Bill Text: CA SB443 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Drinking water: schools.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2024-02-01 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB443 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB443-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 443
| Introduced by Senator Gonzalez |
February 13, 2023 |
An act to amend Section 38042 of the Education Code, relating to drinking water.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 443, as introduced, Gonzalez.
Drinking water: schools.
Existing law requires school districts and charter schools to allow pupils, teachers, and staff to bring and carry water bottles, except as provided.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 38042 of the Education Code is amended to read:38042.
(a) A school district or the governing body of a charter school shall allow pupils, teachers, and staff to bring and carry water bottles.(b) Water bottles may be excluded from libraries, science labs, computer labs, science labs, and other places where it is deemed dangerous to have drinking water.
(c) School districts and governing bodies of charter schools are encouraged to develop and adopt policies about the type of water bottles that may be carried.
