This measure would designate the month of June 2023 as Healthy Homes Awareness Month.
This measure would recognize July 28 as World Hepatitis Day and would urge all California institutions, nonprofit organizations, health care organizations, businesses, community leaders, and residents to ensure screenings for hepatitis B and C, vaccinations for hepatitis B, and treatment become the standard of care.
This measure would designate October 23, 2023, as Aromatic L-Amino Acid Decarboxylase (AADC) Deficiency Awareness Day in the state.
This measure would recognize August 15, 2023, as India's Independence Day and urge all Californians to join in celebrating India's independence.
This measure would proclaim August 2023 as Breastfeeding Awareness Month of 2023 in California. The measure would recognize the unique benefits that breastfeeding provides, as specified, and would affirm that Californians should work to ensure that barriers to initiation and continuation of breastfeeding are removed. The measure would encourage Californians to work together to explore ways to, among other things, improve women's access to breastfeeding support services in medical, social, and employment settings.
This measure would recognize the 50th anniversary of hip hop on August 11, 2023, as a time of celebration, pride, and nostalgia for the citizens of California.
Existing law authorizes a school district or school to provide a comprehensive program in first aid or cardiopulmonary resuscitation training, or both, to pupils and employees in accordance with specified guidelines. Existing law requires the Instructional Quality Commission to recommend curriculum frameworks for adoption by the State Board of Education in accordance with regulations. This bill would require, on or before July 1, 2024, the State Department of Education to make available to school districts on the department's internet website a list of resources and instructional materials on bleeding control, as specified. The bill would require, when the Health Framework for California Public Schools is next revised after January 1, 2024, the Instructional Quality Commission to consider including information on bleeding control in that framework, as specified.
Existing law, the Emergency Medical Services System and the Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act, governs local emergency medical services (EMS) systems. The existing act establishes the Emergency Medical Services Authority (authority) , which is responsible for the coordination and integration of all emergency medical services. Existing law authorizes each county to develop an emergency medical services program and requires a county that does so to designate a local EMS agency (LEMSA) . Existing law requires the authority to develop planning and implementation guidelines for emergency medical services systems that address specified components, including the assessment of hospital and critical care centers and data collection and evaluation. This bill would require these guidelines to include a list of standardized terminology for a LEMSA to use when granting exemptions for 911 response times, as specified. Existing law requires the authority to develop and adopt, as specified, a statewide standard methodology for the calculation and reporting by a LEMSA of ambulance patient offload time. This bill would require the authority to develop an audit tool to improve the accuracy of transfer of care data with validation from hospitals and LEMSAs. Existing law authorizes a LEMSA to adopt policies and procedures for calculating and reporting ambulance patient offload times and requires a LEMSA to annually submit its emergency medical services plan for the EMS area to the authority, according to EMS Systems, Standards, and Guidelines established by the authority. This bill would make this authorization mandatory. The bill would require a LEMSA to include its annual budget with its annual emergency medical services plan submission. The bill would also require LEMSAs and the authority to make the plans accessible on the LEMSA's and the authority's internet websites within 30 days of approval by the authority. The bill would require LEMSAs, to the extent they have established 911 response times for EMS providers, to include a list of exemptions from meeting 911 response times granted in the previous calendar year, if any, with their annual emergency medical services plan submission.
