Legislation

This resolution allows the San Francisco Department of Public Health to accept and use a $750,000 grant from the California Department of Health Care Services to implement a therapy program for children and youth dealing with mental health issues from October 2024 to June 2025. It was passed retroactively to ensure funding for the program.

Resolution retroactively authorizing the Department of Public Health to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $750,000 from the California Department of Health Care Service through Heluna Health for participation in a program, entitled “San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH) Behavioral Health Service (BHS) Children, Youth and Families (CYF) Proposed Approach for implementing Modular Approach to Therapy for Children with Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, or Conduct Problems (MATCH),” for the period of October 4, 2024, through June 30, 2025.

This legislation initiates a hearing to evaluate San Francisco's efforts to combat childhood obesity in children under 18, including funding and programs related to this issue. It also requests a report from relevant city departments on data regarding childhood obesity from 2015 to 2020.

Hearing to review the City and County of San Francisco's response to actively address and minimize childhood obesity among children under the age of 18 and to examine what type of funding and programming are aimed at this issue; including to examine data related to the prevalence of childhood obesity spanning the prior five years (2015-2020); and requesting the Department of Children Youth and Their Families, San Francisco Unified School District, and Department of Public Health to report.

This resolution allows the Department of Public Health to accept and spend a $1.6 million grant from the Department of Justice for a program addressing opioid and substance use issues from October 2024 to September 2027. It also gives the Director of Health the authority to finalize the grant agreement with the Department of Justice.

Resolution retroactively authorizing the Department of Public Health to accept and expend a grant in the amount of $1,600,000 from the Department of Justice for participation in a program entitled, “Comprehensive Opioid, Stimulant, and Substance Use Site-Based Program,” for the period of October 1, 2024, through September 30, 2027; and delegating authority under Charter, Section 9.118(a), to the Director of Health to approve a Grant Agreement between the City, acting by and through the Department of Public Health, and the Department of Justice, for a term of three years from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027, and for a total not to exceed amount of $1,600,000.

This resolution allows the Department of Public Health to accept an additional $13,431 grant from the National Institutes of Health, increasing the total funding to $104,508 for a clinical trials program. The funding will support the program from April 1, 2022, to February 28, 2025.

Resolution retroactively authorizing the Department of Public Health to accept and expend a grant increase in the amount of $13,431 from the National Institutes of Health through the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, for a new total amount of $104,508 for participation in a program, entitled “NIDA Clinical Trials Network: Big South/West Node,” for the period of April 1, 2022, through February 28, 2025.

This resolution allows the Department of Public Health to accept an additional $1,212,299 grant from the CDC, increasing the total grant to $13,635,302 for STD prevention efforts. The funding will support the program from January 1, 2019, through February 28, 2026.

Resolution retroactively authorizing the Department of Public Health to accept and expend a grant increase in the amount of $1,212,299 for a total grant amount of $13,635,302 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for participation in a program, entitled “Strengthening STD Prevention and Control for Health Departments (STD PCHD),” for the period of January 1, 2019, through February 28, 2026; and approving the Notice of Award agreement pursuant to Charter, Section 9.118(a).

This ordinance adopts specific chapters of the 2022 California Existing Building Code for San Francisco and confirms local conditions related to health and safety. It also affirms the Planning Department's environmental assessment and directs the Clerk to send the ordinance to the California Building Standards Commission once it is passed.

Ordinance adopting Chapters 6 through 11 of the 2022 California Existing Building Code; adopting findings of local conditions under the California Health and Safety Code; affirming the Planning Department’s determination under the California Environmental Quality Act; and directing the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors to forward this Ordinance to the California Building Standards Commission upon final passage.

This ordinance allows hotel employees or their unions to sue tourist hotels for not following required cleaning and disease prevention standards. It also gives courts the power to impose penalties and provide remedies if the hotels are found in violation.

Ordinance amending the Health Code to authorize employees of tourist hotels, or the labor organizations that represent those employees, to file civil lawsuits against tourist hotels or operators for violations of certain cleaning and disease prevention standards and practices required in tourist hotels; and authorizing courts to impose appropriate legal and equitable relief, including civil penalties, against the defendants in any such lawsuits.

This hearing is focused on discussing the implementation of the CARE Court, which aims to provide support for individuals with mental health and substance use issues by October 1, 2023. It will involve presentations from the Department of Public Health, Superior Court, and Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing.

Hearing on plans to implement the Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Court by October 1, 2023; and requesting the Department of Public Health, Superior Court, and Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing to present.

This legislation calls for a hearing to discuss a report on accidental overdose deaths and the responses from various city departments. It requests updates from the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Department of Public Health, Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, Police Department, and Office of the District Attorney.

Hearing on the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner's report on Accidental Overdose Deaths, issued on January 18, 2023, and departmental responses to accidental overdose deaths; and requesting the Office of Chief Medical Examiner, Department of Public Health, Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, Police Department, and Office of the District Attorney to report.

This legislation calls for a hearing to review the Department of Public Health's Behavioral Health Services case management system, focusing on the number of case managers, their locations, client interaction frequency, caseloads, and vacant positions. The Department of Public Health is required to provide a report on these aspects.

Hearing on Department of Public Health's Behavioral Health Services case management system; specifically examining how many behavioral health and substance use case managers are in the system, their work location, the process for providing case management at varying levels of need, frequency of case managers interacting with their clients, the caseload of case managers at every level of care, and the number of funded but vacant case manager positions exist in the entire system of care; and requesting Department of Public Health's Behavioral Health Services to report.

The hearing aims to evaluate the city's approach to criminalizing individuals with substance use disorders, including data on arrests and their effects on health and services. It requests reports from various city departments to assess compliance with state laws regarding harm reduction materials.

Hearing to discuss the increased efforts to criminalize individuals suffering from substance use disorder; and to provide data on how many individuals have been arrested, the results of those arrests, the impact of this effort on the health of drug users, the impact of this effort on service providers and use of harm reduction services, and how the police are complying with state laws that protect harm reduction materials from confiscation by police; and requesting the Mayor's Office, Police Department, Office of the District Attorney, Department of Emergency Management, Sheriff's Department, Office of the Public Defender, Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, and Department of Public Health to report.

This legislation aims to address open-air drug dealing in San Francisco by prioritizing investigations, arrests, and prosecutions related to these activities, while also focusing on reducing the supply of opioids. It requests reports from the Police Command Staff and the District Attorney on their strategies and actions.

Hearing to consider the City's comprehensive strategy to prioritize the investigation, arrests, charging and prosecution of San Francisco's rampant open-air street-level drug dealing rings, as well as cutting off the supply of deadly opioids; and requesting the Police Command Staff and the District Attorney to report.

This legislation calls for a hearing to discuss evictions in the city's Permanent Supportive Housing projects that receive city funding and to explore ways to prevent and reduce these evictions. It also requests reports from relevant city departments on the issue.

Hearing on the evictions in the City's Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) project-based sites that receive city funds, and efforts to prevent and reduce evictions at PSH sites; and requesting the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing, Department of Public Health, and Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development to report.

This resolution urges city agencies to hold a public town hall within two weeks of a traffic fatality to share information about the incident and allow residents to ask questions. It aims to improve transparency and community engagement in response to traffic deaths.

Resolution urging the Department of Public Health, Municipal Transportation Agency, and Police Department to amend the City’s Vision Zero Traffic Fatality Protocol to include a public town hall within two weeks of a traffic fatality, at which information regarding the fatal incident is presented to the public and agency representatives are available to answer questions.