BILL NUMBER: SB 563	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 19, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Galgiani

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to add Section 129853 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to health facilities, and making an appropriation therefor.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 563, as amended, Galgiani. Office of Statewide Health Planning
and Development:  construction of health facilities.
  hospital construction. 
   Existing law requires the Office of Statewide Health Planning and
Development to pass upon and approve or reject all plans for the
construction or the alteration of any hospital building, as
specified. Existing law requires the office to determine and
establish an application filing fee that will cover the costs of
administering these requirements, and requires the deposit of these
fees into the Hospital Building Fund, which is continuously
appropriated for the use of the office in carrying out these
provisions.
   This bill would require a person or entity requesting a copy of
 a plan   construction documents 
maintained by the office to bear the cost of producing the copy of
 that plan   those documents  . To the
extent that this requirement would increase the costs of
administering the above-described requirements and amounts of moneys
from fees deposited into the Hospital Building Fund, this bill would
make an appropriation.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 129853 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   129853.  The person or entity requesting a copy of  a plan
  construction documents  maintained by the office
shall bear the  actual  cost of producing the copy of
 that plan   those documents, including staff
time spent retrieving, inspecting, and handling the documents,
copying costs, and shipping costs  .