
Conviction or pleading guilty or nolo contendere to any criminal offense listed in Arkansas Code §20-13-1106.
healthy.arkansas.gov · State EMS office
Levels, term, and what your National Registry does and does not buy you.
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What levels does Arkansas issue, and what does my cert become there?
Emergency Medical Responder
Emergency Medical Technician
Advanced Emergency Medical Technician (AEMT)
Paramedic
Community Paramedic
EMSP Instructor
Arkansas also issues a separate Emergency Vehicle Operator certification, which is a certification rather than a licence and is not a patient-care level. The four core levels are defined in rule by reference to National Registry certification, which is why Registry is effectively structural here rather than merely a requirement.
The Department shall issue the following types of licenses: a. Emergency Medical Responder; b. Emergency Medical Technician; c. Advanced Emergency Medical Technician (AEMT); d. Paramedic; e. Community Paramedic; and f. EMSP Instructor.
healthy.arkansas.gov · State EMS office
How long does a Arkansas licence last before renewal?
Partly supported
Two years is established indirectly: the rules describe the Community Paramedic and Instructor licences as two-year terms running concurrently with the primary licence, and elsewhere refer to a licensee's 'first two-year licensure period'. No sentence states the primary licence term directly, which is why confidence is medium. expiration_convention is inferred from renewal being expressed relative to the licensee's own expiration date.
Community Paramedic licensure is for a two-year (2) period to run concurrently with the primary paramedic licensure.
healthy.arkansas.gov · State EMS office
Do I need National Registry to get licensed in Arkansas?
Yes
Stated as a flat requirement in the reciprocity section. Arkansas also builds Registry into the definitions of the levels themselves — an EMT is defined as 'a provider certified by the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians who is licensed in Arkansas at the EMT level'.
The applicant shall hold a current NREMT certification.
healthy.arkansas.gov · State EMS office
Do I have to keep National Registry current to keep a Arkansas licence?
No
Partly supported
There is a grandfathered track for paramedics who never held national certification, so the state licence can be maintained without Registry — but only by that closed population, since entry now requires Registry. Confidence is medium because the rules elsewhere require a renewed NREMT card before some renewals are issued, and the two provisions were not reconciled.
Paramedics who have never held national certification shall document completion of all education requirements prior to their state license expiration date to renew state paramedic license.
healthy.arkansas.gov · State EMS office
Does Arkansas make me sit its own exam?
Not yet verified
Not attempted in the spine pass. Arkansas publishes its EMS rules as a single long PDF; only the licensure, reciprocity and renewal sections were read, and anything outside them has not been established.
What criminal history bars me from licensure in Arkansas?
Offences enumerated in Ark. Code Ann. § 20-13-1106. Conviction, guilty plea or nolo contendere to a listed offence is grounds for action against a licence.
Partly supported
The value records the pointer, not the offences — § 20-13-1106 itself has not been read. Note the rules treat this as an offence list for discipline; whether the same list operates as an absolute bar at initial application is not stated.
Conviction or pleading guilty or nolo contendere to any criminal offense listed in Arkansas Code §20-13-1106.
healthy.arkansas.gov · State EMS office
The EMS Compact — formally REPLICA, the Recognition of EMS Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact. Enacted, in force, and verifiable status are separate dated facts, plus what privilege covers.
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What do I have to satisfy for compact privilege to apply in Arkansas?
Partly supported
These are the Commission's national conditions, not a Arkansas statement. Whether Arkansas imposes anything further has not been established from a Arkansas source — see compact.privilege.state_specific_restrictions.
Be at least 18 years of age. Section 4.B.1 2 Hold a current, unrestricted license in at least one EMS Compact participating state, as an EMT, AEMT, Paramedic, or a state-recognized level between EMT and Paramedic. Section 4.B.2 3 Affiliate with an EMS agency in the remote state that provides EMS medical direction. Section 4.B.3 4 Adhere to the Commission's Professional Code of Conduct . Rules 4.0(E) and 4.6 Then, as you practice: follow the local scope of practice, protocols, and laws of the state you are working in, under Rule 4.4 of the Commission's administrative rules.
emscompact.gov · EMS Compact Commission
Which situations does compact privilege cover in Arkansas?
