BILL NUMBER: SB 932	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Anderson

                        FEBRUARY 3, 2014

   An act to amend Section 1256.1 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to health facilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 932, as introduced, Anderson. General acute care hospitals:
supplemental or special services.
   Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health
facilities, including general acute care hospitals, by the State
Department of Public Health. Existing law prohibits a general acute
care hospital, as defined, from holding itself out as providing a
service that requires a supplemental or special service unless the
hospital has first obtained approval from the department to operate
that service.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those
provisions.
   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 1256.1 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   1256.1.  No general acute care hospital shall hold itself out
directly or indirectly by any sign, brochure, or advertisement as
providing any service or services  which   that
 require a supplemental or special service unless that general
acute care hospital has first obtained a supplemental or special
service approval from the State Department of  Health
Services   Public Health  to operate  such
a   that  service.