Emergency medical services.

Existing law authorizes each county to establish an emergency medical services fund, known as a Maddy Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Fund, funded by specified revenue penalties, and makes money in the fund available for the reimbursement of physicians and surgeons and hospitals for losses incurred in the provision of emergency medical services when payment is not otherwise made for those services. Existing law requires any county that has established a Maddy EMS Fund to deposit into that fund $2 for every $7 of additional penalties imposed by the courts for criminal offenses. Existing law, until January 1, 2011, authorized Santa Barbara County, for purposes of supporting emergency medical services in Santa Barbara County, to collect a specified penalty assessment on every fine, penalty, or forfeiture collected for all criminal offenses, except as specified, if the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors adopts a resolution stating that implementation of this provision is necessary to the county for purposes of providing payment for emergency medical services. Existing law, until January 1, 2011, provided, upon the establishment of a Maddy EMS Fund in Santa Barbara County, that the amount that would have been collected as penalty assessments pursuant to the above provision shall be deposited in the Maddy EMS Fund established by the county. This bill would reenact those provisions that were repealed on January 1, 2011, until January 1, 2014. The bill would require the Board of Supervisors for Santa Barbara County, if it adopts a resolution to implement these provisions, to report to the Legislature whether, and to the extent that, any actions are taken by Santa Barbara County to implement alternative local sources of funding. The bill would make specified findings and declarations that the special legislation contained in the act is necessarily applicable only to Santa Barbara County.