Amended in Assembly May 4, 2015

Amended in Assembly April 6, 2015

California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 1129

Introduced by Assembly Member Burke

February 27, 2015

An act to add Section 1797.225 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to emergency medical services.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 1129, as amended, Burke. Emergency medical services: data and information system.

Existing law, the Emergency Medical Services System and the Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act, governs local emergency medical services (EMS) systems. The act establishes the Emergency Medical Services Authority, which is responsible for the coordination and integration of all state agencies concerning emergency medical services. Existing law requires a local EMS agency to plan, implement, and evaluate an emergency medical services system, as specified, and authorizes the local EMS agency to develop and submit a plan to the authority for an emergency medical services system according to prescribed guidelines that address data collection and evaluation, among other things.

This bill would require an emergency medical care provider to, when collecting and begin delete sharing data with end delete begin insert submitting data to end insert a local EMS agency, use a system that exports data in a format that is compatible with the California Emergency Medical Services Information System (CEMSIS) and the National Emergency Medical Services Information System (NEMSIS) begin delete standards and ensure that the end delete begin insert standards, includes those data elements required by the local EMS agency, and uses a end insert system begin insert that end insert can be integrated with the local EMS agency’s system, as specified. The bill would prohibit a local EMS agency from mandating that a provider use a specified system to collect and share data with the agency.

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.  

Section 1797.225 is added to the Health and
Safety Code, to read:

1797.225.  

(a) An emergency medical care provider shall do
both of the following when collecting and begin delete sharing data with end delete
begin insert submitting data to end insert a local EMS agency:

(1) Use a system that exports data in a format that is compatible
with the California Emergency Medical Services Information
System (CEMSIS) and the National Emergency Medical Services
Information System (NEMSIS) begin delete standards. end delete begin insert standards and includes
those data elements that are required by the local EMS agency. end insert

(2) Ensure that the system can be integrated with the local EMS
agency’s system, so that the local EMS agency may collect data
from the provider.

(b) A local EMS agency shall not mandate that a provider use
a specific system to collect and share data with the local EMS
agency.