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entity to file a consolidated plan, as provided. The bill would require <br />that the governing board of each hospital or clinic adopt the community <br />benefits plan and make it available to the public, as specified. <br />This bill would require the Office of Statewide Health Planning and <br />Development to develop and adopt regulations to prescribe a <br />standardized format for community benefits plans, as provided, to <br />provide technical assistance to help private nonprofit hospitals and <br />nonprofit multispecialty clinics exempt from licensure comply with the <br />community benefits provisions, to make public each community health <br />needs assessment and community benefits plan and any comments <br />received regarding those assessments and plans, and to annually <br />calculate and make public the total value of community benefits <br />provided by hospitals. This bill would authorize the Office of Statewide <br />Health Planning and Development to assess a civil penalty, as provided, <br />against any hospital or clinic that fails to comply with these provisions. <br />This bill would make conforming changes. <br />The California Constitution generally limits ad valorem taxes on real <br />property to 1% of the full cash value of that property. <br />Existing property tax law establishes a welfare exemption under which <br />property is exempt from taxation if, among other things, that property <br />is used exclusively for religious, hospital, scientific, or charitable <br />purposes and is owned and operated by an entity, as provided, that is <br />itself organized and operated for those purposes. <br />Existing law provides that a hospital is not deemed to be organized <br />or operated for profit if, during the immediately preceding fiscal year, <br />the operating revenues, as defined, are not in excess of the operating <br />expenses of the hospital by an amount equal to 10% of the hospital’s <br />operating expenses. <br />This bill would state that a hospital is rebuttably presumed to be <br />organized or operated for profit if, during the immediately preceding <br />fiscal year, the operating revenues, as defined, are in excess of the <br />operating expenses of the hospital by an amount equal to more than <br />10% of the hospital’s operating expenses and that this statement is a <br />declaration of existing law. <br />Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. <br />State-mandated local program: no. <br />96 <br />AB 975— 3 — <br />