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AB-533 • 2026

Health care districts: design-build process.

Health care districts: design-build process.

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Enacted

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

Sponsor
Flora
Last action
2025-07-14
Official status
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 35, Statutes of 2025.
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary and digest do not provide specific details on what constitutes 'a specified reason' for no state reimbursement being required.

Health Care Districts Can Use Design-Build Process

AB-533 allows any health care district in California to use the design-build method for hospital construction projects and clarifies that no state reimbursement is required.

What This Bill Does

  • Allows any health care district in California to use the design-build process when contracting for the construction of a hospital or health facility building.
  • Requires information submitted by entities involved in these projects to be verified under penalty of perjury.
  • Expands the crime of perjury due to additional entities being included in the design-build process.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Health care districts in California
  • Entities involved in hospital construction projects

Terms To Know

Design-Build Process
A method where one entity is responsible for both designing and building a project.

Limits and Unknowns

  • Does not specify the exact effective date of the bill.
  • Only applies to health care districts in California, not other types of entities.

Bill History

  1. 2025-07-14 California Legislative Information

    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 35, Statutes of 2025.

  2. 2025-07-14 California Legislative Information

    Approved by the Governor.

  3. 2025-07-11 California Legislative Information

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.

  4. 2025-07-03 California Legislative Information

    In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.

  5. 2025-07-03 California Legislative Information

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 1932.).

  6. 2025-07-01 California Legislative Information

    Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

  7. 2025-06-30 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.

  8. 2025-06-18 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  9. 2025-05-07 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Com. on L. GOV.

  10. 2025-04-24 California Legislative Information

    In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

  11. 2025-04-24 California Legislative Information

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 1279.)

  12. 2025-04-10 California Legislative Information

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  13. 2025-04-09 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 9).

  14. 2025-03-26 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  15. 2025-02-24 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Com. on L. GOV.

  16. 2025-02-12 California Legislative Information

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.

  17. 2025-02-11 California Legislative Information

    Read first time. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 533, Flora.
Health care districts: design-build process.
Existing law authorizes the Sonoma Valley Health Care District, Last Frontier Health Care District, and the Mayers Memorial Hospital District the authority to use the design-build procedure when contracting for the construction of a building or improvements directly related to a hospital or health facility building, as specified. Existing law sets forth the procurement process for design-build projects and requires specified information by submitted design-build entities and others to be verified under penalty of perjury.
This bill would additionally authorize any health care district to use the design-build process when contracting for the construction of a hospital or health facility building. Because the bill would expand the application of the procurement process to additional design-build entities, the bill would expand the crime of perjury,
thereby imposing a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.

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