Bill Text: CA AB2768 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Mental health and substance use disorders: database of facilities.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-08-11 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB2768 Detail]
Download: California-2021-AB2768-Amended.html
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Amended
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March 24, 2022 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2768
| Introduced by Assembly Member Waldron |
February 18, 2022 |
An act to add Section 5760 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to mental health.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2768, as amended, Waldron.
Mental health and substance use disorders: database of facilities.
Existing law establishes a system of mental health programs, largely administered through the counties, to provide mental health and substance use disorder services in the state. Existing law regulates the facilities that provide these services, including acute psychiatric hospitals, residential substance abuse treatment facilities, and outpatient programs.
This bill would require the California Health and Human Services Agency, either on its own or through the Behavioral Health Task Force established by the Governor, to create an ad hoc committee to study how to develop, in real time, an develop a real-time, internet-based database to collect, aggregate, and
system, usable by hospitals, clinics, law enforcement, paramedics and emergency medical technicians (EMTs), and other health care providers as deemed appropriate, to display information about available beds in inpatient psychiatric facilities, crisis stabilization units, residential community mental health facilities, and residential alcoholism or substance abuse treatment facilities in order to facilitate the identification and designation of available facilities for the transfer to, and temporary treatment of
of,
individuals in mental health or substance use disorder crisis.
