Jim Wood
- Democratic
- Assemblymember
- District 2
Author
Existing law requires, no later than January 1, 2030, owners of all acute care inpatient hospitals to either demolish, replace, or change to nonacute care use all hospital buildings not in substantial compliance with specified seismic safety standards or to seismically retrofit all acute care inpatient hospital buildings so that they are in substantial compliance with those seismic safety standards. Existing law requires the Department of Health Care Access and Information to issue a written notice upon compliance with those requirements. Existing law establishes the Small and Rural Hospital Relief Program under the administration of the Department of Health Care Access and Information for the purpose of funding seismic safety compliance with respect to small hospitals, rural hospitals, and critical access hospitals in the state. Existing law requires the department to provide grants to small, rural, and critical access hospital applicants that meet certain criteria, including that seismic safety compliance, as defined, imposes a financial burden on the applicant that may result in hospital closure. Existing law also creates the Small and Rural Hospital Relief Fund and continuously appropriates the moneys in the fund for purposes of administering and funding the grant program. Existing law provides for the formation and administration of health care districts. This bill would require the department to expand eligibility for grants for single- and 2-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 $75 million or less. The bill would require grants under the program to provide general acute care hospitals with funds to secure an SPC-4D assessment for purposes of planning for, and estimating the costs of, compliance with certain seismic safety standards, as specified. The bill would authorize specified general acute care hospitals to apply for a grant for purposes of complying with those seismic safety standards. The bill would delay the requirement to meet those and other building standards for specified general acute care hospitals until January 1, 2035, and would exempt a general acute care hospital with an SPC-4D assessment and with a certain estimated cost from those seismic safety standards if the department determines that the cost of design and construction for compliance results in a financial hardship for the hospital and certain funds are not available to assist with the cost of compliance. The bill would also authorize a health care district that meets certain criteria to submit financial information to the department, on a form required by the department, to allow the department to determine if the health care district is financially distressed and if so, would allow the health care district to apply for a grant for the purpose of meeting those seismic safety standards. The bill would delay the requirement to meet the seismic safety standards until January 1, 2032, for a health care district that qualifies for those grants. The bill would exempt a health care district hospital from those requirements until January 1, 2035, if the department determines that the cost of design and construction for compliance with those requirements results in a financial hardship that may result in hospital closure. The bill would authorize the department to implement these provisions through emergency regulations.
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 26).
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 1879.)
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 18).
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (March 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Coauthors revised.
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended.
From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
Read first time. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| AB869 | HTML |
| 02/14/23 - Introduced | |
| 03/07/23 - Amended Assembly | |
| 06/20/23 - Amended Senate | |
| 06/18/24 - Amended Senate | |
| 06/27/24 - Amended Senate |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 03/17/23- Assembly Health | |
| 04/18/23- Assembly Appropriations | |
| 05/19/23- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 06/24/24- Senate Health |
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