California Business and Professions Code

§ 3502.1.5

BPC § 3502.1.5 Effective Jan 1, 2019Div. 2 · Ch. 7.7 · Art. 1

Statute text

This chapter or any other provision of law shall not be construed to prohibit a physician assistant from administering or providing buprenorphine to a patient, or transmitting orally, or in writing on a patient’s record or in a drug order, an order to a person who may lawfully furnish buprenorphine when done in compliance with the provisions of the Comprehensive Addiction Recovery Act (Public Law 114-198), as enacted on July 22, 2016, including the following:

(a)The requirement that the physician assistant complete not fewer than 24 hours of initial training provided by an organization listed in sub-subclause (aa) of subclause (II) of clause (iv) of subparagraph (G) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (g) of Section 823 of Title 21 of the United States Code, or any other organization that the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services determines is appropriate for the purposes of that sub-subclause, that addresses the following:

(1)Opioid maintenance and detoxification.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2018, Ch. 92, Sec. 2. (SB 1289) Effective January 1, 2019.