Signed by Governor Gavin Newsom

Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass an amended bill that authorizes healthcare professionals be trained to reduce firearm-related injuries.

Highlights:

• Authorizes the University of California Firearm Violence Research Center at UC Davis to develop multifaceted education and training programs for medical and mental health providers on the prevention of firearm-related injury and death (Sec. 3).

• Requires these programs to address all of the following (Sec. 3):

• The epidemiology of firearm-related injury and death, including individual and societal determinants of risk, and effective prevention strategies for suicide, homicide, and unintentional injury and death;

• The role of health care providers in preventing firearm-related harm, including how to assess individual patients for risk of firearm-related injury and death;

• Best practices for conversations about firearm ownership, access, and storage;

• Appropriate tools for practitioner intervention with patients at risk for firearm-related injury or death; and

• Relevant laws and policies related to prevention of firearm-related injury and death, and to the role of health care providers in preventing firearm-related harm.

• Requires the center to develop curricular materials for medical and mental health care practitioners in practice and training, and to provide educators from the center to educate at medical education institutions (Sec. 3).

• Specifies that this act applies to the University of California only to the extent that the Regents of the University of California, by resolution, make any of these provisions applicable to the university (Sec. 2 & 3).

• Requires the University of California, on or before December 31, 2020, and annually thereafter, to provide programmatic and financial reports on this program to the Legislature (Sec. 3).

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