BILL NUMBER: AB 2469	CHAPTERED  07/21/00

	CHAPTER   157
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   JULY 21, 2000
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   JULY 21, 2000
	PASSED THE SENATE   JULY 6, 2000
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   MAY 18, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Reyes

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2000

   An act to amend Section 1797.109 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to emergency medical services.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2469, Reyes.  Emergency medical services:  personnel training.
   Existing law, the Emergency Medical Services System and the
Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act, authorizes the
Director of the Emergency Medical Services Authority to develop, or
prescribe standards for and approve, an emergency medical technician
training and testing program for various public safety agency
personnel, upon the request of, and as deemed appropriate by, the
director for the particular agency.
   This bill also would authorize the director of the authority to
develop, or prescribe standards for and approve, an emergency medical
technician training and testing program for the California Fire
Fighter Joint Apprenticeship Committee.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 1797.109 of the Health and Safety Code is
amended to read:
   1797.109.  (a) The director may develop, or prescribe standards
for and approve, an emergency medical technician training and testing
program for the Department of the California Highway Patrol,
Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, California Fire Fighter
Joint Apprenticeship Committee, and other public safety agency
personnel, upon the request of, and as deemed appropriate by, the
director for the particular agency.
   (b) The director may, with the concurrence of the Department of
the California Highway Patrol, designate the California Highway
Patrol Academy as a site where the training and testing may be
offered.
   (c) The director may prescribe that each person, upon successful
completion of the training course and upon passing a written and a
practical examination, be certified as an emergency medical
technician of an appropriate classification.  A suitable
identification card may be issued to each certified person to
designate that person's emergency medical skill level.
   (d) The director may prescribe standards for refresher training to
be given to persons trained and certified under this section.
   (e) The Department of the California Highway Patrol shall, subject
to the availability of federal funds, provide for the initial
training of its uniformed personnel in the rendering of emergency
medical technician services to the public in specified areas of the
state as designated by the Commissioner of the California Highway
Patrol.