In 2022, the Legislature enacted SB 367, which required all Community College District governing boards and the Trustees of the California State University to inform students about opioids and require the campus health centers to take action to distribute opioid overdose reversal medications. SB 367 required all Community College District governing boards and Trustees of the California State University to provide their students with educational and preventive information provided by the State Department of Public Health about opioid overdose and the use and location of opioid overdose reversal medication. This information must be provided as part of established campus orientations. The Community College District governing boards and the Trustees of the California State University must require their campus health centers to apply to use the statewide standing order issued by the State Public Health Officer to distribute dosages of a federally approved opioid overdose reversal medication, and to participate in the Naloxone Distribution Project administered by the State Department of Health Care Services. Upon approval, the campus health centers must distribute federally approved opioid overdose reversal medications obtained through the Naloxone Distribution Project. The University of California is requested to do the same and meet the same requirements if it participates.
AB 461 requires all Community College District governing boards and the Trustees of the California State University to provide their students with information about the use and location of fentanyl test strips as part of established campus orientations and to notify students of the presence and location of fentanyl test strips though another method such as email. Community College District governing boards and the Trustees of the California State University must require their campus health centers to stock and distribute fentanyl test strips along with written instructions on how to properly use the fentanyl test strips. University of California is requested to do the same and meet the same requirements if it participates.
(AB 461 amends Section 67384 of the Education Code.)