Not established in the cited source
No Arkansas enumeration of covered circumstances located. The Commission frames privilege as applying at all times rather than by enumerated circumstance, but that is a national statement and has not been confirmed against Arkansas rule.
When do I need full Arkansas licensure instead of privilege?
Not established in the cited source
Not stated by Arkansas or by the Commission for Arkansas specifically. The only universal exclusion the Commission states is that privilege never applies in a state where you already hold a licence — see compact.privilege.home_state_licenses.
Can I work a 13-week contract in Arkansas on my home-state licence?
Yes — privilege alone covers a contract here
Partly supported
The Commission states privilege carries no time limit and is not restricted to declared emergencies, so a 13-week contract is covered provided the medic holds an unrestricted licence in another Member State, is affiliated with an agency authorised in Arkansas, and practises under a physician medical director. Confidence is medium and quote_supports is partial because this is the Commission speaking nationally, not Arkansas speaking about Arkansas. It is reversed for anyone who already holds a Arkansas licence of any status — see compact.privilege.home_state_licenses.
Does it expire? There is no time limit. Your Privilege to Practice remains valid as long as you continue to meet eligibility requirements: an active, unrestricted EMS license in a participating Home State, affiliation with an EMS agency authorized in the remote state, practice under a local EMS Medical Director in compliance with the remote state's laws and rules, and adherence to the Professional Code of Conduct . Does it only apply during emergencies? No. The Compact applies at all times, not only during declared emergencies.
emscompact.gov · EMS Compact Commission
I have an old or inactive Arkansas card — can I still use compact privilege here?
The Commission states that even an inactive license makes that state a Home State, and that a Home State is not a Remote State, so Compact privilege does not apply there. This is the Commission speaking nationally; this source does not establish whether the state offers inactive status or its reactivation pathway, so both remain unknown.
In this scenario, although the EMS practitioner holds an inactive license from Kansas, the state is still considered a Home State, since the individual holds a license there, rather than a Remote State. The EMS Compact uniquely allows an individual to have multiple Home States, which are not defined by residency or workplace affiliations. Consequently, the Privilege to Practice is only authorized in Remote States, provided the EMS Practitioner meets the provisions outlined by the EMS Compact. As Kansas is not a Remote State for this practitioner, the Privilege to Practice does not apply here.
emscompact.gov · EMS Compact Commission
Does Arkansas add anything on top of the compact?
Not established in the cited source
The Arkansas EMS rules read for this record contain no compact or REPLICA provisions at all, and state flatly that 'EMSPs may not provide patient care without a current Arkansas EMSP license.' That sentence predates or ignores the March 2025 compact effective date, so it is unclear from the rules alone how Arkansas reconciles the two. This is a real gap rather than a finding of no restriction — see the open question.
Where does an employer verify my privilege for Arkansas?
Partly supported
Quick Verify is embedded on the Commission homepage and keyed to the 12-digit National EMS ID, which is neither your state licence number nor your NREMT number.
Quick Verify allows EMS clinicians, agencies, and the public to validate a clinician
emscompact.gov · EMS Compact Commission
Has Arkansas passed the EMS Compact into law?
Nothing recorded
Current EMS Compact Commissioner page identifies Arkansas's enacted Compact law and reports 2025-03-20 as the signing date. The obsolete Commission State Laws table source and its caveat were removed because this state-specific page directly supplies the law citation and enactment fact.
The EMS Compact Is State Law Arkansas Act 384: Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact (REPLICA) Signed into law on March 20, 2025.
emscompact.gov · EMS Compact Commission
Is Arkansas's compact law actually in effect yet?
Partly supported
The effective date is derived from the default-date rule and full-act review. Act 384 was approved March 20, 2025, but the full official act contains no act-wide emergency clause or specified effective date; the Bureau of Legislative Research states the default date for 2025 acts without either provision is August 5, 2025. Compact Section 14(B) governs when Commission rules have force in a joining state; it does not delay the Act's general effective date.
