Bill Text: CA AB1996 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Opioid antagonists: stadiums, concert venues, and amusement parks: overdose training.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-16 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. [AB1996 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB1996-Amended.html
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Amended
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April 11, 2024 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 1996
| Introduced by Assembly Member Alanis |
January 30, 2024 |
An act to amend Section 11871 of, and to add Section 11873 to, the Health and Safety Code, relating to opioids.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1996, as amended, Alanis.
Opioid antagonists: stadiums, concert venues, and amusement parks: overdose training.
Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health, subject to an appropriation in the Budget Act of 2016, to award funding to local health departments, local governmental agencies, or on a competitive basis to other organizations, as specified, to support or establish programs that provide naloxone or another opioid antagonist to first responders and at-risk opioid users through programs that serve at-risk drug users. Existing law requires each stadium, concert venue, and amusement park to maintain unexpired doses of naloxone hydrochloride or any other opioid antagonist on its premises at all times, and to ensure that at least 2 employees are aware of the location of the naloxone hydrochloride or other opioid antagonist.
This bill would require each stadium, concert venue, and amusement park to ensure that the naloxone hydrochloride
or other opioid antagonist is easily accessible and its location is widely known. The bill would require the department to develop an opioid overdose training program for these establishments and toolkit for these establishments, and, by July 1, 2026, to notify these establishments of this training program. The bill would authorize the department to provide the overdose training program onsite. toolkit. The bill would describe various types of information authorized to be included in the toolkit, including, but not limited to, informational videos,
graphics, and trainings on how to respond during a drug or opioid overdose, as specified. The bill would require the department to collaborate with local, state, and national organizations to provide the staff of these establishments with integrated, comprehensive, accurate, and unbiased educational materials on opioid and drug overdose prevention and related topics.
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.
Section 11871 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:11871.
(a) Each stadium, concert venue, and amusement park shall, at all times, maintain unexpired doses of naloxone hydrochloride or any other opioid antagonist on its premises and ensure that at least two employees are aware of the location of the naloxone hydrochloride or other opioid antagonist.(b) Each stadium, concert venue, and amusement park shall ensure that the naloxone hydrochloride or other opioid antagonist is easily accessible and its location is widely known.
SEC. 2.
Section 11873 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:11873.
(a) The State Department of Public Health shall develop an opioid overdose training(b) The toolkit may include, but is not limited to, all of the following:
(1) Informational videos, graphics, and trainings on how to respond during a drug or opioid overdose, including the administration of naloxone hydrochloride or other opioid antagonists.
(2) Information on how to recognize signs of a drug or opioid overdose.
(3) Information on how to respond in an emergency involving a drug or opioid overdose.
(c) The State Department of Public Health may use any existing content or other relevant materials already developed, or develop new materials, for the toolkit.
(d) The State Department of Public Health shall collaborate with local, state, and national organizations, which may include community health centers, community health experts, and nonprofit organizations with related expertise, to provide stadium, concert venue, and amusement park staff with integrated, comprehensive, accurate, and unbiased educational materials on opioid and drug overdose prevention, opioid and drug safety, and stigma reduction.
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(e) By July 1, 2026, the department shall notify stadiums, concert venues, and amusement parks of the training program toolkit offered in subdivision (a).
