Agenda Item No. 12
CITY OF YUCAIPA
AGENDA REPORT
TO: Honorable Mayor and City Council
FROM: Joe Pradetto, Director of Government lairs
Shane Massoud, Management Analyst
FOR: City Council Meeting of March 27, 2023
SUBJECT: Support for Assembly Bill 462 — Fentanyl Overdose Response Teams RECOMMENDATION:
That the City Council:
1) Support Assembly Bill 462 — Fentanyl Overdose Response Teams (AB 462) introduced by Assemblymember James Ramos (D-Highland), as amended; and 2) Approve the attached letter of support.
BACKGROUND:
Fentanyl has become the leading cause of death among young adults (18-45). In response to this growing epidemic, the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department created its Overdose Response Team (ORT) in 2021. The ORT is a multiagency effort including the Sheriff's Department, District Attorney's Office, and the law enforcement agencies from surrounding areas.
DISCUSSION:
As amended, AB 462 proposes to create the Overdose Response Team Fund to support the creation and operation of overdose response teams. At present, the bill provides preference to existing overdose response teams, including the San Bernardino County Sheriff's ORT.
San Bernardino Sheriff Shannon Dicus has written in support of AB 462. If passed in its current form, AB 462 will provide resources to support county sheriffs respond to the growing epidemic of opioid-related overdoses. Residents of Yucaipa will benefit from the passage of AB 462 because San Bernardino County has an established ORT, and the bill provides preferential funding to sheriff's departments with an established overdose response team.
ATTACHMENTS:
Letter of Support to Assemblymember James Ramos
Assembly Bill 462
Approved by:
City Council Agenda 181
03/27/2023
March 27, 2023
Honorable James Ramos
State Capitol
P.O. Box 942849
Sacramento, CA 94249-0045
Dear Assemblymember James Ramos:
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On behalf of the City of Yucaipa, we write in support of Assembly Bill 462.
More than 107,000 Americans died from a drug overdose in 2021. Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid almost 50 times more powerful than heroine, is the largest and fastest growing culprit. Due to its potency, small traces of fentanyl can kill. In 2021, fentanyl became the leading cause of death among young adults ages 18 to 45, killing more young adults than each of COVID 19, car accidents, and suicide.
In response to this growing epidemic, the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department created its Overdose Response Team (ORT) in 2021, to combat this opioid overdose epidemic. The ORT is a collaborative effort to investigate overdoses and work with prosecutors to try state and federal cases. Your bill, if passed, will help fund the ORT's operations and help other counties create their own overdose response teams.
With such a significant increase in overdose deaths, the time is now to pass meaningful legislation that changes the current course of this crisis.
We thank you for your continued support of our community.
Sincerely,
Justin Beaver
Mayor
Jon Thorp
Councilmember
Matt Garner
Councilmember
Bobby Duncan
Mayor Pro Tern
Chris Venable
Councilmember
cc: Senator Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh, Via FAX No. (916) 651-4023 Laura Varela, League of California Cities, lvarela(ic�calcities.org Meg Desmond, League of California Cities, mdesmond(ir,calcities.ora Jason Gonsalves, Joe A. Gonsalves & Son, Jason a,gonsalvi.com City of Yucaipa
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City Council Agenda 909-797-2489
03/27/2023
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AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 2, 2023
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE-2023-24 REGULAR SESSION
ASSEMBLY BILL
No. 462
Introduced by Assembly Member Ramos
(Coauthor: Assembly Member Lackey)
February 6, 2023
An act to add and repeal Article 3.7 (commencing with Section 11184) Chapter 2 of Title 1 of Part 4 of the Penal Code, relating to overdose response teams.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 462, as amended, Ramos. Overdose response teams.
Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health, subject to an appropriation in the Budget Act of 2016, to award funding to local health departments, local government agencies, or on a competitive basis to other organizations, as specified, to support or establish programs that provide naloxone to first responders and to at -risk opioid users through programs that serve at -risk drug users.
This bill would authorize the Counties of San n,...,,ardi .. Riverside, , would, until January 1, 2029,
establish the Overdose Response Team Fund, to be available upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the administration of grants by the Board of State and Community Corrections to county sheriffs' departments' task forces established for overdose response. The bill would authorize a department receiving a grant to establish and implement overdose response teams with the sheriff's sheriffs' departments of those counties. The bill would require the teams tom respond to and investigate overdose deaths and nonfatal overdoses Revised 3-14-23—See last page. 98
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deaths related to overdoses. The bill would require counties participating in these programs to send annual reports to the Assembly Committee on Public Safety, including the number of arrests of drug dealers in eaeli , for specked crimes, the amount of fentanyl and opioids seized in each county, and the number of units of opioid antagonists found at eareh— overdose —seenne administered, distributed, or recovered at each overdose scene.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no -yes.
State -mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
1 SECTION 1. Article 3.7 (commencing with Section 11184) is 2 added to Chapter 2 of Title 1 of Part 4 of the Penal Code, to read:
3 4 Article 3.7. Overdose Response Teams
5 6 11184. (a) The -sheriff's-There is hereby established in the 7 State Treasury the Overdose Response Team Fund. Moneys in the 8 fund shall be available upon appropriation by the Legislature for 9 the purposes of this section.
10 (b) The Board of State and Community Corrections shall 11 administer overdose r•esr>onse team grants ftom the fund, upon 12 appropriation by the Legislature, to county sheriffs'departments' 13 tasks, forces established for overdose response. Preference in the 14 Overdose Response Team Fund shall be given to existing overdose 15 response teams, including, but not limited to, the San Bernardino 16 County Sheriff's Overdose Response Team.
17 (c) The .sheriffs' departments of Counties of a o,...ftarditift-1 18 mvr3id ,; a county receiving a grant pursuant to
19 subdivision (b), until January 1, 2029, may create pilot programs 20 establishing and implementing overdose response teams to combat 21 the ongoing opioid crisis in local communities.
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23 (d) The overdose response teams shall--oMy respond to and 24 investigate fatal overdos deaths,
25 and may respond to and investigate nonfatal overdoses, including 26 those involving juveniles and multiple victims. The responses 27 98
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(e) (1) A pilot program created pursuant to this section shall collect all of the following statistics:
(A) The number of peace officers assigned to the overdose response team, and any changes to the number of peace officers assigned to the overdose response team.
(B) The number of fatal overdoses investigated by the overdose response team.
(C) The number of nonfatal overdoses investigated by the overdose response team.
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(D) Number of arrests of dfug deal&� in each county pursuant to Seetir_ 113 Sections 11351, 11352, 11353, and 11379.6 of the Health and Safety-Fode Code as a result of investigations by the overdose response team.
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(E) Amount of fentanyl and opioids seized in eaeh-eounty. as a result of investigations by the overdose response team. (-)
(F) The number of units of opioid antagonists approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration foundat
overdose . ,.etiel. administered, distributed, or recovered at each overdose scene.
(G) Any additional data that is relevant and appropriate to describe the activities conducted under the pilot program. (2) (A) Counties participating in the program shall, on July 1, 2025, and on July 1 each year thereafter, send a report to the Assembly ,
"Ove .a,.,.,. 11're_,,.m io . Committee on Public Safety containing the statistics described in this subdivision.
(B) The report to be submitted pursuant to this paragraph shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
11185. This part shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2030, and as of that date is repealed.
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