BILL NUMBER: AB 656	CHAPTERED  09/05/01

	CHAPTER  247
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 5, 2001
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 5, 2001
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 20, 2001
	PASSED THE SENATE  JULY 21, 2001
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 13, 2001
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 17, 2001

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Chan
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Aroner and Dutra)
   (Coauthors:  Senators Figueroa and Perata)

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2001

   An act to add Sections 130063.1 and 130063.2 to the Health and
Safety Code, relating to health facilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 656, Chan.  Health facilities:  seismic safety requirements.
   Under the Alfred E. Alquist Hospital Facilities Seismic Safety Act
of 1983, after January 1, 2008, general acute care hospital
buildings that are determined to pose certain risks are required to
be improved or only used for nonacute care hospital service, and
after January 1, 2030, all acute care inpatient hospital buildings
that are not in substantial compliance with certain seismic safety
regulations and standards developed by the Office of Statewide Health
Planning and Development are required to be demolished, replaced, or
changed to nonacute use or seismically retrofitted so that they are
in substantial compliance.
   Existing law authorizes any hospital, with regard to a general
acute care hospital building located in Seismic Zone 3, to request an
exemption from Non-structural Performance Category-3 requirements
provided by regulation, if the hospital building complies with
certain year 2002 nonstructural requirements provided by regulation.

   This bill would authorize, for a county-owned general acute care
hospital building, an extension of the Non-structural Performance
Category-2 requirements provided by regulation if the county complies
with certain conditions, and specifically would authorize such a
building to receive a one-year extension of the January 1, 2002,
deadline for Non-structural Performance Category-2 requirements if
the existing hospital building is removed from general acute care
service and the construction of a specified replacement building is
completed by January 1, 2003.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 130063.1 is added to the Health and Safety
Code, to read:
   130063.1.  Notwithstanding Section 130063, a county-owned general
acute care hospital building is allowed an extension of the
Non-structural Performance Category-2 requirements of Title 24 of the
California Code of Regulations if all of the following conditions
are met:
   (a) The county submitted the compliance plan on or before January
1, 2001.
   (b) The county submitted the Non-structural Performance Category-2
building plans to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and
Development on or before September 1, 2001.
   (c) The county complies with the year 2002 nonstructural
requirements established by regulation 12 months after receipt of the
building permit approval letter from the Office of Statewide Health
Planning and Development.
  SEC. 2.  Section 130063.2 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   130063.2.  Notwithstanding Section 130063, an existing
county-owned general acute care hospital building may receive a
one-year extension of the January 1, 2002, deadline for the
Non-structural Performance Category-2 requirements in Title 24 of the
California Code of Regulations if all of the following conditions
are met:
   (a) The existing hospital building is removed from general acute
care service on or before January 1, 2003.
   (b) Construction of the replacement building that will meet the
2030 nonstructural and structural deadline requirements, which
commenced before January 1, 2001, is completed by January 1, 2003.