Bill Text: CA AB2419 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Seismic safety: hospitals.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-03-05 - Referred to Com. on HEALTH. [AB2419 Detail]
Download: California-2017-AB2419-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION
| Assembly Bill | No. 2419 |
| Introduced by Assembly Member Friedman |
February 14, 2018 |
An act to amend Section 130061 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to seismic safety.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2419, as introduced, Friedman.
Seismic safety: hospitals.
Existing law, the Alfred E. Alquist Hospital Facilities Seismic Safety Act of 1983, establishes, under the jurisdiction of the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, a program of seismic safety building standards for certain hospitals constructed on and after March 7, 1973.
Existing law provides that, after January 1, 2008, a general acute care hospital building that is determined to be a potential risk of collapse or to pose significant loss of life in the event of seismic activity be used only for nonacute care hospital purposes, except that the office may grant a 5-year extension under prescribed circumstances. Existing law allows the office to grant a hospital that has received extensions under specified provisions an additional extension of up to 7 years for a hospital building that it owns or operates if the hospital meets
specified milestones. Existing law requires an owner of a general acute care hospital building that is classified as nonconforming to submit a report to the office no later than November 1, 2010, describing the status of each building in complying with the extension provisions, and to annually update the office with any changes or adjustments. Existing law requires the report to include the number of inpatient beds and patient days for the years 2008, 2009, and 2010. Existing law requires the office to make that information available on its Internet Web site, as specified. Existing law authorizes the imposition of fines for the failure to submit a report under those provisions.
This bill would instead require that report to include the number of inpatient beds and patient days for the years 2008 to 2016, inclusive.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 130061 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:130061.
(a) An owner of a general acute care hospital building that is classified as a nonconforming Structural Performance Category-1 (SPC-1) building, who has not requested an extension of the deadline described in subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 130060, shall submit a report to the office no later than April 15, 2007, describing the status of each building in complying with the requirements of Section 130060. The report shall identify at least all of the following:(1) Each building that is subject to subdivision (a) of Section 130060.
(2) The project number or numbers for retrofit or replacement of each building.
(3) The projected construction start date or dates and projected construction completion date or dates.
(4) The building or buildings to be
removed from acute care service and the projected date or dates of this action.
(b) An owner of a general acute care hospital building that is classified as a nonconforming, Structural Performance Category-1 (SPC-1) building, who has requested an extension of the deadline described in subdivision (a) or (b) of Section 130060, shall submit a report to the office no later than June 30, 2009, describing the status of each building in complying with the requirements of Section 130060. The report shall identify, at a minimum, all of the following:
(1) Each building that is subject to subdivision (a) of Section 130060.
(2) The project number or numbers for retrofit or replacement of each building.
(3) The projected construction start date or dates and projected construction completion date or dates.
(4) The building or buildings to be removed from acute care service and the
projected date or dates of that action.
(c) An owner of a general acute care hospital building that is classified as a nonconforming, Structural Performance Category-1 (SPC-1) building, shall submit a report to the office no later than November 1, 2010, describing the status of each building in complying with the requirements of Section 130060, and annually thereafter shall update the office with any changes or adjustments. The report shall identify at least all of the following:
(1) For each building that is subject to subdivision (a) of Section 130060 that is planned for retrofit or replacement, the report shall identify:
(A) Whether the hospital owner intends to retrofit or replace the building to SPC-2, SPC-3, SPC-4, or SPC-5.
(B) The deadline, as described in Section 130060 or 130061.5, for retrofit or replacement of the building that the hospital owner intends to meet,
and the applicable extension for which the hospital owner has been approved.
(C) The project number or numbers for retrofit or replacement of each building.
(D) The projected construction start date or dates and projected construction completion date or dates.
(E) The most recent project status and approvals.
(F) The number of inpatient beds and patient days, by type of unit and type of service to be provided.
(2) For the building or buildings to be removed from acute care service, the following information shall be included:
(A) The projected date or dates the building will be removed from service.
(B) The planned uses of the building or buildings to be removed from acute care service.
(C) The inpatient services currently delivered in the building or buildings.
(D) The number of inpatient beds and patient days, by type of unit and type of service, for the years 2008, 2009, and 2010. each of the years 2008 to 2016, inclusive.
(E) Whether the general acute care services and beds will be relocated to a new or retrofitted building and any corresponding building sites or project numbers.
(3) Each hospital owner shall also report, for each facility for which any buildings will be removed from acute care service, any net change in the number of inpatient beds, by type of unit and type of service, taking into account beds provided in buildings to be taken out of service, beds provided in buildings to be retrofitted or replaced, and beds provided in any other buildings used for general acute care inpatient services by
the facility.
(4) Each hospital owner shall report any general acute care hospital inpatient service that is provided in any general acute care hospital building that is rated SPC-1.
(5) Each hospital owner shall report the final configuration of all buildings on its campus showing how each building will comply with the SPC-5/NPC-4 or 5 requirements, whether by retrofit or by replacement, and the type of services that will be provided in each general acute care hospital building.
(d) The office shall make the information required by subdivisions (a) and (b), available on its Internet Web site within 90 days of receipt of this information.
(e) The office shall make the information required by subdivision (c) available on its Internet Web site within 90 days of receipt of this information. The office shall include the hospital name, hospital owners, and location of the buildings included in the
report, and, to the extent possible, for service areas containing buildings for which hospital owners report information pursuant to subdivision (c), include information on the number of inpatient beds, by type of unit and type of service, provided by facilities operating buildings that are classified as SPC-2, SPC-3, SPC-4, and SPC-5.
(f) Hospitals that have not reported pursuant to this section are not eligible for the extension provided in subdivision (f) of Section 130060.
(g) A hospital that has not submitted a report pursuant to this section shall be assessed a fine of ten dollars ($10) per licensed acute care bed per day, but in no case to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) per day for each SPC-1 building not in compliance with this section until it has complied with the provisions of this section. These fines shall be deposited into the Hospital Building Fund as specified pursuant to Section 129795. A hospital assessed a fine pursuant to this
section may appeal the assessment to the Hospital Building Safety Board.
