Hospitals: seismic safety.

Existing law, the Alfred E. Alquist Hospital Facilities Seismic Safety Act of 1983, establishes a program of seismic safety building standards for certain hospitals. Existing law requires all hospitals with buildings subject to a seismic compliance deadline of January 1, 2020, and that are seeking an extension for their buildings to submit an application to the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development by April 1, 2019, that specifies the seismic compliance method each building will use. Once an extension is granted, existing law requires the hospital and the office to identify major milestones to determine whether the hospital is making adequate progress toward meeting the new seismic compliance deadline and imposes assessments for failure to meet those milestones. Existing law authorizes an extension to be granted for a seismic compliance plan based on a replacement plan, a retrofit plan, or a rebuild plan, as those terms are defined. Existing law prohibits an extension from being granted under these provisions for seismic compliance based upon a removal plan, as defined. This bill would specify that if a hospital submitted a seismic compliance plan based on a removal plan, but also submitted a timely seismic compliance plan or plans based on one or more of the other methods of seismic compliance, the extension may be granted for the seismic compliance plan or plans based on the methods other than the removal plan.