BILL NUMBER: AB 1937	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Fletcher

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2010

   An act to amend Section 49403 of the Education Code, relating to
pupil health.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1937, as introduced, Fletcher. Pupil health: immunizations.
   Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to
cooperate with the local health officer in measures necessary for the
prevention and control of communicable diseases in schoolage
children, and authorizes the board to permit a licensed physician and
surgeon or a licensed registered nurse acting under the direction of
a supervising physician and surgeon to administer an immunizing
agent to a pupil whose parents have consented, as specified.
   This bill would also authorize a school district to permit any
other licensed health care practitioner who is acting under the
direction of a supervising physician and surgeon and whose license or
certificate authorizes the holder to administer an immunizing agent,
to administer an immunizing agent to those pupils. The bill would
also make other technical changes.
   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 49403 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   49403.  (a)  Anything to the contrary notwithstanding,
  Notwithstanding any other law,  the governing
board of  any   a  school district shall
cooperate with the local health officer in measures necessary for the
prevention and control of communicable diseases in  school
age   schoolage  children. For that purpose  ,
 the board may use any funds, property, and personnel of the
district, and may permit  any person   a 
licensed  as a  physician and surgeon  , or
any person licensed as a registered nurse acting under the direction
of a supervising physician and surgeon as provided in subdivisions
(b) and (c)   or any other health care practitioner who
is acting under the direction of a supervising physician and surgeon
and is   either licensed as a registered nurse or holds a
license or certificate that authorizes the holder to administer an
immunizing agent  , to administer an immunizing agent to
 any   a  pupil whose  parents have
  parent or guardian has  consented in writing to
the administration of  such   the 
immunizing agent.
   (b) A registered nurse  or other authorized health care
practitioner  , acting under the direction of a supervising
physician and surgeon, may perform immunization techniques within the
course of a school immunization program provided that the
administration of an immunizing agent is upon the standing orders of
a supervising physician and surgeon and in accordance with 
such   any  written regulations  as
  that  the State Department of Health  Care
Services  may adopt  pursuant to Section 303.5 of the
Health and Safety Code  .
   "Supervising physician and surgeon," as used  herein
  in this section  , means the physician and
surgeon of the local health department or  the physician and
surgeon of the  school district that is directing the school
immunization program.
   (c) While nothing in this section shall be construed to require
the physical presence of the supervising physician and surgeon, the
supervising physician and surgeon  under whose direction the
registered nurse is acting  shall require  such
  a  nurse  or other health care practitioner
under his or her direction  to  do both of the following
 :
   (1) Satisfactorily demonstrate competence in the administration of
 the  immunizing  agents   agent 
, including knowledge of all indications and contraindications for
the administration of  such agents   the agent
 , and  in  the recognition and treatment of
 any  emergency reactions to  such agents
which   the agent that  constitute a danger to the
health or life of the person receiving the immunization  ;
and   . 
   (2) Possess  such   the  medications and
equipment  as   that are  required, in the
medical judgment of the supervising physician and surgeon, to treat
any emergency conditions and reactions caused by the immunizing
agents  and which   that  constitute a
danger to the health or life of the person receiving the
immunization, and to demonstrate the ability to administer 
such   the  medications and  to utilize
such   use the  equipment as necessary.