Seismic safety: Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development: health facilities.

Existing law establishes the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development within the California Health and Human Services Agency and vests various functions with the office, including, among other things, the maintenance of the Health Professions Career Opportunity Program, establishing a contract program for funding certain allied health manpower training projects, and establishing a health care workforce clearinghouse. Existing law authorizes the office to enter into agreements and contracts with any person, department, agency, corporation, or legal entity that are necessary to carry out specified functions vested in the office. Existing law, the Alfred E. Alquist Hospital Facilities Seismic Safety Act of 1983, establishes, under the jurisdiction of the office, a program of seismic safety building standards for certain hospitals constructed on and after March 7, 1973. Existing law requires the office to assess an application fee for the review of facilities design and construction, and requires that full and complete plans be submitted to the office for review and approval. This bill would authorize the office to enter into agreements and contracts that are necessary to carry out various duties regarding the above-described seismic safety building standards program.