Bill Text: CA AB675 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Controlled substances.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2024-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB675 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB675-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 23, 2023 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Soria |
February 13, 2023 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law establishes the California Health and Human Services Agency, under the direction of the Secretary of California Health and Human Services, which includes, among other departments, the State Department of Public Health and the State Department of Health Care Services. Existing law provides for various programs to reduce the use of, and harm caused by, controlled substances, including opioids. Existing law requires the agency to establish a grant program to reduce fentanyl overdoses and use throughout the state by giving out 6 one-time grants to increase local efforts in education, testing, recovery, and support services, as specified.
This bill would make a technical, nonsubstantive change to that provision.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 11370.1 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:11370.1.
(a) Notwithstanding Section 11350 or 11377 or any other provision of law, every person who unlawfully possesses any amount of a substance containing cocaine base, a substance containing cocaine, a substance containing heroin, a substance containing a heroin analog, a substance containing fentanyl, a substance containing a fentanyl analog, a substance containing methamphetamine, a crystalline substance containing phencyclidine, a liquid substance containing phencyclidine, plant material containing phencyclidine, or a hand-rolled cigarette treated with phencyclidine while armed with a loaded, operable firearm is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three, or four years.SEC. 2.
No reimbursement is required by this act pursuant to Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution because the only costs that may be incurred by a local agency or school district will be incurred because this act creates a new crime or infraction, eliminates a crime or infraction, or changes the penalty for a crime or infraction, within the meaning of Section 17556 of the Government Code, or changes the definition of a crime within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XIII B of the California Constitution.(a)The California Health and Human Services Agency shall establish a grant program to reduce fentanyl overdoses and use throughout the state. Six one-time grants shall be made: two in northern California, two in the central valley, and two in southern California.
(b)Grant moneys may be used for any of the following purposes:
(1)Education programs in local schools.
(2)Increasing testing abilities for fentanyl.
(3)Overdose prevention and recovery programs, including making naloxone or other overdose recovery drugs more available in the community.
(4)Increasing social services and substance use recovery services to those addicted to fentanyl or other opioids.
(c)A local jurisdiction or agency, or a group comprised of local jurisdictions and agencies working in concert, shall submit an application and plan to the state agency in a form required by the state agency. The state agency shall award grants based on need, evidence-based likelihood of success, and the number of people proposed to be served.