California Legislative Updates
2025-26 Legislative Session Adjourned
The California Legislature adjourned Tuesday, concluding its work for the 2025–26 Legislative Session. Lawmakers will return to Sacramento on Monday, December 7, for an organizational session marking the start of the 2027–28 Legislative Session, before recessing until Monday, January 4, 2027. With the Legislature’s work complete, attention now turns to [...]
SB 820 and the Human Cost of Delayed Treatment
This week, we are pleased to feature an article from Dr. Reba Bindra, a board-certified psychiatrist with extensive experience treating individuals with serious mental illness in correctional settings. In The Price of a Shopping Cart, Dr. Bindra examines the real-world consequences of delays in implementing SB 820 (which CSAP successfully sponsored last year) and [...]
Legislation
AB 2405: The perpetual conversation around patient “dumping” at various hospitals is again taking place in the State Capitol, this time through AB 2405 (Gipson). As is in print, AB 2405 would require a peace officer who is transporting a person who is a danger to themselves or others to a [...]
Legislation
On Thursday, August 13, the Senate and Assembly Appropriations Committees met to dispense with their Suspense Calendars, the process for sending to the Floor or holding bills with significant fiscal impacts to the state. As noted in the last newsletter, this year was expected to see increased scrutiny of higher-cost [...]
Health Equity and Quality Regulation
The Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) is accepting public comments on the proposed Health Equity and Quality regulation. Interested parties may submit comments to the DMHC during the initial comment period from July 24, 2026, to September 8, 2026. The Department is giving notice of an initial 45-day comment [...]
Suicide Prevention in Schools
California Youth Empowerment Network co-sponsored bill, AB 2003, a crucial effort to address the youth mental health crisis in California and ensure all young people have the support they need to thrive, was signed by the Governor. This new law, authored by Assemblymember Marc Berman, will permanently provide free online suicide prevention [...]