BILL NUMBER: AB 1102	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Santiago

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to amend Section 1569.31 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to residential care facilities for the elderly.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1102, as introduced, Santiago. Residential care facilities for
the elderly.
   Existing law provides for the licensure of residential care
facilities for the elderly by the State Department of Social
Services, including prescribing standards of safety and sanitation
for the physical plant and standards for basic care and supervision,
personal care, and services to be provided. Violation of these
provisions is a crime.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these
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 1569.31 of the Health and Safety Code is
amended to read:
   1569.31.   (a)    The regulations for a license
shall prescribe standards of safety and sanitation for the physical
plant and standards for basic care and supervision, personal care,
and services to be provided. 
   The 
    (b)    The  department's regulations
shall allow for the development of new and innovative community
programs. 
   In 
    (c)     In  adopting regulations
 which   that  implement this chapter, the
department shall provide flexibility to allow facilities conducted by
and exclusively for adherents of a well-recognized church or
religious denomination who rely solely on prayer or spiritual means
for healing to operate a licensed residential care facility for the
elderly.