California Code, Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC § 14110.7

(b)(1) The director shall adopt regulations that shall establish the minimum number of equivalent nursing hours per patient required in the following, for the first year of implementation of the first year of rates established pursuant to this article:

(2) The staffing standards established by paragraph (1) shall become effective concurrently with the establishment of the first reimbursement rates under this article.

(3) The director shall adopt regulations that establish the minimum number of equivalent nursing hours per patient required in skilled nursing facilities at 2.7 for the second year of implementation of rates established pursuant to this article.

(c)(1) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(2) Subject to the appropriation of sufficient funds, the department may adopt regulations to increase the minimum number of equivalent nursing hours required of facilities subject to this section per patient beyond 2.7 nursing hours per patient day.

(d)(1) The department shall identify those skilled nursing facilities that are in compliance with the 3.0 minimum double nursing hour standards, as defined in subdivision (a) of Section 1276.5 of the Health and Safety Code, but have actual staffing ratios below 2.5, as of July 1, 1990, and shall not enforce the 2.7 equivalent nursing hours with respect to those facilities until the third year of implementation of the rates established under this article.

(2) The department shall periodically review facilities that have actual staffing ratios described in paragraph (1) to ensure that they are making sufficient progress toward 2.7 hours.