Bill Text: CA AB462 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Overdose response teams.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Failed) 2024-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB462 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB462-Amended.html
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Amended
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March 02, 2023 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 462
| Introduced by Assembly Member Ramos |
February 06, 2023 |
An act to add and repeal Article 3.7 (commencing with Section 11184) Chapter 2 of Title 1 of Part 4 of the Penal Code, relating to overdose response teams.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 462, as amended, Ramos.
Overdose response teams.
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 authorize the Counties of San Bernardino, Riverside, and Orange, until January 1, 2029, would, until January 1, 2029, establish the Overdose Response Team Fund, to be available upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the administration of grants by the Board of
State and Community Corrections to county sheriffs’ departments’ task forces established for overdose response. The bill would authorize a department receiving a grant to establish and implement overdose response teams with the sheriff’s sheriffs’ departments of those counties. The bill would require the teams to only respond to and investigate overdose deaths and nonfatal overdoses involving juveniles and multiple victims, with a focus on overdose deaths related to fentanyl. overdoses. The bill would require counties
participating in these programs to send annual reports to the Assembly Select Committee on Fentanyl, Opioid Addiction, and Overdose Prevention,
Committee on Public Safety, including the number of arrests of drug dealers in each county, for specified crimes, the amount of fentanyl and opioids seized in each county, and the number of units of opioid antagonists found at each overdose scene. administered, distributed, or recovered at each overdose scene.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Article 3.7 (commencing with Section 11184) is added to Chapter 2 of Title 1 of Part 4 of the Penal Code, to read:Article 3.7. Overdose Response Teams
11184.
(a)(b) The Board of State and Community Corrections shall administer overdose response team grants from the fund, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to county sheriffs’ departments’ tasks forces established for overdose response.
Preference in the Overdose Response Team Fund shall be given to existing overdose response teams, including, but not limited to, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Overdose Response Team.
(c) The sheriffs’ departments of Counties of San Bernardino, Riverside, and Orange, a county receiving a grant pursuant to subdivision (b), until January 1, 2029, may create pilot programs establishing and implementing overdose response teams to combat the ongoing opioid crisis in local communities.
(b)
(d) The overdose response teams shall only respond to and investigate fatal overdose deaths and nonfatal overdoses deaths, and may respond to and investigate nonfatal overdoses, including those involving juveniles and multiple victims. The responses shall focus on overdoses related to fentanyl.
(c)
(e) (1) A pilot program created pursuant to this section shall collect all of the following statistics:
(A) The number of peace officers assigned to the overdose response team, and any changes to the number of peace officers assigned to the overdose response team.
(B) The number of fatal overdoses investigated by the overdose response team.
(C) The number of nonfatal overdoses investigated by the overdose response team.
(A)
(D) Number of arrests of drug
dealers in each county pursuant to Section 11351 Sections 11351, 11352, 11353, and 11379.6 of the Health and Safety Code. Code as a result of investigations by the overdose response team.
(B)
(E) Amount of fentanyl and opioids seized in each county.
as a result of investigations by the overdose response team.
(C)
(F) The number of units of opioid antagonists approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration found at each overdose scene.
administered, distributed, or recovered at each overdose scene.
(G) Any additional data that is relevant and appropriate to describe the activities conducted under the pilot program.
(2) (A) Counties participating in the program shall, on July 1, 2025, and on July 1 each year thereafter, send a report to the Assembly Select Committee on Fentanyl, Opioid Addiction, and Overdose Prevention
Committee on Public Safety containing the statistics described in paragraph (1). this subdivision.
(B) The report to be submitted pursuant to this paragraph shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
