Title EDC — California Educ. Code

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature in enacting this section to express its concern for the health and safety of school pupils and school personnel at schools where hazardous materials are stored on the school premises, and to encourage school districts to take steps to ensur…

Contracts between any city, county, or local health district and the governing board of any school district located wholly or partially within such city, county, or local health district for the performance by the health officers or other employees of the health department of suc…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, the governing board of a school district shall cooperate with the local health officer in measures necessary for the prevention and control of communicable diseases in schoolage children. For that purpose, the board may use any funds, property, …

The control of smallpox is under the direction of the State Department of Health Services, and no rule or regulation on the subject of vaccination shall be adopted by school or local health authorities.

(a) (1) (A) Except as provided in subdivision (j), a person shall not be initially employed by a school district, or employed under contract, in a certificated or classified position unless the person has submitted to a tuberculosis risk assessment within the past 60 days, and, i…

Notwithstanding any provision of any law, no school district, officer of any school district, school principal, physician, or hospital treating any child enrolled in any school in any district shall be held liable for the reasonable treatment of a child without the consent of a p…

For the protection of a pupil’s health and welfare, the governing board of a school district may require the parent or legal guardian of a pupil to keep current at the pupil’s school of attendance, emergency information including the home address and telephone number, business ad…

Notwithstanding any provision of any law, no physician and surgeon who in good faith and without compensation renders voluntary emergency medical assistance to a participant in a school athletic event or contest at the site thereof, or during transportation to a health care facil…

(a) The Legislature finds that: (1) There is substantial scientific and medical evidence that human exposure to asbestos fibers significantly increases the likelihood of contracting cancer and other debilitating or fatal diseases such as asbestosis. (2) Medical and epidemiologica…

School districts and county offices of education may apply to the State Allocation Board pursuant to Section 39619.6 for funds for the purposes of containment or removal of asbestos materials posing a hazard to health.

(a) The State Allocation Board shall retain all information provided by school districts making application for funds pursuant to Sections 39619.6, 39619.7, and 39619.8 regarding the actual or estimated cost of inspection and testing for, and encapsulation or removal of, asbestos…

(a) For purposes of funding pursuant to Section 39619.9, the factors determining the need for abatement of friable asbestos or potentially friable asbestos shall include, but not be limited to, visual inspection and bulk samples and air monitoring showing an airborne concentratio…

(a) The State Department of Education, in cooperation with the Division of Occupational Safety and Health within the Department of Industrial Relations, shall formulate a listing of chemical compounds used in school programs that includes the potential hazards and estimated shelf…

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), counties and school districts, in the utilization of funds allocated pursuant to any appropriation from any account in the Cigarette and Tobacco Products Surtax Fund for the provision of health care to school populations, shall give init…

(a) The Legislature recognizes the importance of first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation training. In enacting this section, it is the intent of the Legislature to encourage school districts and schools, individually or jointly, to develop a program whereby their staff and pu…

(a) Local educational agencies shall provide emergency epinephrine delivery systems, to be stored at each schoolsite, including at the location of any childcare program operated by or under contract with the local educational agency, in an accessible location upon need for emerge…

(a) For purposes of this section, the following apply: (1) “Cannabis” has the same meaning as in Section 11018 of the Health and Safety Code. “Cannabis” includes cannabis products. (2) “Cannabis products” has the same meaning as in Section 11018.1 of the Health and Safety Code. (…

(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) …

(a) School districts, county offices of education, and charter schools may provide emergency naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist to school nurses or trained personnel who have volunteered pursuant to subdivision (d), and school nurses or trained personnel may use …

(a) Notwithstanding any other law or regulation, a local educational agency shall not prohibit a pupil 12 years of age or older, while on a schoolsite or participating in school activities, from carrying or administering, for the purposes of providing emergency treatment to perso…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature that, as part of a restorative justice framework, a school use alternatives to a referral of a pupil to a law enforcement agency in response to an incident involving the pupil’s misuse of an opioid, to the extent not in conflict with any ot…

(a) In the absence of a credentialed school nurse or other licensed nurse onsite at the school, each school district may provide school personnel with voluntary emergency medical training to provide emergency medical assistance to pupils with diabetes suffering from severe hypogl…

(a) Notwithstanding any other law or regulation, local educational agencies shall not prohibit pupils in middle schools, junior high schools, high schools, or adult schools, while on a schoolsite or participating in school activities, from carrying fentanyl test strips or a feder…

(a) School districts, county offices of education, and charter schools may provide emergency stock albuterol inhalers, including, if necessary, single-use disposable holding chambers, to school nurses or trained personnel who have volunteered pursuant to subdivision (d), and scho…

(a) (1) Commencing with the 2023–24 fiscal year, and for each fiscal year thereafter, the sum of three million five hundred thousand dollars ($3,500,000) shall be appropriated from the General Fund to the department to allocate to county offices of education for the purpose of pu…

On or before July 1, 2004, the State Board of Education shall adopt maximum weight standards for textbooks used by pupils in elementary and secondary schools. The weight standards shall take into consideration the health risks to pupils who transport textbooks to and from school …

(a) A public school may solicit and receive nonstate funds to acquire and maintain an automated external defibrillator (AED). These funds shall only be used to acquire and maintain an AED and to provide training to school employees regarding use of an AED. (b) Except as provided …

For purposes of this article, “office” means the Office of School-Based Health Programs established within the department that is dedicated to expanding access to school-based health programs pursuant to this article.

