BILL NUMBER: SB 563	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 5, 2013
	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: 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
construction documents maintained by the office to bear the cost of
producing the copy of those documents.  The bill would require
the office to provide an estimate of those costs to the  
requester before beginning to make those copies.  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.   (a)    The person or entity requesting
a copy of construction documents maintained by the office shall bear
the actual cost of producing the copy of those documents, including
staff time spent retrieving, inspecting, and handling the documents,
copying costs, and shipping costs. 
   (b) The office shall provide an estimate of the costs described in
subdivision (a) to the requester before the office begins to make
those copies.