Please provide a comprehensive Bill Analysis for AB 839, as introduced, Addis. Residential care facilities for the elderly: financing.

In the analysis, consider the following and provide your response for each of the ten bullet sections;

 

• Executive Summary
• General Analysis (For general analysis, Please answer the bellow questions;

1. Please explain the problem the bill is trying to solve.  Provide data or information to support OR challenge the notion there is a problem.  (Provide citations for information and data being included)
2. Describe how this bill, if passed as currently written, would change program operations at both the state and local operators' level, including county, as well as broader potential outcomes and program/policy implications.  Use data, examples, scenarios or other supporting evidence.
3. Describe the potential equity implications of this bill. Specifically, describe whether the bill would harm or benefit vulnerable populations including, but not limited to, specific racial or ethnic groups, women, people with disabilities, immigrants and refugees, people with limited English proficiency (LEP), LGBTQ+ individuals, and Tribal communities or governments.
4. Describe how state organizations would implement the bill if signed into law in its current version.
5. Identify other bureaus/branches/divisions and/or state departments (s) that this bill would impact. )

 

• Fiscal considerations (For Fiscal Analysis, Please answer the bellow questions;

1. Are resources saved or needed?
2. If the resources are NEEDED, are they absorbable? Resource needs are absorbable when the implementation can be carried out by the current team as is. If NO, answer question #4 below; if YES, proceed to Section 3.
3. 3.      If staff is needed, please detail:
4. If the resources are SAVED (increased revenues - e.g., due to new penalties or fees), describe how the population served by the program would be affected.
5. Would the bill result in any new state-administered contracts, require the collection of new fees, or require a new payment process (i.e., pilot projects with counties or payments to a new group of providers/beneficiaries)? If YES, explain. )

 

• Local assistance considerations (For Local assistance Analysis, Please answer the bellow questions;

1. Will this bill increase the tasks local operator/county workers must perform or increase/decrease the administrative time required to perform a task?
2. Will this bill require one-time, limited-term, or ongoing funding at the local operator/county level?
3. 3.      Are there any anticipated automation costs associated with the bill? )

 

• Programmatic considerations
• Technical considerations
• Accountability Metrics
• Pros considerations
• Cons considerations
• Costs considerations

 

Here is the Link for the AB 839: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB839

 

Below is the AB 839;

 

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023-2024 REGULAR SESSION

 

ASSEMBLY BILL

NO. 839

 

 

Introduced by Assembly Member Addis

February 14, 2023

 

 

An act to amend Section 15432 of the Government Code, and to amend Section 129010 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to residential care facilities for the elderly, and making an appropriation therefor.

 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

 

AB 839, as introduced, Addis. Residential care facilities for the elderly: financing.

Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of residential care facilities for the elderly (RCFEs) by the State Department of Social Services.

Existing law, the California Health Facilities Financing Authority Act, authorizes the California Health Facilities Financing Authority to, among other things, make loans from the continuously appropriated California Health Facilities Financing Authority Fund to participating health institutions, as defined, for financing or refinancing the acquisition, construction, or remodeling of health facilities, as defined.

Existing law, the California Health Facility Construction Loan Insurance Law, establishes, without cost to the state, an insurance program for health facility construction, improvement, and expansion loans in order to stimulate the flow of private capital into health facilities construction, improvement, and expansion and in order to rationally meet the need for new, expanded, and modernized public and nonprofit health facilities necessary to protect the health of all the people of this state. Existing law establishes the Health Facility Construction Loan Insurance Fund, to be continuously appropriated to carry out the provisions and administrative costs of the insurance program.

This bill would expand the above-described loan and insurance programs to include RCFEs by adding an RCFE to the definition of "health facility" under those programs. The bill would make conforming changes to related provisions. By expanding the purpose for which the two continuously appropriated funds may be used, with regard to RCFE projects, the bill would make an appropriation from each of those funds. The bill would make legislative findings relating to the purpose of the bill.

DIGEST KEY

Vote: majority   Appropriation: yes   Fiscal Committee: yes   Local Program: no  

 

BILL TEXT

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

SECTION 1.

 The Legislature finds and declares that the purpose of this act is to promote the financing or refinancing of the acquisition, construction, remodeling, improvement, or expansion of residential care facilities for the elderly.

SEC. 2.

 Section 15432 of the Government Code is amended to read:

15432.

 As used in this part, the following words and terms shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates or requires another or different meaning or intent:

(a) "Act" means the California Health Facilities Financing Authority Act.

(b) "Authority" means the California Health Facilities Financing Authority created by this part or any board, body, commission, department, or officer succeeding to the principal functions thereof or to which the powers conferred upon the authority by this part shall be given by law.

