BILL NUMBER: AB 1129	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 4, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 6, 2015

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  sharing data with  
submitting data to  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)
 standards and ensure that the   standards,
includes those data elements required by the local EMS agency, and
uses a  system  that  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  sharing data with
  submitting data to  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)  standards.   standards and
includes those data elements that are required by the local EMS
agency. 
   (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.