BILL NUMBER: AB 2743	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 18, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Eggman

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to add Article  3.7   7.1 
(commencing with Section  1289)   1323.1) 
to Chapter 2 of Division 2 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to
health facilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2743, as amended, Eggman. Psychiatric bed registry.
   Under existing law, the State Department of Public Health licenses
and regulates health facilities, as defined. A violation of these
provisions is a crime.
   Existing law, the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, provides for the
involuntary commitment and treatment of persons with specified mental
disorders for the protection of the persons so committed. Under the
act, when a person, as a result of a mental health disorder, is a
danger to others, or to himself or herself, or gravely disabled, he
or she may, upon probable cause, be taken into custody by a peace
officer, a member of the attending staff of an evaluation facility,
designated members of a mobile crisis team, or another designated
professional person, and placed in a facility designated by the
county and approved by the State Department of Social Services as a
facility for 72-hour treatment and evaluation. 
    Beginning 
   On or before  July 1, 2017, this bill would require the
department to establish and administer  a pilot program to create
 an Internet Web site-based electronic registry, known as the
acute psychiatric bed registry,  in specified counties,  to
collect, aggregate, and display  specified  information
regarding the availability of acute psychiatric beds in 
psychiatric  health  facilities  
facilities, as defined,  to facilitate the identification and
designation of health facilities for the temporary detention and
treatment of individuals who meet specified criteria for temporary
detention. The bill would require a  psychiatric  health
facility to, on or before July 1, 2017, designate an employee to
submit to the registry notification that an acute psychiatric bed has
become available at the  psychiatric  health facility and
to serve as the contact person to respond to requests for information
related to data reported to the registry, as provided.  The bill
would require the department to submit specified reports to the
Legislature regarding the registry and to make these  
reports available to the public and on its Internet Web site. 
   This bill would provide that a violation of its provisions is not
a  crime under existing law.   crime.  
The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2022. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Article  3.7   7.1 
(commencing with Section  1289)   1323.1) 
is added to Chapter 2 of Division 2 of the Health and Safety Code, to
read:

      Article  3.7.   7.1.   Acute
Psychiatric Bed Registry


    1289.   1323.1.   For purposes of this
article, the following definitions apply:
   (a) "Designated employee" means the employee designated by a 
psychiatric  health facility pursuant to subdivision (a) of
Section  1289.4.   1323.3.  
   (b) "Psychiatric health facility" means an acute psychiatric
hospital as defined by subdivision (b) of Section 1250 and a licensed
health facility that provides a program certified by the State
Department of Health Care Services pursuant to Section 5909 of the
Welfare and Institutions Code.  
   (b) 
    (c)  "Registry" means the acute psychiatric bed registry
established pursuant to subdivision (a)  of  Section
 1289.2.   1323.2.
    1289.2   1323.2.   (a)  (1) 
  On or before July 1, 2017, the department shall establish
 a pilot program to create  an Internet Web site-based
electronic acute psychiatric bed registry to collect, aggregate, and
display information regarding the availability of acute psychiatric
beds in  psychiatric  health facilities to facilitate the
identification and designation of  psychiatric  health
facilities having beds available for the temporary detention and
treatment of individuals who require that level of care or who meet
the criteria for temporary detention under Section 5150 of the
Welfare and Institutions Code. 
   (2) For purposes of this section, the pilot program shall be
administered in the Counties of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa,
Santa Clara, San Joaquin, San Mateo, Solano, and Sonoma, and the City
and County of San Francisco. 
   (b) The department shall administer the operation of the registry.

   (c) When the registry becomes operational, the department shall
notify each  psychiatric  health facility that the registry
is operational. 
   (d) The department shall include at least the following fields in
the registry to enable each psychiatric health facility to report and
update all of the following information:  
   (A) The contact information for the psychiatric health facility's
designated employee.  
   (B) The license type of the facility.  
   (C) Whether the facility provides substance abuse treatment. 

   (D) Whether the facility provides medical treatment.  
   (E) Whether the available bed is secure.  
   (F) The types of diagnoses for which the available bed is
appropriate. 
    1289.4.   1323.3.   (a) On or before
July 1, 2017, a  psychiatric  health facility shall
designate an employee who shall submit information for inclusion in
the  acute psychiatric bed  registry and serve as
the contact person to respond to requests for information related to
data reported to the registry.
   (b) On and after the date on which the department notifies a 
psychiatric  health facility that the registry is operational
pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section  1289.2, 
 1323.2,  the  psychiatric  health facility,
through its designated  employee pursuant to subdivision (a),
  employee,  shall submit to the registry
notification that an acute psychiatric bed has become available, upon
the bed becoming available, at the  psychiatric  health
facility. 
   1323.4.  (a) The department shall submit, in compliance with
Section 9795 of the Government code, an interim report to the
Legislature that details the department's work to support the
electronic registry. The department shall make the report available
to the public and shall post the report on its Internet Web site.
   (b) The department shall develop an evaluation plan to assess the
impact of the pilot program. The department, in compliance with
Section 9795 of the Government Code, shall submit a report to the
Legislature at the end of the fourth year of the pilot program
evaluating the impact of the pilot program and providing
recommendations for further implementation. The department shall make
the report available to the public and shall post the report on its
Internet Web site. 
    1289.6.   1323.45.   Notwithstanding
Article 4 (commencing with Section 1290), a violation of this article
is not a crime. 
   1323.46.  This article shall remain in effect only until January
1, 2022, and as of that date is repealed.