EMTALA is a Federal statutory-regulatory complex, consisting of statutes (laws passed by Congress) and regulations (rules adopted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), a division of the Department of Health and Human Services, to enforce and further define the EMTALA statute).

The EMTALA statute - 42 USC 1395dd, part of the U.S. Code
The regulations, incorporating all of the revisions as made in 2000 and 2003 - Note: use the links at left for access to the several subsections of 42 CFR 489.24, the primary subchapter regarding EMTALA. The reference is to chapter 42 of the Code of Federal Regulations, the codified compilation of all regulations.

The following are PDF files posted online by CMS. They may be viewed using the Acrobat Reader.
2000 amendments of several sections, including those relating to EMTALA, with accompanying commentary from CMS (begin at p. 18522, or p. 90 of the PDF file
2003 amendments with commentary from CMS
The following are the Interpretive Guidelines and related materials, as updated in May 2004. The IGs themselves are included in Appendix V. All are in PDF format, and all are accessible only on the internet.

Appendix V - Responsibilities of Medicare Participating Hospitals In Emergency Cases
Chapter 5 - Complaint Procedures - a chapter in Pub. 100-7 - Medicare State Operations Manual
Transmittal 100-07 - Release of Basic Manual, which includes some "additional EMTALA guidance" that had been left out of Chapter 5