(c) "Cost," as applied to a project or portion of a project financed under this part, means and includes all or any part of the cost of construction and acquisition of all lands, structures, real or personal property, rights, rights-of-way, franchises, easements, and interests acquired or used for a project, the cost of demolishing or removing any buildings or structures on land so acquired, including the cost of acquiring any lands to which those buildings or structures may be moved, the cost of all machinery and equipment, financing charges, interest prior to, during, and for a period not to exceed the later of one year or one year following completion of construction, as determined by the authority, the cost of insurance during construction, the cost of funding or financing noncapital expenses, reserves for principal and interest and for extensions, enlargements, additions, replacements, renovations and improvements, the cost of engineering, service contracts, reasonable financial and legal services, plans, specifications, studies, surveys, estimates, administrative expenses, and other expenses of funding or financing, that are necessary or incident to determining the feasibility of constructing any project, or that are incident to the construction, acquisition, or financing of any project.

(d) "Health facility" means a facility, place, or building that is licensed, accredited, or certified and organized, maintained, and operated for the diagnosis, care, prevention, and treatment of human illness, or physical, mental, or developmental disability, including convalescence and rehabilitation and including care during and after pregnancy, or for any one or more of these purposes, for one or more persons, and includes, but is not limited to, all of the following types:

(1) A general acute care hospital that is a health facility having a duly constituted governing body with overall administrative and professional responsibility and an organized medical staff that provides 24-hour inpatient care, including the following basic services: medical, nursing, surgical, anesthesia, laboratory, radiology, pharmacy, and dietary services.

(2) An acute psychiatric hospital that is a health facility having a duly constituted governing body with overall administrative and professional responsibility and an organized medical staff that provides 24-hour inpatient care for mentally disordered, incompetent, or other patients referred to in Division 5 (commencing with Section 5000) or Division 6 (commencing with Section 6000) of the Welfare and Institutions Code, including the following basic services: medical, nursing, rehabilitative, pharmacy, and dietary services.

(3) A skilled nursing facility that is a health facility that provides the following basic services: skilled nursing care and supportive care to patients whose primary need is for availability or skilled nursing care on an extended basis.

(4) An intermediate care facility that is a health facility that provides the following basic services: inpatient care to ambulatory or semiambulatory patients who have recurring need for skilled nursing supervision and need supportive care, but who do not require availability or continuous skilled nursing care.

(5) A special health care facility that is a health facility having a duly constituted governing body with overall administrative and professional responsibility and an organized medical or dental staff that provides inpatient or outpatient, acute or nonacute care, including, but not limited to, medical, nursing, rehabilitation, dental, or maternity.

(6) A clinic that is operated by a tax-exempt nonprofit corporation that is licensed pursuant to Section 1204 or 1204.1 of the Health and Safety Code or a clinic exempt from licensure pursuant to subdivision (b) or (c) of Section 1206 of the Health and Safety Code.

(7) An adult day health center that is a facility, as defined under subdivision (b) of Section 1570.7 of the Health and Safety Code, that provides adult day health care, as defined under subdivision (a) of Section 1570.7 of the Health and Safety Code.

(8) A facility owned or operated by a local jurisdiction for the provision of county health services.

(9) A multilevel facility is an institutional arrangement where a residential facility for the elderly is operated as a part of, or in conjunction with, an intermediate care facility, a skilled nursing facility, or a general acute care hospital. "Elderly," for the purposes of this paragraph, means a person 62 years of age or older.

(10) A child day care facility operated in conjunction with a health facility. A child day care facility is a facility, as defined in Section 1596.750 of the Health and Safety Code. For purposes of this paragraph, "child" means a minor from birth to 18 years of age.

(11) An intermediate care facility/developmentally disabled habilitative that is a health facility, as defined under subdivision (e) of Section 1250 of the Health and Safety Code.

(12) An intermediate care facility/developmentally disabled-nursing that is a health facility, as defined under subdivision (h) of Section 1250 of the Health and Safety Code.

(13) A community care facility that is a facility, as defined under subdivision (a) of Section 1502 of the Health and Safety Code, that provides care, habilitation, rehabilitation, or treatment services to developmentally disabled or mentally impaired persons.

(14) A nonprofit community care facility, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 1502 of the Health and Safety Code, other than a facility that, as defined in that subdivision, is a residential facility for the elderly, a foster family agency, a foster family home, a full service adoption agency, or a noncustodial adoption agency.

(15) A nonprofit accredited community work activity program, as specified in subdivision (e) of Section 4851 and Section 4856 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.

