BILL NUMBER: AB 2490	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Eggman

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Section 1569.406 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to care facilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2490, as introduced, Eggman. Residential care facilities for
the elderly.
   Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of
residential care facilities for the elderly by the State Department
of Social Services. Existing law specifies that a person who informs
an owner or resident of a residential care facility for the elderly
of an impending and unannounced site visit to the facility by the
department without authorization from the department is guilty of a
misdemeanor, as specified.
   This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change 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 1569.406 of the Health and Safety Code is
amended to read:
   1569.406.   Any   A  person who, without
lawful authorization from a duly authorized officer, employee, or
agent of the department, informs an owner, operator, employee, agent,
or resident of a residential care facility for the elderly of an
impending and unannounced site visit to that facility by personnel of
the department, except for a site visit prior to licensing the
facility, is guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof
shall be punished by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars
($1,000), by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to
exceed 180 days, or by both a fine and imprisonment.