CA SB1271

Makes technical, nonsubstantive changes to Health and Safety Code Section 1418.8 regarding health care decisions for nursing home and intermediate care facility residents who lack capacity to provide informed consent

Corrects grammatical errors including changing "authorizing" to "to authorize" when describing court-appointed persons and adding a comma after "values" in the legal decisionmaker definition

Standardizes capitalization by changing "Long-Term Care Ombudsman" to lowercase "long-term care ombudsman" throughout the section

Maintains existing requirements that facilities must conduct interdisciplinary team reviews with patient representatives before administering medical interventions to residents without capacity or legal decisionmakers

Preserves the Long-Term Care Patient Representative Program framework for assigning public patient representatives when no family member or friend is available to participate in health care decisions