BILL NUMBER: AB 1880	CHAPTERED  09/18/06

	CHAPTER  316
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 18, 2006
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 18, 2006
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 21, 2006
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 17, 2006
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 14, 2006
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 7, 2006
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 10, 2006
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 2, 2006
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 5, 2006

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Blakeslee

                        JANUARY 19, 2006

   An act to add and repeal Section 7202.5 of the Welfare and
Institutions Code, relating to mental institutions.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1880, Blakeslee  State hospitals: care of the mentally
disordered.
   Under existing law, the State Department of Mental Health has
jurisdiction over 5 hospitals, including Atascadero State Hospital,
for the care, treatment, and education of the mentally disordered.
   This bill would require the Atascadero State Hospital director to
develop a hospitalwide strategic plan that includes strategies to
improve the health, safety, therapeutic, and workplace environment
with relation to the presence or use of tobacco products, as
specified, to improve staff and patient safety, to decrease violent
incidents and reduce future violent incidents, to better utilize
staff resources, and to increase local recruitment and improve staff
retention. This bill would require the hospital director to develop
this plan through the hospital's strategic planning process, and to
invite participation in that process from stakeholders within and
outside of the hospital organization, and to include representatives
from specified entities. The bill would require the director to
provide this report to the Atascadero State Hospital Advisory Board
on or before June 30, 2007, 2008, and 2009.
   This bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2010.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 7202.5 is added to the Welfare and Institutions
Code, to read:
   7202.5.  (a) The Atascadero State Hospital director shall develop
a hospitalwide strategic plan that shall include, but not be limited
to, a description of all of the following:
   (1) Strategies to improve staff and patient safety.
   (2) Strategies to better manage incidents of violent and
aggressive behavior at the hospital, and to reduce the number of
these incidents.
   (3) Strategies to better utilize hospital staff resources.
   (4) Strategies to increase local recruitment and improve hospital
staff retention.
   (5) Strategies to improve the health, safety, therapeutic, and
workplace environment as they relate to the presence or use of
tobacco products, including cigarettes, cigars, snuff, and chewing
tobacco, by all staff, visitors, patients, and persons on hospital
grounds.
   (b) The hospital director shall develop this plan through the
hospital's annual strategic planning process. The hospital director
shall invite participation in that process from stakeholders within
and outside of the hospital organization, and shall include one
representative each from, and nominated by:
   (1) Protection and Advocacy, Inc.
   (2) The California Office of Patient Rights.
   (3) The California Medical Association.
   (4) The California Psychological Association.
   (5) The California Psychiatric Association.
   (6) State Bargaining Unit 7.
   (7) State Bargaining Unit 16.
   (8) State Bargaining Unit 17.
   (9) State Bargaining Unit 18.
   (10) State Bargaining Unit 19.
   (11) State Bargaining Unit 20.
   (c) The strategies or objectives established through the hospital'
s annual strategic planning process must be consistent and coincide
with the enhancement plan requirements established and agreed to with
the United States Department of Justice.
   (d) The hospital director shall provide the completed hospitalwide
strategic plan to the Atascadero State Hospital Advisory Board on or
before June 30, 2007, and on or before June 30 of 2008 and 2009.
   (e) Stakeholders who are invited to participate in the annual
strategic planning conference shall do so at their own expense.
Stakeholders that are unable to attend the conference may submit
written input or comments to the hospital director.
   (f) Strategic planning participants shall collaborate with, and
provide consultation to, the hospital director in the development of
strategies described in paragraphs (1) to (5), inclusive, of
subdivision (a).
   (g) The hospital director shall provide all strategic planning
conference participants with all of the following:
   (1) A written record of the conference within 30 days of the date
of the conference.
   (2) A copy of the strategic plan within 90 days of the date of the
conference.
   (3) An evaluation of the progress towards achievement of the
strategic plan goals within 180 days of the date of the conference.
The progress evaluation shall be provided to the conference
participants no later than 30 days prior to the date of the next
annual conference.
   (h) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2010, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2010, deletes or extends
that date.