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 04/16/26 - Amended Assembly
 03/16/26 - Amended Assembly
 02/19/26 - Introduced

 AB-2343 Alcohol and other drug programs: consumer protection platform.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 07/02/2026 09:00 PM

AB2343:v95#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 July 02, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 June 15, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 16, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 March 16, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 2343

Introduced by Assembly Member Patel
(Principal coauthor: Senator Umberg)
(Coauthor: Assembly Member Schiavo)
(Coauthor: Senator Allen)

February 19, 2026

 An act to add Sections 11832.55 and 11834.13 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to substance use disorder. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2343, as amended, Patel.
 Alcohol and other drug programs: consumer protection platform.

Existing law requires the State Department of Health Care Services to license and regulate adult alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facilities that provide residential nonmedical services, as specified, and further requires the department to certify and regulate alcohol and other drug programs, as specified.

This bill would require an alcohol or other drug treatment facility and an alcohol or other drug program to participate in a public consumer protection platform platform, as defined, designated or designed by the department in order to be licensed or certified. The bill would specify that participation in the public consumer protection
 platform pursuant to these provisions is only required if the department determines that sufficient funding has been appropriated or otherwise secured to cover the costs of participation in the platform, as specified. The bill would authorize the department to charge a reasonable fee to alcohol or other drug treatment facilities and alcohol or other drug programs required to enroll in the platform, as specified, and would prohibit the administrator of the public consumer protection platform from accepting payment from the entities subject to these provisions. The bill would authorize the department to verify compliance with participation in the public consumer protection platform as part of the certification or licensing process. The bill would prohibit participation in the consumer protection platform from being used as a criterion in evaluating bids, proposals, network participation, reimbursement, or contract performance for publicly funded substance use disorder treatment services.
 The bill would require the consumer protection platform, if managed by an entity other than the department, to collect and publicly display information from each participating treatment provider on the provider’s adoption of evidence-based practices in substance use disorder care, as specified. The bill would authorize the department to implement, interpret, or make specific those provisions by means of provider bulletins, written guidelines, or similar instructions.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 11832.55 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

11832.55.

 (a) (1)In The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(1) Facilities and programs licensed or certified pursuant to Chapters 7.5 (commencing with Section 11834.01) and 7.6 (commencing with Section 11834.60) that contract with the state, a county behavioral health department, or a county substance use disorder division to provide Drug Medi-Cal organized delivery system (DMC-ODS) services are subject to a
 comprehensive accountability structure that has no equivalent for privately operated facilities, including individual county contracting and credentialing requirements, mandatory monthly outcomes reporting through the California Outcomes Measurement System Treatment (CalOMS Tx), mandatory monthly capacity and waitlist reporting through the Drug and Alcohol Treatment Access Report (DATAR), onsite monitoring reviews and corrective action plan requirements administered by counties and the department’s Behavioral Health Compliance and Monitoring Bran