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		<ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Assembly Member Wallis</ns0:AuthorText>
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		<ns0:Title> An act to add Part 6.23 (commencing with Section 1179.803) to Division 1 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to opioids.</ns0:Title>
		<ns0:RelatingClause>opioids</ns0:RelatingClause>
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			<ns0:Subject>Personal opioid drug deactivation and disposal systems.</ns0:Subject>
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			<html:p>Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health, subject to an appropriation, to award naloxone grant funding to local health departments, local government agencies, or others in order to reduce the rate of fatal overdose from opioids.</html:p>
			<html:p>This bill, subject to an appropriation, would require the department to establish and administer a statewide program to distribute personal opioid drug deactivation and disposal
			 systems to individuals to encourage safe and environmentally responsible disposal practices and mitigate risks associated with unused or expired prescription and illicit opioids, as specified.</html:p>
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		<ns0:Preamble>The people of the State of California do enact as follows:</ns0:Preamble>
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			<ns0:Num>SECTION 1.</ns0:Num>
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				Part 6.23 (commencing with Section 1179.803) is added to Division 1 of the 
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				, to read:
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					<ns0:Num>6.23.</ns0:Num>
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						<ns0:LawHeadingText>Personal Opioid Disposal Systems</ns0:LawHeadingText>
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									(a)
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									In order to reduce the rate of misuse, diversion, and fatal overdose from prescription opioid drugs, the State Department of Public Health shall, subject to an appropriation by the Legislature for this purpose, establish and administer a statewide program to
						  distribute a personal opioid drug deactivation and disposal system to individuals to encourage safe and environmentally responsible disposal practices and mitigate risks associated with unused or expired prescription and illicit opioids. 
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									(b)
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									In
						  establishing and administering the statewide program described in subdivision (a), the department shall do all of the following: 
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									(1)
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									Establish guidelines for the evidence-based, environmentally safe, and effective use of personal opioid drug deactivation and disposal systems.
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									(2)
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									Provide an online portal for individuals to request
						  an initial and any additional personal opioid drug deactivation and disposal systems.
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									(3)
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									Prioritize communities disproportionately affected by the opioid crisis when distributing resources under the statewide program. 
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									(4)
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									Deliver, via the United States Postal Service, a personal opioid drug deactivation and disposal system with an enclosed educational and informational card to those households in localities deemed at highest risk. 
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									(c)
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									For purposes of this section, “personal opioid drug deactivation and disposal system”
						  means a portable product designed for a patient’s personal use for the purpose of allowing the patient of a prescribed drug containing an opioid to deactivate and permanently render the prescribed drug containing an opioid to a nonretrievable and nonabusable condition or state. 
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