BILL NUMBER: AB 2512	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Blumenfield

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to amend Section 127045 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to seismic safety.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2512, as introduced, Blumenfield. Seismic safety: Office of
Statewide Health Planning and Development.
   Existing law establishes the Office of Statewide Health Planning
and Development within the California Health and Human Services
Agency and vests various functions with the office, including, among
other things, the maintenance of the Health Professions Career
Opportunity Program, establishing a contract program for funding
certain allied health manpower training projects, and establishing a
health care workforce clearinghouse.
   Existing law authorizes the office to enter into agreements and
contracts with any person, department, agency, corporation, or legal
entity that are necessary to carry out specified functions vested in
the office.
   Existing law, the Alfred E. Alquist Hospital Facilities Seismic
Safety Act of 1983, establishes, under the jurisdiction of the
office, a program of seismic safety building standards for certain
hospitals constructed on and after March 7, 1973. Existing law
requires 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.
   This bill would authorize the office to enter into agreements and
contracts that are necessary to carry out various duties regarding
the above-described seismic safety building standards program.
   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.  Section 127045 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   127045.  The office may enter into agreements and contracts with
any person, department, agency, corporation, or legal entity that are
necessary to carry out the functions vested in the office by this
chapter, Article 1 (commencing with Section 127875), Article 2
(commencing with Section 127900), Article 5 (commencing with Section
128050) of Chapter 2, Article 2 (commencing with Section 128375),
 and  Article 3 (commencing with Section 128425) of
Chapter 5 of Part 3 , and Article 3 (commencing with Section
129750) of Chapter 1 of Part 7  .