Bill Text: CA SB1468 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Healing arts boards: informational and educational materials for prescribers of narcotics: federal “Three Day Rule.”

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Passed) 2024-09-22 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 488, Statutes of 2024. [SB1468 Detail]

Download: California-2023-SB1468-Amended.html

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Amended  IN  Senate  May 17, 2024

Amended  IN  Senate  March 20, 2024

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 1468

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Introduced by Senators Ochoa Bogh and Roth
(Coauthors: Senators Becker and McGuire)

February 16, 2024

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An act to add Article 10.8 (commencing with Section 750) to Chapter 1 of Division 2 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to healing arts.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1468, as amended, Ochoa Bogh. Healing arts boards: informational and educational materials for prescribers of narcotics: federal “Three Day Rule.”

Existing law regulates healing arts practitioners by various boards under the Department of Consumer Affairs. Existing federal regulations, known as the “Three Day Rule,” authorize a practitioner who is not specifically registered to conduct a narcotic treatment program to dispense not more than a 3-day supply of narcotic drugs, in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws, to one person or for one person’s use at one time for the purpose of initiating maintenance treatment or detoxification treatment while arrangements are being made for referral for treatment, as specified.

This bill would require each board that licenses a prescriber, as defined, to develop and biannually annually disseminate to each licensee informational and educational material regarding the “Three Day Rule,” and to post that material on their internet website. The bill would require the Medical Board of California to also biannually annually disseminate the material it develops to each acute care hospital in the state.

Digest Key

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

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Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Article 10.8 (commencing with Section 750) is added to Chapter 1 of Division 2 of the Business and Professions Code, to read:

Article  10.8. Three Day Rule for Narcotic Drug Prescriptions

750.

 (a) For purposes of this section, “prescriber” means a person authorized to write or issue a prescription pursuant to Section 11150 of the Health and Safety Code.

(b) (1) Each board that licenses a prescriber shall develop informational and educational material regarding the federal Drug Enforcement Administration’s “Three Day Rule,” as codified in subsection (b) of Section 1306.07 of Title 21 of the Code of Federal Regulations, in order to ensure prescriber awareness of existing medication-assisted treatment pathways to serve patients with substance use disorder and shall disseminate the informational and educational material to licensees biannually. disorder.

(2) Each board shall annually disseminate the informational and educational material developed pursuant to paragraph (1) to each licensed prescriber’s email address on file with the board.

(3) Each board shall post the informational and educational material developed pursuant to paragraph (1) on their internet website.

(c) The Medical Board of California shall also annually disseminate the informational and educational material it develops pursuant to subdivision (b) to each acute care hospital in the state biannually. state. The board may disseminate the informational and educational material to each acute care hospital in the state via email.

(d) The department and boards may consult with other state agencies as necessary to implement this section.