Bill Text: CA AB892 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Kern County Hospital Authority.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2023-09-07 - Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Caballero. [AB892 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB892-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 892
| Introduced by Assembly Member Bains |
February 14, 2023 |
An act to add Section 101855.3 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to health and care facilities.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 892, as introduced, Bains.
Kern County Hospital Authority.
Existing law, the Kern County Hospital Authority Act, establishes the Kern County Hospital Authority, which maintains and operates the Kern Medical Center and is governed by a board of governors that is appointed, both initially and continually, by the board of supervisors. Existing law requires the authority to provide management, administration, and other controls as needed to operate the medical center, and maintain its status as a designated public hospital. The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act contains various provisions that govern collective bargaining of local represented employees, and requires the governing body of a public agency to meet and confer in good faith regarding wages, hours, and other terms and conditions of employment with representatives of recognized employee organizations. Existing law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, requires each legislative body of a local agency to provide
notice of the time and place for its regular meetings and also requires that all meetings of a legislative body be open and public, and that all persons be permitted to attend unless a closed session is authorized. The California Public Records Act requires state and local agencies to make their records available for public inspection, unless an exemption from disclosure applies.
This bill would require that all entities controlled, owned, administered, or funded by the authority be subject to the Meyer-Milias-Brown Act, the Ralph M. Brown Act, and the California Public Records Act.
By imposing new duties on the authority, 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, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
