Bill Text: CA AB90 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 90 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Torts: personal liability immunity.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-02 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB90 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB90-Introduced.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 90	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Adams

                        JANUARY 5, 2009

   An act to amend Section 1799.102 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to personal liability.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 90, as introduced, Adams. Torts: personal liability immunity.
   Existing law requires that any person, who in good faith and not
for compensation, renders emergency medical care at the scene of an
emergency shall not be liable for any civil damages resulting from
any act or omission.
   This bill would instead require that any person, who in good faith
and not for compensation, renders emergency care, medical or
nonmedical, at the scene of an emergency shall not be liable for any
civil damages resulting from any act or omission.
   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.  Section 1799.102 of the Health and Safety Code is
amended to read:
   1799.102.  No person who in good faith, and not for compensation,
renders emergency  medical or nonmedical  care at the scene
of an emergency shall be liable for any civil damages resulting from
any act or omission. The scene of an emergency shall not include
emergency departments and other places where medical care is usually
offered.