Emergency medical services: dispatcher training.

Assembly Member Carrillo's emergency medical services legislation requires California's 911 call centers to provide callers with standardized medical instructions before first responders arrive at emergency scenes. The measure mandates that by January 2027, public safety agencies handling emergency medical calls must guide callers through critical interventions including CPR, choking assistance for all ages, bleeding control, childbirth support, and administration of emergency medications like epinephrine and naloxone.

The bill establishes a framework for implementing these prearrival instructions while maintaining operational flexibility. Public safety agencies may fulfill the requirements either directly or by contracting with other agencies that already provide such guidance. All instruction protocols require approval from local Emergency Medical Services agency medical directors and must align with existing agency procedures. Agencies currently offering approved prearrival medical instructions through emergency medical dispatch systems may continue their existing programs without modifications.

To preserve established emergency response structures, the legislation explicitly maintains current regulations governing emergency medical dispatch and dispatcher training. The measure includes provisions for state reimbursement of certain local implementation costs, as determined by the Commission on State Mandates, while specifying that expenses related to modified criminal provisions do not qualify for compensation.