Amended  IN  Senate  June 12, 2018
Amended  IN  Assembly  April 12, 2018

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill No. 1776

Introduced by Assembly Member Steinorth
(Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Friedman)
(Principal coauthor: Senator Glazer)
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Acosta and Flora)

January 04, 2018

An act to add and repeal Section 1797.10 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to emergency medical services.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 1776, as amended, Steinorth. The County of San Bernardino pilot project: Emergency medical transport of police dogs: pilot project.
Existing law, the Emergency Medical Services System and the Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act, establishes the Emergency Medical Services Authority, among other things, to establish training standards for Emergency Medical Technicians (EMT) at various levels, including EMT-I, EMT-II, and EMT-P. Existing law requires each county that develops an emergency medical services program to designate a local emergency medical services agency to have primary responsibility for administration of emergency medical services in the county.
This bill would authorize the County of San Bernardino to work with its local emergency medical services agency to conduct a pilot project commencing January 1, 2019, that would authorize an emergency medical technician to provide emergency transportation for a police dog, as defined, injured in the line of duty to a facility that is capable of providing veterinary medical services to the injured police dog, as specified. The bill would repeal this authority on January 1, 2022.
This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of San Bernardino.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 Section 1797.10 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

1797.10.
 (a) The County of San Bernardino is authorized to work with its local emergency medical services agency to conduct a pilot project, commencing January 1, 2019, that would authorize an emergency medical technician to provide emergency transportation for a police dog injured in the line of duty to a facility that is capable of providing veterinary medical services to the injured police dog if there is not a person requiring medical attention or medical transportation at the time the decision is made to transport the police dog.
(b) For purposes of this section, “police dog” means a dog being used by a peace officer in the discharge or attempted discharge of his or her duties and includes, but is not limited to, a search and rescue dog, passive alert dog, and service dog. dog or a passive alert dog.

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(c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2022, and as of that date is repealed.

SEC. 2.

 The Legislature finds and declares that a special statute is necessary and that a general statute cannot be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution because of the unique needs of police dogs in the County of San Bernardino.