BILL NUMBER: AB 639	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Torlakson

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2009

   An act to amend Section 1797.97 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to emergency medical services.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 639, as introduced, Torlakson. Emergency medical services.
   Existing law, the Emergency Medical Services System and the
Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act, authorizes each
county to designate an emergency medical services agency, for the
establishment and administration of an emergency medical services
program in the county. Existing law also establishes the Emergency
Medical Services Authority, which, among other things, adopts
regulations governing the provision of emergency medical services.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 1797.97 of the Health and Safety Code is
amended to read:
   1797.97.  "Poison control center" or "PCC" means a hospital-based
facility or other facility  which   that  ,
as a minimum, provides information and advice regarding the
management of individuals who have or may have ingested or otherwise
been exposed to poisonous or possibly toxic substances, and 
which   that  has been designated by the Emergency
Medical Services Authority according to the standards prescribed by
this division.