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1-Assembly Bill No. 2640 CHAPTER 794 An act to add Section 49414.2 to the Education Code, relating to pupil health. [ Approved by Governor September 29, 2022. Filed with Secretary of State September 29, 2022. ] LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 2640, Valladares. Pupil health: food allergies: California Food Allergy Resource internet web page.Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to give diligent care to the health and physical development of pupils and authorizes the governing board of a school district to employ properly certified persons for that work. Existing law requires school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to provide emergency epinephrine auto-injectors to school nurses or trained volunteer personnel, and authorizes school nurses and trained personnel to use epinephrine auto-injectors to provide emergency medical aid to persons suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering, from an anaphylactic reaction, as provided. This bill would require the State Department of Education to create the California Food Allergy Resource internet web page to provide voluntary guidance to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to help protect pupils with food allergies. The bill would require the department to ensure that the internet web page provides practical information, planning steps, and strategies for reducing allergic reactions to food within schools and early education centers. The bill would require the internet web page to include specified content, including state and federal resources available to pupils with food allergies, methods for pupils, or their parents and guardians, to initiate individualized food allergy management and prevention plans and to obtain food ingredient lists from school food providers, and strategies to minimize the risk of food anaphylaxis in school. The bill would encourage local educational agencies to consult the internet web page and use it as an equitable resource to ensure the inclusiveness of pupils with food allergies at school and to make it available to pupils, parents, and guardians annually.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Zacky Bill, a health and safety bill concerning pupils with life-threatening food allergies.SEC. 2. Section 49414.2 is added to the Education Code, to read:49414.2. (a) The department shall create the California Food Allergy Resource internet web page to provide voluntary guidance to local educational agencies to help protect pupils with food allergies. In creating the internet web page, the department shall ensure all of the following:(1) The focus of the internet web page is to provide local educational agencies, caregivers, and pupils practical information, planning steps, and strategies for reducing allergic reactions to food within schools and early education centers.(2) The internet web page includes a link to the most recent version of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Voluntary Guidelines for Managing Food Allergies in Schools and Early Care Education Programs, as well as other relevant resources, which may include, but are not limited to, best practices fact sheets produced by the Institute of Child Nutrition.(3) A summary of the specific state laws relevant to the issue of pupils with food allergies in schools are included to serve as a complement to the federal laws and regulations included in the federal guidelines identified in paragraph (2).(b) The content of the California Food Allergy Resource internet web page shall include, at a minimum, all of the following:(1) A compilation of state and federal resources available for pupils with food allergies.(2) Methods and qualifications necessary for pupils, or their parents and guardians, to initiate individualized food allergy management and prevention plans.(3) Potential strategies to minimize the risk of food allergy anaphylaxis in school.(4) Methods to obtain ingredient lists for foods served to pupils at school from each of the schools food service providers.(c) A local educational agency is encouraged to consult the internet web page created pursuant to this section and use it as an equitable resource to ensure the inclusiveness of pupils with food allergies at school and is encouraged to make it available annually to pupils, parents, and guardians.(d) For purposes of this section, local educational agency means a school district, county office of education, and charter school.
