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 02/21/25 - Introduced

 AB-1403 Emergency services.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 03/24/2025 09:00 PM

AB1403:v98#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 March 24, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 1403

Introduced by Assembly Member Hart

February 21, 2025

 An act to amend Section 50470 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to housing. add Section 1797.234 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to emergency medical services.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1403, as amended, Hart.
 Building Homes and Jobs Trust Fund. Emergency services.

Existing law, the Emergency Medical Services System and the Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act, governs local emergency medical services (EMS) systems, authorizes each county to develop an EMS program and designate a local EMS agency, and requires the Emergency Medical Services Authority to receive plans for the implementation of EMS systems from local EMS agencies, as specified. Existing law requires a county to enter into a written agreement with a city or fire district that contracted for or provided prehospital EMS as of June 1, 1980. Existing law requires, until that written agreement is reached, prehospital EMS to be continued at not less than the existing level and the administration of prehospital EMS by cities and fire districts contracting for or providing those services as of
 June 1, 1980, to be retained by those cities and fire districts, as specified.

This bill would authorize a county board of supervisors or the governing body of an entity or a joint powers agency designated as the local EMS agency by the board of supervisors to provide ambulance services to persons located within the county’s jurisdiction by specified means, including assigning the duty of providing ambulance services to residents of the county to an existing county department and providing the department with the necessary staffing, vehicles, and equipment to provide ambulance services.

The bill would require a county board of supervisors or a local EMS agency to adopt a written policy, including specified requirements, for an emergency ambulance services provider in order to enter into a contract with a provider for
 emergency ambulance services and would include required provisions for those contracts.

The bill would make related findings and declarations.

The Building Homes and Jobs Act (BHJA) creates in the State Treasury the Building Homes and Jobs Trust Fund and requires the moneys in the fund to be appropriated through the annual Budget Act or as prescribed in the BHJA.

This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 NO 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(1) The Legislature designed the Emergency Medical Services System and the Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act (EMS Act), Division 2.5 (commencing with Section 1797) of the Health and Safety Code, to encourage coordination and planning among the state, local governments, and private providers to achieve the most effective and cost-effective prehospital emergency medical services (EMS) on a countywide or regionwide basis.

(2) The EMS Act defines the roles, responsibilities, and functions of the Emergency Medical Services Authority (Authority) and the local EMS agencies, and some, but not all, of the roles, responsibilities, and functions of the counties and boards of supervisors regarding prehospital EMS and ambulance services.

(3) Other statutory authorities of a county and the board of supervisors regarding the provision and regulation of ambulance services, whether by public or private agreement, permit, license, or other means, and the provision of ambulance services for indigent county residents are located in statutes outside of the EMS Act, including, but not limited to, Sections 25369.5, 26612, 29606, and 54980 to 54983, inclusive, of the Government Code, Sections 1443 to 1445, inclusive, 1451 to 1455, inclusive, and 1473 to 1475, inclusive, of the Health and Safety Code, Section 2512 of the
 Vehicle Code, and Sections 14136 and 16817 of