Bill Text: CA SB1447 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Hospitals: seismic compliance: Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-1)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-25 - From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 24). [SB1447 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB1447-Amended.html
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Amended
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Senate
March 19, 2024 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 1447
| Introduced by Senator Durazo (Coauthors: Senators Allen, Archuleta, Bradford, Portantino, Smallwood-Cuevas, Stern, and Wilk) (Coauthors: Assembly Members Juan Carrillo, Cervantes, Gipson, Holden, and McKinnor) |
February 16, 2024 |
An act to amend Section 104575 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to public health. add Section 130069.1 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to hospitals.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1447, as amended, Durazo.
Nutrition. Hospitals: seismic compliance: Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
Existing law, the Alfred E. Alquist Hospital Facilities Seismic Safety Act of 1983, establishes a program of seismic safety building standards for certain hospitals. 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 extend the deadline to January 1, 2040, for the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a
special statute for the County of Los Angeles.
Existing law, the California Nutrition Monitoring Development Act of 1986, requires the State Department of Public Health to assess the availability and adequacy of state and local nutrition data systems.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) The Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is an integral part of providing health care to the children of the County of Los Angeles, including the City of Los Angeles.
(b) The Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is critically important in providing health care services to children who are Medi-Cal beneficiaries, with more
than 60 percent of the hospital’s inpatient days provided to Medi-Cal beneficiaries.
(c) The Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is the state’s largest provider of services to California Children’s Services Program patients. More than 50 percent of the hospital’s inpatient days are provided to children who are eligible for the California Children’s Services Program and who are the most severely ill and highly complex clinical patients.
(d) The Children’s Hospital Los Angeles provides care for the most medically complex patients from throughout the City of Los Angeles and the State of California.
(e) The Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is also a primary teaching facility with the third largest Children’s Hospitals Graduate Medical Education program nationally that trains pediatric physicians, pediatric nurses, and other
critical health care professionals.
(f) The Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is one of the largest pediatric research institutions nationally with more than 350 funded scientists who have dedicated their professional careers to the development of new treatments and new cures for pediatric illnesses.
(g) The hospital faces low reimbursement levels and the cost of compliance by the deadline of 2030 would present substantial hardship to the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
(h) An extension is needed from the current seismic standard deadline of 2030 to avoid putting at risk over 400 critically needed hospital beds in Los Angeles for treating children at risk. This represents a significant percentage of the total number of beds available in Los Angeles and, without an extension, would greatly reduce the availability of
inpatient care for children in the County of Los Angeles.
(i) An extension of the seismic safety standard deadline for the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles is critically important to the provision of health care for children in the City of Los Angeles, the County of Los Angeles, and beyond.
SEC. 2.
Section 130069.1 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:130069.1.
Notwithstanding any other law, the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, referenced in subdivision (c) of Section 10727 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, shall comply with the requirements of Section 130065 no later than January 1, 2040.SEC. 3.
The Legislature finds and declares that a special statute is necessary and that a general statute cannot be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution because of the unique circumstances facing the City of Los Angeles and the County of Los Angeles with regard to the availability of hospital beds designated for children and the high demand for services to children who are Medi-Cal beneficiaries and children eligible for the California Children’s Services Program, as described in Section 1 of this act.This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the “California Nutrition Monitoring Development Act of 1986.”
