Health and care facilities: emergency and disaster plan.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of community care facilities, including residential facilities, adult day programs, foster family homes, community treatment facilities, and others, by the State Department of Social Services. Existing law also provides for the licensure and regulation of residential care facilities for persons with life-threatening illness and child daycare facilities by the department. Existing law makes violation of these provisions a misdemeanor. This bill would require community care facilities, including a resource family, certified or licensed foster family home, or a small family home, residential care facilities for persons with a life-threatening illness, and child daycare facilities, to have an emergency and disaster plan that includes specified requirements, including plans for transportation needs and evacuation procedures. The bill would require that community care facilities that serve adults and residential care facilities for persons with life-threatening illness to provide specified training to staff, to conduct quarterly drills, and to review the plan annually and make updates as necessary. The bill would require applicants for new community care facilities licenses, for facilities that will serve adults, and licenses for residential care facilities for persons with life-threatening illness to provide the emergency and disaster plan with the original application and would require a review of the plans by the department upon inspection. By creating new crimes, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.