Bill Text: CA AB1290 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: Health care districts: public contracts: design-build.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-06-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 34, Statutes of 2015. [AB1290 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB1290-Chaptered.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1290	CHAPTERED
	BILL TEXT

	CHAPTER  34
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JUNE 30, 2015
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  JUNE 30, 2015
	PASSED THE SENATE  JUNE 22, 2015
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  MAY 22, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 18, 2015
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 26, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Dahle

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to add Section 32132.8 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to health care districts, and declaring the urgency thereof,
to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1290, Dahle. Health care districts: public contracts:
design-build.
   The Local Health Care District Law provides for local health care
districts which govern certain health care facilities. Each health
care district has specific duties and powers respecting the creation,
administration, and maintenance of the districts, including to
purchase, receive, take, hold, lease, use, and enjoy property of
every kind and description within and without the limits of the
district.
   The Local Agency Public Construction Act establishes bidding
procedures for the award of construction contracts by local agencies.

    The act authorizes counties, with the approval of the board of
supervisors, to use a design-build procedure for building contracts
in excess of $1,000,000.
   This bill would authorize the Mayers Memorial Hospital District to
use this design-build process when contracting for the construction
of a building and improvements directly related to a hospital or
health facility building at Mayers Memorial Hospital.
   This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to
the necessity of a special statute for the Mayers Memorial Hospital
District.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  (a) The Legislature finds and declares both of the
following:
   (1) Utilizing a design-build contract requires a clear
understanding of the roles and responsibilities of each participant
in the process.
   (2) Cost benefits for health care districts are achieved by
shifting the liability and risk for cost containment and project
completion to the design-build entity.
   (b) It is the intent of the Legislature that the design-build
process be used by health care districts solely for buildings
associated with hospitals and health care and not for other
infrastructure, including, but not limited to, streets, highways,
public rail transit, roads, bridges, water resources facilities, and
related infrastructure.
  SEC. 2.  Section 32132.8 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to
read:
   32132.8.  (a) Notwithstanding Section 32132 or any other law, upon
approval by the board of directors of the Mayers Memorial Hospital
District, the design-build procedure described in Chapter 4
(commencing with Section 22160) of Part 3 of Division 2 of the Public
Contract Code may be used to assign contracts for the construction
of a building or improvements directly related to construction of a
hospital or health facility building at the Mayers Memorial Hospital
District.
   (b) For purposes of this section, all references in Chapter 4
(commencing with Section 22160) of Part 3 of Division 2 of the Public
Contract Code to "local agency" shall mean the Mayers Memorial
Hospital District and its board of directors.
   (c) A hospital building project utilizing the design-build process
authorized by subdivision (a) shall be reviewed and inspected in
accordance with the standards and requirements of the Alfred E.
Alquist Hospital Facilities Seismic Safety Act of 1983 (Chapter 1
(commencing with Section 129675) of Part 7 of Division 107).
  SEC. 3.  The Legislature finds and declares that a special law is
necessary and that a general law cannot be made applicable within the
meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution
because of the unique circumstances of the Mayers Memorial Hospital
District.
  SEC. 4.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order to comply with health regulations, seismic requirements,
and meet increasing demand for health care services at the earliest
possible time, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.