Bill Text: CA AB2899 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: General acute care hospitals: licensed nurse-to-patient ratios.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Enrolled) 2024-08-27 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m. [AB2899 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB2899-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 11, 2024 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Gabriel |
February 15, 2024 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law, the Zenovich-Moscone-Chacon Housing and Home Finance Act, states that the Legislature finds and declares that the subject of housing is of vital statewide importance to the health, safety, and welfare of the residents of the state for specified reasons.
This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 1276.45 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:1276.45.
When the State Department of Public Health transmits to a general acute care hospital the action to be taken on a substantiated violation of Section 70217 of Title 22 of the California Code of Regulations or any successor regulation, the department shall simultaneously transmit the same information regarding the action to be taken, including, but not limited to, a corrective action plan, to the person who filed the claim of the violation and their collective bargaining agent or representative, if any. If the action to be taken does not include a fine, the department shall also simultaneously transmit a statement of the reasoning for not imposing a fine to the person who filed the claim of the violation and their collective bargaining agent or representative, if any.The Legislature finds and declares that the subject of housing is of vital statewide importance to the health, safety, and welfare of the residents of this state, for all of the following reasons:
(a)Decent housing is an essential motivating force in helping people achieve self-fulfillment in a free and democratic society.
(b)Unsanitary, unsafe, overcrowded, or congested dwelling accommodations or lack of decent housing constitute conditions which cause an increase in, and spread of, disease and crime.
(c)A
healthy housing market is one in which residents of this state have a choice of housing opportunities and one in which the housing consumer may effectively choose within the free marketplace.
(d)A healthy housing market is necessary both to achieve a healthy state economy and to avoid an unacceptable level of unemployment.