BILL NUMBER: AB 1656	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Kim

                        JANUARY 13, 2016

   An act to add Section 1714.24 to the Civil Code, relating to civil
liability.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1656, as introduced, Kim. Civil liability: use of tourniquets.
   Existing law exempts from civil liability any person who, in good
faith and not for compensation, renders emergency care or treatment
by the use of an automated external defibrillator (AED) at the scene
of an emergency, except in the case of personal injury or wrongful
death that results from the gross negligence or willful or wanton
misconduct of the person who renders emergency care or treatment.
Existing law makes a similar exemption from civil liability for a
person who has completed a basic cardiopulmonary resuscitation course
that complies with specified standards and who, in good faith and
not for compensation, renders emergency cardiopulmonary resuscitation
at the scene of an emergency.
   This bill would exempt from civil liability any person who, in
good faith and not for compensation, renders emergency care or
treatment by the use of tourniquets at the scene of an emergency.
   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 1714.24 is added to the Civil Code, to read:
   1714.24.  (a) For purposes of this section, "tourniquet" means a
device for bleeding control for the injured.
   (b) Any person who, in good faith and not for compensation,
renders emergency care or treatment by the use of tourniquets at the
scene of an emergency is not liable for any civil damages resulting
from any acts or omissions in rendering the emergency care.
   (c) The protections specified in this section do not apply in the
case of personal injury or wrongful death that results from the gross
negligence or willful or wanton misconduct of the person who renders
emergency care or treatment by the use of tourniquets.