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AB 251: Bar pilots: pilotage rates.

  • Session Year: 2017-2018
  • House: Assembly
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Existing law establishes, in the Transportation Agency, a Board of Pilot Commissioners for Monterey Bay and the Bays of San Francisco, San Pablo, and Suisun, and prescribes the membership, functions, and duties of the board with regard to the licensure and regulation of pilots. Under existing law, pilots licensed by the board have exclusive authority, to the extent not otherwise provided, to pilot vessels bound inward to, or outward from, those bays, in order to ensure the safety of persons, vessels, and property using those bays, and to avoid damage to those waters and surrounding ecosystems. Existing law requires the board to appoint and license the number of pilots that is sufficient to carry out the purposes of these provisions, based on certain considerations.

Existing law requires that every vessel inward or outward bound from those bays pay a bar pilotage fee of $8.11 per draft foot of a vessels deepest draft and fractions of a foot pro rata, adjusted as provided, and an additional charge of 73.01 mills per high gross registered ton, adjusted as provided.

This bill would revise the stated amounts of the bar pilotage fee and additional charge to reflect adjustments that have been made pursuant to existing law. The bill would make changes in the considerations required of the board when it is determining the number of pilots needed, and would repeal obsolete provisions and make other nonsubstantive changes in the bar pilotage laws.

Existing law establishes the State Department of Public Health and sets forth its powers and duties, including, but not limited to, the licensure and regulation of chronic dialysis clinics. Existing law requires the department to adopt regulations to implement these provisions, and requires those regulations to prescribe, among other things, minimum standards for providing the services offered. Violation of these provisions is a crime.This bill would, for each fiscal year starting on or after January 1, 2019, require a chronic dialysis clinic to submit a report to the department detailing the total treatment revenue of the clinic, and the percentages of that total treatment revenue the clinic has expended on direct patient care services costs, health care quality improvements costs, federal and state taxes, facility license fees, and all other costs. The bill would, for each fiscal year starting on or after January 1, 2019, require a chronic dialysis clinic, if its direct patient care services costs, health care quality improvements costs, federal and state taxes, and facility license fees total less than 85% of the treatment revenue, to issue a rebate and reduction in billed amount to payers on a pro rata basis, as specified.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.

Discussed in Hearing

Senate Standing Committee on Appropriations1H
Sep 1, 2017

Senate Standing Committee on Appropriations

Senate Standing Committee on Health35MIN
Jul 12, 2017

Senate Standing Committee on Health

Assembly Standing Committee on Health2MIN
Mar 28, 2017

Assembly Standing Committee on Health

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