Bill Text: CA AB1996 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: Opioid antagonists: stadiums, concert venues, and amusement parks: overdose training.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-08 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. [AB1996 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB1996-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Opioid antagonists: stadiums, concert venues, and amusement parks: overdose training.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-08 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. [AB1996 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB1996-Introduced.html
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 introduced, 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 to notify these establishments of this training program. The bill would authorize the department to provide the overdose training program onsite.
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 program for stadium, concert venue, and amusement park staff to effectively identify and respond to an opioid overdose, including how to administer naloxone hydrochloride or other opioid antagonists. The department may provide the overdose training program onsite.(b) The department shall notify stadiums, concert venues, and amusement parks of the training program offered in subdivision (a).
