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Hospitals: seismic safety.

It became law on Sep 27, 2022.

CA AB 1882 · Assembly Bill · 2021–2022

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Became law
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Assembly
Sponsors
3
Latest action
Sep 27, 2022

What it does

The Alfred E. Alquist Hospital Facilities Seismic Safety Act of 1983 establishes, under the jurisdiction of the Department of Health Care Access and Information, a program of seismic safety building standards for certain hospitals constructed on and after March 7, 1973. A violation of the act is a misdemeanor. The act requires an owner of a general acute care inpatient hospital, no later than January 1, 2030, to either demolish, replace, or change to nonacute care use all hospital buildings not in substantial compliance with the regulations and standards developed pursuant to the act, or seismically retrofit all acute care inpatient hospital buildings so that they are in substantial…

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This bill passed and is now law.

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    Sep 27, 2022

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