1+Enrolled August 19, 2022 Passed IN Senate August 17, 2022 Passed IN Assembly May 05, 2022 Amended IN Assembly April 19, 2022 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 2640Introduced by Assembly Members Valladares and Megan Dahle(Coauthor: Senator Archuleta)February 18, 2022 An act to add Section 49414.2 to the Education Code, relating to pupil health. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 2640, Valladares. Pupil health: food allergies: California Food Allergy Resource internet web page.Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to give diligent care to the health and physical development of pupils and authorizes the governing board of a school district to employ properly certified persons for that work. Existing law requires school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to provide emergency epinephrine auto-injectors to school nurses or trained volunteer personnel, and authorizes school nurses and trained personnel to use epinephrine auto-injectors to provide emergency medical aid to persons suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering, from an anaphylactic reaction, as provided. This bill would require the State Department of Education to create the California Food Allergy Resource internet web page to provide voluntary guidance to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to help protect pupils with food allergies. The bill would require the department to ensure that the internet web page provides practical information, planning steps, and strategies for reducing allergic reactions to food within schools and early education centers. The bill would require the internet web page to include specified content, including state and federal resources available to pupils with food allergies, methods for pupils, or their parents and guardians, to initiate individualized food allergy management and prevention plans and to obtain food ingredient lists from school food providers, and strategies to minimize the risk of food anaphylaxis in school. The bill would encourage local educational agencies to consult the internet web page and use it as an equitable resource to ensure the inclusiveness of pupils with food allergies at school and to make it available to pupils, parents, and guardians annually.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Zacky Bill, a health and safety bill concerning pupils with life-threatening food allergies.SEC. 2. Section 49414.2 is added to the Education Code, to read:49414.2. (a) The department shall create the California Food Allergy Resource internet web page to provide voluntary guidance to local educational agencies to help protect pupils with food allergies. In creating the internet web page, the department shall ensure all of the following:(1) The focus of the internet web page is to provide local educational agencies, caregivers, and pupils practical information, planning steps, and strategies for reducing allergic reactions to food within schools and early education centers.(2) The internet web page includes a link to the most recent version of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Voluntary Guidelines for Managing Food Allergies in Schools and Early Care Education Programs, as well as other relevant resources, which may include, but are not limited to, best practices fact sheets produced by the Institute of Child Nutrition.(3) A summary of the specific state laws relevant to the issue of pupils with food allergies in schools are included to serve as a complement to the federal laws and regulations included in the federal guidelines identified in paragraph (2).(b) The content of the California Food Allergy Resource internet web page shall include, at a minimum, all of the following:(1) A compilation of state and federal resources available for pupils with food allergies.(2) Methods and qualifications necessary for pupils, or their parents and guardians, to initiate individualized food allergy management and prevention plans.(3) Potential strategies to minimize the risk of food allergy anaphylaxis in school.(4) Methods to obtain ingredient lists for foods served to pupils at school from each of the schools food service providers.(c) A local educational agency is encouraged to consult the internet web page created pursuant to this section and use it as an equitable resource to ensure the inclusiveness of pupils with food allergies at school and is encouraged to make it available annually to pupils, parents, and guardians.(d) For purposes of this section, local educational agency means a school district, county office of education, and charter school.
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3- Assembly Bill No. 2640 CHAPTER 794 An act to add Section 49414.2 to the Education Code, relating to pupil health. [ Approved by Governor September 29, 2022. Filed with Secretary of State September 29, 2022. ] LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 2640, Valladares. Pupil health: food allergies: California Food Allergy Resource internet web page.Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to give diligent care to the health and physical development of pupils and authorizes the governing board of a school district to employ properly certified persons for that work. Existing law requires school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to provide emergency epinephrine auto-injectors to school nurses or trained volunteer personnel, and authorizes school nurses and trained personnel to use epinephrine auto-injectors to provide emergency medical aid to persons suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering, from an anaphylactic reaction, as provided. This bill would require the State Department of Education to create the California Food Allergy Resource internet web page to provide voluntary guidance to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to help protect pupils with food allergies. The bill would require the department to ensure that the internet web page provides practical information, planning steps, and strategies for reducing allergic reactions to food within schools and early education centers. The bill would require the internet web page to include specified content, including state and federal resources available to pupils with food allergies, methods for pupils, or their parents and guardians, to initiate individualized food allergy management and prevention plans and to obtain food ingredient lists from school food providers, and strategies to minimize the risk of food anaphylaxis in school. The bill would encourage local educational agencies to consult the internet web page and use it as an equitable resource to ensure the inclusiveness of pupils with food allergies at school and to make it available to pupils, parents, and guardians annually.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO
