1179.105.
(a) The Department of Health Care Services shall, upon appropriation by the Legislature and until January 1, 2027, establish a pilot program to provide grants to the Counties of San Bernardino, Riverside, and Orange, for public awareness campaigns to spread awareness of existing programs by the department to distribute opioid antagonists approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration.(b) The program shall give funding preferences to the counties that have been slow to participate in the department’s naloxone distribution programs.
(c) Recipients of the grants shall perform targeted public awareness campaigns to entities that have been slow to use the department’s naloxone distribution programs, with a specific focus on populations with the highest risk for overdose in each county. Recipients shall also conduct and leverage current and future awareness campaigns to make parents and family members comfortable with asking for naloxone when they have a family member with addiction issues.
(d) (1) The pilot program shall collect information on how much funding was given and spent, and how many naloxone or other opioid antagonists were distributed following the implementation of the pilot program.
(2) The department shall, on July 1, 2025, and yearly thereafter until July 1, 2027, submit a report to the Legislature containing the information collected pursuant to this subdivision.
(3) A report to be submitted pursuant to this subdivision shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.