Public contracts: health care districts: design-build.

Existing law provides for local health care districts which govern certain health care facilities. Each health care district has specific duties and powers respecting the creation, administration, and maintenance of the districts, including to purchase, receive, take, hold, lease, use, and enjoy property of every kind and description of property within the district. Existing law permits the Sonoma Valley Health Care District, upon the approval of its board of directors, to use a design-build procedure when assigning contracts for the construction of a building and improvements directly related to a hospital or health facility building at the Sonoma Valley Hospital. This bill would allow the Tahoe Forest Health Care District and a health care district authorized by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development, upon approval of the district's board of directors, to use the design-build procedure to assign contracts for the construction of a hospital or health facility building. This bill would repeal the above-described health care district authorization on January 1, 2016.