California Assembly Bill AB2737 Introduced / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: AB 2737INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Bonta FEBRUARY 19, 2016 An act to amend Section 32001 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to health care districts. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2737, as introduced, Bonta. Local health care districts: formation. Existing law, the Local Health Care District Law, regulates local health care districts and authorizes the health care districts to exercise specified powers, including purchasing and using property for the benefit of the district and exercising the power of eminent domain to acquire real or personal property necessary to the exercise of the district's powers. Existing law authorizes a district to include incorporated or unincorporated territory, or both, or territory in one or more counties, subject to specified limitations. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 32001 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read: 32001. A local hospital district may be organized,  incorporated   incorporated,  and managed, as provided in this  division   division,  and may exercise the powers herein granted or necessarily implied.  Such a   The  district may include incorporated or unincorporated territory, or both, or territory in  any  one or more counties. The territory comprising  this   the  district need not be  contiguous   contiguous,  but the territory of a municipal corporation shall not be divided; provided, that land either in a municipal corporation or in unincorporated territory  which   that  the supervising authority finds will not be benefited shall not be included.