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AB-1841 Student safety: opioid overdose reversal medication: student housing facilities.(2023-2024)



As Amends the Law Today


SECTION 1.

 Section 67384 of the Education Code is amended to read:

67384.
 (a) The governing board of each community college district and the Trustees of the California State University shall, and the Regents of the University of California are requested to, do both of the following:
(1) In collaboration with campus-based and community-based recovery advocacy organizations, provide, as part of established campus orientations, educational and preventive information provided by the State Department of Public Health about opioid overdose and information about the use and location of fentanyl test strips and opioid overdose reversal medication to students at all campuses of their respective segments.
(2) Notify  Notify, by sending an email at the beginning of each academic semester or term,  students of the presence and location of fentanyl test strips through a method such as email. and opioid overdose reversal medication. 
(b) The governing board of each community college district and the Trustees of the California State University shall, and the Regents of the University of California are requested to, require that each campus health center located on a campus within their respective segments do all of the following:
(1) Apply to use the statewide standing order issued by the State Public Health Officer to distribute dosages of a federally approved opioid overdose reversal medication, and to participate in the Naloxone Distribution Project administered by the State Department of Health Care Services.
(2) Upon approval for use of the statewide standing order and participation in the Naloxone Distribution Project, distribute a federally approved opioid overdose reversal medication obtained through the Naloxone Distribution Project in accordance with its terms and conditions.
(3) Stock fentanyl test strips in the campus health center and distribute the fentanyl test strips through the campus health center. Written instructions on how to properly use the fentanyl test strips shall be distributed together with the fentanyl test strips.

SEC. 2.

 Section 67384.5 is added to the Education Code, to read:

67384.5.
 (a) The governing board of each community college district and the Trustees of the California State University shall do all of the following:
(1) Notify students, by sending an email at the beginning of each academic semester or term, that each residential advisor and house manager, or the equivalent position, has received opioid overdose prevention and treatment training consistent with Naloxone Distribution Project terms and conditions.
(2) Require that each campus train all students who live on campus on the use of opioid overdose reversal medication during student orientation for each academic semester or term.
(3) Require that each campus health center located on a campus within their respective segments distribute, at the beginning of each academic semester or term, two doses of a federally approved opioid overdose reversal medication obtained through the Naloxone Distribution Project in accordance with its terms and conditions, to each university- or college-affiliated student housing facility and each university- or college-affiliated fraternity or sorority facility.
(4) Require each university- or college-affiliated student housing facility to maintain unexpired doses of the opioid overdose reversal medication in two different accessible locations in a lockable, emergency-breakable box and ensure that each residential advisor, or the equivalent position, and each resident are aware of the locations of the lockable, emergency-breakable boxes.
(5) Require each university- or college-affiliated fraternity or sorority facility to maintain unexpired doses of the opioid overdose reversal medication in an accessible location and ensure that each house manager, or the equivalent position, is aware of the location of the opioid overdose reversal medication.
(6) (A) Ensure that each residential advisor and each house manager, or the equivalent positions, receives opioid overdose prevention and treatment training consistent with Naloxone Distribution Project terms and conditions.
(B) The training required by subparagraph (A) shall include instruction that, at the beginning of each academic semester or term, each residential advisor and house manager, or the equivalent positions, shall inform students that they have training to use opioid overdose reversal medication and access to it in the event of an overdose.
(b) The institution’s primary concern in implementing paragraphs (4) and (5) of subdivision (a) shall be student safety. Disciplinary measures shall not be imposed for any violation of the institution’s student conduct policy regarding drug possession, use, or treatment that occurs at or near the time of the incident where the residential advisor or house manager, or the equivalent position, or resident administers a dose of a federally approved opioid overdose reversal medication obtained through the Naloxone Distribution Project in accordance with its terms and conditions.
SEC. 3.
 If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.