AB 2297, as amended, Levine. Health facilities: reliable alternative clean energy technologies.
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of health facilities by the State Department of Public Health. A violation of these provisions is a crime. Existing law requires certain health facilities to test diesel backup generators in accordance with specified provisions.
This bill would authorize these health facilities to use reliable alternative clean energy technologies as primary or backup power sources if the technology meets reliability requirements set forth by federal and state regulators. The bill would require the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development to submit to the California Building Standards Commission building standards for the use of reliable alternative clean energy technologies for essential power systems, to be adopted in the next triennial edition of the California Building Standards Code.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 1250.07 is added to the Health and Safety
2Code, to read:
(a) A health facility, as defined in subdivision (e) of
4Section 41514.1, may use reliable alternative clean energy
5technologies as primary or backup power sources if the technology
6meets reliability requirements set forth by federal and state
7regulators.
8(b) The Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development
9shall submit to the California Building Standards Commission
10building standards for the use of reliable alternative clean energy
11technologies for essential power systems to be adopted in the next
12triennial edition of the California Building Standards Codebegin insert, if the
13alternative clean
energy technologies meet federal requirementsend insert.
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