The Judicial Council of California (JCC) has released its draft Rules and Forms on CARE. These will be discussed at an upcoming April 13, 2023 meeting, and voted on (finalized) at the JCC’s May 11-12 meeting.
The Legislature will return from Spring Recess on Monday, April 10. Policy committees will be in full swing as legislators work to get their bills heard before the Policy Committee deadline in May. Here is a glance at where CSAP’s sponsored and co-sponsored
More details have been released regarding the Administration’s plans to modernize the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) and to seek bond funding to support behavioral health treatment capacity. The Administration is planning for a November 2024 ballot measure that will include
APA Submits Comments to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) The APA has submitted comments to the DEA on the two proposed rules around telemedicine prescribing of controlled substances (Telemedicine Prescribing of Controlled Substances When the Practitioner and the Patient Have Not Had a Prior
SB 43 (Eggman) Advances in the Legislature CSAP’s co-sponsored SB 43 (Eggman), which proposes to rewrite California’s definition of grave disability, passed through the Senate Health Committee Wednesday afternoon on a 12-0 vote. CSAP Government Affairs Committee (GAC) member Aaron Meyer (SDPS) was one of
The Committee on Psychotherapy for the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry (GAP), has sent a letter to Department of Managed Health Care Director Mary Watanabe voicing concerns with SB 855. Specifically, DMHC allowing health plans to force terminations of established therapeutic relationships
