BILL NUMBER: AB 1827	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Kim

                        FEBRUARY 9, 2016

   An act relating to mobile field hospitals.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1827, as introduced, Kim. 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 express the intent of the Legislature to establish
funding for one mobile field hospital to be ready and available
within 72 hours to assist local communities in the event of a natural
disaster or other mass casualty incidents.
   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.  It is the intent of the Legislature to establish
funding for one mobile field hospital to be ready and available
within 72 hours to assist local communities in the event of a natural
disaster or other mass casualty incidents.