BILL NUMBER:  SB 1094
  VETOED	DATE: 09/29/2014




To the Members of the California State Senate:

I am returning Senate Bill 1094 without my signature.

This bill would expand the Attorney General's power to review and
impose conditions on the sale or transfer of nonprofit hospitals and
their assets.

For nearly two decades, the Attorney General has had the authority to
approve, deny or place conditions on these transactions in order to
evaluate potential impacts on a community's access to health care
services, and safeguard ? as much as possible ? those assets that
have been held in the public trust. Occasionally, disputes pertaining
to the conditions of approval arise after a transaction has been
approved, and the Attorney General must appeal to the courts to
impose the remedy.

The Attorney General's office is currently in the process of revising
regulations pertaining to these transactions. We should wait until
these new regulations are implemented before deciding what
adjustments, if any, are needed to improve the approval process for
nonprofit hospital sales.

Sincerely,



Edmund G. Brown Jr.