Over the last few years, student services issues have been addressed largely through the state budget rather than legislation. Through the past two state budgets, universal school meals have been established and implemented, and the “California’s Master Plan for Kids’ Mental Health, which includes the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative and the expansion of community schools, has come together. This year was no different. Legislation related to student services, with the exception of Senate Bill 490, by Senator Anna Caballero (D-Merced) either complemented or modified policy changes made through the budget process or could be termed clean-up. Below is some additional detail on some of the most significant bills.

Providing School Meals will soon be harder and more expensive.

SB 490 (Caballero) will make the universal meal process more expensive and more difficult for local education agencies (LEAs). The bill requires LEAs that receive federal meal reimbursement funding to largely purchase only products that are domestically grown, packed, or process and to specify so in their solicitation for bids and contracts. There are three exceptions to the requirements:

1. The bid or price of the nondomestic agricultural food product is more than 25 percent lower than the bid or price of the domestic agricultural food product.
2. The quality of the domestic agricultural food product is inferior to the quality of the agricultural food product grown, packed, or produced nondomestically.
3. The agricultural food product is not produced or manufactured domestically in sufficient and reasonably available quantities of a satisfactory quality to meet the needs of the public institution.

LEAs are concerned, with good reason, that SB 490 will further drive up the cost of domestic products (already higher due to supply chain issues) even though the bill does not take effect until January 2024 and if there is an existing contract in place with a food supplier on January 1, 2024, the statute will only apply upon the next successive contract.

Fortunately, the Governor attached a signing message to the bill which contains these key lines: “This bill may result in additional costs beyond the funding for universal access to subsidized school meals provided in the budget. Any requests for additional resources to implement SB 490 will need to be reviewed and included in the annual budget process.” This language recognizes the potential need for additional funds to cover the costs of the bill when implemented and opens the door for the inclusion of additional funds for our programs in the state budget.

COVID and natural disasters keep mental health concerns at the forefront.

In addition to the large investment in mental health resources, there were two key bills to increase awareness and response to life-threatening situations. Current law requires the governing board of an LEA that serve pupils in grades 7 to 12 to adopt, before the 2017-18 school year, procedures relating to suicide prevention,

intervention, and postvention in consultation with school and community stakeholders, school- employed mental health professionals, and suicide prevention experts and also that the governing board of an LEA that serves pupils in Kindergarten and grades 1 to 6 to adopt, before the 2020-21 school year, a policy on pupil suicide prevention in kindergarten in consultation with school and community stakeholders, school-employed mental health professionals, and suicide prevention experts. Assembly Bill 58 by Assembly Member Rudy Salas (D-Bakersfield) requires an LEA, on or before June 1, 2024, to review and update its policy on pupil suicide prevention, and encourages LEAs commencing with the 2024–25 school year, to provide suicide awareness and prevention training to teachers of pupils in all of the grades served by the local educational agency. Specifically, the bill:

• Requires an LEA, on or before January 1, 2025, to revise its training materials to incorporate best practices identified by CDE.
• Encourages an LEA, commencing the 2024–25 school year to provide suicide awareness and prevention training to teachers of pupils in all of the grades served by the LEA.
• Requires CDE, on or before June 1, 2024, to complete the development of, and issue to local educational agencies, resources and guidance on how to conduct suicide awareness and prevention training remotely.
• Requires, on or before January 1, 2025, the governing board or body of a local educational agency that serves pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12 to adopt best practices identified by CDE on pupil suicide prevention.

According to Assembly Member Salas, “Youth suicide and self-harm have continued to rise alarmingly in California and across the country. In California, the rate of suicide among those aged 10 to 24 increased 38 percent between 2007 and 2018, according to the a report released by the CDC in 2020. Instances of youth committing acts of self-harm increased by 50 percent during the same period from 2009 to 2018. Suicide is the second leading causes of death among youth ages 10 to 24 and one out of every 15 high school students reports attempting suicide each year.

While the importance of improving youth suicide prevention and student mental health treatment has been brought to the forefront by COVID-19, it is an issue that also goes beyond the pandemic as youth suicides have increased alarmingly over the past few decades.”

