BILL NUMBER: AB 2902	CHAPTERED  09/15/00

	CHAPTER   454
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 15, 2000
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   SEPTEMBER 14, 2000
	PASSED THE SENATE   AUGUST 29, 2000
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   MAY 25, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   APRIL 24, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Health (Gallegos (Chair), Bates (Vice
Chair), Aanestad, Corbett, Cox, Firebaugh, Kuehl, Runner, Thomson,
Vincent, Wayne, Wesson, and Zettel)

                        MARCH 14, 2000

   An act to amend Section 130021 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to hospital facilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2902, Committee on Health.   Hospital facilities: seismic
safety.
   Existing law provides that the Alfred E. Alquist Hospital
Facilities Seismic Safety Act of 1983, which 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, shall remain in
effect until, and is repealed as of January 1, 2001.  Under that act,
all regulatory submissions to the California Building Standards
Commission made by the office pursuant to specified provisions of the
act are deemed emergency regulations, as specified.
   This bill would provide that only the above-described provision of
the act relating to regulatory submissions is repealed as of that
date.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 130021 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
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 section 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and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute,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.