BILL NUMBER: AB 1840	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Campos

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2014

   An act to amend Section 49452 of the Education Code, relating to
pupil health.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1840, as introduced, Campos. Pupil health: sight and hearing
tests.
   Existing law requires the governing board of any school district
to provide for the adequate testing of sight and hearing of each
pupil enrolled in the schools of the district to be given only by
specified persons.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that
provision.
   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 49452 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   49452.  The governing board of  any   a 
school district shall, subject to Section 49451, provide for the
testing of the sight and hearing of each pupil enrolled in 
the schools   a school  of the district. The test
shall be adequate in nature and shall be given only by duly qualified
supervisors of health employed by the district; or by certificated
employees of the district or of the county superintendent of schools
who possess the qualifications prescribed by the Commission for
Teacher Preparation and Licensing; or by contract with an agency duly
authorized to perform those services by the county superintendent of
schools of the county in which the district is located, under
guidelines established by the State Board of Education; or accredited
schools or colleges of optometry, osteopathic medicine, or medicine.
The records of the tests shall serve as evidence of the need of the
pupils for the educational facilities provided physically handicapped
individuals. The equipment necessary to conduct the tests may be
purchased or rented by governing boards of school districts. The
state, any agency, or political subdivision thereof may sell or rent
any such equipment owned by it to the governing board of  any
  a  school district upon terms as may be mutually
agreeable.