What’s happening: Due to state budget constraints, the state Office of Administrative Law (OAL) has not yet approved the Emergency Medical Services Authority’s (EMSA) Assembly Bill (AB) 40 (2023) regulations for public comment.
What else to know: AB 40 passed in 2023 with the intent of improving long ambulance patient offload times (APOTs). Despite the delay on implementation, CHA continues pursuing opportunities to collaborate with health care partners to improve long APOTs, which affect the entire health care delivery system.
Once the OAL approves the regulations for public comment, there will only be a five-day comment period because these are emergency regulations. Hospitals should continue to comply with AB 40 until the regulations are finalized. CHA will provide updates in future issues of CHA News.
Contact Sheree Lowe, vice president, policy, at slowe@calhospital.org or Savannah Tapia, policy associate, at stapia@calhospital.org for more information.
