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The people of the State of California do enact as follows: line 1 SECTION 1. Section 127280 of the Health and Safety Code line 2 is amended to read: line 3 127280. (a) Every health facility licensed pursuant to Chapter line 4 2 (commencing with Section 1250) of Division 2, except a health line 5 facility owned and operated by the state, shall each year be charged line 6 a fee established by the office consistent with the requirements of line 7 this section. line 8 (b) Commencing in calendar year 2004, every freestanding line 9 ambulatory surgery clinic, as defined in Section 128700, shall each line 10 year be charged a fee established by the office consistent with the line 11 requirements of this section. line 12 (c) The fee structure shall be established each year by the office line 13 to produce revenues equal to the appropriation made in the annual line 14 Budget Act or another statute to pay for the functions required to line 15 be performed by the office pursuant to this chapter, Chapter 2.6 line 16 (commencing with Section 127470), or Chapter 1 (commencing line 17 with Section 128675) of Part 5, and to pay for any other line 18 health-related programs administered by the office. The fee shall line 19 be due on July 1 and delinquent on July 31 of each year. line 20 (d) The fee for a health facility that is not a hospital, as defined line 21 in subdivision (c) of Section 128700, shall be not more than 0.035 line 22 percent of the gross operating cost of the facility for the provision line 23 of health care services for its last fiscal year that ended on or before line 24 June 30 of the preceding calendar year. line 25 (e) The fee for a hospital, as defined in subdivision (c) of Section line 26 128700, shall be not more than 0.035 percent of the gross operating line 27 cost of the facility for the provision of health care services for its line 28 last fiscal year that ended on or before June 30 of the preceding line 29 calendar year. line 30 (f) The fee for a freestanding ambulatory surgery clinic shall line 31 be established at an amount equal to the number of ambulatory line 32 surgery data records submitted to the office pursuant to Section line 33 128737 for encounters in the preceding calendar year multiplied line 34 by not more than fifty cents ($0.50). line 35 (g) There is hereby established the California Health Data and line 36 Planning Fund within the office for the purpose of receiving and line 37 expending fee revenues collected pursuant to this chapter. 96 — 4 —AB 975