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AB-1627 Opioid overdose prevention.(2021-2022)

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Date Published: 06/20/2022 09:00 PM
AB1627:v95#DOCUMENT

Amended  IN  Senate  June 20, 2022
Amended  IN  Assembly  April 21, 2022
Amended  IN  Assembly  March 31, 2022
Amended  IN  Assembly  March 24, 2022

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill
No. 1627

Introduced by Assembly Member Ramos
(Principal coauthor: Senator Ochoa Bogh)
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Lee, Petrie-Norris, Villapudua, and Waldron)

January 11, 2022

An act to add and repeal Part 6.5 (commencing with Section 1179.105) of Division 1 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to opioid overdose prevention.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 1627, as amended, Ramos. Opioid overdose prevention.
Existing law creates the State Department of Public Health and vests it with duties, powers, functions, jurisdiction, and responsibilities with regard to the advancement of public health. Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health, subject to an appropriation in the Budget Act of 2016, to award funding to local health departments, local government agencies, or on a competitive basis to other organizations, as specified, to support or establish programs that provide naloxone to first responders and to at-risk opioid users through programs that serve at-risk drug users.

This bill would require the State Department of Public Health to, until January 1, 2025, create a pilot project in the Counties of San Bernardino, Riverside, and Orange, to provide an opioid antagonist approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration, free of charge, to individuals who attend a training program on the administration of that opioid antagonist, as specified. The bill would require counties participating in the pilot project to send specified statistics to the State Department of Public Health, including the number of opioid antagonist units distributed and the decrease or increase of opioid-related overdoses, and would require the department to submit an annual report to the Legislature containing those statistics.

This bill would require the Department of Health Care Services to, 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. The bill would require counties participating in the program to perform targeted public awareness campaigns, and would require the pilot program to collect specified information and send yearly reports to the Legislature, as specified.
Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 Part 6.5 (commencing with Section 1179.105) is added to Division 1 of the Health and Safety Code, to read:

PART 6.5. Opioid Overdose Prevention

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.

1179.106.
 This part shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2028, and as of that date is repealed.

SECTION 1.Part 6.5 (commencing with Section 1179.105) is added to Division 1 of the Health and Safety Code, to read:
6.5.Opioid Overdose Prevention
1179.105.

(a)The State Department of Public Health shall, until January 1, 2025, create a pilot project to provide an opioid antagonist approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration, free of charge, to individuals who participate and complete training programs conducted jointly by the local behavioral health department and local county sheriff for the administration of an opioid antagonist approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration. The pilot project shall be established in, and open to participation by, the Counties of San Bernardino, Riverside, and Orange.

(b)(1)Any training program under subdivision (a) shall be conducted by an individual who has completed an opioid overdose prevention and treatment training program as defined under Section 1714.22 of the Civil Code.

(2)Any training program under subdivision (a) shall adhere to training subjects in Section 1714.22 of the Civil Code.

(c)(1)The pilot program shall collect all of the following statistics:

(A)The number of individuals who participated in and completed the training programs conducted jointly by the local behavioral health department and local county sheriffs’ office.

(B)The number of opioid antagonist units distributed under the pilot program.

(C)The decrease or increase of opioid-related overdoses and, if indicated, opioid-related deaths for each year of the pilot program using the January 1, 2023, numbers as a benchmark.

(D)The decrease or increase in the number of emergency department overdose-related visits for each year of the pilot program using the January 1, 2023, number as a benchmark.

(2)Counties participating in the program shall send a quarterly report to the State Department of Public Health for the purpose of collecting the statistics described in paragraph (1).

(3)The State Department of Public Health shall, on July 1, 2024, and on July 1, 2025, submit a report to the Legislature containing the information collected pursuant to this subdivision.

(4)A report to be submitted pursuant to this subdivision shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.

1179.107.

This part shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2026, and as of that date is repealed.