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AB-533 • 2026

Health care districts: design-build process.

Health care districts: design-build process.

Crime Healthcare
Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Flora
Last action
Official status
Chaptered
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official summary states no reimbursement is required for a 'specified reason' but does not list what that specific reason is.

Expanding Design-Build Rules for Health Care Districts

This law allows any health care district in California to use the design-build method when building hospitals or related facilities, expanding a right that was previously limited to three specific districts.

What This Bill Does

  • Expands authority from three named districts to allow any health care district to use the design-build process for constructing hospital buildings or directly related improvements.
  • Requires information submitted by entities bidding on these projects to be verified under penalty of perjury.
  • Expands the legal definition of the crime of perjury to include false statements made in bids from newly authorized districts.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Any health care district that wants to build a hospital or related facility building using this process.
  • Companies and entities submitting proposals for these construction projects.
  • The Sonoma Valley Health Care District, Last Frontier Health Care District, and Mayers Memorial Hospital District.

Terms To Know

Design-build
A procedure used when contracting for the construction of a building or improvements directly related to a hospital or health facility building.
Perjury
The crime expanded by this bill to include false statements made in design-build bids verified under penalty of perjury.

Limits and Unknowns

  • No state reimbursement is required for costs created by this act, though the specific reason is not detailed in the provided text.
  • The effective date of when these rules begin is not listed in the provided source material.

Bill History

  1. California Legislative Information

    Chaptered

Official Summary Text

Health care districts: design-build process.