California Senate Bill SB212 Amended / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: SB 212AMENDED 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  .  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.