Bill Text: CA SB552 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Schools: health education.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-08-27 - Set, second hearing. Held in committee and under submission. [SB552 Detail]
Download: California-2009-SB552-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: SB 552 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JULY 15, 2009
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JUNE 11, 2009
AMENDED IN SENATE MAY 12, 2009
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 13, 2009
INTRODUCED BY Senator Padilla
( Coauthor: Assembly Member
Garrick )
FEBRUARY 27, 2009
An act to add Section Sections 33544 and
51882 to the Education Code, relating to schools.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 552, as amended, Padilla. Schools: health education.
The Comprehensive Health Education Act of 1977 requires the State
Department of Education to prepare and distribute to school districts
guidelines for the preparation of comprehensive health education
plans, and, in cooperation with county offices of education that
desire to participate, to assist school districts in developing
comprehensive health education plans and programs.
This bill would require school districts that offer health classes
to grade 9 or 10 pupils to provide at least 15 minutes of
instruction on organ procurement and tissue donation that would be
designed to develop a knowledge of the potentially life-saving
achievement involved in organ and tissue transplantation.
The bill would require the State Board of Education and the
Curriculum Development and Supplemental Materials Commission to
ensure that the health framework, evaluation criteria, and
instructional materials adopted for pupils in grades 9 and 10 in the
course of the next submission cycle following the date that this
section becomes effective include organ procurement and tissue
donation.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no
yes . State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares as follows:
(a) There are more than 100,000 people on the national organ
transplant waiting list, and more than 21,000, or 21 percent, of
those people live in California.
(b) Currently only 25 percent of applicants for California driver'
s licenses register as organ or tissue donors.
(c) Californians who apply for a California drivers
driver's license are asked whether or not they
would like to donate their organs and tissue. It is important that,
if we are asking that question, we are allowing the individual to
make an informed decision.
(d) There is an urgent need to educate the public about organ and
tissue donation.
SEC. 2. Section 33544 is added to the
Education Code , to read:
33544. The state board and the Curriculum Development and
Supplemental Materials Commission shall ensure that the health
framework, evaluation criteria, and instructional materials adopted
for pupils in grades 9 and 10 in the course of the next submission
cycle following the date that this section becomes effective include
organ procurement and tissue donation.
SEC. 2. SEC. 3. Section 51882 is
added to the Education Code, to read:
51882. Commencing with the 2010-11 school year, a school district
that elects to offer health classes to grade 9 or 10 pupils shall
offer provide at least 15 minutes of
instruction on organ procurement and tissue donation designed to
develop a knowledge of the potentially life-saving achievement
involved in organ and tissue transplantation. Nonprofit
organ-procurement organ procurement
organizations, including among others, Donate Life California,
shall may provide school districts with
the information that will be provided through the instruction
required pursuant to this section.