(a) The department shall, no later than January 1, 2022, establish an Office of School-Based Health Programs for the purpose of assisting local educational agencies regarding the current health-related programs under the purview of the department. The scope of the office shall in…

(a) The department shall by January 1, 2022, appoint a state school nurse consultant to be housed within the office, as established pursuant to Section 49419. The state school nurse consultant shall be a school nurse with a services credential with a specialization in health for …

(a) The sum of five million dollars ($5,000,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Superintendent on a one-time basis for the School Health Demonstration Project. The School Health Demonstration Project is hereby established in the office as a pilot project to e…

(a) (1) On or before June 30, 2022, the State Department of Education shall establish a process to select, with approval from the executive director of the state board, a local educational agency to provide guidance around Medi-Cal billing and increase local educational agencies’…

(a) No physician, psychiatrist, oculist, dentist, dental hygienist, optometrist, otologist, podiatrist, audiologist, or nurse not employed in that capacity by the State Department of Health Services, shall be, nor shall any other person be, employed or permitted to supervise the …

(a) Notwithstanding Section 49422, any pupil who is required to take, during the regular schoolday, medication prescribed for the pupil by a physician and surgeon or ordered for the pupil by a physician assistant practicing in compliance with Chapter 7.7 (commencing with Section …

(a) Notwithstanding Section 49422, a pupil who is required to take, during the regular schoolday, medication prescribed for the pupil by a physician or surgeon, may be assisted by the school nurse or other designated school personnel or may carry and self-administer inhaled asthm…

On or before June 15, 2001, the State Department of Education shall review and make recommendations to the State Board of Education regarding any needed updates to the regulations adopted pursuant to subdivision (e) of Section 49423.5.

(a) On or before June 15, 2001, the State Department of Education shall develop and recommend to the State Board of Education, and the board shall adopt regulations, regarding the administration of medication in the public schools pursuant to Section 49423. These regulations shal…

A school psychologist is a credentialed professional whose primary objective is the application of scientific principles of learning and behavior to ameliorate school-related problems and to facilitate the learning and development of children in the public schools of California. …

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 49422, a licensed physician need not hold a credential if his sole service for a school district or county superintendent of schools is service as a member of a committee whose function is to consider written and oral information and repo…

A school nurse is a registered nurse currently licensed under Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 2700) of Division 2 of the Business and Professions Code, and who has completed the additional educational requirements for, and possesses a current credential in, school nursing purs…

(a) A licensed vocational nurse hired pursuant to this section shall be supervised by a credentialed school nurse who is employed as a school nurse at the same local educational agency or at another local educational agency. (b) (1) If a local educational agency elects to hire a …

(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…

(a) A school of a school district or county office of education and a charter school shall notify pupils and parents or guardians of pupils no less than twice during the school year on how to initiate access to available pupil mental health services on campus or in the community,…

(a) On or before June 1, 2025, the department shall develop model referral protocols for addressing pupil behavioral health concerns. In developing these protocols, the department shall consult with the State Department of Health Care Services, the members of the Student Mental H…

(a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Evidence-based” means peer-reviewed, scientific research evidence, including studies based on research methodologies that control threats to both the internal and the external validity of the research finding…

(a) It is the intent of the Legislature to assist local educational agencies in developing strategies for preventing pupil opioid overdoses, including synthetic opioids. (b) The Legislature encourages county offices of education to establish a County Working Group on Fentanyl Edu…

(a) For purposes of this section, the following definitions apply: (1) “Local educational agency” means a county office of education, school district, state special school, or charter school that serves pupils in any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive. (2) “Youth behavioral health diso…

(a) On or before the start of the 2023–24 school year, each schoolsite in a school district, county office of education, or charter school, serving pupils in any of grades 6 to 12, inclusive, shall create a poster that identifies approaches and shares resources regarding pupil me…

(a) The department, in consultation with the State Department of Health Care Services and appropriate stakeholders, including stakeholders with experience in telehealth, as defined in subdivision (d), shall develop guidelines on or before December 31, 2022, for the use of telehea…

(a) For purposes of this section, “local educational agency” means a school district, county office of education, or charter school. (b) On or before November 1, 2024, county offices of education, in consultation with the department and other relevant state and local agencies, sh…