Acts that do not contain an emergency clause or a specified effective date become effective on the ninety-first day following the date that the General Assembly adjourns sine die. According to the method of calculation stated in Ark. Atty. Gen. Op. 2025-032, the effective date for acts of the 95th General Assembly that do not contain an emergency clause or a specified effective date is August 5, 2025.
arkleg.state.ar.us · State legislature
Can my Privilege to Practice actually be verified in Arkansas?
The Commission's state-specific Commissioner page identifies Arkansas as fully integrated with NEMSCD. This establishes current database integration, distinct from enactment and statutory effect. The page does not publish the initial connection date, so connected_date remains null.
✅ Arkansas is fully integrated with the NEMSCD
emscompact.gov · EMS Compact Commission
The route in when privilege does not cover you.
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Will Arkansas recognise my out-of-state certification at all?
Yes
Arkansas has a rule-defined reciprocity pathway, which is stronger than a web page describing one.
An applicant applying for reciprocal licensure shall meet the following requirements:
healthy.arkansas.gov · State EMS office
What does Arkansas call its out-of-state pathway?
Reciprocity
Partly supported
Named as a rule section heading rather than as a branded programme.
An applicant applying for reciprocal licensure shall meet the following requirements:
healthy.arkansas.gov · State EMS office
Where do I start a reciprocity application for Arkansas?
Not yet verified
Not attempted in the spine pass. Arkansas publishes its EMS rules as a single long PDF; only the licensure, reciprocity and renewal sections were read, and anything outside them has not been established.
What does Arkansas require from an out-of-state applicant?
A substantially similar EMSP licence in another US jurisdiction
Current NREMT certification
Evidence of current, active licensure in good standing
Proof of licensure for EVERY state where you are or have ever been licensed as an EMSP
Clean disciplinary history
State and federal criminal history background check
Department-approved CPR, and ACLS for Paramedics
The 'substantially similar' test is the unusual part: Arkansas judges your licence by what YOUR state required to issue it, so a medic from a state with looser prerequisites can be refused reciprocity through no fault of their own. Ark. Code Ann. § 17-1-108 separately obliges Arkansas to consider whether the other state offers Arkansas residents a comparably unrestrictive path.
The applicant shall hold a substantially similar EMSP license in another United States jurisdiction if the other state's licensure qualifications require: 1) Current ACLS certification, if applicable; 2) NREMT certification, CPR certification, and ACLS certification, if applicable;
healthy.arkansas.gov · State EMS office
What does it cost to get licensed in Arkansas from out of state?
Not yet verified
Not attempted in the spine pass. Arkansas publishes its EMS rules as a single long PDF; only the licensure, reciprocity and renewal sections were read, and anything outside them has not been established.
How long will Arkansas take to process my application?
Not yet verified
Not attempted in the spine pass. Arkansas publishes its EMS rules as a single long PDF; only the licensure, reciprocity and renewal sections were read, and anything outside them has not been established.
What background check does Arkansas require, and how do I do it from out of state?
Both state and federal components are required, and the fee is the applicant's. The rules do not name a vendor, state whether prints are required, or give a fee amount or a turnaround — all of which a traveller needs in order to plan a start date.
Submission of an Arkansas criminal history background check and payment of the applicable fee to include both state and federal checks.
healthy.arkansas.gov · State EMS office
Can I start working in Arkansas before full approval?
Yes
Weakly supported
Recorded as true only because Arkansas rule refers to temporary and provisional licences existing. The quote establishes the opposite-facing fact and is the one that matters to a traveller: a provisional licence from another state cannot be used as the basis for Arkansas reciprocity. Whether Arkansas will issue a traveller a provisional licence while their file is processed, and on what terms, was not established.
Provisional licenses are not eligible for reciprocity.
healthy.arkansas.gov · State EMS office
Does my National Registry have to be current to apply in Arkansas?
Yes
The applicant shall hold a current NREMT certification.
healthy.arkansas.gov · State EMS office
The renewal clock and what it costs in hours.
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How often do I recert in Arkansas?
2
Partly supported
Same indirect derivation as licensure.term — the two-year cycle is established through the ancillary licences that run concurrently with the primary one, not stated for the primary licence directly.
