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AB-2150 • 2026

Employment: training requirements: opioid overdose reversals.

Employment: training requirements: opioid overdose reversals.

Healthcare Labor
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Haney
Last action
2026-04-09
Official status
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific details on the consequences of non-compliance with the training requirement.

Training for Opioid Overdose Reversal

This law requires employers who need their workers to have CPR certification also require them to learn how to use naloxone, a medicine that can save lives during an opioid overdose.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires employers who ask employees to get CPR certification to also make sure those employees take online video training on using naloxone for reversing opioid overdoses.
  • Makes the Emergency Medical Services Authority responsible for overseeing the curriculum of this new training requirement.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Employers who require CPR certification for their employees
  • Employees required to take CPR certification by their employers

Terms To Know

naloxone
A medicine that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose and save a person's life.
Emergency Medical Services Authority
An organization in California that coordinates emergency medical services across the state.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill does not specify what happens if employers do not follow this new training requirement.
  • It is unclear how many businesses will be affected by this change since it only applies to those who already require CPR certification for their employees.

Bill History

  1. 2026-04-09 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  2. 2026-03-23 California Legislative Information

    Re-referred to Com. on L. & E.

  3. 2026-03-19 California Legislative Information

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

  4. 2026-03-19 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Com. on L. & E.

  5. 2026-02-19 California Legislative Information

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.

  6. 2026-02-18 California Legislative Information

    Read first time. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 2150, as amended, Haney.
Employment:
employees and independent contractors.
training requirements: opioid overdose reversals.
Existing law establishes the Emergency Medical Services Authority and requires the authority to coordinate state activities concerning emergency medical services.
Existing law grants the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, which is within the Department of Industrial Relations, jurisdiction over all employment and places of employment, and the power necessary to enforce and administer all occupational health and safety laws and standards. Existing law, the California Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1973 (OSHA), requires employers to comply with certain safety and health standards, as specified, and charges the division with enforcement of the act.
Exiting law requires the division, before December 1, 2027, to submit a draft rulemaking proposal to revise specified regulations on first aid materials and emergency medical services to require first aid materials in a workplace to include naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration to reverse opioid overdose and instructions for using the opioid antagonist. Existing law requires the standards board to consider for adoption revised standards for the standards described above on or before December 1, 2028.
This bill would require an employer operating in this state that requires cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) certification training of its employees to also require those employees to take an online video module training on the use of naloxone to increase the rate of opioid overdose reversals, as prescribed. The bill would require the Emergency Medical
Services Authority to oversee the training curriculum required pursuant to these provisions.
Existing law considers a person providing labor or services for remuneration, for purposes of the Labor Code and the Unemployment Insurance Code, and for the purposes of wage orders of the Industrial Welfare Commission, to be an employee rather than an independent contractor unless the hiring entity demonstrates that certain conditions are satisfied, as specified. Existing law exempts a bona fide business-to-business contracting relationship, as defined, from this presumption if specified conditions are met, including, among other things, that an individual acting as a sole proprietor contracts to provide services to another such business.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the provisions that exempt business-to-business relationships from the presumption described above.

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