Legislators proposed an amendment that would earmark the excise tax money for public health and hospital funding.
Specifically, the amendment allocates 55 percent of the excise tax collection to the Georgia Trauma Care Network Commission, 40 percent to the Georgia Firefighter Standards and Training Council and 5 percent to the local governments for public safety measures.
The Georgia Trauma Care Network Commission helps repay trauma centers to cover uncompensated care costs for people injured in car crashes, severe fires and other events.
“This [excise tax revenue] will support trauma center readiness costs, enhance emergency medical services, provide trauma related education and improve the quality of trauma care throughout the state,” Dennis Ashley, MD, chair of the Georgia Trauma Care Network, told Athens Banner-Herald.
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