Community Paramedic licensure is for a two-year (2) period to run concurrently with the primary paramedic licensure.
healthy.arkansas.gov · State EMS office
How many CE hours does Arkansas want, and in what?
Not yet verified
Not attempted in the spine pass. Arkansas publishes its EMS rules as a single long PDF; only the licensure, reciprocity and renewal sections were read, and anything outside them has not been established.
Can I use NCCP hours to recert in Arkansas, or does it want its own?
Not yet verified
Not attempted in the spine pass. Arkansas publishes its EMS rules as a single long PDF; only the licensure, reciprocity and renewal sections were read, and anything outside them has not been established.
What does Arkansas require at renewal that other states do not?
Not yet verified
Not attempted in the spine pass. Arkansas publishes its EMS rules as a single long PDF; only the licensure, reciprocity and renewal sections were read, and anything outside them has not been established.
Does Arkansas make me take a refresher course to recert?
Not yet verified
Not attempted in the spine pass. Arkansas publishes its EMS rules as a single long PDF; only the licensure, reciprocity and renewal sections were read, and anything outside them has not been established.
My Arkansas cert expired — can I still get it back?
Partly supported
The two-year cliff is clear and quotable. The per-level catch-up hours are read from the adjacent lapsed-licence table in the same rules section; the mapping of each figure to its level is legible in the PDF but the list is not a single quotable sentence, so quote_supports is partial and confidence is medium.
Lapsed More Than Two (2) Years: 1) All expired EMSPs shall complete all initial licensure requirements as outlined in Section VIII.H.
healthy.arkansas.gov · State EMS office
Where do I find CE that Arkansas will accept?
Not yet verified
Not attempted in the spine pass. Arkansas publishes its EMS rules as a single long PDF; only the licensure, reciprocity and renewal sections were read, and anything outside them has not been established.
Where a service record shortens the path.
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Does Arkansas have a faster route for military training or veterans?
Not yet verified
Not attempted in the spine pass. Arkansas publishes its EMS rules as a single long PDF; only the licensure, reciprocity and renewal sections were read, and anything outside them has not been established.
What does Arkansas's military pathway actually get me?
Not yet verified
Not attempted in the spine pass. Arkansas publishes its EMS rules as a single long PDF; only the licensure, reciprocity and renewal sections were read, and anything outside them has not been established.
Where does Arkansas document its military pathway?
Not yet verified
Not attempted in the spine pass. Arkansas publishes its EMS rules as a single long PDF; only the licensure, reciprocity and renewal sections were read, and anything outside them has not been established.
Does Arkansas extend its military pathway to spouses?
Not yet verified
Not attempted in the spine pass. Arkansas publishes its EMS rules as a single long PDF; only the licensure, reciprocity and renewal sections were read, and anything outside them has not been established.
DEA rewrote the narcotics rules for EMS in February 2026. Registration moved from the medical director to the agency itself, and the rule spells out storage, restocking and standing-order administration. These rules are federal and read the same in every state.
10 federal facts, quoted from the Federal Register · 2 of 2 Arkansas facts answered from state law
What changed, and when did it take effect?
The DEA final rule implementing the Protecting Patient Access to Emergency Medications Act of 2017 (PPAEMA). It amends 21 CFR parts 1300, 1301, 1304 and following to create the EMS agency registration and the storage, delivery and recordkeeping rules below.
Who holds the DEA registration an ambulance operates under?
Before this rule most services ran narcotics under their medical director's practitioner registration. The registration now belongs to the agency, as its own DEA business-activity category.
the Act directs the Attorney General (and thus the Administrator) to allow a registered EMS agency to obtain a single registration for each State in which the EMS agency administers controlled substances, rather than requiring the agency to obtain a separate registration for each location at which it operates within that State.
Does one DEA registration cover operating in another state?
The fact that matters most to a traveler: compact privilege can carry your licence across a border, but it does not carry your agency's DEA registration. An agency running trucks in two states registers twice.
EMS agencies that wish to operate in multiple States must register with DEA in each State in which they operate.
Can a medic administer controlled substances without the medical director present?
