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AB-1993 Residential care facilities for the elderly: maximum number of residents.(2023-2024)

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Date Published: 05/16/2024 09:00 PM
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Amended  IN  Assembly  May 16, 2024

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 1993

Introduced by Assembly Member Kalra

January 30, 2024

An act to amend Section 1569.85 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to care facilities.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 1993, as amended, Kalra. Residential care facilities for the elderly: maximum number of residents.
Existing law, the California Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly Act (act), requires the State Department of Social Services to license, inspect, and regulate residential care facilities for the elderly, as defined, and imposes criminal penalties on a person who violates the act or who willfully or repeatedly violates any rule or regulation adopted under the act. Under existing law, whether or not unrelated persons are living together, a residential care facility for the elderly that serves 6 or fewer persons is considered a residential use of property, as specified.
This bill would increase the maximum number of residents served for purposes of those provisions from 6 to 10. 8.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 Section 1569.85 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:

1569.85.
 (a) Whether or not unrelated persons are living together, a residential care facility for the elderly that serves 10 eight or fewer persons shall be considered a residential use of property for the purposes of this article. In addition, the residents and operators of the facility shall be considered a family for the purposes of any law or zoning ordinance that relates to the residential use of property pursuant to this article.
(b) For the purpose of all local ordinances, a residential care facility for the elderly that serves 10 eight or fewer persons shall not be included within the definition of a boarding house, rooming house, institution or home for the care of the aged, guest home, rest home, community residence, or other similar term that implies that the residential care facility for the elderly is a business run for profit or differs in any other way from a family dwelling.
(c) This section shall not be construed to forbid a city, county, or other local public entity from placing restrictions on building heights, setback, lot dimensions, or placement of signs of a residential care facility for the elderly that serves 10 eight or fewer persons as long as the restrictions are identical to those applied to other family dwellings of the same type in the same zone.
(d) This section shall not be construed to forbid the application to a residential care facility for the elderly of any local ordinance that deals with health and safety, building standards, environmental impact standards, or any other matter within the jurisdiction of a local public entity if the ordinance does not distinguish residential care facilities for the elderly that serve 10 eight or fewer persons from other family dwellings of the same type in the same zone and if the ordinance does not distinguish residents of the residential care facilities for the elderly from persons who reside in other family dwellings of the same type in the same zone.
(e) No conditional use permit, zoning variance, or other zoning clearance shall be required of a residential care facility for the elderly that serves 10 eight or fewer persons that is not required of a family dwelling of the same type in the same zone.
(f) Use of a family dwelling for purposes of a residential care facility for the elderly serving 10 eight or fewer persons shall not constitute a change of occupancy for purposes of Part 1.5 (commencing with Section 17910) of Division 13 or local building codes. However, nothing in this section is intended to supersede Section 13143 or 13143.6, to the extent these sections are applicable to residential care facilities for the elderly providing care for 10 eight or fewer residents.
(g) For the purposes of this section, “family dwelling,” dwelling” includes, but is not limited to, single-family dwellings, units in multifamily dwellings, including units in duplexes and units in apartment dwellings, mobilehomes, including mobilehomes located in mobilehome parks, units in cooperatives, units in condominiums, units in townhouses, and units in planned unit developments.