BILL NUMBER: AB 2741	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Galgiani

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to amend Section 1795 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to care facilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2741, as introduced, Galgiani. Care facilities: change in
health status: violations: notice.
   Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation by the
State Department of Public Health of health facilities, including
skilled nursing facilities, intermediate care facilities, and
congregate living health facilities. Existing law also provides for
the licensure and regulation of residential care facilities for the
elderly by the State Department of Social Services.
   Existing law requires a skilled nursing facility, intermediate
care facility, congregate living health facility, or residential care
facility for the elderly to make reasonable efforts to contact the
person named in the resident's admission agreement as the resident's
contact person, or the resident's responsible person, within 24 hours
after a significant change in the resident's health or mental
status.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to this
requirement.
   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 1795 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   1795.  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a skilled
nursing facility as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 1250, any
intermediate care facility, as defined in  subdivision
  subdivisions  (d), (e), (g), and (h) of Section
1250, or a congregate living facility, as defined in subdivision (i)
of Section 1250, shall make reasonable efforts to contact the person
named in the resident's admission agreement as the resident's contact
person, or the resident's responsible person, within 24 hours after
a significant change in the resident's health or mental status.
   (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a residential care
facility for the elderly, as defined in subdivision (k) of Section
1569.2, shall make reasonable efforts to contact the person named in
the resident's admission agreement as the resident's contact person,
or the resident's responsible person, within 24 hours after a
significant change in the resident's health or mental status.