BILL NUMBER: AB 2425INTRODUCED 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.