(16) A community mental health center, as defined in paragraph (3) of subdivision (b) of Section 5667 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.

(17) A nonprofit speech and hearing center, as defined in Section 1201.5 of the Health and Safety Code.

(18) A blood bank, as defined in Section 1600.2 of the Health and Safety Code, licensed pursuant to Section 1602.5 of the Health and Safety Code, and exempt from federal income taxation pursuant to Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

(19) A residential facility for persons with developmental disabilities, as defined in Sections 4688.5 and 4688.6 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, which includes, but is not limited to, a community care facility licensed pursuant to Section 1502 of the Health and Safety Code and a family teaching home as defined in Section 4689.1 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.

(20) A residential care facility for the elderly, as defined in Section 1569.2 of the Health and Safety Code, through the use of special funds in accordance with this part.

(20)

(21) A nonpublic school that provides educational services in conjunction with a health facility, as defined in paragraphs (1) to (19), (20), inclusive, that otherwise qualifies for financing pursuant to this part, if the nonpublic school is certified pursuant to Sections 56366 and 56366.1 of the Education Code as meeting standards relating to the required special education and specified related services and facilities for individuals with physical, mental, or developmental disabilities.

"Health facility" includes a clinic that is described in subdivision (l) of Section 1206 of the Health and Safety Code.

"Health facility" includes information systems equipment and the following facilities, if the equipment and facility is operated in conjunction with or to support the services provided in one or more of the facilities specified in paragraphs (1) to (20), (21), inclusive, of this subdivision: a laboratory, laundry, a nurses or interns residence, housing for staff or employees and their families or patients or relatives of patients, a physicians' facility, an administration building, a research facility, a maintenance, storage, or utility facility, an information systems facility, all structures or facilities related to any of the foregoing facilities or required or useful for the operation of a health facility and the necessary and usual attendant and related facilities and equipment, and parking and supportive service facilities or structures required or useful for the orderly conduct of the health facility.

"Health facility" does not include any institution, place, or building used or to be used primarily for sectarian instruction or study or as a place for devotional activities or religious worship.

(e) "Participating health institution" means a city, city and county, or county, a district hospital, or a private nonprofit corporation or association, or a limited liability company whose sole member is a nonprofit corporation or association authorized by the laws of this state to provide or operate a health facility or a nonprofit corporation that controls or manages, is controlled or managed by, is under common control or management with, or is affiliated with any of the foregoing, and that, pursuant to this part, undertakes the financing or refinancing of the construction or acquisition of a project or of working capital as provided in this part. "Participating health institution" also includes, for purposes of the California Health Facilities Revenue Bonds (UCSF-Stanford Health Care) 1998 Series A, the Regents of the University of California.

(f) "Project" means construction, expansion, remodeling, renovation, furnishing, or equipping, or funding, financing, or refinancing of a health facility or acquisition of a health facility to be financed or refinanced with funds provided in whole or in part pursuant to this part. "Project" may include reimbursement for the costs of construction, expansion, remodeling, renovation, furnishing, or equipping, or funding, financing, or refinancing of a health facility or acquisition of a health facility. "Project" may include any combination of one or more of the foregoing undertaken jointly by any participating health institution with one or more other participating health institutions.

(g) "Revenue bond" or "bond" means a bond, warrant, note, lease, or installment sale obligation that is evidenced by a certificate of participation or other evidence of indebtedness issued by the authority.

(h) "Working capital" means moneys to be used by, or on behalf of, a participating health institution to pay or prepay maintenance or operation expenses or any other costs that would be treated as an expense item, under generally accepted accounting principles, in connection with the ownership or operation of a health facility, including, but not limited to, reserves for maintenance or operation expenses, interest for not to exceed two years on any loan for working capital made pursuant to this part, and reserves for debt service with respect to, and any costs necessary or incidental to, that financing.

SEC. 3.

 Section 129010 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:

129010.

 Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this section govern the construction of this chapter and of Section 32127.2.

(a) "Bondholder" means the legal owner of a bond or other evidence of indebtedness issued by a political subdivision or a nonprofit corporation.

(b) "Borrower" means a political subdivision or nonprofit corporation that has secured or intends to secure a loan for the construction of a health facility.

(c) "Construction, improvement, or expansion" or "construction, improvement, and expansion" includes construction of new buildings, expansion, modernization, renovation, remodeling and alteration of existing buildings, acquisition of existing buildings or health facilities, and initial or additional equipping of any of these buildings.

