BILL ANALYSIS                                                                                                                                                                                                    Ó



                                                                  SB 563
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          Date of Hearing:   August 21, 2013

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                  Mike Gatto, Chair

                   SB 563 (Galgiani) - As Amended:  August 5, 2013 

          Policy Committee:                             HealthVote:18-0

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program:  
          No     Reimbursable:              No

           SUMMARY  

          This bill requires the person or entity requesting a copy of a  
          construction document maintained by the Office of Statewide  
          Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) to bear the actual cost  
          of producing the copy of that document, including staff time,  
          and requires OSHPD to provide the requestor with an estimate of  
          the cost prior to making the copies.

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          An estimated $230,000 annually would be collected from persons  
          requesting copies and deposited into the Hospital Building Fund,  
          to recover currently uncompensated staff time costs for copy  
          services.  This workload is currently funded out of fees paid by  
          hospitals into the Hospital Building Fund.

           COMMENTS  

           Rationale  . According to the author, OSHPD's Facilities  
          Development Division (FDD) receives numerous requests through  
          the Public Records Act to have architectural plans in their  
          office copied.  Plans can be thousands of pages and weigh  
          hundreds of pounds.  This bill allows OSHPD to recover all its  
          costs from such requests, including staff time associated with  
          retrieving, inspecting, and handling the documents, as well as  
          copying and shipping costs.  The California Hospital  
          Association, whose member hospitals pay fees into the Hospital  
          Building Fund for purposes of OSHPD plan review, supports this  
          bill. 

           Analysis Prepared by  :    Lisa Murawski / APPR. / (916) 319-2081 









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