BILL NUMBER: AB 355	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 24, 2013
	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  , and making an
appropriation therefor  .


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 355, as amended, Cooley. Emergency medical services: mobile
field hospitals.
   Existing law 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  
$1,000,000  from the General Fund to the 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) 
    (a)  California has a history of devastating natural
disasters, including, but not limited to, earthquakes and floods.

   (2) 
    (b)  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) 
    (c)  Mobile field hospitals have been deployed around
the world in response to natural disasters and public health
emergencies. 
   (4) 
    (d)  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)   ($1,000,000)
 is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Emergency
Medical Services Authority for purposes of continuing the Mobile
Field Hospital program.