Residential care facilities for the elderly: emergency and disaster plan.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of residential care facilities for the elderly by the State Department of Social Services, and makes a violation of these requirements a crime. Existing law requires a facility to have an emergency and disaster plan that includes prescribed information, such as evacuation procedures, and is available to specified individuals, including residents onsite upon their request and local emergency responders. This bill would require, by July 1, 2022, the department, the Office of Emergency Services, and the Department of Technology, in partnership with the private sector, to develop and implement a secure online emergency management database with an emergency disaster technology tool to be maintained by the department and accessible by emergency response personnel, and would require licensed residential care facilities for the elderly to upload their emergency and disaster plans to the database by July 1, 2023. Because a willful violation of the bill's requirements relative to residential care facilities for the elderly would be a crime, the 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.