republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-1223.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Emergency medical services: ambulance transportation."
description: "Existing law establishes the Emergency Medical Services Authority, and requires it to adopt regulations that further the purpose of establishing a statewide system for emergency medical services. Existing law, the Emergency Medical Services System and the Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act, authorizes each county to develop an emergency medical services program. The act further authorizes a local emergency medical services (EMS) agency to develop and submit a plan to the Emergency Medical Services Authority for an emergency medical services system, and requires the local EMS agency, using state minimum standards, to establish policies and procedures to assure medical control of the emergency medical services system that may require basic life support emergency medical transportation services to meet any medical control requirements, including dispatch, patient destination policies, patient care guidelines, and quality assurance requirements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 1223"
citation: "California AB 1223 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Emergency medical services: ambulance transportation."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["O'Donnell"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 29
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2015-02-27"
last_action: "2015-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a45d7582-4168-453c-967d-d0407a77813b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1223"
source_hash: "7766ea2a7b7c2ce95e012a5cee44c8d5a9ccd0306e6efe947b7ffb5a9ecdc616"
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 1223 (20152016) — Emergency medical services: ambulance transportation.

Existing law establishes the Emergency Medical Services Authority, and requires it to adopt regulations that further the purpose of establishing a statewide system for emergency medical services. Existing law, the Emergency Medical Services System and the Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act, authorizes each county to develop an emergency medical services program. The act further authorizes a local emergency medical services (EMS) agency to develop and submit a plan to the Emergency Medical Services Authority for an emergency medical services system, and requires the local EMS agency, using state minimum standards, to establish policies and procedures to assure medical control of the emergency medical services system that may require basic life support emergency medical transportation services to meet any medical control requirements, including dispatch, patient destination policies, patient care guidelines, and quality assurance requirements.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/27/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1223&version=20150AB122399INT)
2. **04/14/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1223&version=20150AB122398AMD)
3. **05/05/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1223&version=20150AB122397AMD)
4. **05/14/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1223&version=20150AB122396AMD)
5. **06/30/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1223&version=20150AB122395AMD)
6. **09/30/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1223&version=20150AB122393CHP)
7. **AB1223** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1223)
8. **09/04/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1223&version=20150AB122394ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1223 O'DONNELL Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **80–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1223 O'Donnell By Pan — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **19–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1223 O'DONNELL Consent Calendar Second Day — **76–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- O'Donnell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-02-27** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2015-03-01** From printer. May be heard in committee March 31.
- **2015-03-02** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2015-03-23** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-14** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-15** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-28** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2015-05-05** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2015-05-05** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-06** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (May 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-05-14** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-18** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-20** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 20). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-05-21** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-05-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1595.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-06-04** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-30** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-07-09** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-08-17** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2015-08-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-08-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2293.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2015-09-01** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2729.)
- **2015-09-02** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 2774.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2015-09-16** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2015-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 379, Statutes of 2015.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a45d7582-4168-453c-967d-d0407a77813b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).