Bill Text: CA AB2425 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Public health: unintentional injuries.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From Senate committee without further action. [AB2425 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2425-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2425	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Brown

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to add Article 7 (commencing with Section 116090.5) to
Chapter 5 of Part 10 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to public health.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2425, as introduced, Brown. Public health: incident site
reports.
   Existing law establishes the State Department of Public Health in
state government. Existing law vests within the department certain
duties and powers to protect and preserve the public health. Existing
law establishes the Emergency Medical Services Authority in state
government.
   This bill would require the State Department of Public Health and
the Emergency Medical Services Authority to, by regulation, adopt
standards and protocols to establish a uniform incident site report
requirement for purposes of collecting statewide information on
unintentional injury incidents. The bill would require those
regulations to be implemented on a statewide basis by every county,
as prescribed.
   By imposing additional duties on local entities, this bill would
impose a state-mandated local program.
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


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

  SECTION 1.  Article 7 (commencing with Section 116090.5) is added
to Chapter 5 of Part 10 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety
Code, to read:

      Article 7.  Incident Site Reports


   116090.5.  (a) On or before June 1, 2018, the departments shall,
by regulation, adopt standards and protocols to establish a uniform
incident site report requirement for purposes of collecting statewide
information on unintentional injury incidents.
   (b) The regulations adopted by the departments shall be
implemented on a statewide basis by every county in the State of
California for use by first responders.
   (c) The regulations shall, at a minimum, include the following:
   (1) A requirement that, upon responding to an incident, a first
responder prepare and provide an incident site report to its county
health department.
   (2) A requirement that the county health department be responsible
for submitting the data received pursuant to paragraph (1) to the
state's EPICenter data system, no later than 60 days after receipt of
the incident site report.
   (d) For purposes of this section, the following definitions shall
have the following meanings:
   (1) "Departments" means the State Department of Public Health and
the Emergency Medical Services Authority.
   (2) "First responder" includes, but is not limited to, every local
law enforcement entity, fire department, and any other first
responder or entity that arranges for, or provides, emergency medical
services within its boundaries, including paramedic services.
   (3) "Incident site reports" or "incident" relates to, among
others, site reports or incidents that involve unintentional injuries
from drownings, near drownings, burns, window falls, bicycle
crashes, pedestrian crashes, sleep suffocation, kids left in cars,
vehicle backovers, vehicle frontovers, and poisoning.
  SEC. 2.  If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this
act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local
agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant
to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of
the Government Code.