What’s happening: The Emergency Medical Services Authority (EMSA) has proposed emergency regulations to implement Assembly Bill (AB) 40 (2023). According to EMSA’s notice, these will be submitted to the Office of Administrative Law on June 12.
What else to know: AB 40, passed in 2023, was intended to improve ambulance patient offload times. CHA will provide comments to ensure the legislation’s intent is preserved and that hospitals can effectively implement this new regulation.
Because the proposal has been issued as an emergency regulation, the public comment period is condensed to five days — comments must be submitted by June 16, and can be sent via email.
For more information about CHA’s work to address ambulance patient offload times, visit CHA’s dedicated web page. With questions, contact Sheree Lowe, vice president, policy, or Savannah Tapia, policy associate.
