Emergency medical services: certifying examination.

Existing law, the Emergency Medical Services System and the Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act (act) , establishes the Emergency Medical Services Authority to coordinate and integrate all state activities concerning emergency medical services, including, among other duties, establishing training standards for specified emergency services personnel. Existing law defines the terms "certifying examination" and "examination for certification" for the purposes of these provisions to mean an examination designated by the authority for a specific level of prehospital emergency medical care personnel that must be satisfactorily passed prior to certification or recertification at the specific level and authorizes a "certifying examination" or "examination for certification" to include any examination or examinations designated by the authority. This bill would instead authorize a "certifying examination" or "examination for certification" to include any examination designated by the authority.