Bill Text: CA AB2865 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Pupil instruction: excessive alcohol use.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-29 - Referred to Com. on ED. [AB2865 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB2865-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2865

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Introduced by Assembly Member Wendy Carrillo

February 15, 2024

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An act to amend Section 51202 of the Education Code, relating to pupil instruction.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2865, as introduced, Wendy Carrillo. Pupil instruction: personal and public safety.

Existing law prescribes required courses of study in grades 1 to 12, inclusive, ​and requires the adopted course of study to provide instruction at the appropriate ​elementary and secondary grade levels and subject areas in, among other things, personal​ and public safety and accident prevention, including, among other things, health, including venereal disease and the effects of alcohol, narcotics, drugs, and tobacco on the human body.

This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to that provision.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 51202 of the Education Code is amended to read:

51202.

 The adopted course of study shall provide instruction at the appropriate elementary and secondary grade levels and subject areas in personal and public safety and accident prevention, including emergency first aid instruction, instruction in hemorrhage control, treatment for poisoning, resuscitation techniques, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation when appropriate equipment is available; fire prevention; the protection and conservation of resources, including the necessity for the protection of our environment; and health, including venereal disease and the effects of alcohol, narcotics, drugs, and tobacco upon on the human body. The health instruction may include prenatal care for pregnant women and violence as a public health issue.