Corcoran District Hospital: design-build.

Existing law provides for local health care districts that are empowered to own and operate certain health facilities, including hospitals. 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 prescribed design-build procedure set forth in a specific code section 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. Under existing law, that code section would be repealed on January 1, 2011, unless that date is deleted or extended. This bill would also allow the Corcoran District Hospital, upon approval by its board of directors, to use the above-mentioned design-build procedure described in that code section to assign contracts for the construction of an outpatient facility building. Existing law requires that, under the existing design-build procedure, a health care district would be required to pay a fee into the continuously appropriated State Public Works Enforcement Fund, the moneys in which are used by the Department of Industrial relations to enforce applicable prevailing wage and labor requirements. Because this bill would authorize additional fees to be paid into a continuously appropriated fund, the bill would constitute an appropriation. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Corcoran District Hospital.