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210 ILCS 50/3.65 (2026)

EMS Lead Instructor

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(210 ILCS 50/3.65)
    Sec. 3.65. EMS Lead Instructor.
    (a) "EMS Lead Instructor" means a person who has successfully completed a course of education as approved by the Department, and who is currently approved by the Department to coordinate or teach education, training and continuing education courses, in accordance with standards prescribed by this Act and rules adopted by the Department pursuant to this Act.
    (b) The Department shall have the authority and responsibility to:
        (1) Prescribe education requirements for EMS Lead
    
Instructor candidates through rules adopted pursuant to this Act.
        (2) Prescribe testing requirements for EMS Lead
    
Instructor candidates through rules adopted pursuant to this Act.
        (3) Charge each candidate for EMS Lead Instructor a
    
fee to be submitted with an application for an examination, an application for licensure, and an application for relicensure.
        (4) Approve individuals as EMS Lead Instructors who
    
have met the Department's education and testing requirements.
        (5) Require that all education, training and
    
continuing education courses for EMT, EMT-I, A-EMT, Paramedic, PHRN, PHPA, PHAPRN, ECRN, EMR, and Emergency Medical Dispatcher be coordinated by at least one approved EMS Lead Instructor. A program which includes education, training or continuing education for more than one type of personnel may use one EMS Lead Instructor to coordinate the program, and a single EMS Lead Instructor may simultaneously coordinate more than one program or course. An EMS Lead Instructor may oversee a paramedic with at least 3 years of experience to teach EMT classes, with a licensed teacher, in high schools. High school students electing to not take the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians (NREMT) Certification exam shall not be accounted for in calculating the course pass rate by the EMS System or Department.
        (6) Provide standards and procedures for awarding EMS
    
Lead Instructor approval to persons previously approved by the Department to coordinate such courses, based on qualifications prescribed by the Department through rules adopted pursuant to this Act.
        (7) Suspend, revoke, or refuse to issue or renew the
    
approval of an EMS Lead Instructor, after an opportunity for a hearing, when findings show one or more of the following:
            (A) The EMS Lead Instructor has failed to conduct
        
a course in accordance with the curriculum prescribed by this Act and rules adopted by the Department pursuant to this Act; or
            (B) The EMS Lead Instructor has failed to comply
        
with protocols prescribed by the Department through rules adopted pursuant to this Act.
    (c) To be eligible for an EMS Lead Instructor license, the applicant shall meet at least the following minimum experience and education requirements and shall provide a written recommendation from the EMS Medical Director of the primary EMS System affiliation:
        (1) a current Illinois license as an EMD, EMT, EMT-I,
    
A-EMT, Paramedic, RN, PHRN, PHPA, PHAPRN, or physician;
        (2) a minimum of 2 years of experience in EMS or
    
emergency care;
        (3) at least 6 hours of teaching hours audited by a
    
current EMS Lead Instructor;
        (4) documented EMS classroom teaching experience with
    
a recommendation for EMS Lead Instructor licensure by an EMS Medical Director; and
        (5) documented successful completion of the National
    
Standard Curriculum for EMS Instructors, or its equivalent, as approved by the Department.
(Source: P.A. 103-689, eff. 1-1-25; 104-362, eff. 8-15-25.)

    
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 3 cases, 2014–2015 · leading case: Gallaher v. Hasbrouk, 2013 IL App (1st) 122969 (Ill. App. Ct. 2014).
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Gallaher v. Hasbrouk, 2013 IL App (1st) 122969 (Ill. App. Ct. 2014). · cites it 7× “210 ILCS 50/3.65 (West 2010). According to the Department, Gallaher misstepped in 2007, first by failing to obtain a site code and system approval for EMS courses she began teaching at the high school in Warsaw, Illinois, and again when she was the Lead Instructor for an EMS…”
Bass v. Cook Cnty. Hosp., 2015 IL App (1st) 142665 (Ill. App. Ct. 2015). “60 (West 2012) ("First Responder"); 210 ILCS 50/3.65 (West 2012) ("EMS Lead Instructor"); 210 ILCS 50/3.”
Bass v. Cook Cnty. Hosp., 2015 IL App (1st) 142665 (Ill. App. Ct. 2015). “60 (West 2012) (“First Responder”); 210 ILCS 50/3.65 (West 2012) (“EMS Lead Instructor”); 210 ILCS 50/3.”
— 210 ILCS 50/3.65(a) — 1 case
Gallaher v. Hasbrouk, 2013 IL App (1st) 122969 (Ill. App. Ct. 2014). “210 ILCS 50/3.65 (West 2010). According to the Department, Gallaher misstepped in 2007, first by failing to obtain a site code and system approval for EMS courses she began teaching at the high school in Warsaw, Illinois, and again when she was the Lead Instructor for an EMS…”
— 210 ILCS 50/3.65(b) — 1 case
Gallaher v. Hasbrouk, 2013 IL App (1st) 122969 (Ill. App. Ct. 2014). “210 ILCS 50/3.65 (West 2010). According to the Department, Gallaher misstepped in 2007, first by failing to obtain a site code and system approval for EMS courses she began teaching at the high school in Warsaw, Illinois, and again when she was the Lead Instructor for an EMS…”
— 210 ILCS 50/3.65(b)(7) — 1 case
Gallaher v. Hasbrouk, 2013 IL App (1st) 122969 (Ill. App. Ct. 2014). “210 ILCS 50/3.65 (West 2010). According to the Department, Gallaher misstepped in 2007, first by failing to obtain a site code and system approval for EMS courses she began teaching at the high school in Warsaw, Illinois, and again when she was the Lead Instructor for an EMS…”
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