Bill > AB423

This bill requires business-operated recovery residences (residential dwellings that provide housing and additional services for people recovering from substance use disorders) to register their location with the California Department of Health Care Services. The bill defines a business-operated recovery residence as a residential dwelling where a business, in exchange for compensation, provides more than one service beyond typical tenancy to multiple occupants, such as drug testing, supervision, scheduling, rule enforcement, transportation, or meal preparation. It also mandates that alcohol and drug treatment facilities develop more comprehensive discharge and continuing care plans, including creating a plan to help patients return to their home community after treatment, sharing patient progress information with follow-up facilities, ensuring medication-assisted treatment continuity, notifying emergency contacts of travel arrangements, providing clear medication instructions, and scheduling a follow-up meeting with a mental health or substance use disorder professional within seven days of discharge. Additionally, the bill requires treatment facilities to disclose any ownership or financial interests in recovery residences and any contractual relationships with service providers, and allows the department to take action against facilities that fail to make these disclosures.

Health and Social Services

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