3+ Enrolled August 19, 2022 Passed IN Senate August 17, 2022 Passed IN Assembly May 05, 2022 Amended IN Assembly April 19, 2022 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20212022 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 2640Introduced by Assembly Members Valladares and Megan Dahle(Coauthor: Senator Archuleta)February 18, 2022 An act to add Section 49414.2 to the Education Code, relating to pupil health. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 2640, Valladares. Pupil health: food allergies: California Food Allergy Resource internet web page.Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to give diligent care to the health and physical development of pupils and authorizes the governing board of a school district to employ properly certified persons for that work. Existing law requires school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to provide emergency epinephrine auto-injectors to school nurses or trained volunteer personnel, and authorizes school nurses and trained personnel to use epinephrine auto-injectors to provide emergency medical aid to persons suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering, from an anaphylactic reaction, as provided. This bill would require the State Department of Education to create the California Food Allergy Resource internet web page to provide voluntary guidance to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to help protect pupils with food allergies. The bill would require the department to ensure that the internet web page provides practical information, planning steps, and strategies for reducing allergic reactions to food within schools and early education centers. The bill would require the internet web page to include specified content, including state and federal resources available to pupils with food allergies, methods for pupils, or their parents and guardians, to initiate individualized food allergy management and prevention plans and to obtain food ingredient lists from school food providers, and strategies to minimize the risk of food anaphylaxis in school. The bill would encourage local educational agencies to consult the internet web page and use it as an equitable resource to ensure the inclusiveness of pupils with food allergies at school and to make it available to pupils, parents, and guardians annually.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO
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2131 Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to give diligent care to the health and physical development of pupils and authorizes the governing board of a school district to employ properly certified persons for that work. Existing law requires school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to provide emergency epinephrine auto-injectors to school nurses or trained volunteer personnel, and authorizes school nurses and trained personnel to use epinephrine auto-injectors to provide emergency medical aid to persons suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering, from an anaphylactic reaction, as provided. This bill would require the State Department of Education to create the California Food Allergy Resource internet web page to provide voluntary guidance to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to help protect pupils with food allergies. The bill would require the department to ensure that the internet web page provides practical information, planning steps, and strategies for reducing allergic reactions to food within schools and early education centers. The bill would require the internet web page to include specified content, including state and federal resources available to pupils with food allergies, methods for pupils, or their parents and guardians, to initiate individualized food allergy management and prevention plans and to obtain food ingredient lists from school food providers, and strategies to minimize the risk of food anaphylaxis in school. The bill would encourage local educational agencies to consult the internet web page and use it as an equitable resource to ensure the inclusiveness of pupils with food allergies at school and to make it available to pupils, parents, and guardians annually.
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2333 Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to give diligent care to the health and physical development of pupils and authorizes the governing board of a school district to employ properly certified persons for that work. Existing law requires school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to provide emergency epinephrine auto-injectors to school nurses or trained volunteer personnel, and authorizes school nurses and trained personnel to use epinephrine auto-injectors to provide emergency medical aid to persons suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering, from an anaphylactic reaction, as provided.
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2535 This bill would require the State Department of Education to create the California Food Allergy Resource internet web page to provide voluntary guidance to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to help protect pupils with food allergies. The bill would require the department to ensure that the internet web page provides practical information, planning steps, and strategies for reducing allergic reactions to food within schools and early education centers. The bill would require the internet web page to include specified content, including state and federal resources available to pupils with food allergies, methods for pupils, or their parents and guardians, to initiate individualized food allergy management and prevention plans and to obtain food ingredient lists from school food providers, and strategies to minimize the risk of food anaphylaxis in school. The bill would encourage local educational agencies to consult the internet web page and use it as an equitable resource to ensure the inclusiveness of pupils with food allergies at school and to make it available to pupils, parents, and guardians annually.
