Bill Text: CA AB2589 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Public health: lactation services and equipment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From Senate committee without further action. [AB2589 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2589-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2589	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gomez

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to amend Section 17005.5 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to housing.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2589, as introduced, Gomez. Employee housing.
   The Employee Housing Act requires a person operating employee
housing to obtain a permit to operate that housing from the agency
that enforces the act, which can either be the Department of Housing
and Community Development or a city, county, or city and county that
assumes responsibility for enforcing the act. The act defines for its
purposes several terms, including the term "employee community
housing."
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 17005.5 of the Health and Safety Code is
amended to read:
   17005.5.  (a)  "Employee community housing" means a community of
single family detached dwellings  which   that
 meet all of the following requirements:
   (1)  Each dwelling has a minimum of four rooms, including a
separate kitchen and a separate bathroom.
   (2)  Each dwelling is owned or operated by an employer, and
maintained by  such   the  employer in
compliance with the provisions of the State Housing Law, and the
regulations adopted pursuant thereto,  which  
that  materially affect health and safety.
   (3)  Each dwelling is inhabited by not more than one family, which
includes at least one permanent year-round employee of the employer
who owns or operates the dwelling.
   (4)  Each dwelling has direct access to a publicly owned and
maintained road.
   (5)  Each dwelling is located within a community, as defined in
subdivision (b).
   (b)  "Community" means not less than 200 single family detached
dwellings meeting the requirements of subdivision (a),  which
  that  are adjacent or in close proximity to each
other, and  which   that  have maintenance
services available to the residents of the dwelling units provided
by persons employed by the employer for the express purpose of
providing  such   those  services.