Amended in Senate August 20, 2015

Amended in Senate June 23, 2015

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 begin delete 1797.225 end delete begin insert 1797.227 end insert 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 submitting data to a local EMS agency, use an electronic health record system that exports data in a format that is begin delete compatible end delete begin insert compliant end insert with the begin insert current versions of the end insert California Emergency Medical Services Information System (CEMSIS) and the National Emergency Medical Services Information System (NEMSIS) standards, includes those data elements required by the local EMS agency, and uses an electronic health record system that can be integrated with the local EMS agency’s data system, as specified. The bill would prohibit a local EMS agency from mandating that a provider use a specific electronic health record system to collect and share data with the agency. The bill would not modify or affect begin insert a written end insert contract or agreement executed before January 1, 2016, between a local EMS agency and an emergency medical care provider.

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 begin delete 1797.225 end delete begin insert 1797.227 end insert is added to the Health
and Safety Code, to read:

begin delete 1797.225. end delete
begin insert 1797.227. end insert   

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

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

(2) Ensure that the electronic health record system can be
integrated with the local EMS agency’s data 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 electronic health record system to collect and share data
with the local EMS agency.

(c) This begin delete provision shall end delete begin insert section does end insert not modify or affect begin delete an
existing end delete begin insert a written end insert contract or agreement executed before January
1, 2016, between a local EMS agency and an emergency medical
care provider.