Amended in Senate June 19, 2013

Amended in Assembly March 21, 2013

California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 980

Introduced by Assembly Member Pan

February 22, 2013

An act to add Section 18944.18 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to begin delete building standards. end delete begin insert health care facilities. end insert

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 980, as amended, Pan. begin delete Building standards. end delete begin insert Primary care clinics: abortion. end insert

Existing law requires the California Building Standards Commission to codify all building standards of adopting agencies or state agencies that propose the building standards and statutes defining building standards into one California Building Standards Code. Existing law requires the commission to publish, or cause to be published, editions of the building standards code in its entirety once every 3 years.

This bill would require the commission, in conjunction with the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, to adopt emergency regulations to repeal a specific portion of the 2013 Triennial Edition of the Building Standards Code, and would prohibit the commission from adopting building code standards that establish construction requirements for primary care clinics that provide medication or aspiration abortion services that differ from construction standards applicable to other specified primary care clinics. begin insert The bill would require the State Department of Public Health to repeal specified regulations relating to primary care clinics that provide abortions. end insert

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Section 18944.18 is added to the Health and
Safety Code, to read:

18944.18.  

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to preempt, and
to render inoperative, Section 1226.7 of the 2013 Triennial Edition
of the begin insert California end insert Building Standards Code.

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(b) The California Building Standards Commission, in
conjunction with the Office of Statewide Health Planning and
Development, shall adopt emergency regulations to delete Section
1226.7 of the 2013 Triennial Edition of the Building Standards
Code, including all cross-references to that section, as soon as
possible.

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(c)

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begin insert (b) end insert  Notwithstanding any other law, the begin insert California end insert Building
Standards Commission shall not adopt building code standards
that establish construction requirements for primary care clinics
that provide medication or aspiration abortion services that differ
from construction standards applicable to other primary care clinics
described in Section 1226.6 of the 2013 Triennial Edition of the
begin insert California end insert Building Standards Code.

begin insert

begin insert SEC. 2. end insert   

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begin insert (a) end insert begin insert   end insert begin insert The California Building Standards Commission,
in conjunction with the Office of Statewide Health Planning and
Development, shall adopt emergency regulations to delete Section
1226.7 of the 2013 Triennial Edition of the California Building
Standards Code, including all cross-references to that section, as
soon as possible. Notwithstanding the Administrative Procedure
Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of
Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code), the regulations
adopted under this subdivision shall become permanent without
further regulatory action. end insert

begin insert

(b) The State Department of Public Health shall, no later than
July 1, 2014, repeal regulations inconsistent with this act,
including, but not limited to Sections 75042, 75043, and 75044 of
Title 22 of the California Code of Regulations.

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