California Overdose Death and Addiction Reduction Act of 2025.

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California Overdose Death and Addiction Reduction Act of 2025

This act requires the California Health and Human Services Agency to direct a task force or successor group to create recommendations for an implementation plan aimed at reducing alcohol- and drug-related addiction deaths by 50% by 2031.

What This Bill Does

• Requires the California Health and Human Services Agency to direct the Behavioral Health Task Force, or a successor group, to create recommendations for an implementation plan to reduce alcohol- and drug-related addiction deaths by 50% by 2031.
• Establishes a state advisory group to advise on these recommendations, including representatives from health care services, experts, and providers.
• Requires the agency to adopt the task force's recommendations and consider quality measures for effective service delivery.
• Directs the agency to report to the Governor and Legislature by July 1, 2033, on how well the goal was met and what further steps should be taken.

Who It Names or Affects

• The California Health and Human Services Agency
• Behavioral health task force members and their successors
• State advisory group members

Terms To Know

Task Force

A group of experts appointed to study a specific issue, in this case, behavioral health issues.

Advisory Group

A committee that provides advice and recommendations on policy matters related to reducing addiction deaths.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify funding for the implementation of its requirements.
• It is unclear how the task force will be selected or what criteria they must meet.
• There are no penalties specified if the goal of reducing addiction deaths by 50% is not met.

Official Summary Text

SB 548, as amended, Reyes.
California Overdose Death and Addiction Reduction Act of 2025.
Existing law establishes the California Health and Human Services Agency, which includes departments charged with the administration of health, social, and other human services. Under existing law, the Legislature finds that state government has an affirmative role in alleviating problems related to the inappropriate use of alcoholic beverages and other drug use and that its major objective is protection of the public health and safety, particularly where problems related to inappropriate alcohol use and other drug use are likely to cause harm to individuals, families, and the community.
The agency convened the Behavioral Health Task Force to inform its work on behavioral health issues across the state.
This bill, the California Overdose
Death and Addiction Reduction Act of 2025, would require the California Health and Human Services Agency, on or before January 1, 2028, to
direct the task force, or a successor group, to
create a set of recommendations to support
a five-year
an
implementation plan for reducing alcohol- and drug-related addiction deaths by 50%
by 2031 and convene a state advisory group for the purposes of advising the agency on those recommendations.
on or before 5 years from the date the task force provides the recommendations to the agency, but no later than January
1, 2033.
The bill would
require the advisory group to consist of
authorize the task force to include additional members as deemed appropriate by the agency, including
representatives from specified entities,
including the State Department of Health Care Services,
experts, and providers,
among others. The bill would require the agency to adopt the recommendations provided by the
advisory group
task force
and require the agency to consider specified information, including quality and performance measures to establish minimum standards for effective delivery of services.
The bill would require the
agency
agency, on or before July 1, 2033,
to provide the Governor and the Legislature a report of the findings and recommendations related to the extent that the
2031
2033
goal was met and how effective the recommendations of the
advisory group
task force
were, and recommendations for beyond
2031
2033
that will continue to reduce overdose deaths and addiction.
The bill would also make related findings and declarations.

Current Bill Text

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