California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly BillNo. 355


Introduced by Assembly Member Cooley

February 13, 2013


An act relating to emergency medical services.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 355, as introduced, Cooley. Emergency medical services: mobile field hospitals.

Existing law creates the Office of Emergency Services and requires it to perform a variety of duties with respect to specified emergency preparedness, mitigation, and response activities in the state, including emergency medical services.

This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to restore the Mobile Field Hospital program. The bill would additionally express the intent of the Legislature to make an appropriation of $1,700,000 to continue the program.

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

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SECTION 1.  

It is the intent of the Legislature to restore the
2Mobile Field Hospital program under the Office of Emergency
3Services. Further, it is the intent of the Legislature to make an
4appropriation of one million seven hundred thousand dollars
5($1,700,000) to continue the program.



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