Bill Text: CA AB2425 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

California Assembly Bill 2425 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Public health: unintentional injuries.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From Senate committee without further action. [AB2425 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2425-Amended.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 2425	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 5, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Brown

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to add Article 7 (commencing with Section 116090.5) to
Chapter 5 of Part 10 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to public health.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2425, as amended, Brown. Public health: incident site reports.
   Existing law establishes the State Department of Public Health in
state government. Existing law vests within the department certain
duties and powers to protect and preserve the public health. 
Existing law establishes the Emergency Medical Services Authority in
state government. 
   This bill would require the State Department of Public Health
 and the Emergency Medical Services Authority to, by
regulation, adopt standards and protocols to   to
collaborate with representatives of various groups and adopt, on or
before June 1, 2018, standards and protocols that  establish a
uniform incident site report requirement for purposes of collecting
statewide information on unintentional injury incidents. The bill
would require those  regulations   standards and
protocols  to be implemented on a statewide basis by every
county, as prescribed.  The bill would require the department to
periodically reconvene the representatives, when necessary, to modify
the standards and protocols. 
   By imposing additional duties on local entities, this bill would
impose a state-mandated local program.
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


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

   SECTION 1.    (a)     The
Legislature finds and declares all of the following:  
   (1) Data provided by the State Department of Public Health and the
federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows
unintentional injuries are the leading cause of hospitalization and
death for California's children and youth from one to 19, inclusive,
years of age and the leading cause of injury-related death for babies
and infants under one year of age.  
   (2) Unintentional injury has persistently been the leading cause
of death and hospitalization for California's children and youth for
more than two decades. The State Department of Public Health and the
federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that from
2003 to 2013, inclusive, unintentional injuries caused the death of
nearly 10,000 California children and youth, hospitalized another
240,000, and sent more than 4 million others to the emergency room.
 
   (3) The State Department of Public Health and the national
Children's Safety Network report that in 2012, childhood
unintentional injury cost California's health care system over six
hundred seventeen million dollars ($617,000,000) in medical costs and
more than three billion four hundred million dollars
($3,400,000,000) in medical and wage loss costs combined because of
parent and guardian time off work caring for an injured child or
dealing with the death of a child due to unintentional injury. 

   (4) The vast majority of unintentional injuries are predictable
and preventable.  
   (5) The year 2016 is the start of a statewide campaign to make
unintentional injury incidents a rare, and not a common, occurrence
across the state in order to better protect the health and well-being
of all California children and youth.  
   (b) (1) It is the intent of the Legislature that the State
Department of Public Health take the lead role in collaborating with
representatives from other health and safety state and local
agencies, first responders, law enforcement, public health experts,
and childhood injury prevention experts to do all of the following:
 
   (A) Establish statewide best practice guidelines, standards, and
incident site information collection tools to help collect data and
information at the site of an unintentional injury involving a child
or youth between zero and 19, inclusive, years of age.  
   (B) Aggregate statewide incident site data to better understand
the underlying cause of, and details about, unintentional injury
incidents.  
   (2) The goal is to provide more incident detail information to
help determine the best preventative strategies for eliminating
childhood unintentional injuries with an initial focus on vehicle,
bicycle, and pedestrian crashes, drowning, burns, poisoning,
suffocation, falls, nontraffic vehicle incidents, and sports-related
traumatic brain injuries. 
   SECTION 1.   SEC. 2.   Article 7
(commencing with Section 116090.5) is added to Chapter 5 of Part 10
of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code, to read:

      Article 7.  Incident Site Reports  Standards and Protocols



   116090.5.  (a)  (1)    On or before June 1,
2018, the  departments   State Department of
Public Health  shall, by regulation, adopt standards and
protocols to establish a uniform incident site report requirement for
purposes of collecting statewide information on unintentional injury
incidents. 
   (2) The standards and protocols shall be developed in
collaboration with representatives from other health and safety state
and local agencies, first responders, fire agencies, law enforcement
agencies, public health experts, and childhood injury prevention
experts in order for the department to understand the details at
incident sites for various types of unintentional injury.  
   (3) The department shall periodically reconvene these
representatives, when necessary, to modify the standards and
protocols. 
   (b) The  regulations   standards and
protocols  adopted by the  departments  
department  shall be implemented on a statewide basis by every
county in the State of California for use by  first
responders.   the appropriate local reporting entities
identified in the standards and protocols. 
   (c) The  regulations   standards and
protocols  shall, at a minimum, include the following:
   (1) A requirement  that, upon responding to an incident, a
first responder prepare and provide an incident site report to its
county   that a reporting entity utilize an incident
site reporting best practices form and incident site investigation
protocol, specific to each type of unintentional injury, to report
information to existing local, regional, and statewide data systems
and to the local  health department.
   (2) A requirement that the county health department be responsible
for submitting the data received pursuant to paragraph (1) to the
state's  EPICenter   EpiCenter  data
system, no later than 60 days after receipt of the incident site
report.
   (d) For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall
have the following meanings:
   (1) "Departments"   "Department"  means
the State Department of Public  Health and the Emergency
Medical Services Authority.   Health.  
   (2) "First responder" includes, but is not limited to, every local
law enforcement entity, fire department, and any other first
responder or entity that arranges for, or provides, emergency medical
services within its boundaries, including paramedic services.
 
   (2) "Reporting entity" means the reporting entity identified in
the standards and protocols developed by the State Department of
Public Health. 
   (3) "Incident site reports" or "incident" relates to, among
others, site reports or incidents that involve unintentional injuries
from drownings, near drownings, burns, window falls, bicycle
crashes, pedestrian crashes, sleep suffocation, kids left in cars,
vehicle backovers, vehicle frontovers,  sports-related
activities,  and poisoning.
   SEC. 2.   SEC. 3.   If the Commission on
State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by
the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for
those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section
17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.