In connection therewith, "construction, improvement, or expansion" or "construction, improvement, and expansion" includes the cost of construction or acquisition of all structures, including parking facilities, real or personal property, rights, rights-of-way, the cost of demolishing or removing any buildings or structures on land so acquired, including the cost of acquiring any land where the buildings or structures may be moved, the cost of all machinery and equipment, financing charges, interest (prior to, during and for a period after completion of the construction), provisions for working capital, reserves for principal and interest and for extensions, enlargements, additions, replacements, renovations and improvements, cost of engineering, financial and legal services, plans, specifications, studies, surveys, estimates of cost and of revenues, administrative expenses, expenses necessary or incident to determining the feasibility or practicability of constructing or incident to the construction; or the financing of the construction or acquisition.

(d) "Committee" means the Advisory Loan Insurance Committee.

(e) "Debenture" means any form of written evidence of indebtedness issued by the State Treasurer pursuant to this chapter, as authorized by Section 4 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.

(f) "Fund" means the Health Facility Construction Loan Insurance Fund.

(g) "Health facility" means any facility providing or designed to provide services for the acute, convalescent, and chronically ill and impaired, including, but not limited to, public health centers, community mental health centers, facilities for the developmentally disabled, nonprofit community care facilities that provide care, habilitation, rehabilitation or treatment to developmentally disabled persons, facilities for the treatment of chemical dependency, including a community care facility, licensed pursuant to Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 1500) of Division 2, a clinic, as defined pursuant to Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 1200) of Division 2, an alcoholism recovery facility, defined pursuant to former Section 11834.11, and a structure located adjacent or attached to another type of health facility and that is used for storage of materials used in the treatment of chemical dependency, and general tuberculosis, mental, and other types of hospitals and related facilities, such as laboratories, outpatient departments, extended care, nurses' home and training facilities, offices and central service facilities operated in connection with hospitals, diagnostic or treatment centers, extended care facilities, nursing homes, and rehabilitation facilities. "Health facility" also means an adult day health center and a multilevel facility. center, a multilevel facility, and a residential care facility for the elderly. Except for facilities for the developmentally disabled, facilities for the treatment of chemical dependency, or a multilevel facility, or a residential care facility for the elderly, or as otherwise provided in this subdivision, "health facility" does not include any institution furnishing primarily domiciliary care.

"Health facility" also means accredited nonprofit work activity programs as defined in subdivision (e) of Section 19352 and Section 19355 4851 and Section 4856 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, and nonprofit community care facilities as defined in Section 1502, excluding foster family homes, foster family agencies, adoption agencies, and residential care facilities for the elderly. and adoption agencies.

Unless the context dictates otherwise, "health facility" includes a political subdivision of the state or nonprofit corporation that operates a facility included within the definition set forth in this subdivision.

(h) "Department" means the Department of Health Care Access and Information.

(i) "Lender" means the provider of a loan and its successors and assigns.

(j) "Loan" means money or credit advanced for the costs of construction or expansion of the health facility, and includes both initial loans and loans secured upon refinancing and may include both interim, or short-term loans, and long-term loans. A duly authorized bond or bond issue, or an installment sale agreement, may constitute a "loan."

(k) "Maturity date" means the date that the loan indebtedness would be extinguished if paid in accordance with periodic payments provided for by the terms of the loan.

(l) "Mortgage" means a first mortgage on real estate. "Mortgage" includes a first deed of trust.

(m) "Mortgagee" includes a lender whose loan is secured by a mortgage. "Mortgagee" includes a beneficiary of a deed of trust.

(n) "Mortgagor" includes a borrower, a loan to whom is secured by a mortgage, and the trustor of a deed of trust.

(o) "Nonprofit corporation" means any corporation formed under or subject to the Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law (Part 2 (commencing with Section 5110) of Division 2 of Title 1 of the Corporations Code) that is organized for the purpose of owning and operating a health facility and that also meets the requirements of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

(p) "Political subdivision" means any city, county, joint powers entity, local hospital district, or the California Health Facilities Authority.

(q) "Project property" means the real property where the health facility is, or is to be, constructed, improved, or expanded, and also means the health facility and the initial equipment in that health facility.

(r) "Public health facility" means any health facility that is or will be constructed for and operated and maintained by any city, county, or local hospital district.

(s) "Adult day health center" means a facility defined under subdivision (b) of Section 1570.7, that provides adult day health care, as defined under subdivision (a) of Section 1570.7.

(t) "Multilevel facility" means an institutional arrangement where a residential facility for the elderly is operated as a part of, or in conjunction with, an intermediate care facility, a skilled nursing facility, or a general acute care hospital. "Elderly," for the purposes of this subdivision, means a person 60 years of age or older.

(u) "State plan" means the plan described in Section 129020.

(v) "Residential care facility for the elderly" has the same meaning as set forth in Section 1569.2.