Bill Text: CA AB1627 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Opioid overdose prevention.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-08-11 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB1627 Detail]
Download: California-2021-AB1627-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Senate
June 20, 2022 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
April 21, 2022 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 31, 2022 |
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 24, 2022 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Ramos (Principal coauthor: Senator Ochoa Bogh) (Coauthors: Assembly Members Lee, Petrie-Norris, Villapudua, and Waldron) |
January 11, 2022 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
This bill would require the State Department of Public Health to, until January 1, 2025, create a pilot project in the Counties of San Bernardino, Riverside, and Orange, to provide an opioid antagonist approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration,
free of charge, to individuals who attend a training program on the administration of that opioid antagonist, as specified. The bill would require counties participating in the pilot project to send specified statistics to the State Department of Public Health, including the number of opioid antagonist units distributed and the decrease or increase of opioid-related overdoses, and would require the department to submit an annual report to the Legislature containing those statistics.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Part 6.5 (commencing with Section 1179.105) is added to Division 1 of the Health and Safety Code, to read:PART 6.5. Opioid Overdose Prevention
1179.105.
(a) The Department of Health Care Services shall, upon appropriation by the Legislature and until January 1, 2027, establish a pilot program to provide grants to the Counties of San Bernardino, Riverside, and Orange, for public awareness campaigns to spread awareness of existing programs by the department to distribute opioid antagonists approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration.1179.106.
This part shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2028, and as of that date is repealed.(a)The State Department of Public Health shall, until January 1, 2025, create a pilot project to provide an opioid antagonist approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration, free of charge, to individuals who participate and complete training programs conducted jointly by the local behavioral health department and local county sheriff for the administration of an opioid antagonist approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration. The pilot project shall be established in, and open to participation by, the Counties of San Bernardino, Riverside, and Orange.
(b)(1)Any training program under subdivision (a) shall be conducted
by an individual who has completed an opioid overdose prevention and treatment training program as defined under Section 1714.22 of the Civil Code.
(2)Any training program under subdivision (a) shall adhere to training subjects in Section 1714.22 of the Civil Code.
(c)(1)The pilot program shall collect all of the following statistics:
(A)The number of individuals who participated in and completed the training programs conducted jointly by the local behavioral health department and local county sheriffs’ office.
(B)The number of opioid antagonist units distributed under the pilot program.
(C)The decrease or increase of opioid-related overdoses and, if indicated, opioid-related deaths for each year of the pilot program using the January 1, 2023, numbers as a benchmark.
(D)The decrease or increase in the number of emergency department overdose-related visits for each year of the pilot program using the January 1, 2023, number as a benchmark.
(2)Counties participating in the program shall send a quarterly report to the State Department of Public Health for the purpose of collecting the statistics described in paragraph (1).
(3)The State Department of Public Health shall, on July 1, 2024, and on July 1, 2025, submit a report to the Legislature containing the information collected pursuant to this
subdivision.
(4)A report to be submitted pursuant to this subdivision shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
This part shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2026, and as of that date is repealed.