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line 1 (h) Any amounts raised by the collection of the special fees line 2 provided for by subdivisions (d), (e), and (f) that are not required line 3 to meet appropriations in the Budget Act for the current fiscal year line 4 shall remain in the California Health Data and Planning Fund and line 5 shall be available to the office in succeeding years when line 6 appropriated by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act or another line 7 statute, for expenditure under the provisions of this chapter, line 8 Chapter 2.6 (commencing with Section 127470), and Chapter 1 line 9 (commencing with Section 128675) of Part 5, or for any other line 10 health-related programs administered by the office, and shall reduce line 11 the amount of the special fees that the office is authorized to line 12 establish and charge. line 13 (i) (1) No health facility liable for the payment of fees required line 14 by this section shall be issued a license or have an existing license line 15 renewed unless the fees are paid. A new, previously unlicensed, line 16 health facility shall be charged a pro rata fee to be established by line 17 the office during the first year of operation. line 18 (2) The license of any health facility, against which the fees line 19 required by this section are charged, shall be revoked, after notice line 20 and hearing, if it is determined by the office that the fees required line 21 were not paid within the time prescribed by subdivision (c). line 22 SEC. 2. Article 2 (commencing with Section 127340) of line 23 Chapter 2 of Part 2 of Division 107 of the Health and Safety Code line 24 is repealed. line 25 SEC. 3. Section 127400 of the Health and Safety Code is line 26 amended to read: line 27 127400. The following definitions apply for the purposes of line 28 this article: line 29 (a) “Allowance for financially qualified patient” means, with line 30 respect to services rendered to a financially qualified patient, an line 31 allowance that is applied after the hospital’s charges are imposed line 32 on the patient, due to the patient’s determined financial inability line 33 to pay the charges. line 34 (b) (1) “Charity care” means the unreimbursed cost to a private line 35 nonprofit hospital or nonprofit multispecialty clinic of providing line 36 services to the uninsured or underinsured, as well as providing line 37 funding or otherwise financially supporting any of the following: line 38 (A) Health care services or items on an inpatient or outpatient line 39 basis to a financially qualified patient with no expectation of line 40 payment. 96 AB 975— 5 —