Bill Text: CA AB1233 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Substance abuse: Naloxone Distribution Project: tribal governments.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-10-08 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 570, Statutes of 2023. [AB1233 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB1233-Amended.html

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Amended  IN  Assembly  March 16, 2023

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 1233

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Introduced by Assembly Member Waldron

February 16, 2023

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An act to amend Section 11999.20 of add Part 6.25 (commencing with Section 1179.805) to Division 1 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to substance abuse.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1233, as amended, Waldron. Substance abuse testing and treatment. Provision of Opioid Antagonists to Tribal Governments.

Existing law establishes the California Health and Human Services Agency (agency). Existing law requires a department within the agency, subject to an appropriation, to award funding to local health departments, local government agencies, or on a competitive basis to community-based organizations, regional opioid prevention coalitions, or both, to support or establish programs that provide Naloxone to first responders and to at-risk opioid users.

This bill would require the agency to provide at least two doses of naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist to each tribal government in the state if the tribal government agrees to store it at a specified location and there is a person present at that location trained in how to use it.

Existing law, as added by the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000, adopted by voters as Proposition 36 at the November 7, 2000, statewide general election, requires that persons convicted of certain nonviolent drug possession offenses be granted probation and participate in and complete an appropriate drug treatment program as a condition of that probation.

Existing law, inoperative on July 1, 2013, requires the State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs to administer and award grants to counties, based on an approved plan, to supplement funding provided under the above-described act for the purpose of funding substance abuse testing for eligible offenders.

This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to one of those provisions.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NOYES   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Part 6.25 (commencing with Section 1179.805) is added to Division 1 of the Health and Safety Code, to read:

PART 6.25. Provision of Opioid Antagonists to Tribal Governments

1179.805.

 The California Health and Human Services Agency shall provide at least two doses of naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist to each tribal government in the state if the tribal government agrees to both of the following conditions:

(a) As deemed most appropriate or reasonable by the tribal government, the doses shall be stored at one of the following locations on the reservation:

(1) A charter school.

(2) An educational center.

(3) A health center.

(b) There shall be a person trained on how to use the opioid antagonist at the location chosen pursuant to subdivision (a).

SECTION 1.Section 11999.20 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:

11999.20.

(a)(1) The State Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs shall administer and award grants to counties to supplement funding provided under the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000 for the purpose of funding substance abuse testing for eligible offenders.

(2)Funding shall be used to supplement, rather than supplant, funding for existing substance abuse testing programs.

(b)This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2013.