Cal. Health & Safety Code § 131405

(a) The department, in collaboration with the State Department of Health Care Services, may contract, or develop and administer a capacity data solution to collect, aggregate, and display information about the availability of beds in specified entities. The development of the capacity data solution shall be subject to state information technology policies, as applicable.
1. (1) The department may determine entities in addition to subdivision (g) of Section 131400 to be included in the capacity data solution.
2. (2) The State Department of Health Care Services shall determine the behavioral health facilities to be included in the capacity data solution to comply with the Special Terms and Conditions of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for the purposes of the Medicaid demonstration project pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 14184.400 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, including, but not limited to:
  1. (A) Acute psychiatric hospitals.
  2. (B) General acute care hospitals with psychiatric units.
  3. (C) Psychiatric health facilities.
  4. (D) Provider sites certified to provide crisis stabilization services by the State Department of Health Care Services or a mental health plan.
  5. (E) Psychiatric residential treatment facilities.
(b)
1. (1) The determination of additional specified entities, list of data elements, electronic transmission standards, the data transmission schedule, and instructions pertaining to the capacity data solution may be modified by the department, in collaboration with the State Department of Health Care Services and in consultation with stakeholders, at any time. The list of data elements to be collected or disclosed shall not, at any time, include personal information or personal health information.
2. (2) The determination of additional specified entities, list of data elements, electronic transmission standards, the data transmission schedule, and instructions pertaining to the capacity data solution for behavioral health facilities may be modified by the State Department of Health Care Services, in collaboration with the department and in consultation with stakeholders, at any time. The list of data elements to be collected or disclosed shall not, at any time, include personal information or personal health information.
(c) The lists, standards, schedules, and instructions implemented pursuant to this section and any subsequent modifications shall be exempt from the administrative regulation and rulemaking requirements of Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code and shall be implemented without being adopted as a regulation, except that the revisions shall be filed with the Secretary of State and printed and published in Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations.
(d) Notwithstanding Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code, the department and the State Department of Health Care Services may implement, interpret, or make specific this chapter, in whole or in part, by means of all-county letters, plan letters, provider bulletins, information notices, or other similar instructions, without taking any further regulatory action.
(e) A civil penalty, fine, sanction, or finding, or a denial, suspension, or revocation of licensure for a person or facility, shall not be imposed based upon a failure to provide the data elements required under this chapter, unless the required data elements, electronic transmission standards, and data transmission schedule submissions by specified entities were published in the California Code of Regulations and the department notified the person or facility of the data reporting requirements at least six months before the date of the claimed failure to report or submit.
(f) Notwithstanding subdivision (e), the State Department of Health Care Services may impose a plan of correction or assess civil money penalties for specified entities licensed or certified by the State Department of Health Care Services pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 5964 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.