Amended IN Assembly March 17, 2022 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1988Introduced by Assembly Member Bauer-KahanFebruary 10, 2022An act to amend Section 8280 of the Government Code, relating to state government. An act to add Article 6.5 (commencing with Section 53123) to Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code, relating to emergency services.LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 1988, as amended, Bauer-Kahan. California Law Revision Commission: Committee on Revision of the Penal Code. 9-8-8 mental health crisis hotline system.Existing law, the Warren-911-Emergency Assistance Act, requires every local public agency, as defined, to have an emergency communication system and requires the digits 911 to be the primary emergency telephone number within the system. Existing federal law, the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act of 2020, designates the 3-digit telephone number 988 as the universal number within the United States for the purpose of the national suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline system operating through the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline maintained by the Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Abuse and the Veterans Crisis Line maintained by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. This bill would establish the 9-8-8 mental health crisis hotline system in state government and would require the Office of Emergency Services to implement, oversee, and enforce the emergency communications system components and operations of the 9-8-8 system.Existing law establishes the California Law Revision Commission to, among other things, examine the law for defects or anachronisms in the law and recommend changes in the law to modify or eliminate antiquated or inequitable rules of law. Existing law establishes within the commission the Committee on Revision of the Penal Code to achieve prescribed objectives.This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NOYES Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Article 6.5 (commencing with Section 53123) is added to Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code, to read: Article 6.5. Miles Hall Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Lifeline53123. (a) The 9-8-8 mental health crisis hotline system is hereby established in state government and may be referred to as the Miles Hall Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Lifeline.(b) The Office of Emergency Services shall implement, oversee, and enforce the emergency communications system components and operations of the 9-8-8 system. SECTION 1.Section 8280 of the Government Code is amended to read:8280.(a)There is created in the State Government the California Law Revision Commission.(b)There exists within the California Law Revision Commission the Committee on Revision of the Penal Code.(c)For purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings:(1)Commission means the California Law Revision Commission.(2)Committee means the Committee on Revision of the Penal Code, unless otherwise specified.
Amended IN Assembly March 17, 2022 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1988Introduced by Assembly Member Bauer-KahanFebruary 10, 2022An act to amend Section 8280 of the Government Code, relating to state government. An act to add Article 6.5 (commencing with Section 53123) to Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code, relating to emergency services.LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 1988, as amended, Bauer-Kahan. California Law Revision Commission: Committee on Revision of the Penal Code. 9-8-8 mental health crisis hotline system.Existing law, the Warren-911-Emergency Assistance Act, requires every local public agency, as defined, to have an emergency communication system and requires the digits 911 to be the primary emergency telephone number within the system. Existing federal law, the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act of 2020, designates the 3-digit telephone number 988 as the universal number within the United States for the purpose of the national suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline system operating through the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline maintained by the Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Abuse and the Veterans Crisis Line maintained by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. This bill would establish the 9-8-8 mental health crisis hotline system in state government and would require the Office of Emergency Services to implement, oversee, and enforce the emergency communications system components and operations of the 9-8-8 system.Existing law establishes the California Law Revision Commission to, among other things, examine the law for defects or anachronisms in the law and recommend changes in the law to modify or eliminate antiquated or inequitable rules of law. Existing law establishes within the commission the Committee on Revision of the Penal Code to achieve prescribed objectives.This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NOYES Local Program: NO
Amended IN Assembly March 17, 2022
Amended IN Assembly March 17, 2022
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 1988
Introduced by Assembly Member Bauer-KahanFebruary 10, 2022
Introduced by Assembly Member Bauer-Kahan
February 10, 2022
An act to amend Section 8280 of the Government Code, relating to state government. An act to add Article 6.5 (commencing with Section 53123) to Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code, relating to emergency services.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1988, as amended, Bauer-Kahan. California Law Revision Commission: Committee on Revision of the Penal Code. 9-8-8 mental health crisis hotline system.
