---
type: "Bill"
title: "Emergency medical services."
description: "Existing law establishes the Maddy Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Fund, authorizing each county to establish an emergency medical services fund for reimbursement of EMS-related costs, and provides that the costs of administering the fund shall be reimbursed, based on the actual administrative costs, not to exceed 10% of the amount of the fund."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 1475"
citation: "California AB 1475 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Emergency medical services."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Solorio"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 22
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2009-02-27"
last_action: "2009-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/194c6779-f301-4bd2-aed0-67c6a41879f5"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1475"
source_hash: "d2de339197c73c553307e5654515fadb7ba3d5d9d64334a66dba19f54d0f49d8"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 1475 (20092010) — Emergency medical services.

Existing law establishes the Maddy Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Fund, authorizing each county to establish an emergency medical services fund for reimbursement of EMS-related costs, and provides that the costs of administering the fund shall be reimbursed, based on the actual administrative costs, not to exceed 10% of the amount of the fund.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/27/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1475&version=20090AB147599INT)
2. **10/11/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1475&version=20090AB147597CHP)
3. **AB1475** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1475)
4. **09/03/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1475&version=20090AB147598ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1475 SOLORIO Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB1475 Solorio By Correa — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Solorio — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2009-02-27** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2009-03-01** From printer. May be heard in committee March 30.
- **2009-03-02** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2009-04-02** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-22** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 21). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-04-23** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-05-04** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1237.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-05-04** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-05-14** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-20** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2009-06-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-06-15** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-06-16** Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2009-06-22** To third reading.
- **2009-06-22** To inactive file on motion of Senator Simitian.
- **2009-07-16** From inactive file. To second reading.
- **2009-07-23** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-08-31** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 2011.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-09-01** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2009-09-08** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:15 p.m.
- **2009-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2009-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 537, Statutes of 2009.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/194c6779-f301-4bd2-aed0-67c6a41879f5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).