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3141 The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Zacky Bill, a health and safety bill concerning pupils with life-threatening food allergies.SEC. 2. Section 49414.2 is added to the Education Code, to read:49414.2. (a) The department shall create the California Food Allergy Resource internet web page to provide voluntary guidance to local educational agencies to help protect pupils with food allergies. In creating the internet web page, the department shall ensure all of the following:(1) The focus of the internet web page is to provide local educational agencies, caregivers, and pupils practical information, planning steps, and strategies for reducing allergic reactions to food within schools and early education centers.(2) The internet web page includes a link to the most recent version of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Voluntary Guidelines for Managing Food Allergies in Schools and Early Care Education Programs, as well as other relevant resources, which may include, but are not limited to, best practices fact sheets produced by the Institute of Child Nutrition.(3) A summary of the specific state laws relevant to the issue of pupils with food allergies in schools are included to serve as a complement to the federal laws and regulations included in the federal guidelines identified in paragraph (2).(b) The content of the California Food Allergy Resource internet web page shall include, at a minimum, all of the following:(1) A compilation of state and federal resources available for pupils with food allergies.(2) Methods and qualifications necessary for pupils, or their parents and guardians, to initiate individualized food allergy management and prevention plans.(3) Potential strategies to minimize the risk of food allergy anaphylaxis in school.(4) Methods to obtain ingredient lists for foods served to pupils at school from each of the schools food service providers.(c) A local educational agency is encouraged to consult the internet web page created pursuant to this section and use it as an equitable resource to ensure the inclusiveness of pupils with food allergies at school and is encouraged to make it available annually to pupils, parents, and guardians.(d) For purposes of this section, local educational agency means a school district, county office of education, and charter school.
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4555 SEC. 2. Section 49414.2 is added to the Education Code, to read:49414.2. (a) The department shall create the California Food Allergy Resource internet web page to provide voluntary guidance to local educational agencies to help protect pupils with food allergies. In creating the internet web page, the department shall ensure all of the following:(1) The focus of the internet web page is to provide local educational agencies, caregivers, and pupils practical information, planning steps, and strategies for reducing allergic reactions to food within schools and early education centers.(2) The internet web page includes a link to the most recent version of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Voluntary Guidelines for Managing Food Allergies in Schools and Early Care Education Programs, as well as other relevant resources, which may include, but are not limited to, best practices fact sheets produced by the Institute of Child Nutrition.(3) A summary of the specific state laws relevant to the issue of pupils with food allergies in schools are included to serve as a complement to the federal laws and regulations included in the federal guidelines identified in paragraph (2).(b) The content of the California Food Allergy Resource internet web page shall include, at a minimum, all of the following:(1) A compilation of state and federal resources available for pupils with food allergies.(2) Methods and qualifications necessary for pupils, or their parents and guardians, to initiate individualized food allergy management and prevention plans.(3) Potential strategies to minimize the risk of food allergy anaphylaxis in school.(4) Methods to obtain ingredient lists for foods served to pupils at school from each of the schools food service providers.(c) A local educational agency is encouraged to consult the internet web page created pursuant to this section and use it as an equitable resource to ensure the inclusiveness of pupils with food allergies at school and is encouraged to make it available annually to pupils, parents, and guardians.(d) For purposes of this section, local educational agency means a school district, county office of education, and charter school.
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5161 49414.2. (a) The department shall create the California Food Allergy Resource internet web page to provide voluntary guidance to local educational agencies to help protect pupils with food allergies. In creating the internet web page, the department shall ensure all of the following:(1) The focus of the internet web page is to provide local educational agencies, caregivers, and pupils practical information, planning steps, and strategies for reducing allergic reactions to food within schools and early education centers.(2) The internet web page includes a link to the most recent version of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Voluntary Guidelines for Managing Food Allergies in Schools and Early Care Education Programs, as well as other relevant resources, which may include, but are not limited to, best practices fact sheets produced by the Institute of Child Nutrition.(3) A summary of the specific state laws relevant to the issue of pupils with food allergies in schools are included to serve as a complement to the federal laws and regulations included in the federal guidelines identified in paragraph (2).(b) The content of the California Food Allergy Resource internet web page shall include, at a minimum, all of the following:(1) A compilation of state and federal resources available for pupils with food allergies.(2) Methods and qualifications necessary for pupils, or their parents and guardians, to initiate individualized food allergy management and prevention plans.(3) Potential strategies to minimize the risk of food allergy anaphylaxis in school.(4) Methods to obtain ingredient lists for foods served to pupils at school from each of the schools food service providers.(c) A local educational agency is encouraged to consult the internet web page created pursuant to this section and use it as an equitable resource to ensure the inclusiveness of pupils with food allergies at school and is encouraged to make it available annually to pupils, parents, and guardians.(d) For purposes of this section, local educational agency means a school district, county office of education, and charter school.
