BILL NUMBER: AB 355	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


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:

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