(1) The Alfred E. Alquist Hospital Facilities Seismic Safety Act of 1983 establishes, under the jurisdiction of the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, a program of seismic safety building standards for certain hospitals constructed on and after March 7, 1973. The act requires an owner of a general acute care inpatient hospital, no later than January 1, 2030, to either demolish, replace, or change to nonacute care use all hospital buildings not in substantial compliance with the standards established pursuant to the act or seismically retrofit all acute care inpatient hospital buildings so that they are in substantial compliance with those standards. A violation of any provision of the act is a misdemeanor.
California AB 1527 (20212022) — Seton Medical Center: seismic safety.
(1) The Alfred E. Alquist Hospital Facilities Seismic Safety Act of 1983 establishes, under the jurisdiction of the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, a program of seismic safety building standards for certain hospitals constructed on and after March 7, 1973. The act requires an owner of a general acute care inpatient hospital, no later than January 1, 2030, to either demolish, replace, or change to nonacute care use all hospital buildings not in substantial compliance with the standards established pursuant to the act or seismically retrofit all acute care inpatient hospital buildings so that they are in substantial compliance with those standards. A violation of any provision of the act is a misdemeanor.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 15–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 10–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
Consent Calendar AB1527 — 39–0 (pass) · upper
AB 1527 Ting Consent Calendar Second Day — 77–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Ting — primary (person)
Wiener — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2021-02-19 Introduced. To print. introduction
2021-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
2021-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
2021-03-11 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
2021-04-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2021-04-28 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 28). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2021-04-29 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
2021-05-06 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1338.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
2021-05-06 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2021-05-19 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
2021-06-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2021-06-21 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
2021-06-22 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
2021-06-24 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1634.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
2021-06-24 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
2021-06-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
2021-07-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2021-07-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 65, Statutes of 2021. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/03f14250-ba0d-4009-af16-727d21b80656. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).