California Suicide Prevention Act

This act organizes a state's behavioral health and developmental disability services, addressing suicide prevention, substance-related and addictive disorders, gambling disorders, and support for people with developmental disabilities and their families. Its central mechanisms are an advisory council — with defined membership, officers, remuneration, bylaws, staffing, and responsibilities — and a directive to the state behavioral health office to run a zero suicide initiative and to develop, publish, and report on a statewide suicide prevention plan built through stakeholder collaboration. It further creates dedicated funds and authorized funding sources for regional addictive disorder services, disability services, compulsive and problem gaming, and behavioral health and wellness generally, and provides for administrative rulemaking to carry these provisions into effect.

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