BILL ANALYSIS
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THIRD READING
Bill No: AB 1235
Author: Hayashi (D)
Amended: 7/23/09 in Senate
Vote: 21
SENATE HEALTH COMMITTEE : 8-0, 7/15/09
AYES: Strickland, Aanestad, Cedillo, Cox, DeSaulnier,
Leno, Negrete McLeod, Pavley
NO VOTE RECORDED: Alquist, Maldonado, Wolk
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 51-22, 6/1/09 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : Hospitals: seismic safety
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill extends, for a hospital building that
is owned or operated by the County of Alameda on the
Alameda County Medical Centers Fairmont Campus, the
deadline for submitting a facility master plan until July
1, 2010. This bill states the findings and declarations of
the Legislature regarding the need for special legislation.
ANALYSIS : Existing law, 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 constructed on and after
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March 7, 1973. Existing law authorizes the office to
assess an application fee for the review of facilities
design and construction, and requires that full and
complete plans be submitted to the office for review and
approval.
Existing law requires that, after January 1, 2008, any
general acute care hospital building that is determined to
be a potential risk of collapse or pose significant loss of
life be used only for nonacute care hospital purposes,
except that the office may grant a five-year extension
under prescribed circumstances. Existing law also allows
the office to grant an additional extension to the January
2008 deadline for certain general acute care hospital
buildings owned or operated by a county, city, or county
and city that has requested an extension of this deadline
by January 1, 2009, if specified conditions are met,
including a requirement that the hospital owner submit, by
January 1, 2010, a facility master plan with prescribed
information for specified buildings that the hospital
intends to replace by a specified date.
This bill provides that notwithstanding existing law, a
general acute care hospital building that is classified as
a nonconforming Structural Performance Category-1 building
and is owned and operated by the County of Alameda on the
Alameda County Medical Center's Fairmont Campus shall have
until July 1, 2010, to meet the requirement relative to
submitting a master plan.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: No
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/19/09)
Service Employees International Union
ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT : According to the author's office,
the six-month extension to the interim deadlines contained
in this bill is needed to allow Alameda County more time to
find an alternative and appropriate replacement hospital
for Fairmont Hospital, which is part of the Alameda County
Medical Center. The county is considering several options
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for the facility, which will have to cease offering acute
care services in 2013, including moving the rehabilitative
services that are currently provided by the hospital to
nearby San Leandro Hospital, which the county may have an
option to acquire this year, or reconstructing the hospital
or relocating its services to another, as yet unidentified
hospital. If the county has to move the services to
another hospital, the author's office argues that this bill
will provide the county more time to find an alternative
replacement for Fairmont hospital.
ASSEMBLY FLOOR :
AYES: Ammiano, Beall, Bill Berryhill, Blumenfield,
Brownley, Caballero, Charles Calderon, Carter, Chesbro,
Coto, De La Torre, De Leon, Eng, Evans, Feuer, Fong,
Fuentes, Furutani, Gaines, Galgiani, Gilmore, Hall,
Hayashi, Hernandez, Hill, Huffman, Jones, Krekorian,
Lieu, Logue, Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, Mendoza, Miller,
Monning, John A. Perez, V. Manuel Perez, Portantino,
Price, Ruskin, Salas, Saldana, Skinner, Solorio, Audra
Strickland, Swanson, Torlakson, Torres, Torrico, Yamada,
Bass
NOES: Adams, Anderson, Arambula, Blakeslee, Buchanan,
Conway, Cook, DeVore, Fletcher, Garrick, Hagman, Harkey,
Huber, Jeffries, Knight, Nestande, Niello, Nielsen,
Silva, Smyth, Tran, Villines
NO VOTE RECORDED: Tom Berryhill, Block, Davis, Duvall,
Emmerson, Fuller, Nava
RJG/CTW:mw 8/19/09 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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