20250AB__042496CHP INTRODUCED 2025-02-05 AMENDED_ASSEMBLY 2025-03-19 PASSED_ASSEMBLY 2025-05-27 PASSED_SENATE 2025-09-04 ENROLLED 2025-09-08 CHAPTERED 2025-10-03 APPROVED 2025-10-03 FILED 2025-10-03 2025 AB CHP CHP 0 Introduced by Assembly Member Davies LEAD_AUTHOR ASSEMBLY Davies

An act to add

Section 11834.33 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to alcohol and other drug programs. alcohol and other drug programs Alcohol and other drug programs: complaints. Existing law provides for the licensure and regulation of alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facilities serving adults by the State Department of Health Care Services, as prescribed.

Existing law prohibits the operation, establishment, management, conduct, or maintenance of an alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility to provide recovery, treatment, or detoxification services within this state without first obtaining a current valid license.

This bill would, when the department receives a complaint against a licensed alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility, or a complaint alleging that a facility is unlawfully operating without a license, from a member of the public, require the department to provide, within days of the date of the complaint, notice to the person filing the complaint that the complaint has been received and to provide, upon closing the complaint, notice to the person filing the complaint that the complaint has been closed and whether the department found the facility to be in violation of the provisions governing facility licensure and regulation.

MAJORITY NO YES NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION

Section 11834.33 is added to the Health and Safety Code , to read: 11834.33. When the department receives a complaint against an alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility licensed pursuant to this chapter, or against a facility alleged to be in violation of

Section 11834.30, from a member of the public, the department shall do both of the following: (

a) Within days of the date of the complaint, provide notice to the person filing the complaint that the complaint has been received. (

b) Upon closing the complaint, provide notice to the person filing the complaint that the complaint has been closed and whether the department found the facility to be in violation of this chapter.