Bill Text: CA SB1468 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Healing arts boards: informational and educational materials for prescribers of narcotics: federal “Three Day Rule.”
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-22 - Set for hearing April 29. [SB1468 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB1468-Amended.html
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Amended
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Senate
March 20, 2024 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 1468
| Introduced by Senators Ochoa Bogh and Roth |
February 16, 2024 |
An act to amend Section 108 add Article 10.8 (commencing with Section 750) to Chapter 1 of Division 2 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to professions and vocations. healing arts.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1468, as amended, Ochoa Bogh.
Department of Consumer Affairs. Healing arts boards: informational and educational materials for prescribers of narcotics: federal “Three Day Rule.”
Existing law regulates healing arts practitioners by various boards under the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing federal regulations, known as the “Three Day Rule,” authorize a practitioner who is not specifically registered to conduct a narcotic treatment program to dispense not more than a 3-day supply of narcotic drugs, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws, to one person or for one person’s use at one time for the purpose of initiating maintenance treatment or detoxification treatment while arrangements are being made for referral for treatment, as specified.
This bill would require each board that licenses a prescriber, as defined, to develop and biannually disseminate to each licensee informational and educational material
regarding the “Three Day Rule,” and would require the Medical Board of California to also biannually disseminate the material it develops to each acute care hospital in the state.
Existing law establishes the Department of Consumer Affairs, which is comprised of boards that license and regulate various professions and vocations. Under existing law, each board within the department exists as a separate unit with specified functions.
This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to these provisions.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Article 10.8 (commencing with Section 750) is added to Chapter 1 of Division 2 of the Business and Professions Code, to read:Article 10.8. Three Day Rule for Narcotic Drug Prescriptions
750.
(a) For purposes of this section, “prescriber” means a person authorized to write or issue a prescription pursuant to Section 11150 of the Health and Safety Code.(b) Each board that licenses a prescriber shall develop informational and educational material regarding the federal Drug Enforcement Administration’s “Three Day Rule,” as codified in subsection (b) of Section 1306.07 of Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations, in order to ensure prescriber awareness of existing medication-assisted treatment pathways to serve patients with substance use disorder and shall disseminate the informational and educational material to licensees biannually.
(c) The Medical Board of
California shall also disseminate the informational and educational material it develops pursuant to subdivision (b) to each acute care hospital in the state biannually.
(d) The department and boards may consult with other state agencies as necessary to implement this section.
Each board within the department exists as a separate unit, and has the functions of setting standards, holding meetings, and setting dates thereof, preparing and conducting examinations, passing upon applicants, conducting investigations of violations of laws under its jurisdiction, issuing citations and holding hearings for the revocation of licenses, and the imposing of penalties following those hearings, insofar as these powers are given by statute to each respective board.
