Bill Text: CA AB869 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Hospitals: seismic safety compliance.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed) 2023-07-10 - In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB869 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB869-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 07, 2023 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Wood |
February 14, 2023 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
The bill would condition implementation of its provisions on an appropriation of funds by the Legislature.
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 130078.5 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:130078.5.
(a) The department shall give the first priority to grants for single- and two-story general acute care hospitals located in remote or rural areas with less than 80 general acute care beds and general acute care hospital revenue of seventy-five million dollars ($75,000,000) or less, as reported to the department pursuant to Section 128740 in 2020.(h)This section shall be implemented only upon appropriation of funds by the
Legislature.
SEC. 2.
Chapter 1.6 (commencing with Section 130080) is added to Part 7 of Division 107 of the Health and Safety Code, to read:CHAPTER 1.6. Health Care district relief program
130080.
(a) (1) A health care district hospital authorized pursuant to Division 23 (commencing with Section 32000) that meets the criteria described in subdivision (b), may submit financial information to the Department of Health Care Access and Information to allow the department to determine if the health care district hospital is financially distressed, including, but not limited to, the health care district hospital’s percentage of patients on(b)
(A)Demonstrating whether or not the health care district has attempted to secure other methods of funding for compliance with Section 130065, including, but not limited to, federal funding, and if not, an explanation for why the hospital has not attempted to secure other funding.
(B)Demonstrating the health care district’s need for assistance due to financial hardship and lack of ability to finance the required improvements, in order to access state funds.
(2)The department shall confirm the accuracy of the health care district’s seismic cost estimate, and that estimated costs are only for the purpose of compliance with Section 130065.
(3)
(c)
(d)
(e)This section shall only be implemented upon appropriation of funds by the Legislature.