Bill Text: CA AB2297 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

California Assembly Bill 2297 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Health facilities: reliable alternative clean energy technologies.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-08-14 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB2297 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB2297-Amended.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 2297	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 2, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Levine

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to add Section 1250.07 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to health facilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2297, as amended, Levine. Health facilities: fuel cell
generators.
   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 
fuel cell backup generators, as defined, if the technology is as
reliable and safe as diesel backup generators. The bill would specify
that the crime provision described above does not apply to this
authorization   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 guidelines for the use of reliable alternative
clean energy technologies for essential services, 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 1.  Section 1250.07 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   1250.07.  (a)  (1)    A health
facility, as defined in subdivision (e) of Section 41514.1, may use
 fuel cell backup generators if the technology is at least as
reliable and safe as diesel backup generators  
reliable alternative clean energy technologies as primary or backup
power sources if the technology meets reliability requirements set
forth by federal and state regulators  . 
   (2) For purposes of this section, a "fuel cell backup generator"
means a backup generator that electrochemically converts fuel to
electric energy.  
   (b) Section 1290 does not apply to this section.  
   (b) The Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development shall
submit to the California Building Standards Commission guidelines for
the use of reliable alternative clean energy technologies for
essential services to be adopted in the next triennial edition of the
California Building Standards Code.