BILL NUMBER: AB 1945	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Wieckowski

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2014

   An act to amend Section 1418.6 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to long-term health care facilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1945, as introduced, Wieckowski. Long-term health care
facilities.
   Under existing law, the State Department of Public Health
regulates the licensure and operation of various health facilities,
including long-term health care facilities. Existing law prohibits a
long-term health care facility from accepting or retaining a patient
for whom it cannot provide adequate care.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that
provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 1418.6 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   1418.6.   No   A  long-term health care
facility shall  not  accept or retain  any 
 a  patient for whom it cannot provide adequate care.