CSAP News

Incompetent to Stand Trial

The Senate Rules Committee held confirmation hearings for Christina L. Edens, Chief Deputy Director, and Brent J. Houser, Chief Deputy Director, Operations, to the Department of State Hospitals. For those of you interested in IST-related issues, you may want to review

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Scope and Workforce

NP “Clean-up” bill – CMA Supports, AB 852 Now Relates to Dispensing The old version of AB 852 (Wood) (a holdover from 2021, or “two-year bill”) would have added the new category of nurse practitioners who are authorized to practice independently

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CCPS Joins CSAP!!! 

The five California district branches of the American Psychiatric Association are again together in one truly statewide advocacy organization.

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Scope 

CSAP along with the Psychiatric Physicians Alliance of California, and the California Psychological Association have submitted an Oppose Unless Amended letter to Senator Wiener on SB 964.

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