Asm. Rebecca Bauer-Kahan

Existing law, the Long-Term Care, Health, Safety, and Security Act of 1973 (act) , generally requires the State Department of Public Health to license and regulate long-term health care facilities and to establish an inspection and reporting system to ensure that long-term health care facilities are in compliance with state statutes and regulations. The term "long-term health care facility" includes, among others, skilled nursing facilities. The act declares the intent of the Legislature to execute these inspections in the form of a single survey process, to the extent possible and permitted under federal law. Existing law requires the department to conduct annual inspections, without notice, of long-term health care facilities, except those facilities that have not had serious violations within the previous 12 months, and in any case to inspect every facility at least once every 2 years. Existing law further requires the department to vary the cycle for conducting these inspections to reduce their predictability. Existing law requires inspections and investigations of long-term health care facilities that are certified by the federal Medicare Program or the Medicaid program to determine compliance with federal standards and California statutes and regulations to the extent that state statutes and regulations provide greater protection to residents, or are more precise than federal standards. Existing federal law requires nursing facilities certified to participate in those federal programs to be subject to a standard survey by the state, conducted without prior notice to the facility, at least every 15 months, as prescribed. This bill would extend the maximum period between inspections of a skilled nursing facility from 2 years to 30 months and would delete obsolete references to a health facility inspections program. The bill would also make technical, nonsubstantive changes.

This measure would proclaim the month of September 2022 as Prostate Cancer Awareness Month.

This measure would designate a specified portion of State Highway Route 44, near Oak Run in the County of Shasta, as the Stan Statham Memorial Highway. This measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.

This measure would designate the East End Complex-Block 171 in Sacramento as the Mario Obledo Building, and would request the Department of General Services to determine the cost of erecting appropriate plaques and markers showing the designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources, to cover that cost to erect signage.

This measure would urge the United States Congress to amend the United States Social Security Administration's index of earnings to ensure that a decline in aggregate wages due to COVID-19 does not result in decreased benefits.

This measure would request that the Department of Transportation remove the "The Christopher Columbus Transcontinental Highway" designation from the portion of Interstate 10 in the state, as well as any signage and markers memorializing that designation, and advise the Federal Highway Administration of the state's action.

This measure would, among other things, on the first anniversary of the attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, urge the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol to uncover the facts, circumstances, and causes relating to the attack, and honor the individuals who died or were injured as a result of the attack.

This measure would urge the United States Secretary of Education to establish and submit to the United States Congress for approval a monthly student loan payment plan for federal student loans, based on the personal savings rate as published by the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis.

This measure would designate the portion of State Route 5 from El Horno Street, at postmile 10.001, to Crown Valley Parkway, at postmile 13.776, in the County of Orange as the Senior Master Sergeant John James Paoletti Memorial Highway. The measure would request that the Department of Transportation determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, erect those signs.

This measure would designate a portion of State Route 119, between E Kern Street, postmile 0.34, and Cedar Street, postmile 1.300, in the County of Kern as the Corporal Luis Carlos Ruan Memorial Highway. The measure would request the Department of Transportation to determine the cost of appropriate signs showing this special designation and, upon receiving donations from nonstate sources covering that cost, to erect those signs.