BILL NUMBER: AB 355	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 19, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Cooley

                        FEBRUARY 13, 2013

   An act relating to emergency medical services.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 355, as amended, 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   appropriate  $1,700,000 
from the General Fund to the Office of Emergency Services  to
continue the  Mobile Field Hospital  program.  The bill
would also make legislative findings and declarations. 
   Vote:  majority  2/3  . Appropriation:
 no   yes  . Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

   SECTION 1.    (a)     The
Legislature finds and declares all of the following:  
   (1) California has a history of devastating natural disasters,
including, but not limited to, earthquakes and floods.  
   (2) The Uniform California Earthquake Rupture Forecast model
predicts that California will experience a magnitude 6.7 or larger
earthquake in the next 30 years.  
   (3) Mobile field hospitals have been deployed around the world in
response to natural disasters and public health emergencies. 

   (4) California invested in three 200 bed mobile field hospitals as
part of the state's disaster preparedness plan to protect citizens
and provide critical medical services in a time of need. However, due
to a lack of programmatic funding, the state will be forced to sell
the mobile field hospitals at a fraction of the program's initial
cost. 
   SEC. 2.    The sum of one million seven hundred
thousand dollars ($1,700,000) is hereby appropriated from the General
Fund to the Office of Emergency Services for purposes of continuing
the Mobile Field Hospital program.  
  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.