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SB 519 · 2021-22

Creates a working group to study psychedelics

Official subject Controlled substances: study of decriminalization of certain hallucinogenic substances.

Didn't pass Passed Senate, stopped in Assembly · Moved to the inactive file

Plain-language summary

Requires the State Department of Public Health to convene a working group on psilocybin, psilocyn, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), ibogaine, mescaline, LSD, and MDMA. The group must research these substances and make recommendations to the Legislature, including on how they are regulated and used.

How these summaries are written

Official summary · Legislative Counsel's Digest

Describes the final version (Amended Assembly, Aug. 15, 2022).

Read the official summary (3 paragraphs)

Existing law categorizes certain drugs and other substances as controlled substances and prohibits various actions related to those substances, including their manufacture, transportation, sale, possession, and ingestion.

Existing law creates a Research Advisory Panel, as specified, to conduct hearings on, and in other ways study, research projects concerning cannabis or hallucinogenic drugs.

This bill would require the State Department of Public Health to convene a working group, as specified, to research and make recommendations to the Legislature regarding, among other things, the regulation and use of psilocybin, psilocyn, dimethyltryptamine (DMT), ibogaine, mescaline, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA).

Official title

An act to add and repeal Section 131065 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to controlled substances.

Timeline

  1. Feb. 17, 2021 Introduced
  2. June 1, 2021 Passed Senate 21 yes, 16 no
  3. Aug. 25, 2022 Stopped in the Assembly Moved to the inactive file
Full official history (31 actions)
  1. Feb. 17, 2021 Introduced: Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
  2. Feb. 18, 2021 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
  3. Feb. 22, 2021 Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
  4. Feb. 22, 2021 (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
  5. Feb. 22, 2021 Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
  6. Feb. 25, 2021 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and HEALTH.
  7. March 9, 2021 Set for hearing April 6.
  8. March 25, 2021 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
  9. April 6, 2021 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 690.) (April 6). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
  10. April 7, 2021 Set for hearing April 14.
  11. April 14, 2021 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2. Page 795.) (April 14).
  12. April 15, 2021 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  13. April 21, 2021 Set for hearing May 3.
  14. May 4, 2021 May 3 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
  15. May 14, 2021 Set for hearing May 20.
  16. May 20, 2021 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1195.) (May 20).
  17. May 20, 2021 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
  18. May 24, 2021 Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  19. June 1, 2021 Passed Senate: Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 21. Noes 16. Page 1322.) Ordered to the Assembly.
  20. June 2, 2021 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
  21. June 10, 2021 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and HEALTH.
  22. June 30, 2021 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.) (June 29).
  23. July 1, 2021 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH.
  24. July 15, 2021 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 4.) (July 13).
  25. Aug. 16, 2021 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  26. Aug. 26, 2021 August 26 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
  27. Aug. 3, 2022 August 3 set for second hearing. Placed on suspense file.
  28. Aug. 11, 2022 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 5.) (August 11).
  29. Aug. 15, 2022 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
  30. Aug. 16, 2022 Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  31. Aug. 25, 2022 Ordered to inactive file on request of Assembly Member Reyes.