Bill Text: CA AB2081 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
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Bill Title: Substance abuse: recovery and treatment programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Enrolled) 2024-08-27 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m. [AB2081 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB2081-Amended.html
SECTION 1. Section 11831.10 is added to the Health and Safety Code , immediately following Section 11831.9 , to read: 11831.10.
Bill Title: Substance abuse: recovery and treatment programs.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Enrolled) 2024-08-27 - Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m. [AB2081 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB2081-Amended.html
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2081
Introduced by Assembly Member Davies |
February 05, 2024 |
An act to add Section 11831.10 11831.5 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to substance abuse treatment.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2081, as amended, Davies.
Substance abuse: recovery and treatment programs.
Existing law grants the State Department of Health Care Services the sole authority in state government to license adult alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities. The department is authorized to issue a license to specified types of facilities if certain criteria are met. Existing law requires licensees to report specified events and incidents to the department, including, among others, the death of a resident at a licensed facility. Existing law authorizes the department to investigate allegations of violations of governing law and take action upon a finding of a violation, as specified.
This bill would require an operator of a licensed alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facility or certified alcohol or other drug program to include a disclosure on its internet website if a legal, disciplinary, or other
enforcement action has been brought by the department and the facility or program was determined to be in violation. The bill would require the internet website disclosure to include the date and nature of the violation, and require the disclosure to be posted no later than 14 business days after the determination of violation. The bill would impose a $2,500 civil penalty for failure to comply with the internet website posting requirement. on its internet website and intake form paperwork a disclosure that an individual may check the internet website of the State Department of Health Care Services to confirm whether the facility’s license or program’s certification has been placed in probationary status, been subject to a temporary suspension order, been revoked, or the operator has been given a notice of operation in violation of law. The bill would require the disclosure to include a link to the department’s internet
website that contains the Probationary Status, Temporary Suspension Order, Revoked and Notice of Operation in Violation of Law Program List. The bill would authorize a violation of this requirement to be subject to penalty imposed by the department.
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Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 11831.5 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:11831.5.
(a) An operator of a licensed alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facility, as defined in Section 11834.02, or a certified alcohol or other drug program shall include on its internet website and intake form paperwork a disclosure that an individual may check the internet website of the Department of Health Care Services to confirm whether the facility’s license or program’s certification has been placed in probationary status, been subject to a temporary suspension order, been revoked, or the operator has been given a notice of operation in violation of law. The disclosure shall include a link to the department’s internet website that contains the Probationary Status, Temporary Suspension Order, Revoked and Notice of Operation in Violation of Law Program List.(b) A violation of subdivision (a) shall be subject to penalty by the department pursuant to Section 11831.7.
(a)An operator of a licensed alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facility, as defined in Section 11834.02, or a certified alcohol or other drug program shall include a disclosure on its internet website if a legal, disciplinary, or other enforcement action has been brought by the department and the facility or program has been determined through that action to be in violation of this chapter. The disclosure shall include the date of the violation and nature of the violation, and shall be posted within 14 business days following the determination of violation.
(b)A violation of subdivision (a) shall be subject to a two-thousand-five-hundred-dollar ($2,500) civil penalty.