Legislation

Legislative Session 2025-2026

Assembly Bill 348 (Krell) – SUPPORT

This bill would establish presumptive eligibility for Full Service Partnership (FSP) programs for those with serious mental health challenges who are experiencing homelessness, being released from incarceration or being discharged from involuntary hospitalization.

Assembly Bill 1037 (Elhawary) – SUPPORT

This bill, otherwise known as the SUD Care Modernization Act, would allow opioid antagonist distributions to cover any type of overdose; remove training requirements to possess these antagonists; ensures anyone administering an opioid antagonist will be protected from legal consequences when acting with reasonable care in good faith, regardless of training; mandates that by 2027, the Department of Health Care Services must offer combined applications for drug recovery facilities and incidental medical services and additionally remove the abstinence requirement for admission; and requires drug program fees to continue to fund primary prevention programs following evidence-based practices.

Senate Bill 320 (Limón) – SUPPORT

Requires the Department of Justice to develop and launch a system to allow a California resident to voluntarily add their own name to the California Do Not Sell List with the goal of preventing a person on that list from being sold or transferred a firearm.

Senate Bill 531 (Rubio) – SUPPORT

This bill would ensure that students receive age-appropriate mental health education in elementary, middle, and high schools by amending existing law to include age-appropriate mental health education within the existing requirement that health instruction be taught in grades 1-6, and by requiring that mental health education be taught in grades 7-12.

Senate Bill 862 (Senate Committee on Health) – SUPPORT

This is the Senate Health Committee’s Omnibus bill that includes purely technical and noncontroversial amendments including cleaning-up the Commission’s name in the statutes that Proposition 1 missed.