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                                                                  SB 816
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          Date of Hearing:   August 14, 2013

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                  Mike Gatto, Chair

             SB 816 (Health Committee) - As Introduced:  March 11, 2013 

          Policy Committee:                             HealthVote:12-0

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

           SUMMARY  

          This bill makes the State Fire Marshal, rather than the Office  
          of Statewide Health Planning and Development, responsible for  
          the development of building standards for hospice facilities,  
          and makes other minor and technical corrections to law related  
          to hospice facilities and terminology related to intellectual  
          disabilities.

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          Negligible state fiscal effect. 

           COMMENTS  

           1)Rationale . This committee bill was introduced to make  
            technical, non-substantive changes to laws affecting hospice  
            facilities and terminology related to developmental and  
            intellectual disabilities.

           2)Background  . SB 1381 (Pavley), Chapter 457, Statutes of 2012  
            removed references to mental retardation from state statutes.   
            A Welfare and Institutions Code Section that defines  
            "developmental disability" was inadvertently not amended and  
            thus still includes the term "mental retardation."  This bill  
            corrects those references.

          SB 135 (Hernandez), Chapter 673, Statutes of 2012, establishes a  
            new health facility licensure for hospice facilities.  This  
            bill correctly designates the Office of the State Fire  
            Marshal, in consultation with the Office of Statewide Health  
            Planning and Development, to as the entity responsible to  
            develop and adopt building standards for hospice facilities.   








                                                                  SB 816
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            SB 135 had reversed the roles of the two entities.


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