BILL NUMBER: AB 2297	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Levine

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to add Section 1250.07 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to health facilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2297, as introduced, Levine. Health facilities: fuel cell
generators.
   Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health
facilities by the State Department of Public Health. A violation of
these provisions is a crime. Existing law requires certain health
facilities to test diesel backup generators in accordance with
specified provisions.
   This bill would authorize these health facilities to use fuel cell
backup generators, as defined, if the technology is as reliable and
safe as diesel backup generators. The bill would specify that the
crime provision described above does not apply to this authorization.

   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 1250.07 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   1250.07.  (a) (1) A health facility, as defined in subdivision (e)
of Section 41514.1, may use fuel cell backup generators if the
technology is at least as reliable and safe as diesel backup
generators.
   (2) For purposes of this section, a "fuel cell backup generator"
means a backup generator that electrochemically converts fuel to
electric energy.
   (b) Section 1290 does not apply to this section.