Bill Text: CA SB67 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Controlled substances: overdose reporting.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 11-1)
Status: (Passed) 2023-10-13 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 859, Statutes of 2023. [SB67 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB67-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Senate
April 24, 2023 |
Amended
IN
Senate
February 13, 2023 |
Introduced by Senator Seyarto |
January 05, 2023 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law establishes the Emergency Medical Services Authority, within the California Health and Human Services Agency, for purposes including the assessment, coordination, and improvement of the state’s emergency medical services system.
This bill would require an emergency medical services provider who treats and releases or transports an individual to a medical facility who is experiencing a suspected or an actual overdose to report the incident to the authority. The bill requires the authority to report the data gathered pursuant to the bill to
the Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program managed by the Washington/Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program.
Existing law establishes the State Department of Public Health, within the California Health and Human Services Agency, and vests the department with certain duties, powers, functions, jurisdiction, and responsibilities over specified public health programs.
This bill would require, on or before January 1, 2025, the department to report the overdose information reported to the Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program pursuant to this bill, as specified, to the Senate and Assembly Health committees.
Digest Key
Vote: 2/3 Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YESBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 11758.02 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:11758.02.
It is the intent of the Legislature that the overdose information gathered pursuant to this chapter be used for the purpose of making decisions regarding the allocation of public health and educational resources to communities adversely impacted by the use of drugs that lead to overdoses.SEC. 2.
Section 11758.03 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:11758.03.
(b)“Authority” means the Emergency Medical Services Authority.
(c)“Emergency medical services provider” means a person employed by a local EMS agency or its designee, as described by Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 1797.200) of Division 2.5 of the
Healthy and Safety Code, to provide prehospital emergency medical services, transportation, or both.
(d)“Coroner” means a person whose responsibilities include those described in Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 27460) of Part 3 of Division 2 of Title 3 of the Government Code.
(e)
(f)
SEC. 3.
Section 11758.04 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:(a)(1)An emergency medical services provider who treats and releases an individual or transports an individual to a medical
facility who is experiencing a suspected or an actual overdose shall report the incident to the authority.
(2)
11758.04.
(a) A coroner or medical examiner who evaluates an individual who died, in the coroner or medical examiner’s expert opinion, as the result of an overdose as a contributing factor, shall report the incident to the Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program managed by the Washington/Baltimore High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area program.(b)A report of an overdose made under this section shall
include the following:
(1)The date and time of the overdose.
(2)The approximate address where the overdose victim was initially encountered or where the overdose occurred.
(3)Whether an opioid overdose reversal drug was administered.
(4)Whether the overdose was fatal or nonfatal.
(c)If a person reports an overdose under this section, the person making the report
(d) The authority shall submit data gathered pursuant to this section to the Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program.
(e)
(f)
(a)On or before January 1, 2025, the department shall provide a report to the Senate Committee on Health and the Assembly Committee on Health regarding the reporting of overdose information to the Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program as required under Section 11758.04.
(b)The report required under subdivision (a) of this section shall include information regarding:
(1)The number of overdoses reported and the approximate locations where the overdoses occurred, including any clusters of overdoses.
(2)Who made the reports.
(3)How the reports were used for public health and public safety responses, the outcomes of the public health and public safety interventions, and the impact on affected communities.
(c)(1)A report to be submitted pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
(2)Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, this section is repealed on January 1, 2029.