Senate Health & Human Services

Mr. Brown, please call the roll. Senators Bright. Here. Hutter. Excused. Doherty. Here. Frazelle. Excused. Weissman. Good morning. Judah. Present. Mr. Chair. Malika. Here. Members, first item on the agenda is House Bill 1238. We have the sponsors here with us. Who wants to start us off? Senator Basley, welcome to the Senate Health and Human Services committee. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It's an honor to be before you all and to introduce House Bill 2612 38. Now, when we dial 911, then essential services respond and that 911 dispatch operator determines which of the three primary functions they're going to respond to that call. Houses on fire gotta send and the fire department or there's a law enforcement issue, there's someone breaking in the house, there's an accident on the freeway, you call the law enforcement. Well, that's who responds that 911 or there's a medical emergency and emergency management services responds. The first of those two. The first two of those three, the fire department and law enforcement are essential services, meaning that they are required to be provided, to be funded by the counties, by the local jurisdictions. The one that has never been considered essential is…