(a) The authority shall distribute to each local EMS agency the curriculum content criteria for peer-to-peer suicide prevention programming developed pursuant to Section 13159.6.

(b) Each local EMS agency shall make the curriculum content criteria available to each emergency medical services employer in the local EMS agency’s jurisdiction.

Terms Used In California Health and Safety Code 1797.119

  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.

(c) Every paid emergency medical services responder may receive appropriate training consistent with the curriculum content criteria.

(Added by Stats. 2022, Ch. 575, Sec. 1. (AB 662) Effective January 1, 2023.)