On the other hand, Assembly Bill 2072 by Assembly Member Jesse Gabriel (D-Encino) focuses on response to a local disaster – whether a natural disaster or a school shooting. AB 2072 requires, by November 1, 2024, COEs, in consultation with CDE and other relevant state and local agencies, to coordinate agreements between school districts and charter schools within the county to develop a system for rapidly deploying qualified mental health professionals and other key school personnel employed by individual school districts and charter schools throughout the county to areas of the county that experienced a natural disaster or other traumatic event. This bill was introduced not only in response to the situations that schools, students, families and communities have experienced over the last few years – wildfires, COVID-19, and school shootings for example – but also based on a recommendation from the Legislative Analyst’s Office (a nonpartisan office that offers fiscal and policy analysis and guidance to the Legislature) that the Legislature support emergency planning activities at

the LEA level, specifically those that face the greatest risk or might have less capacity to prepare and respond to climate threats without state assistance.

The goal of AB 2072 is to facilitate conversations and planning on the local level so that when disaster strikes, school districts have a mutual aid plan in place that will help ensure that the appropriate mental health professionals are available to provide crisis support and mental health services to students and faculty.

COVID exposed the need for information sharing.

Federal law establishes the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, more commonly known as HIPAA, which provides privacy protections for patients’ protected health information and generally prohibits a covered entity from using or disclosing protected health information except as specified or as authorized by the patient. Current law also establishes the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) which protects the privacy of student education records. Senate Bill 1184 by Senator Dave Cortese (D-San Jose) authorizes a provider of health care or a health care service plan to disclose medical information to a school-linked services coordinator pursuant to a written authorization between the health provider and the patient or client that complies with HIPAA. This includes an individual that holds a services credential with certain specializations or certain licensed professionals who are` located on a school campus or under contract by a county behavioral health provider agency for the treatment and health care operations and referrals of students and their families. The bill comes out of a program in Santa Clara County, the School Linked Services Initiative, and seeks to “close the loop” on community- clinical referrals in school settings and provide improved care coordination for students accessing behavioral health services.

To strengthen student and parent control and privacy, the bill only authorizes this sharing after the client or patient signs a written authorization with their health provider.

COVID remains, COVID testing plans remain. Senate Bill 1479 by Senator Richard Pan (D- Sacramento):

• Requires the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) to coordinate COVID-19 testing programs in LEAs funded by federal resources or organized under the California COVID-19 Testing Task Force;
• Permits CDPH to provide supportive services related to LEA testing plans and testing programs for teachers, staff, pupils, and surrounding communities that help LEAs reopen and operate safely for in-person learning; and
• Requires schools to create a COVID-19 testing plan consistent with CDPH guidance, or adopt the Department’s framework.

The bill started out much more stringent but as it moved through the process, as we learned more about COVID, and as more individuals experienced it, SB 1479 became more doable and its focus was narrowed to requiring LEAs to mainly having a testing plan in place. A pediatrician who will be leaving the Legislature November 30, Senator Pan has been one of the strongest advocates for testing and for vaccination.

The Governor signed the following student services bills:

