Title HSC — California Health & Safety Code

(a) After receiving input, including recommendations, from the office and the advisory committee, and receiving public comments, the board shall establish all of the following: (1) A statewide health care cost target. (2) The definitions of health care sectors, which may include …

(a) (1) The board shall establish a Health Care Affordability Advisory Committee to provide input, including recommendations, to the board and the office on a range of areas, including, but not limited to, all of the following: (A) A statewide health care cost target and specific…

(a) Until January 1, 2027, any necessary rules and regulations for the purpose of implementing this chapter may be adopted as emergency regulations in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 …

(a) The office shall be responsive to requests for additional information from the Legislature, including providing testimony during hearings and commenting on proposed legislation or policy issues. (b) The Legislature finds and declares that activities, including, but not limite…

(a) (1) Notwithstanding any other state or local law, the office shall collect data and other information it determines necessary from health care entities, except exempted providers, to carry out the functions of the office. To the extent consistent with federal law and to the g…

The office shall, in a manner prescribed by the office, establish requirements for management services organizations to submit data and other information as necessary to carry out the functions of the office.

(a) For data submitted to the office under paragraph (1) of subdivision (d) of Section 127501.4, the office shall prepare a report on baseline health care spending consistent with subparagraph (A) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) on or before June 1, 2025. (b) (1) On or before…

(a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law regarding the confidentiality of data submitted by health care service plans or other entities to the Department of Managed Health Care, the office and the Department of Managed Health Care may enter into an interagency agreement for the tran…

(a) There is hereby established in the State Treasury the Health Care Affordability Fund for the purpose of receiving and expending revenues collected pursuant to this chapter. This fund is subject to appropriation by the Legislature. (b) All moneys in the fund shall be expended …

(a) The board shall establish a statewide health care cost target. (b) (1) The board shall establish specific targets by health care sector, including fully integrated delivery systems, geographic regions, and individual health care entities, as appropriate. The board shall defin…

(a) The director shall enforce the cost targets established by this chapter against health care entities in a manner that ensures compliance with targets, allows each health care entity opportunities for remediation, and ensures health care entities do not implement performance i…

(a) (1) The office shall adopt a single set of standard measures for assessing health care quality and equity across payers, fully integrated delivery systems, hospitals, and physician organizations. Performance on quality and health equity measures shall be included in the annua…

(a) The office shall promote the shift from payments based on fee-for-service to alternative payment models that provide financial incentive for equitable high-quality and cost-efficient care. In furtherance of this goal, the office shall convene health care entities and organize…

(a) (1) The office shall measure and promote a sustained systemwide investment in primary care and behavioral health. In furtherance of this goal, the office shall measure the percentage of total health care expenditures allocated to primary care and behavioral health and set spe…

(a) The intent of this section is to monitor the effects of cost targets on health care workforce stability, high-quality jobs, and training needs of health care workers, in addition to adjustments to cost targets pertaining to nonsupervisory employee organized labor costs pursua…

(a) The office shall monitor cost trends, including conducting research and studies on the health care market, including, but not limited to, the impact of consolidation, market power, venture capital activity, profit margins, and other market failures on competition, prices, acc…

(a) (1) If the office finds that a material change noticed pursuant to Section 127507 is likely to have a risk of a significant impact on market competitions, the state’s ability to meet cost targets, or costs for purchasers and consumers, the office shall conduct a cost and mark…

In furtherance of this article, the office may do all of the following: (a) Contract with, consult, and receive advice from any state agency on terms and conditions that the office deems appropriate. (b) Contract with experts or consultants to assist in reviewing a proposed agree…

In addition to any legal remedies, the office shall be entitled to specific performance, injunctive relief, and other equitable remedies a court deems appropriate for enforcement of any of the requirements of this article and shall be entitled to recover its attorney’s fees and c…

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly Act.

The Legislature hereby finds and declares: (a) The Legislature has taken steps in recent years to develop a continuum of long-term social and health support services for older persons in the community that provide a range of options for long-term care and residential care facilit…

No person, firm, partnership, association, or corporation within the state and no state or local public agency shall operate, establish, manage, conduct, or maintain a residential facility for the elderly in this state without a current valid license or current valid special perm…

The department shall inspect and license residential care facilities for the elderly. A license is not transferable.

The department may provide consulting services upon request to any residential care facility for the elderly to assist in the identification or correction of deficiencies and in the upgrading of the quality of care provided by the facility.

(a) The department may contract for state, county, or other public agencies to assume specified licensing, approval, or consultation responsibilities. In exercising the authority so delegated, these agencies shall conform to the requirements of this chapter and to the rules, regu…

No license issued pursuant to this chapter shall have any property value for sale or exchange purposes and no person, including any owner, agent, or broker, shall sell or exchange any license for any commercial purpose.

