Bill Text: CA SB1339 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Hospitals.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-08-11 - August 11 hearing: Held in committee and under submission. [SB1339 Detail]
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 1339
| Introduced by Senator Pan (Coauthor: Senator Portantino) |
February 18, 2022 |
An act to add Section 130069 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to hospitals.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1339, as amended, Pan.
Hospitals.
Existing law, the Alfred E. Alquist Hospital Facilities Seismic Safety Act of 1983, establishes, under the jurisdiction of the Department of Health Care Access and Information, a program of seismic safety building standards for certain hospitals constructed on and after March 7, 1973. Existing law requires, by January 1, 2030, owners of all acute care inpatient hospitals to either seismically retrofit all acute care inpatient hospitals, or demolish, replace, or change to nonacute care use all hospital buildings not in substantial compliance with regulations and standards developed by the department in accordance with the act, as specified.
This bill would require the Department of Health Care Access and Information
an acute care hospital in a building with a specified rating to submit to the Department of Health Care Access and Information the estimated cost for the hospital to comply with the 2030 seismic requirements. The bill would require the department to provide the Legislature with a report containing specified information that would provide, among other things, the Legislature with an assessment of projected costs to retrofit each hospital building in order to meet the 2030 seismic requirements. The bill would authorize the department to rely on the cost estimates submitted by the hospitals, and if the department relies on the estimates, the bill would require the department to clearly state in the report that the information was provided by the hospital and not verified by the department.
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 130069 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:(a)On
130069.
(a) On or before January 1, 2024, an acute care hospital in a building that is rated as Structural Performance Category-2 (SPC-2) shall submit to the Department of Health Care Access and Information, in a manner acceptable to the department, the estimated cost for the hospital to comply with the requirements of Section 130065.
(b) On or before January 1, 2024,
2025, the Department of Health Care Access and Information, in consultation with the State Department of Public Health, shall provide the Legislature with a report containing all of the following information:
(1) A list of hospitals that provide acute care services in one or more buildings that are rated as a Structural Performance Category-2 (SPC-2) SPC-2 building.
(2) An inventory of the services provided in each SPC-2 hospital building.
(3) An estimate of the cost to retrofit each SPC-2 building to SPC-4D
and Non-Structural Performance Category-5 (NPC-5), or rebuild to SPC-5 and NPC-5, in order to comply with the requirements of Section 130065 by January 1, 2030. For purposes of the cost estimate, the department may use a range of costs, or any other method that would provide the Legislature with an assessment of the projected cost, by hospital, to meet the 2030 seismic requirements. For purposes of the cost estimate, the department may rely on the cost estimates submitted by the hospitals to the department pursuant to subdivision (a). If the department relies on estimates provided by the hospital, the department shall clearly state in the report to the Legislature that the information was provided by the hospital and not verified by the department.
(b)
(c) The report to be submitted pursuant to subdivision (a) (b) shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