Existing law, the Warren-911-Emergency Assistance Act, requires every local public agency, as defined, to have an emergency communication system and requires the digits 911 to be the primary emergency telephone number within the system. Existing federal law, the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act of 2020, designates the 3-digit telephone number 988 as the universal number within the United States for the purpose of the national suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline system operating through the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline maintained by the Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Abuse and the Veterans Crisis Line maintained by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. This bill would establish the 9-8-8 mental health crisis hotline system in state government and would require the Office of Emergency Services to implement, oversee, and enforce the emergency communications system components and operations of the 9-8-8 system.Existing law establishes the California Law Revision Commission to, among other things, examine the law for defects or anachronisms in the law and recommend changes in the law to modify or eliminate antiquated or inequitable rules of law. Existing law establishes within the commission the Committee on Revision of the Penal Code to achieve prescribed objectives.This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions.
Existing law, the Warren-911-Emergency Assistance Act, requires every local public agency, as defined, to have an emergency communication system and requires the digits 911 to be the primary emergency telephone number within the system.
Existing federal law, the National Suicide Hotline Designation Act of 2020, designates the 3-digit telephone number 988 as the universal number within the United States for the purpose of the national suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline system operating through the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline maintained by the Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Abuse and the Veterans Crisis Line maintained by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
This bill would establish the 9-8-8 mental health crisis hotline system in state government and would require the Office of Emergency Services to implement, oversee, and enforce the emergency communications system components and operations of the 9-8-8 system.
Existing law establishes the California Law Revision Commission to, among other things, examine the law for defects or anachronisms in the law and recommend changes in the law to modify or eliminate antiquated or inequitable rules of law. Existing law establishes within the commission the Committee on Revision of the Penal Code to achieve prescribed objectives.
This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Article 6.5 (commencing with Section 53123) is added to Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code, to read: Article 6.5. Miles Hall Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Lifeline53123. (a) The 9-8-8 mental health crisis hotline system is hereby established in state government and may be referred to as the Miles Hall Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Lifeline.(b) The Office of Emergency Services shall implement, oversee, and enforce the emergency communications system components and operations of the 9-8-8 system. SECTION 1.Section 8280 of the Government Code is amended to read:8280.(a)There is created in the State Government the California Law Revision Commission.(b)There exists within the California Law Revision Commission the Committee on Revision of the Penal Code.(c)For purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings:(1)Commission means the California Law Revision Commission.(2)Committee means the Committee on Revision of the Penal Code, unless otherwise specified.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. Article 6.5 (commencing with Section 53123) is added to Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code, to read: Article 6.5. Miles Hall Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Lifeline53123. (a) The 9-8-8 mental health crisis hotline system is hereby established in state government and may be referred to as the Miles Hall Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Lifeline.(b) The Office of Emergency Services shall implement, oversee, and enforce the emergency communications system components and operations of the 9-8-8 system.
SECTION 1. Article 6.5 (commencing with Section 53123) is added to Chapter 1 of Part 1 of Division 2 of Title 5 of the Government Code, to read:
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Article 6.5. Miles Hall Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Lifeline53123. (a) The 9-8-8 mental health crisis hotline system is hereby established in state government and may be referred to as the Miles Hall Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Lifeline.(b) The Office of Emergency Services shall implement, oversee, and enforce the emergency communications system components and operations of the 9-8-8 system.
Article 6.5. Miles Hall Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Lifeline53123. (a) The 9-8-8 mental health crisis hotline system is hereby established in state government and may be referred to as the Miles Hall Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Lifeline.(b) The Office of Emergency Services shall implement, oversee, and enforce the emergency communications system components and operations of the 9-8-8 system.
Article 6.5. Miles Hall Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Lifeline
Article 6.5. Miles Hall Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Lifeline
53123. (a) The 9-8-8 mental health crisis hotline system is hereby established in state government and may be referred to as the Miles Hall Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Lifeline.(b) The Office of Emergency Services shall implement, oversee, and enforce the emergency communications system components and operations of the 9-8-8 system.
53123. (a) The 9-8-8 mental health crisis hotline system is hereby established in state government and may be referred to as the Miles Hall Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
(b) The Office of Emergency Services shall implement, oversee, and enforce the emergency communications system components and operations of the 9-8-8 system.
(a)There is created in the State Government the California Law Revision Commission.
(b)There exists within the California Law Revision Commission the Committee on Revision of the Penal Code.
(c)For purposes of this article, the following terms have the following meanings:
(1)Commission means the California Law Revision Commission.
(2)Committee means the Committee on Revision of the Penal Code, unless otherwise specified.