This chapter shall not apply to any of the following: (a) A health facility, as defined by Section 1250. (b) A clinic, as defined by Section 1200. (c) A facility conducted by and for the adherents of a well-recognized church or religious denomination for the purpose of providing …

(a) Nothing in this chapter authorizes the imposition of rent regulations or controls for licensed residential care facilities for the elderly. (b) Licensed residential care facilities for the elderly are not subject to controls on rent imposed by any state or local agency or oth…

A prospective applicant for licensure shall be notified at the time of the initial request for information regarding application for licensure that, prior to obtaining licensure, the facility shall secure and maintain a fire clearance approval from the local fire enforcing agency…

(a) Any person, entity, or agent signing on behalf of an entity, seeking a license for a residential care facility for the elderly under this chapter shall file with the department, pursuant to regulations, an application on forms furnished by the department, that shall include, …

(a) The department and the licensing agencies with which it contracts for licensing shall review and make a final determination within 60 days of an applicant’s submission of a complete application on all applications for a license to operate a residential care facility for the e…

Upon receipt of an application to operate a residential care facility for the elderly from an applicant who is also applying or intends to apply for a permit to sell deposit subscriptions on life care contracts pursuant to Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 1770), the department…

(a) A corporation that applies for licensure with the department shall list the facilities that any member of the board of directors, the executive director, or an officer has been licensed to operate, been employed in, or served as a member of the board of directors, the executi…

(a) A residential care facility for the elderly, as defined in Section 1569.2, which fails to make reasonable efforts to safeguard resident property shall reimburse a resident for or replace stolen or lost resident property at its then current value. The facility shall be presume…

A theft and loss program shall be implemented by the residential care facilities for the elderly within 90 days after January 1, 1989. The program shall include all of the following: (a) Establishment and posting of the facility’s policy regarding theft and investigative procedur…

No provision of a contract of admission, which includes all documents which a resident or his or her representative is required to sign at the time of, or as a condition of, admission to a residential care facility for the elderly, shall require or imply a lesser standard of resp…

Upon initial licensure, residential care facilities for the elderly shall be provided a printed copy of all applicable regulations by the department, without charge. All licensees shall subscribe to the appropriate regulation subscription service and are responsible for keeping c…

(a) A residential care facility for the elderly shall do all of the following: (1) Not condition the provision of care or otherwise discriminate based on whether or not an individual has executed an advance directive, consistent with applicable laws and regulations. (2) Provide e…

(a) Every licensed residential care facility for the elderly, at the request of two or more residents, shall assist the residents in establishing and maintaining a single resident council at the facility. The resident council shall be composed of residents of the facility. Family…

(a) A residential care facility for the elderly shall not prohibit the formation of a family council. If requested by a member of the resident’s family or the resident representative, the family council shall be allowed to meet in a common meeting room of the facility during mutu…

The State Department of Social Services shall provide to residential care facilities for the elderly a form, which the residential care facility for the elderly shall attach to each resident admission agreement, notifying the resident that he or she is entitled to obtain services…

(a) (1) If an application for a license indicates, or the department determines during the application review process, that the applicant previously was issued a license under this chapter or under Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 1200), Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 1250)…

The Legislature recognizes the need to generate timely and accurate positive fingerprint identification of applicants as a condition of issuing licenses, permits, or certificates of approval for persons to operate or provide direct care services in a residential care facility for…

Prior to issuance to any person of a certificate of completion of the administrator certification program pursuant to Section 1569.616, the department shall secure from an appropriate law enforcement agency a criminal record to determine if the person has been convicted of a crim…

The Department of Justice may charge a fee sufficient to cover its cost in providing services in accordance with Section 1569.17 to comply with the 14-day requirement for provision to the department of the criminal record information, as contained in subdivision (c) of Section 15…

(a) In addition to any other requirements of this chapter, any residential care facility for the elderly providing residential care for six or fewer persons at which the owner does not reside shall provide a procedure approved by the licensing agency for immediate response to inc…

(a) (1) An application fee adjusted by facility and capacity shall be charged by the department for the issuance of a license to operate a residential care facility for the elderly. After initial licensure, a fee shall be charged by the department annually on each anniversary of …

A license shall be forfeited by operation of law prior to its expiration date when one of the following occurs: (a) The licensee sells or otherwise transfers the facility or facility property, except when change of ownership applies to transferring of stock when the facility is o…

(a) Notwithstanding Section 1569.19, in the event of a sale of a licensed facility where the sale will result in a new license being issued, the sale and transfer of property and business shall be subject to both of the following: (1) The licensee shall provide written notice to …

(a) A licensee of a residential care facility for the elderly may request inactive license status for either of the following: (1) If the facility is nonoperational due to its destruction, significant damage, or prolonged closure due to an emergency or disaster pursuant to Chapte…