AB 2973: 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 a local EMS agency to provide or support the provision of EMS to persons located within the county, as specified. The bill would require the county board of supervisors to review and approve a single-county local EMS agencys plans for the EMS system prior to the submission of the plans to the authority, and would require a multicounty local EMS agencys plans to be approved as provided for in the contract between the counties and the agency, as provided for in the joint powers agreement that created the agency, or by the board of supervisors in each of the counties served by the agency prior to the submission of the plans to the authority.

The bill would make related findings and declarations.