BILL NUMBER: SB 1239	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Wolk

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2014

   An act to amend Section 49427 of the Education Code, relating to
pupil health.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1239, as introduced, Wolk. Pupil health: school health
services.
   Existing law establishes criteria for employment of school medical
personnel, and declares the intent of the Legislature that
fundamental school health services be maintained, by the governing
board of each school district and each county superintendent of
schools, at a level that is adequate to accomplish specified goals,
including, among others, fulfilling existing state requirements and
policies regarding pupil health.
   This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to these provisions.

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 49427 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   49427.  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the governing
board of each school district and each county superintendent of
schools maintain fundamental school health services at a level that
is adequate to accomplish all of the following:
   (1) Preserve pupils' ability to learn.
   (2) Fulfill existing state requirements and policies regarding
 pupils'   pupil  health.
   (3) Contain health care costs through preventive programs and
education.
   (b) The Legislature finds and declares that the provision of these
services may be in jeopardy due to the current caseloads in the
public schools, and that failure to maintain adequate health services
and standards will result in pupils' poorer health and ability to
learn.