Its aim is to reduce child and youth disability and death due to severe illness or injury by increasing awareness among health professionals, provider and planners and the general public of the special (physiological and psychological) needs of children receiving emergency medical care.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that implementing S. 2154 would cost $90 million over the 2015-2019 period, assuming appropriation of the authorized amounts.

[2] The Emergency Medical Services for Children Reauthorization Act of 2014 was introduced into the United States Senate on March 25, 2014, by Sen. Robert P. Casey, Jr. (D, PA).

[4] The American Academy of Pediatrics supported the bill, saying that "the EMSC program is there for children during times when they are especially vulnerable and most in need of medical equipment, care and services designed especially for them.

The EMSC program helps ensure that some of our country's most vulnerable have access to the care they need, and I've been proud to support it all these years.