BILL NUMBER: AB 263	CHAPTERED  07/28/99

	CHAPTER   192
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   JULY 28, 1999
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   JULY 27, 1999
	PASSED THE SENATE   JULY 15, 1999
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   MAY 27, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   APRIL 27, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   APRIL 5, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gallegos
   (Coauthor:  Assembly Member Baugh)

                        FEBRUARY 3, 1999

   An act to add and repeal Section 130021 of the Health and Safety
Code, relating to hospital facilities, and declaring the urgency
thereof, to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 263, Gallegos.  Hospital facilities:  California Building
Standards Commission:  regulatory submissions.
   The Alfred E. Alquist Hospital Facilities Seismic Safety Act of
1983 establishes, under the jurisdiction of the Office of Statewide
Health Planning and Development, a program of seismic safety building
standards for certain hospitals built on and after March 7, 1973.
The act requires the office to submit information regarding seismic
standards and procedures to the California Building Standards
Commission, and provides that these submissions shall be deemed as
emergency regulations and adopted as such.
   This bill would require that, until January 1, 2001, all
regulatory submissions to the California Building Standards
Commission made by the office pursuant to provisions relating to
state responsibilities for seismic safety in hospitals and hospital
owner responsibilities be deemed to be emergency regulations and
adopted as such.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 130021 is added to the Health and Safety Code
to read:
   130021.  (a) All regulatory submissions to the California Building
Standards Commission made by the office pursuant to this article and
Article 9 (commencing with Section 130050) shall be deemed to be
emergency regulations and shall be adopted as such.
  (b) This article shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2001,
and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute,
that is enacted before January 1, 2001, deletes or extends that date.

  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect.  The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order that regulations relating to seismic safety in hospitals
take effect at the earliest possible time, it is necessary that this
act take effect immediately.