California Assembly Bill 2376
Session 20232024
Chemical dependency recovery hospitals.
Active
Passed Assembly on May 22, 2024
Origin Chamber
Assembly
Type
Bill
Bill Number
2376
State
California
Session
20232024
Motion Text
AB 2376 Bains Assembly Third Reading
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Summary
Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation by the State Department of Public Health of certain health facilities, including a chemical dependency recovery hospital, which is defined to mean a health facility that provides 24-hour inpatient care for persons who have a dependency on alcohol or other drugs, or both alcohol and other drugs. Existing law requires all beds in a chemical dependency recovery hospital to be designated for chemical dependency recovery services, as specified. Existing law authorizes chemical dependency recovery services to be provided in a freestanding facility, within a hospital building that only provides chemical recovery services, or within a distinct part of a hospital, as defined. Existing law also authorizes chemical dependency recovery services to be provided within a hospital building that has been removed from general acute care use. Existing law requires chemical dependency recovery services to comply with specified regulatory requirements for basic services, and optional services if the facility is approved by the department to provide them. Existing law only authorizes the colocation of chemical dependency recovery services as a distinct part with other services or distinct parts of its parent hospital, as specified. Existing law requires a separately licensed chemical dependency recovery hospital that is not a distinct part of a general acute care hospital to have agreements with one or more general acute care hospitals to provide specified additional services.
This bill would expand the definition of "chemical dependency recovery services" to include medications for addiction treatment and medically managed voluntary inpatient detoxification. The bill would delete the requirement for chemical dependency recovery as a supplemental service to be provided in a distinct part of a general acute care hospital or acute psychiatric hospital, and instead would authorize those facilities to provide chemical dependency recovery services within the same building or in a separate building on campus that meets specified structural requirements of a freestanding chemical dependency recovery hospital. The bill would require a general acute care hospital, acute psychiatric hospital, or distinct unit thereof, providing chemical dependency recovery services that meet specified federal program requirements, to provide the confidentiality protections required by specified federal regulations to the hospital's or unit's patients with a substance use disorder. The bill would delete the requirements for chemical dependency services to be provided in a hospital building that provides only chemical dependency recovery services, or has been removed from general acute care use.
02/12/24 - Introduced
February 12, 2024
03/21/24 - Amended Assembly
March 21, 2024
07/03/24 - Amended Senate
July 3, 2024
04/12/24- Assembly Health
April 12, 2024
05/06/24- Assembly Appropriations
May 6, 2024
05/20/24- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS
May 20, 2024
06/24/24- Senate Health
June 24, 2024
07/01/24- Senate Health
July 1, 2024
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07/03/2024
Senate
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
07/03/2024
Senate
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 3).
06/26/2024
Senate
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
06/05/2024
Senate
Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
05/23/2024
Senate
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
05/22/2024
Assembly
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0.)
05/20/2024
Assembly
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
05/16/2024
Assembly
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 16).
05/08/2024
Assembly
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
04/17/2024
Assembly
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
04/01/2024
Assembly
Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
03/21/2024
Assembly
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended.
03/21/2024
Assembly
Referred to Com. on HEALTH.
02/13/2024
Assembly
From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
02/12/2024
Assembly
Read first time. To print.
Sources
Record Created
Feb 13, 2024 12:17:26 PM
Record Updated
Jul 4, 2024 12:24:19 PM