Bill Text: CA SB212 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Pupil health: communicable diseases.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2010-01-19 - Stricken from Senate file. [SB212 Detail]

Download: California-2009-SB212-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 212	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 15, 2009
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 26, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Florez

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2009

   An act to amend Sections 17578 and 17579 of, and to add Section
33134 to, the Education Code, relating to school safety.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 212, as amended, Florez. Pupil health: communicable diseases.

   (1) Existing 
    Existing  law requires the governing board of each
school district maintaining a high school to provide for the annual
cleaning, sterilization, and necessary repair of football equipment
of their schools and requires that all football equipment actually
worn by pupils to be cleaned and sterilized at least once a year.
   This bill would  require   authorize 
the governing board of each school district maintaining a high school
to provide for the annual cleaning and sterilization of wrestling
equipment and would specify that wrestling equipment used multiple
years may be cleaned and sterilized as specified by the
Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State Board of
Education. The Superintendent and state board would be required to
develop and approve, respectively, information and guidelines on the
prevention of communicable diseases at schoolsites. The information
and guidelines would be required to address, at a minimum, the
maintenance of locker rooms, athletic equipment, and synthetic ground
covers used for athletic fields and ways to minimize the spread of
methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus and meningococcal
disease. The Superintendent would be required to post the information
and guidelines on the department's Internet Web site.  By
requiring school districts to annually clean and sterilize wrestling
equipment, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
 
   (2) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse
local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.  
   This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program:  yes   no  .


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 17578 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   17578.  The governing board of each district maintaining a high
school shall provide for the annual cleaning  and sterilizing
of football and wrestling equipment and the   ,
sterilizing, and  necessary repair of football equipment of
their respective schools pursuant to Sections 17579 and 17580 
and may provide for the annual cleaning and sterilizing of wrestling
equipment  .
  SEC. 2.  Section 17579 of the Education Code is amended to read:
   17579.  (a) All football equipment actually worn by pupils shall
be cleaned and sterilized at least once a year. Football equipment
used in spring training shall be cleaned and sterilized before it is
used in the succeeding fall term.
   (b) Wrestling equipment used multiple years may be cleaned and
sterilized as specified by the Superintendent and the state board
pursuant to Section 33134.
  SEC. 3.  Section 33134 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   33134.  The Superintendent shall develop information and
guidelines regarding the prevention of communicable diseases at
schoolsites and submit the information and guidelines to the state
board for its approval. The information and guidelines, at a minimum,
shall address the maintenance of locker rooms, athletic equipment,
and synthetic ground covers used for athletic fields and ways to
minimize the spread of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus
and meningococcal disease. The Superintendent shall post the approved
guidelines on the department's Internet Web site. 
  SEC. 4.    If the Commission on State Mandates
determines that this act contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement to local agencies and school districts for those costs
shall be made pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of
Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code.