AB 920 — Substance abuse recovery or treatment providers.

Summary

Existing law requires the State Department of Health Care Services to license and regulate alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities serving adults. Existing law authorizes the department to certify qualified alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment programs, as prescribed. Under existing law, the department regulates the quality of these programs, taking into consideration the significance of community-based programs to alcohol and other drug abuse recovery and the need to encourage opportunities for low-income and special needs populations to receive alcohol and other drug abuse recovery or treatment services. This bill would, beginning January 1, 2021, require an outpatient alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment program that provides those services to the public and is not otherwise licensed under existing law to be licensed by the department, except as specified. The bill would require the department to develop regulations to establish program licensure standards and would integrate existing quality assurance provisions into the licensure requirements. The bill would require the department to charge a fee that does not exceed the reasonable regulatory costs of administering the licensing program and issuing a license under these provisions. The bill would prohibit the practice or operation of an outpatient alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment program without obtaining a current valid license and would impose specified penalties for violations of that prohibition. Existing law requires the department to implement the Medi-Cal 2020 demonstration project, including the Drug Medi-Cal organized delivery system (DMC-ODS) that provides alcohol and drug use services to eligible persons and authorizes the department to enter into a Drug Medi-Cal Treatment Program contract with a county for the provision of those services within a county service area. This bill would deem a county DMC-ODS to be in compliance with the bill's licensure requirements and would exempt a Drug Medi-Cal Treatment Program contractor from those licensure requirements until January 1, 2023, or the date that the county becomes a DMC-ODS, whichever is earlier. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 11831.7 of the Health and Safety Code proposed by AB 919 to be operative only if this bill and AB 919 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.

Bill Text

• Enrolled 09/20/19 - Enrolled Current pdf September 20, 2019
• Amended 09/06/19 - Amended Senate pdf September 06, 2019
• Amended 06/25/19 - Amended Senate pdf June 25, 2019
• Amended 03/25/19 - Amended Assembly pdf March 25, 2019
• Introduced 02/20/19 - Introduced pdf February 20, 2019
• AB920 View text html

Action History

1. January 21, 2020

   Consideration of Governor's veto stricken from file.

2. October 12, 2019

   Vetoed by Governor.

3. September 26, 2019

   Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

4. September 13, 2019

   Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3566.).

5. September 13, 2019

   From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (September 13).

6. September 13, 2019

   Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 3552.)

7. September 13, 2019

   Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2.

8. September 13, 2019

   In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

9. September 13, 2019

   Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2926.).

10. September 12, 2019

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

11. September 12, 2019

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 12).

12. September 11, 2019

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (September 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

13. September 10, 2019

    Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.

14. September 10, 2019

    Joint Rules 61 and 62 suspended. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 2745.)

15. September 09, 2019

    Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(c).

16. September 09, 2019

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

17. September 06, 2019

    Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

18. September 05, 2019

    Ordered to third reading.

19. September 04, 2019

    Ordered to special consent calendar.

20. August 30, 2019

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

21. August 30, 2019

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30).

22. August 12, 2019

    In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

23. July 05, 2019

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

24. June 25, 2019

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.

25. May 16, 2019

    Referred to Com. on HEALTH.

26. May 06, 2019

    In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

27. May 06, 2019

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 67. Noes 1. Page 1504.)

28. April 25, 2019

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

29. April 24, 2019

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 23).

30. March 26, 2019

    Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.

31. March 25, 2019

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended.

32. March 25, 2019

    Referred to Com. on HEALTH.

33. February 21, 2019

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.

34. February 20, 2019

    Read first time. To print.

Sponsors

• Cottie Petrie-Norris · Primary
• Hill · Cosponsor
• Bates · Cosponsor

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