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5363 49414.2. (a) The department shall create the California Food Allergy Resource internet web page to provide voluntary guidance to local educational agencies to help protect pupils with food allergies. In creating the internet web page, the department shall ensure all of the following:(1) The focus of the internet web page is to provide local educational agencies, caregivers, and pupils practical information, planning steps, and strategies for reducing allergic reactions to food within schools and early education centers.(2) The internet web page includes a link to the most recent version of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Voluntary Guidelines for Managing Food Allergies in Schools and Early Care Education Programs, as well as other relevant resources, which may include, but are not limited to, best practices fact sheets produced by the Institute of Child Nutrition.(3) A summary of the specific state laws relevant to the issue of pupils with food allergies in schools are included to serve as a complement to the federal laws and regulations included in the federal guidelines identified in paragraph (2).(b) The content of the California Food Allergy Resource internet web page shall include, at a minimum, all of the following:(1) A compilation of state and federal resources available for pupils with food allergies.(2) Methods and qualifications necessary for pupils, or their parents and guardians, to initiate individualized food allergy management and prevention plans.(3) Potential strategies to minimize the risk of food allergy anaphylaxis in school.(4) Methods to obtain ingredient lists for foods served to pupils at school from each of the schools food service providers.(c) A local educational agency is encouraged to consult the internet web page created pursuant to this section and use it as an equitable resource to ensure the inclusiveness of pupils with food allergies at school and is encouraged to make it available annually to pupils, parents, and guardians.(d) For purposes of this section, local educational agency means a school district, county office of education, and charter school.
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5565 49414.2. (a) The department shall create the California Food Allergy Resource internet web page to provide voluntary guidance to local educational agencies to help protect pupils with food allergies. In creating the internet web page, the department shall ensure all of the following:(1) The focus of the internet web page is to provide local educational agencies, caregivers, and pupils practical information, planning steps, and strategies for reducing allergic reactions to food within schools and early education centers.(2) The internet web page includes a link to the most recent version of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Voluntary Guidelines for Managing Food Allergies in Schools and Early Care Education Programs, as well as other relevant resources, which may include, but are not limited to, best practices fact sheets produced by the Institute of Child Nutrition.(3) A summary of the specific state laws relevant to the issue of pupils with food allergies in schools are included to serve as a complement to the federal laws and regulations included in the federal guidelines identified in paragraph (2).(b) The content of the California Food Allergy Resource internet web page shall include, at a minimum, all of the following:(1) A compilation of state and federal resources available for pupils with food allergies.(2) Methods and qualifications necessary for pupils, or their parents and guardians, to initiate individualized food allergy management and prevention plans.(3) Potential strategies to minimize the risk of food allergy anaphylaxis in school.(4) Methods to obtain ingredient lists for foods served to pupils at school from each of the schools food service providers.(c) A local educational agency is encouraged to consult the internet web page created pursuant to this section and use it as an equitable resource to ensure the inclusiveness of pupils with food allergies at school and is encouraged to make it available annually to pupils, parents, and guardians.(d) For purposes of this section, local educational agency means a school district, county office of education, and charter school.
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6373 (2) The internet web page includes a link to the most recent version of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Voluntary Guidelines for Managing Food Allergies in Schools and Early Care Education Programs, as well as other relevant resources, which may include, but are not limited to, best practices fact sheets produced by the Institute of Child Nutrition.
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6575 (3) A summary of the specific state laws relevant to the issue of pupils with food allergies in schools are included to serve as a complement to the federal laws and regulations included in the federal guidelines identified in paragraph (2).
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6777 (b) The content of the California Food Allergy Resource internet web page shall include, at a minimum, all of the following:
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7787 (c) A local educational agency is encouraged to consult the internet web page created pursuant to this section and use it as an equitable resource to ensure the inclusiveness of pupils with food allergies at school and is encouraged to make it available annually to pupils, parents, and guardians.
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7989 (d) For purposes of this section, local educational agency means a school district, county office of education, and charter school.