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

California Assembly Bill 2260 (Prior Session Legislation)

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-Amended.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 2260	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 27, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 5, 2016

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 amended, 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, before January 1, 2018, to
determine a single set of data elements and formatting for air
ambulance providers to submit to local EMS agencies, after consulting
with air ambulance providers and local EMS agencies. The bill would
authorize the authority to reconvene these stakeholders annually to
modify the elements and formatting of the data. 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 a local EMS agency.  The bill would require an air
ambulance provider to ensure that its electronic health record system
can be integrated with the local EMS agency's data system, as
specified.  The bill would prohibit a local EMS agency from
requiring additional data reporting from an air ambulance provider
once the single data set 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) (1) Before January 1, 2018, the authority shall
determine a single set of data elements and formatting for air
ambulance providers to submit to local EMS agencies.
   (2) (A) The authority shall convene interested stakeholders for
the purpose of determining the single set of data elements and
formatting.
   (B) Stakeholders shall include representatives of the local EMS
agencies, air ambulance providers, and the authority. The authority
may reconvene the stakeholders annually to modify the elements and
formatting of the data.
   (3) The data elements and formatting shall comply with the
National EMS Information System (NEMSIS) and California EMS
Information System (CEMSIS) electronic health record.
   (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 local EMS agency.
   (c) In addition to submitting data to the local EMS agency, an air
ambulance provider shall submit data directly to the authority if
the authority requests it.  When submitting data to the local EMS
agency, the air ambulance provider sh  all ensure that the
electronic health record system can be integrated with the local EMS
agency's NEMSIS and CEMSIS compliant data system, so that the 
 local EMS agency may collect data from the provider. 
   (d) After the single data set described in subdivision (a) has
been established, a local EMS agency shall not require additional
data elements or formatting from an air ambulance provider.