BILL NUMBER: AB 980	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 19, 2013
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 21, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Pan

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to add Section 18944.18 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to  building standards.   health care
facilities. 



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 980, as amended, Pan.  Building standards. 
 Primary care clinics: abortion. 
   Existing law requires the California Building Standards Commission
to codify all building standards of adopting agencies or state
agencies that propose the building standards and statutes defining
building standards into one California Building Standards Code.
Existing law requires the commission to publish, or cause to be
published, editions of the building standards code in its entirety
once every 3 years.
   This bill would require the commission, in conjunction with the
Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, to adopt
emergency regulations to repeal a specific portion of the 2013
Triennial Edition of the Building Standards Code, and would prohibit
the commission from adopting building code standards that establish
construction requirements for primary care clinics that provide
medication or aspiration abortion services that differ from
construction standards applicable to other specified primary care
clinics.  The bill would require the State Department of Public
Health to repeal specified regulations relating to primary care
clinics that provide abortions. 
   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 18944.18 is added to the Health and Safety
Code, to read:
   18944.18.  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to preempt, and
to render inoperative, Section 1226.7 of the 2013 Triennial Edition
of the  California  Building Standards Code. 
   (b) The California Building Standards Commission, in conjunction
with the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, shall
adopt emergency regulations to delete Section 1226.7 of the 2013
Triennial Edition of the Building Standards Code, including all
cross-references to that section, as soon as possible. 

   (c) 
    (b)  Notwithstanding any other law, the  California
 Building Standards Commission shall not adopt building code
standards that establish construction requirements for primary care
clinics that provide medication or aspiration abortion services that
differ from construction standards applicable to other primary care
clinics described in Section 1226.6 of the 2013 Triennial Edition of
the  California  Building Standards Code.
   SEC. 2.    (a)     The California
Building Standards Commission, in conjunction with the Office of
Statewide Health Planning and Development, shall adopt emergency
regulations to delete Section 1226.7 of the 2013 Triennial Edition of
the California Building Standards Code, including all
cross-references to that section, as soon as possible.
Notwithstanding the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5
(commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of
the Government Code), the regulations adopted under this subdivision
shall become permanent without further regulatory action.  

   (b) The State Department of Public Health shall, no later than
July 1, 2014, repeal regulations inconsistent with this act,
including, but not limited to Sections 75042, 75043, and 75044 of
Title 22 of the California Code of Regulations.