Health care districts: public contracts: design-build.

The Local Health Care District Law provides for local health care districts which govern certain health care facilities. Each health care district has specific duties and powers respecting the creation, administration, and maintenance of the districts, including to purchase, receive, take, hold, lease, use, and enjoy property of every kind and description within and without the limits of the district. The Local Agency Public Construction Act establishes bidding procedures for the award of construction contracts by local agencies. The act authorizes counties, with the approval of the board of supervisors, to use a design-build procedure for building contracts in excess of $2,500,000. This bill would authorize the Last Frontier Health Care District to use this design-build process when contracting for the construction of a building and improvements directly related to a hospital or health facility building at the Modoc Medical Center. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Last Frontier Health Care District. Certain alternative provisions that would authorize the Last Frontier Health Care District to use a different design-build procedure, as specified, would become operative only if SB 785 is enacted and takes effect on or before January 1, 2015, in which case the other authority described above would no longer be operative. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.