Community Alert: Update on Little Sisters of the Poor property

12/30/2025

SB-1060 is a California Senate bill that was recently introduced by Senator Vallardes. This bill proposes to ban the operation of any substance abuse rehab center within 1000 feet of a public or private school or daycare center. This bill was introduced in February this year and was referred to the Committee on Health.

The following is the bill in its entirety:

SENATE BILL No. 1060

Introduced by Senator Valladares February 12, 2026

An act to add Section 11834.19 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to alcohol and drug treatment facilities, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 1060, as introduced, Valladares. Alcohol and drug treatment facilities.

Existing law requires the State Department of Health Care Services to license and regulate facilities that provide residential nonmedical services to adults who are recovering from problems related to alcohol, drug, or alcohol and drug misuse or abuse, and who need alcohol, drug, or alcohol and drug recovery treatment or detoxification services. Violation of licensing provisions is punishable through revocation or suspension of the license and civil penalties.

This bill would prohibit an alcohol or other drug recovery or treatment facility from operating within 1,000 feet of a public or private elementary or secondary school or a daycare center if the recovery or treatment facility serves more than 6 residents and treatment is being provided at the facility.

This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Vote: 2 ⁄3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

  1. SECTION 1. Section 11834.19 is added to the Health and
  2. Safety Code, to read:
  3. 11834.19. A licensee shall not operate an alcohol or other drug
  4. recovery or treatment facility within 1,000 feet of a public or
  5. private elementary or secondary school or a daycare center if the
  6. recovery or treatment facility serves more than six residents and
  7. treatment is being provided at the facility.
  8. SEC. 2. This act is an urgency statute necessary for the
  9. immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within
  10. the meaning of Article IV of the California Constitution and shall
  11. go into immediate effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
  12. In order to protect California’s children who attend daycare
  13. centers, preschools, and K–12 public and private schools, it is
  14. necessary that this act take effect immediate.