FDAC/CFCA LEGISLATIVE TASK FORCE END OF 2023 SESSION UPDATE

Legislative Bills Passed:
AB 40 - Assemblymember Rodrigeuz’s bill on EMS response times, was officially passed and enrolled in California on September 12, 2023. AB 40 requires LEMSA’s to create an electronic signature showing the hand-off of patients from emergency response to the hospital. Additionally, that data would be used to create new standards of care, with the target being a maximum 30 minute off-load time for patients.

Thank you to everyone who has helped support our efforts on AB 40.  AB 40 is on the Governor’s desk awaiting further action.  

Other of note legislation enrolled by the Governor:

AB 70 (Rodriguez) - Emergency Response: Trauma Kits

AB 557 (Hart) - Open meetings: local agencies: teleconferences.

AB 767 (Gipson) - Community Paramedicine or Triage to Alternate Destination Act.

AB 821 (Grayson) - Planning and zoning: general plan: zoning ordinance: conflicts.

AB 835 (Lee) - State Fire Marshal: building standards: single-exit, single stairway apartment houses: report.

AB 1020 (Grayson) - County Employees Retirement Law of 1937: disability retirement: medical conditions: employment-related presumption.

AB 1145 (Maienschein) - Workers’ compensation:  State registered nurses, psychiatric technicians, and medical and social specialists PTSI presumption.

AB 1285 (Gipson) - Homeless Housing, Assistance, and Prevention program and Encampment Resolution Funding program.

Ballot Measures:
A trio of ballot measures addressing voter thresholds for local government revenue enhancement measures may be heading to the ballot box.

ACA 13 (Ward) was introduced as a constitutional amendment which requires a ballot measure or statewide initiative that would increase the voter approval requirement to adopt any state or local measure would have to pass by the number of votes equal to or greater than the measure would require. Meaning that if an initiative wishes to change the voter threshold to 66% the initiative would have to meet that same threshold. The measure will now appear on the 2024 November ballot. ACA 13 is being held in the Assembly until November 1 to allow for negotiations between stakeholders.  After that date, if nothing is worked out, it would qualify for the March 2024 Primary Election.

ACA 1 (Aguiar-Curry) was introduced as a constitutional amendment that changes the required voter threshold on the implementation of new taxes, fees, and bonds to 55% rather than a 2/3rd majority. ACA 1 also grants new expectations to the 1% ad valorem tax on real property. The measure will now appear on the November 2024 ballot.

ACA 1 will be joined on the November 2024 ballot by the “Taxpayer Protection and Government Accountability Act” (Initiative #21-0042A1) sponsored by the California Business Roundtable. The ballot measure will make it more difficult for local governments to change or enact new taxes, fees, assessments, and property-related charges. Local government view this as an anti-local control measure and are opposed to this initiative. Both FDAC and CFCA have alerted members to this harmful initiative.

Held in Committee.  
AB 55 (Rodriguez) - The bill would require the department to direct each Medi-Cal managed care plan to implement a value-based purchasing model that provides for reimbursement to a network provider that meets the workforce standard requirement and that furnishes ambulance transport services. Held in Assembly Appropriations Committee.

FDAC and CFCA will continue to update members on the movement of these bills.