Bill Text: CA AB2260 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Emergency medical services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From Senate committee without further action. [AB2260 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2260-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2260	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Wood

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2016

   An act to add Section 1797.228 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to emergency medical services.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2260, as introduced, Wood. Emergency medical services.
   Existing law, the Emergency Medical Services System and the
Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act, governs local
emergency medical services (EMS) systems. The act establishes the
Emergency Medical Services Authority, which is responsible for the
coordination and integration of all state agencies concerning
emergency medical services. Existing law requires a local EMS agency
to plan, implement, and evaluate an emergency medical services
system, as specified, and authorizes the local EMS agency to develop
and submit a plan to the authority for an emergency medical services
system according to prescribed guidelines that address data
collection and evaluation, among other things.
   This bill would require the authority, on or before January 1,
2018, to provide or designate a single central repository for air
ambulance providers to submit specified standardized health records,
including data elements identified by the authority after consulting
with local EMS agencies. The bill would authorize the authority to
modify those data elements as the authority determines is necessary.
The bill would prohibit the authority from mandating that an air
ambulance provider use a specific electronic health record system to
collect and share data with the authority, and would require the
authority to provide a local EMS agency with direct access to the
data from the single central repository. The bill would prohibit a
local EMS agency from requiring additional data reporting from an air
ambulance provider once the single central repository has been
established.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 1797.228 is added to the Health and Safety
Code, immediately following Section 1797.227, to read:
   1797.228.  (a) On or before January 1, 2018, the authority shall
provide or designate a single central repository for air ambulance
providers to submit standardized National Emergency Medical Services
Information System (NEMSIS) and California Emergency Medical Services
Information System (CEMSIS) compliant electronic health records,
including data elements identified by the authority after consulting
with local EMS agencies. The authority may modify the data elements
required by this subdivision as the authority determines is
necessary.
   (b) The authority shall not mandate that an air ambulance provider
use a specific electronic health record system to collect and share
data with the authority.
   (c) The authority shall provide a local EMS agency with direct
access to the data from the single central repository provided or
designated pursuant to subdivision (a).
   (d) Once the single central repository described in subdivision
(a) has been established, a local EMS agency shall not require
additional data reporting from an air ambulance provider.