BILL NUMBER: AB 1578	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 19, 2016
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 28, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly  Member   Rodriguez
  Members   Rodriguez   and Kim 

    (   Coauthor:   Assembly Member  
Wood   ) 

                        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
the Emergency Medical Services Authority to 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 Emergency Medical Services
Authority  in order  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.