Bill Text: CA AB40 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Emergency medical services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2023-10-13 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 793, Statutes of 2023. [AB40 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB40-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 15, 2023 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Rodriguez |
December 05, 2022 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
The bill would require the authority, on or before March 1, 2024, to establish a working group of various stakeholders to
review, update, and publish a toolkit to reduce patient offload delays in the emergency department.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 53112.5 is added to the Government Code, to read:53112.5.
On or before March 1, 2024, the Emergency Medical Services Authority shall develop, in partnership with local public health departments, a public education campaign related to use of the 911 service and other tools for access to care. This shall include public service announcements and educational material.SEC. 2.
Section 1797.120.5 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:1797.120.5.
(a) (1) The authority shall develop a California Emergency Medical Services Information System requirement for an electronic signature for use between the emergency department medical personnel at a receiving facility and the Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), Advanced Emergency Medical Technician (AEMT), or Emergency Medical Technician-Paramedic (EMT-P) that captures the points in time when the hospital receives notification of ambulance arrival and when transfer of care is executed for documentation of ambulance patient offload time, as defined by Section 1797.120.SEC. 3.
Section 1797.120.6 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:On or before March 1, 2024, the authority shall establish a working group of stakeholders representing hospital administration, EMS providers, local EMS agencies, and hospital employees in the emergency department and in the inpatient setting to review, update, and publish a toolkit to reduce patient offload delays in the emergency department.
1797.120.6.
(a) A licensed general acute care hospital with an emergency department shall, by June 1, 2024, develop, in consultation with its emergency department staff, an ambulance patient offload time reduction protocol that addresses all of the following factors: