Bill Text: CA AB941 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Controlled substances: psychedelic-assisted therapy.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-07-01 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB941 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB941-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 16, 2023 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Waldron |
February 14, 2023 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law, the California Uniform Controlled Substances Act, regulates the distribution and use of controlled substances, as defined. The act authorizes a hospital that does not employ a resident pharmacist to purchase controlled substances as specified to provide a supply of controlled substances necessary to handle emergency cases.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Article 5 (commencing with Section 11260) is added to Chapter 5 of Division 10 of the Health and Safety Code, to read:Article 5. End Veteran Suicide Act
11260.
This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the End Veteran Suicide Act.11260.01.
(a) A licensed professional clinical counselor may administer controlled substances as part of psychedelic-assisted therapy to treat a combat veteran who has a traumatic brain injury or who is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder or addiction.In order to provide a supply of controlled substances necessary to handle emergency cases, a hospital that does not employ a resident pharmacist and that
is under the supervision of a licensed physician, may purchase controlled substances on federal order forms for that institution, under the name of the hospital. The supply shall be made available to a registered nurse for administration to patients in emergency cases, upon direction of a licensed physician.