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Proposing an amendment to the Constitution so as to provide that the General Assembly may provide by law for a program of indemnification for any emergency medical service pilot, transport nurse, technician, paramedic, or communications specialist who is employed by a nonprofit corporation or association and who, on or after January 1, 2003, is killed or permanently disabled in the line of duty while at the scene of an emergency or transporting a patient in need of medical care to a medical facility or returning therefrom; to provide that funds may be appropriated and insurance purchased for such purpose; to provide for editorial revision; to provide for submission of this amendment for ratification or rejection; and for other purposes.

Article III, Section VI, Paragraph VI of the Constitution is amended by redesignating the subparagraph (g) enacted by Ga. L. 2000, p. 2007, as subparagraph (h) and by adding a new subparagraph immediately following subparagraph (h), to be designated subparagraph (i), to read as follows:
"(i) The General Assembly may provide by law for a program of indemnification for any emergency medical service pilot, transport nurse, technician, paramedic, or communications specialist who is employed by a nonprofit corporation or association and who, on or after January 1, 2003, is killed or permanently disabled in the line of duty while at the scene of an emergency or transporting a patient in need of medical care to a medical facility or returning therefrom. Funds shall be appropriated as necessary for payment of such indemnification or for the purchase of insurance for such indemnification or both."

The above proposed amendment to the Constitution shall be published and submitted as provided in Article X, Section I, Paragraph II of the Constitution. The ballot submitting the above proposed amendment shall have written or printed thereon the following:

"( ) YES

( ) NO

Shall the Constitution be amended so as to provide that the General Assembly may provide by law for a program of indemnification for any emergency medical service pilot, transport nurse, technician, paramedic, or communications specialist who is employed by a nonprofit corporation or association and who, on or after January 1, 2003, is killed or permanently disabled in the line of duty while at the scene of an emergency or transporting a patient in need of medical care to a medical facility or returning therefrom?"

All persons desiring to vote in favor of ratifying the proposed amendment shall vote "Yes." All persons desiring to vote against ratifying the proposed amendment shall vote "No." If such amendment shall be ratified as provided in said Paragraph of the Constitution, it shall become a part of the Constitution of this state.