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  MAY 6, 2009
	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  
Section 17578  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.
   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 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.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: 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, 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  , as specified
by the Superintendent and the state board pursuant to Section 33134
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  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.   SEC. 2.   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.