BILL NUMBER: AB 1242	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  SEPTEMBER 14, 2001
	AMENDED IN SENATE  SEPTEMBER 7, 2001
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 31, 2001
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 23, 2001

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Wiggins
    (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Aroner, Florez, Maldonado,
Matthews, and Wyman) 
    (Coauthor:  Senator Chesbro) 

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2001

    An act relating to health facilities, and making an
appropriation therefor.   An act to amend and supplement
the Budget Act of 2001, relating to appropriations for the support
of the government of the State of California, making an appropriation
therefor, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect
immediately. 



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1242, as amended, Wiggins.   California Specialty
Hospital   Budget Act of 2001  . 
   Existing law, as set forth in the Budget Act of 2001, makes
various appropriations for the support of state government for the
2001-02 fiscal year.
   This bill would revise the Budget Act of 2001 by augmenting and
reducing certain appropriations, as specified.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.  
   Existing law regulates the licensure of health facilities,
including hospitals, by the State Department of Health Services.
Existing law separately imposes various requirements with regard to
design and construction seismic safety standards for hospital
buildings under the Alfred E. Alquist Hospital Facilities Seismic
Safety Act of 1983.  The Office of Statewide Health Planning and
Development has various responsibilities in this regard.
   This bill would appropriate $4,000,000 from the General Fund to
the department for allocation to the California Specialty Hospital in
Vallejo for the purpose of correcting structural deficiencies
identified by the State Fire Marshal that affect patient and staff
safety.  This bill would set forth facts and declare that it serves a
public purpose and constitutes necessary special legislation.

   Vote:  2/3.  Appropriation:  yes.  Fiscal committee:  yes.
State-mandated local program:  no.


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

  
  SECTION 1.  The sum of four million dollars ($4,000,000) is
 
  SECTION 1.  The appropriations made by this act are in augmentation
of the appropriations made in Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2001
(Chapter 106 of the Statutes of 2001) and are subject to the
provisions of that act, as appropriate, including, as applicable, the
provisions of that act that apply to the items of appropriation that
are augmented by this act.  Unless otherwise specified, the
references in this act to item numbers refer to items of
appropriation in Section 2.00 of the Budget Act of 2001.
  SEC. 2.  The sum appropriated in Item 8965-001-0001 is hereby
reduced by one hundred twenty thousand dollars ($120,000).  The
reduction shall be financed by reducing expenditures in travel,
training, and general facility maintenance.
  SEC. 3.  The sum appropriated in Item 8966-001-0001 is hereby
reduced by eighty thousand dollars ($80,000).  The reduction shall be
financed by reducing expenditures in travel, training, and general
maintenance.
  SEC. 4.  The sum of two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) is
hereby appropriated in augmentation of the sum appropriated in Item
3600-001-0001, for the study of the feasibility of maintaining in
good condition the fish in Rector Creek below Rector Dam.
  SEC. 5.  The sum of two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000)
is hereby appropriated in augmentation of the sum appropriated in
Item 3860-001-0001, for the conduct of a study to determine the water
demand of state facilities entitled to water for Rector Reservoir
and to develop operational rules to efficiently manage and operate
the reservoir.
  SEC. 6.  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 to make certain necessary augmentations and adjustments
to the appropriations made by the Budget Act of 2001 for support of
state government for the 2001-02 fiscal year, it is necessary that
this act take effect immediately.   hereby appropriated
from the General Fund to the State Department of Health Services for
allocation to the California Specialty Hospital in Vallejo for the
purpose of correcting structural deficiencies identified by the State
Fire Marshal that affect patient and staff safety.
  SEC. 2.  The Legislature finds and declares that this act serves a
public purpose, and that a special law is necessary and a general law
cannot be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of
Article IV of the California Constitution because of all of the
following:
   (a) The California Specialty Hospital in Vallejo is a
not-for-profit hospital that provides crisis intervention and
critical inpatient mental health services to children in northern
California but may have to discontinue those critical services
without financial assistance for purposes of a one-time need to
correct structural deficiencies identified by the State Fire Marshal
that pose a threat to patient and staff safety.
   (b) Recent closures of psychiatric hospitals have created an
alarming scarcity of mental health services for children and
adolescents in northern California.
   (c) The people of northern California would face uniquely severe
health care consequences in the absence of the relief provided by
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