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Bill	Community Paramedicine or Triage to Alternate Destination Act.	(1) Existing law, the Emergency Medical Services System and the Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act, governs local emergency medical services (EMS) systems. The existing act establishes the Emergency Medical Services Authority, which is responsible for the coordination and integration of EMS systems. Among other duties, existing law requires the authority to develop planning and implementation guidelines for EMS systems, provide technical assistance to existing agencies, counties, and cities for the purpose of developing the components of EMS systems, and receive plans for the implementation of EMS and trauma care systems from local EMS agencies. Existing law makes a violation of the act or regulations adopted pursuant to the act punishable as a misdemeanor.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 1544	California AB 1544 (20192020)	bill	Community Paramedicine or Triage to Alternate Destination Act.	enacted	Gipson	10	33	9	2019-02-22	2020-09-25	openstates	ocd-bill/1420660e-b44a-4b51-bb89-18446456697f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1544	7242876752214c1e11f64605a236507f04a790fde1300460017339dfc3c1e00d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1544 (20192020) — Community Paramedicine or Triage to Alternate Destination Act.

(1) Existing law, the Emergency Medical Services System and the Prehospital Emergency Medical Care Personnel Act, governs local emergency medical services (EMS) systems. The existing act establishes the Emergency Medical Services Authority, which is responsible for the coordination and integration of EMS systems. Among other duties, existing law requires the authority to develop planning and implementation guidelines for EMS systems, provide technical assistance to existing agencies, counties, and cities for the purpose of developing the components of EMS systems, and receive plans for the implementation of EMS and trauma care systems from local EMS agencies. Existing law makes a violation of the act or regulations adopted pursuant to the act punishable as a misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/22/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/16/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/25/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/11/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/25/20 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/30/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/25/20 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB1544 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/01/20 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1544 Gipson Assembly Third Reading — 68–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1544 Gipson et al. By Wiener — 31–5 (pass) · upper
• AB 1544 Gipson Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 65–6 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 15–3 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gipson — primary (person)
• Gloria — author (person)
• Hertzberg — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-22 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2019-02-23 From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
• 2019-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
• 2019-03-14 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2019-04-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 9). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-22 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-04-23 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2019-05-01 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-05-16 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 15. Noes 3.) (May 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-05-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 3. Page 2099.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-30 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-06-12 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-06-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-07-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 3). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-10 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (July 9). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-07-11 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-12 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 30). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-08-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-10 Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Hertzberg.
• 2020-08-25 From inactive file.
• 2020-08-25 Ordered to second reading.
• 2020-08-25 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2020-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 5.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2020-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2020-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 65. Noes 6. Page 5381.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2020-09-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2020-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2020-09-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 138, Statutes of 2020.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1420660e-b44a-4b51-bb89-18446456697f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).