Emergency medical services providers: reporting.

Existing law, the Emergency Medical Services System and the Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act, governs local emergency medical services (EMS) systems. The act establishes the Emergency Medical Services Authority, which is responsible for the coordination and integration of EMS systems. Existing law authorizes each county to develop an emergency medical services program and requires the county to designate a local EMS agency (LEMSA) . The act authorizes each county to create one or more exclusive operating areas in the development of a local plan. This bill would require a private EMS provider that contracts with a LEMSA to provide emergency medical services in an exclusive operating area to annually provide the LEMSA with specified information relating to the working conditions of emergency medical technicians and paramedics employed by the provider, including, but not limited to, wages, hours, and benefits. The bill would require the LEMSA to maintain a database in which that data, and other specified information, would be collected. The bill would require the Emergency Medical Services Authority to collect from each LEMSA the data that each LEMSA receives from the providers. The bill would exempt from its reporting requirement providers that employ fewer than 20 ambulances. By expanding the data collection duties of LEMSAs, the 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 the statutory provisions noted above.