Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon has formally announced the Select Committee on California’s Mental Health Crisis, appointing Assemblymember Corey Jackson as the Chairman. We expect Assemblymember Gail Pellerin will also serve on the committee. Both of these members are new to
Last week, the UC Center Sacramento held another presentation titled The Other Revolving Door: From Emergency Department to the Streets and Back Again with Dr. Aimee Moulin, Professor of Emergency Medicine at UC Davis Health and Mayor Darrell Steinberg, Mayor of Sacramento. You may
The California State Board of Pharmacy met this week. Given all the recent prescribing issues, SYASL is doing its best to track conversations in this venue as well. You may view SYASL staff notes from this week’s board meeting here.
CSAP Sponsors More Legislation CSAP has signed on as the sponsor of AB 29 (Gabriel) Firearms: California Do Not Sell List. AB 29 will create a voluntary and confidential Do Not Sell List for firearm purchases across the state. The bill has
The California Medical Association recently decided that CSAP will be the sole voice for psychiatry in California within the House of Medicine. CSAP is very proud of this recognition. We continue this issue by highlighting the three CSAP current and
In the wake of multiple mass shootings that took the lives of 19 Californians in just 72 hours last week, Governor Newsom, Attorney General Bonta, and Senator Portantino announced new gun safety legislation to modernize and strengthen California’s public carry
In December, several organizations, including CSAP, signed onto a letter regarding health plans’ forced transitions of enrollees to in-network providers after health plans failures to arrange medically necessary mental health and substance use disorder treatment within timely access and/or geographic distance standards