BILL NUMBER: AB 355	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 18, 2013
	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.  
establishes the Emergency Medical Services Authority in the Health
and Welfare Agency to administer a statewide system of coordinated
emergency medical care, injury prevention, and disaster medical
response. 
   This bill would appropriate $1,700,000 from the General Fund to
the  Office of Emergency Services   Emergency
Medical Services Authority  to continue the Mobile Field
Hospital program. The bill would also make legislative findings and
declarations.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: 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   Emergency
Medical Services Authority  for purposes of continuing the
Mobile Field Hospital program.