BILL NUMBER: AB 2260	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 5, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Wood

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2016

   An act to add Section 1797.228 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to emergency medical services.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2260, as amended, Wood. Emergency medical services.
   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 the authority,  on or 
before January 1, 2018, to  provide or designate a single
central repository for air ambulance providers to submit specified
standardized health records, including data elements identified by
the authority   determine a single set of data elements
and formatting for air ambulance providers to submit to local EMS
agencies,  after consulting with  air ambulance providers
and  local EMS agencies. The bill would authorize the authority
to  modify those data elements as the authority determines is
necessary.   reconvene these stakeholders annually to
modify the elements and formatting of the data.  The bill would
prohibit the authority from mandating that an air ambulance provider
use a specific electronic health record system to collect and share
data with  the authority, and would require the authority to
provide a local EMS agency with direct access to the data from the
single central repository.   a local EMS agency. 
The bill would prohibit a local EMS agency from requiring additional
data reporting from an air ambulance provider once the single
 central repository   data set  has been
established.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 1797.228 is added to the Health and Safety
Code, immediately following Section 1797.227, to read: 
   1797.228.  (a) On or before January 1, 2018, the authority shall
provide or designate a single central repository for air ambulance
providers to submit standardized National Emergency Medical Services
Information System (NEMSIS) and California Emergency Medical Services
Information System (CEMSIS) compliant electronic health records,
including data elements identified by the authority after consulting
with local EMS agencies. The authority may modify the data elements
required by this subdivision as the authority determines is
necessary. 
    1797.228.    (a) (1) Before January 1, 2018, the
authority shall determine a single set of data elements and
formatting for air ambulance providers to submit to local EMS
agencies. 
   (2) (A) The authority shall convene interested stakeholders for
the purpose of determining the single set of data elements and
formatting.  
   (B) Stakeholders shall include representatives of the local EMS
agencies, air ambulance providers, and the authority. The authority
may reconvene the stakeholders annually to modify the elements and
formatting of the data.  
   (3) The data elements and formatting shall comply with the
National EMS Information System (NEMSIS) and California EMS
Information System (CEMSIS) electronic health record. 
   (b) The authority shall not mandate that an air ambulance provider
use a specific electronic health record system to collect and share
data with the  authority.   local EMS agency.
 
   (c) The authority shall provide a local EMS agency with direct
access to the data from the single central repository provided or
designated pursuant to subdivision (a).  
   (d) Once the single central repository described in subdivision
(a) has been established, a local EMS agency shall not require
additional data reporting from an air ambulance provider. 

   (c) In addition to submitting data to the local EMS agency, an air
ambulance provider shall submit data directly to the authority if
the authority requests it.  
   (d) After the single data set described in subdivision (a) has
been established, a local EMS agency shall not require additional
data elements or formatting from an air ambulance provider.