Bill Text: CA SB67 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Controlled substances: overdose reporting.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 11-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-10-13 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 859, Statutes of 2023. [SB67 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB67-Introduced.html
Introduced by Senator Seyarto |
January 05, 2023 |
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Vote: 2/3 Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 11758.02 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:11758.02.
It is the intent of the Legislature that the overdose information gathered pursuant to this chapter be used for the purpose of making decisions regarding the allocation of public health and educational resources to communities adversely impacted by the use of drugs that lead to overdoses.SEC. 2.
Section 11758.03 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:11758.03.
(a) “Department” means the State Department ofSEC. 3.
Section 11758.04 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:11758.04.
(a) (1) An emergency medical services provider who treats and releases an individual or transports an individual to a medical facility who is experiencing a suspected or an actual overdose shall report the incident to the authority.SEC. 4.
Section 11758.05 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:11758.05.
(a) On or before January 1, 2025, the department shall provide a report to the Senate Committee on Health and the Assembly Committee on Health regarding the reporting of overdose information to the Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program as required under Section 11758.04.SEC. 5.
Section 11758.06 of the Health and Safety Code is repealed.(a)On or before July 1, 2004, and on or before January 1, 2009, as specified in subdivision (c), the department shall place on its Internet Web site information on drug overdose trends in California, including county and state death rates, from existing data, in order to ascertain changes in the causes or rates of fatal and nonfatal drug overdoses for the preceding five
years.
(b)The information required by subdivision (a) shall include, to the extent available, data on all of the following:
(1)Trends in drug overdose death rates by county or city, or both.
(2)Suggested improvements in data collection.
(3)A description of interventions that may be effective in reducing the rate of fatal or nonfatal drug overdoses.
(c)The information required by subdivision (a) to be placed on the department’s Internet Web site shall remain on the Internet Web site for a period of not less than six months. The department shall update the information required pursuant to subdivision (a) and shall place the updated information on the Internet Web site on or before
January 1, 2009, for a period of not less than six months.
(d)This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2013.