AB 1586: Opioid overdose reversal medication: school resource officers. - California

08/13/26 - Amended Senate → AB1586 · 1 edit

MINOR

No substantive policy changes occurred between these two versions. The diff reflects a reformatting of the same bill text from a traditional legislative document layout (with line numbers and page headers) into a web page presentation (with navigation menus, search fields, and version history links). All legal provisions remain identical.

TECHNICAL

The bill text was reformatted from a paginated legislative document with line numbers into a web page layout including site navigation, quick search fields, version history dropdown, and share links. No changes to the actual statutory language were made.

07/02/26 - Amended Senate → 08/13/26 - Amended Senate · 3 edits · Aug 13, 2026

MINOR

The August 13 Senate amendment to AB 1586 expands the annual reporting requirements for school resource officers administering opioid antagonists, adding new data fields including types of drugs used, officer contact information, and schoolsite details. It also narrows what gets publicly posted to the statewide dashboard to only aggregate usage data (units received, times administered, times unavailable), excluding personal and school-specific information. Several garbled passages in the training approval and implementation guidance sections were corrected.

REQUIREMENT

School resource officers must now report the types of opioid antagonists received and administered, their own name and contact information, the name of the individual completing the form, and schoolsite details including school name, local educational agency, and city and county location.

ENFORCEMENT

The statewide opioid overdose surveillance dashboard will now only publicly post aggregate data (units received, times administered, times unavailable) rather than all reported data. Personal information and school-specific details are excluded from public posting.

TECHNICAL

Corrected garbled language in the training approval provision to clearly list POST, the State Department of Health Care Services, or BSCC as approving bodies, and clarified which agencies are responsible for providing implementation guidance.

06/18/26 - Amended Senate → 07/02/26 - Amended Senate · 3 edits · Jul 2, 2026

MINOR

The July 2 amendment to AB 1586 adds the Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC) as an additional body that can approve opioid overdose recognition and response training for school resource officers, broadening the pool of acceptable training providers. It also moves the State Department of Public Health's legislative report deadline from January 1, 2031 to July 1, 2031. The remaining changes are minor formatting and typo corrections.

SCOPE

The Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC) is added as an additional approving body for opioid overdose recognition and response training, alongside POST and the State Department of Health Care Services. Training may now also be integrated into BSCC standards and training for corrections, not just POST continuing professional training requirements.

TIMELINE

The deadline for the State Department of Public Health to submit its report to the Legislature was changed from January 1, 2031 to July 1, 2031, giving the department an additional six months to compile and submit the data.

TECHNICAL

Removed a duplicated word ('annually report report' corrected to 'report') in the annual reporting requirement for school resource officers. Page numbers were adjusted from 96 to 95 throughout the bill.

06/04/26 - Amended Senate → 06/18/26 - Amended Senate · 4 edits · Jun 18, 2026

MODERATE

The June 18 Senate amendment to AB 1586 removes POST (Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training) as a reporting recipient and consolidates all data reporting and legislative reporting responsibilities under the State Department of Public Health alone. It also adds a specific reporting window (July 1, 2028 through July 1, 2030) for school resource officer annual reports and moves the legislative report deadline from January 1, 2031 to July 1, 2031.

REQUIREMENT

Annual reporting by school resource officers is now directed solely to the State Department of Public Health instead of jointly to POST and the State Department of Public Health.

POST's role in submitting the legislative report (previously 'in cooperation with the State Department of Public Health, as needed') was removed entirely; the State Department of Public Health now bears sole responsibility.

TIMELINE

A specific reporting period was added: school resource officers must report on or before July 1, 2028, and annually thereafter until July 1, 2030.

The deadline for the State Department of Public Health to submit its report to the Legislature was changed from January 1, 2031 to July 1, 2031.

03/23/26 - Amended Assembly → 06/04/26 - Amended Senate · 6 edits · Jun 4, 2026

MODERATE

The Senate amendment significantly restructures AB 1586 by shifting obligations from local educational agencies directly onto school resource officers, removing the requirement that SROs physically carry opioid antagonists on their person, and adding a statewide data reporting and dashboard component through the State Department of Public Health. The bill also changes its state-mandated local program designation from 'yes' to 'no,' eliminating potential state reimbursement obligations to local agencies.

Scope change

The bill's scope narrowed in one dimension (no longer requiring LEAs to ensure SROs carry naloxone) but expanded in another (adding statewide public health data collection and dashboard integration). The primary regulatory target shifted from local educational agencies to individual school resource officers, with the State Department of Public Health gaining a new data aggregation and reporting role.

SCOPE

The obligation structure changed from requiring local educational agencies (school districts, county offices of education, charter schools) to ensure SRO compliance, to placing training and reporting duties directly on the school resource officer. The LEA is no longer the responsible party for ensuring SROs carry naloxone or complete training.

REQUIREMENT

The requirement that each school resource officer carry an opioid antagonist on their person while on duty at a schoolsite was removed entirely. SROs are no longer mandated to physically possess naloxone; they may still volunteer to administer it under existing law (Section 49414.3).

School resource officers must now report annually to both POST and the State Department of Public Health, in a form and manner prescribed by the State Department of Public Health, including units received, times administered, and times needed but unavailable.

ENFORCEMENT

A new provision requires the State Department of Public Health to incorporate SRO-reported data into the statewide opioid overdose surveillance dashboard (or successor platform), making the data publicly accessible and integrated with existing statewide surveillance efforts.

TIMELINE

The legislative report due by January 1, 2031 is now submitted by the State Department of Public Health (with POST cooperation) rather than by POST alone.

FISCAL

The state-mandated local program designation changed from 'yes' to 'no,' meaning the bill no longer triggers state reimbursement obligations to local agencies for costs mandated by the state. This likely reflects the removal of the LEA-level carrying requirement that would have imposed direct costs on school districts.

01/14/26 - Introduced → 03/23/26 - Amended Assembly · 6 edits · Mar 23, 2026

MODERATE

The amended version of AB 1586 delays implementation to the 2027-28 school year, adds an annual reporting requirement for school resource officers to POST tracking naloxone use and availability, requires POST to submit a legislative report by January 1, 2031 (sunset January 1, 2035), cross-references training with existing Section 49414.3(d), and changes the state-mandated local program designation from 'yes' to 'no.'

TIMELINE

All core requirements (carrying opioid antagonist and completing training) now commence with the 2027-28 school year rather than taking effect immediately upon enactment.

POST must submit a report to the Legislature by January 1, 2031, in cooperation with the State Department of Public Health, containing data collected from school resource officer annual reports. This reporting requirement is inoperative on January 1, 2035.

REQUIREMENT

School resource officers must annually report to POST the number of opioid antagonist units received, the number of times one was administered at a schoolsite, and the number of times one was needed but not available.

Training completed under this section now also fulfills the training requirements of subdivision (d) of Section 49414.3, creating a dual-purpose training obligation that reduces redundant training.

ELIGIBILITY

New language clarifies that pursuant to Section 49414.3, a school resource officer may volunteer to administer an opioid antagonist, reinforcing the voluntary nature of administration.

FISCAL

The state-mandated local program designation in the legislative digest changed from 'yes' to 'no,' which could affect whether local agencies are entitled to state reimbursement for implementation costs.

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