BILL NUMBER: AB 2135	CHAPTERED  09/09/06

	CHAPTER  226
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 9, 2006
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 9, 2006
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 14, 2006
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 10, 2006
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 8, 2006
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 9, 2006

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Vargas

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2006

   An act to add Section 53153.5 to the Government Code, relating to
emergency services.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2135, Vargas  Emergency services: liability.
   Existing law provides that any person who is under the influence
of an alcoholic beverage, any drug, or the combination of an
alcoholic beverage and any drug, whose negligent operation of a motor
vehicle, a boat or vessel, or a civil aircraft caused by that
influence proximately causes any incident resulting in an appropriate
emergency response, and any person whose intentionally wrongful
conduct proximately causes an incident resulting in an appropriate
emergency response, is liable for the expense of an emergency
response by a public agency to the incident.
   This bill would provide that any person 18 years of age or older
who is convicted of making a false police report, and that false
police report proximately causes an appropriate emergency response by
a public agency, is liable for the expense of the emergency response
made by the responding public agency to the incident. The bill would
specify that a public agency shall be entitled to satisfaction for
any judgment for expenses for an emergency response under specified
conditions.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 53153.5 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   53153.5.  (a)  Any person 18 years of age or older who is
convicted of making a false police report, in violation of Section
148.3 of the Penal Code, and that false police report proximately
causes an appropriate emergency response by a public agency, is
liable for the expense of the emergency response made by the
responding public agency to the incident.
   (b) A public agency shall be entitled to satisfaction of any
judgment for expenses pursuant to this article after any victims or
other persons injured by the incident are compensated for their
injuries and any liens held by a medical provider are satisfied.