Florida House Bill 487, which was signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis on June 7, allows all “tactical medical professionals” to carry firearms when accompanying police SWAT or special-response units, the Palm Beach Post reported.  The law defines a tactical medical professional as a paramedic, physician or osteopathic physician who has been appointed to provide support to a tactical law-enforcement unit.

Those professionals must have concealed-weapons licenses and complete firearms safety and tactical training with a law-enforcement agency.

The law allows trained medics to carry a gun to active shooter situations, hostage incidents, narcotics raids, hazardous surveillance, sniper incidents, armed suicidal persons, high risk felony warrants and barricaded subjects and well as other high-risk operations, said CBS Local.

States including Kansas and Ohio already have emergency responder-firearm laws in place. Similar bills have been proposed in Tennessee, Mississippi and Virginia.