Federal law now says yes, but only where state law agrees: EMS professionals are only allowed to make such administrations if authorized by State law. Whether your state's law does is the per-state question at the end of this section.
the Act allows emergency medical services professionals to administer controlled substances outside the physical presence of a medical director or authorizing medical professional pursuant to a valid standing or verbal order.
How do narcotics have to be stored in the vehicle?
EMS vehicles storing controlled substances must be locked when parked outside of an enclosed registered or designated location, with the controlled substances stored in a securely locked, substantially constructed cabinet or safe that cannot be readily removed.
Does a hospital-based agency need its own registration?
Hospital-based means owned or operated by a hospital. If you work for a hospital service, the drug box stays on the hospital's paper.
The CSA, as amended by the Act, expressly allows hospital-based EMS agencies to operate under the hospital's registration rather than obtaining their own separate registration.
Can the truck restock controlled substances from a hospital?
the Act allows non-hospital-based EMS agencies to receive controlled substances from a hospital for the purpose of restocking an EMS vehicle following an emergency response.
What does the DEA registration cost an agency?
this rule reflects the current fee of $888 so that, as intended, the fee for EMS registrants is the same as that for other dispensers of controlled substances.
Do municipal and fire-based services pay the fee?
Even if the EMS agency is not operated by a government fire department, if the EMS agency itself is operated by the local government, it would also be exempt from application fees.
When does an existing service have to move to the new registration?
DEA recommends agencies contact their local field office to complete the transition.
The three options for EMS agencies to transition are: (1) transition immediately on the effective date established by DEA; (2) transition at the expiration of their current registration; or (3) transition three to six months prior to their renewal date.
Does Arkansas law let a medic push scheduled drugs on standing orders, the way the DEA rule assumes?
Partly supported
The definition establishes the standing-order mechanism without naming controlled substances; the same rulebook's paramedic minimum medication list carries 'Narcotic Analgesic' and 'Benzodiazepine' as required stock and adds, verbatim, '**Additional controlled substances and medications may be allowed at the medical director's discretion**'. One Arkansas sentence reads the other way and should not be mistaken for a prohibition: the Department's separate Rules and Regulations Pertaining to Controlled Substances say 'No standing orders or protocol for controlled substances shall be valid', but that sits inside Section VI on prescriptions and governs a non-DEA-registered nurse practitioner or physician assistant communicating a prescription order to a pharmacist. It is about prescribing and dispensing, not about field administration by EMS.
Protocols: Written standing orders authorized by ambulance services, approved and signed by the ambulance service medical director of the licensed ambulance service.
healthy.arkansas.gov · State administrative code
Does Arkansas require its own controlled-substance registration for EMS agencies?
This is EMS-specific and sits in Section XIII of the EMS rules themselves rather than in a generic practitioner rule, which is unusual: the registrant is the medical director but the registration attaches to the ambulance service's location, so it is an agency-level requirement carried under a physician's name. The rule does not state whether the Department treats this as satisfied by, or additional to, the DEA registration; the surrounding Section XIII obligations (double-lock storage, immediate loss reporting to Pharmacy Services and Drug Control, wastage reconciliation) are enforced by state inspectors independently.
A separate registration in the name of the medical director (physician) is required for each service license place of business at one (1) general physical location where controlled substances are maintained or distributed to ambulances specifically licensed to maintain drugs.
healthy.arkansas.gov · State administrative code
Questions not yet settled from a primary source.
How does Arkansas reconcile its EMS rule that no one may provide patient care without a current Arkansas EMSP licence with the compact privilege it has recognised since March 2025? Has the rulebook been amended since, or is there a separate compact rule?
opened 9 Aug 2026 · blocks compact.privilege.state_specific_restrictions
What does an Arkansas EMSP licence application cost? The rules refer to 'the required fee' and to 'applicable fees' for initial issuance without stating an amount, and the ADH EMS page does not publish a schedule.
opened 9 Aug 2026 · blocks reciprocity.fee
What is the stated term of a primary Arkansas EMSP licence? It is derivable at two years from the concurrent ancillary licences, but no rule sentence states it for the primary licence directly.
opened 9 Aug 2026 · blocks licensure.term, recertification.cycle_years