Amended in Assembly March 28, 2016

California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 1578

Introduced by Assembly Member Rodriguez

January 4, 2016

An act relating to emergency medical services, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 1578, as amended, Rodriguez. 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 $2,000,000 from the General Fund to begin insert the Emergency Medical Services Authority to end insert provide for the maintenance and upkeep of mobile field hospitals within the Mobile Field Hospital program.

This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

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.  

The sum of two million dollars ($2,000,000) is
hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the begin delete Office of
Emergency Services end delete begin insert Emergency Medical Services Authority end insert to
provide for the maintenance and upkeep of mobile field hospitals
within the Mobile Field Hospital program.

SEC. 2.  

This act is an urgency statute necessary for the
immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within
the meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into
immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:

In order to provide for maintenance and upkeep of the three
mobile field hospitals within the Mobile Field Hospital program
to ensure adequate preparedness for disasters and emergencies, it
is necessary that this act take effect immediately.