BILL NUMBER: AB 510	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bonnie Lowenthal

                        FEBRUARY 15, 2011

   An act relating to health facilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 510, as introduced, Bonnie Lowenthal. Hospitals: seismic
safety.
   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 March 7,
1973.
   This bill would provide that it is the intent of the Legislature
to enact legislation that would amend the Alfred E. Alquist Seismic
Safety Act of 1983.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would amend the Alfred E. Alquist Hospital Seismic
Safety Act of 1983 (Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 129675) of
Part 7 of Division 107 of the Health and Safety Code).