republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-215.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Emergency services: Emergency Medical Air Transportation Act."
description: "The Emergency Medical Air Transportation Act, until January 1, 2018, imposes specified penalties for certain Vehicle Code and local ordinance violations. The act requires that the moneys generated from those penalties be deposited by counties into a county emergency medical air transportation act fund, and thereafter requires the counties to transfer those moneys, less administrative costs, to the Emergency Medical Air Transportation Act Fund established in the State Treasury, as provided. The act requires moneys in the Emergency Medical Air Transportation Act Fund to be made available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to the State Department of Health Care Services for administrative costs, and to offset the state portion of the Medi-Cal reimbursement rate for emergency medical air transportation services and to augment emergency medical air transportation reimbursement payments made through the Medi-Cal program, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 215"
citation: "California AB 215 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Emergency services: Emergency Medical Air Transportation Act."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Beall"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2011-01-31"
last_action: "2011-10-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fc1326f0-8ce2-4d28-93a8-76978d2b11df"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB215"
source_hash: "2601b40ff0559803a004b6302d77efc28ae3108ed8cf2d2fe12f6d0f830fddb5"
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 215 (20112012) — Emergency services: Emergency Medical Air Transportation Act.

The Emergency Medical Air Transportation Act, until January 1, 2018, imposes specified penalties for certain Vehicle Code and local ordinance violations. The act requires that the moneys generated from those penalties be deposited by counties into a county emergency medical air transportation act fund, and thereafter requires the counties to transfer those moneys, less administrative costs, to the Emergency Medical Air Transportation Act Fund established in the State Treasury, as provided. The act requires moneys in the Emergency Medical Air Transportation Act Fund to be made available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to the State Department of Health Care Services for administrative costs, and to offset the state portion of the Medi-Cal reimbursement rate for emergency medical air transportation services and to augment emergency medical air transportation reimbursement payments made through the Medi-Cal program, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/31/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB215&version=20110AB21599INT)
2. **04/25/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB215&version=20110AB21598AMD)
3. **06/22/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB215&version=20110AB21597AMD)
4. **06/27/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB215&version=20110AB21596AMD)
5. **10/02/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB215&version=20110AB21594CHP)
6. **AB215** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB215)
7. **09/06/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB215&version=20110AB21595ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB215 Beall By Fuller — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 215 BEALL Assembly Third Reading — **51–25** (pass) · lower
- AB 215 BEALL Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **13–6** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **12–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Beall — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-01-31** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-02-01** From printer. May be heard in committee March 3.
- **2011-03-31** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-25** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-04-26** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-04** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 6.) (May 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-12** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (May 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-05-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 51. Noes 25. Page 1470.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-05-19** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-06-02** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-22** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-06-23** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-27** 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-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-07-07** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 6). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-07-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-08-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 2076.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-08-29** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 31 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2011-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2717.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2011-09-07** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2011-10-02** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-10-02** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 392, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fc1326f0-8ce2-4d28-93a8-76978d2b11df`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).