Child Nutrition

• AB 558 (Nazarian) – School meals: Child Nutrition Act of 2022.
  This bill requires CDE to develop, and to post on its website by July 1, 2023, guidance for local educational agencies (LEAs) participating in the federal School Breakfast Program that maintain kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 6, inclusive, on how to serve eligible nonschoolaged children breakfast or a morning snack at an LEA schoolsite. The bill defines “eligible nonschoolaged child” to mean “ a child who is not enrolled in school and who is a sibling, half sibling, or step-sibling of, or a foster child residing with, a pupil who meets the federal eligibility criteria for a free or reduced-price breakfast at an LEA participating in the federal School Breakfast Program that maintains kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 6, inclusive.”
  Chapter 905, Statutes of 2022
• AB 778 (Garcia, Eduardo) – Institutional purchasers: purchase of California-grown agricultural food products.
  This bill requires all LEAs that solicit bids for the purchase of an agricultural food product to accept a bid or price for an agricultural food product when it is grown in California before accepting a bid or price for a domestic agricultural food product that is grown outside the state, when (1) the bid or price of the California-grown agricultural food product does not exceed the lowest bid or price for a domestic agricultural food product produced outside the state and (2) the quality of the California- grown agricultural food product is comparable to the domestic agricultural food product produced outside the state.
  Chapter 576, Statutes of 2022
• AB 2640 (Valladares) – Pupil health: food allergies: California Food Allergy Resource internet web page.
  AB 2640 requires CDE to create the California Food Allergy Resource webpage to provide voluntary guidance to school districts, county offices of education (COEs), and charter schools to help protect pupils with food allergies. The bill requires the webpage to include specified content, including state and federal resources available to pupils with food allergies, methods for pupils, or their parents and guardians, to initiate individualized food allergy management and prevention plans and to obtain food ingredient lists from school food providers, and strategies to minimize the risk of food anaphylaxis in school. The bill encourages LEAs to consult the webpage and use it as an equitable resource to ensure the inclusiveness of pupils with food allergies at school and to make it available to pupils, parents, and guardians annually.
  Chapter 794, Statutes of 2022
• SB 45 (Portantino) – Short-lived climate pollutants: organic waste reduction goals: local jurisdiction assistance.
  Current law requires that the methane emissions reduction goals include a 50% reduction in the level of statewide disposal of organic waste from the 2014 level by 2020 and a 75% reduction in the level of statewide disposal of organic waste from the 2014 level by 2025. Current law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (DRRR), in consultation with the State Air Resources Board (SARB), to adopt regulations to achieve the organic waste reduction goals established by the state board for 2020 and 2025. SB 45 requires DRRR, in consultation with SARB, to assist local jurisdictions in complying with these provisions, including any regulations adopted by DRRR.
  Chapter 445, Statutes of 2022
• SB 490 (Caballero) – The Buy American Food Act: public institutions: purchase of nondomestic agricultural food products.
  Beginning January 1, 2024, this bill requires all California state-owned or state-run education institutions that receive federal meal reimbursement, including public universities and colleges and LEAs, that purchase agricultural products to only purchase an agricultural product grown, packed, or processed in the United States unless the nondomestic product is more than 25% cheaper than the domestic product, the quality of the domestic agricultural food product is inferior to the quality of the nondomestic product, or the agricultural food product is not produced or manufactured domestically in sufficient and reasonably available quantities of a satisfactory quality to meet the needs of the institution. The bill exempts from its provisions an LEA with annual federal meal reimbursement funding of less than $1,000,000.
  Chapter 602, Statutes of 2022
• SCR 81 (Rubio) – School Breakfast Week.
  SCR 81 proclaims March 7, 2022, to March 11, 2022, inclusive, as School Breakfast Week and recognizes the importance of school nutrition programs and school nutrition staff in addressing the needs of the state’s pupils.
  Chapter 32, Statutes for 2022
• SR 73 (Borgeas) – Relative to California Agriculture Day.
  Would resolve that the Senate recognizes and honors all those who work in California agriculture for their dedication and productivity by observing March 22, 2022, as National Agriculture Day, and designating Wednesday, March 23, 2022, as California Agriculture Day.
  Adopted

Homeless and Foster Youth

• AB 408 (Quirk-Silva) – Homeless children and youths: reporting.
  Current law requires CDE to develop best practices that an LEA may use to identify and obtain accurate data on all homeless children and youths and unaccompanied youths enrolled in schools of the LEA and a model housing questionnaire, and to post this information on its website. AB 408 requires an LEA, defined to include a school district, COE, charter school, or special education local plan area (SELPA), to establish homeless education program policies that are consistent with state laws and use the above-described resources developed and posted on CDE’s website, as well as resources developed by homeless education technical assistance centers. The bill also requires an LEA’s liaison for homeless children and youths and unaccompanied youths to offer training on these homeless education policies and the recognition of signed that pupils are experiencing, or are at risk of experiencing, homelessness, to certificated and classified staff providing services to pupils experiencing homelessness.
  Chapter 904, Statutes of 2022
• AB 740 (McCarty) – Foster youth: suspension and expulsion.
  AB 740 extends the parental notification requirements currently in place for a student’s involuntary transfer to a continuation school, suspension, or expulsion, in the case of a foster child, to the foster child’s attorney and social worker, and, in the case of an Indian child, the child’s tribal social worker and county social worker. This bill also provides a foster child’s and Indian child’s attorney and social worker with the same rights as parents during the involuntary transfer, suspension, or expulsion process, such as requests for meetings and the ability to inspect all documents.
  Chapter 400, Statutes of 2022
• AB 1735 (Bryan) – Foster care: rights.
  Current law provides that it is the policy of the state that all minors and nonminors in foster care have specified rights. AB 1735 provides that a child who speaks a primary language other than English has the right to receive a copy of their rights in their primary language. The bill also requires, when a child is entitled to receive a copy of the court report, case plan, and transition to independent living plan, those items be provided in the child’s primary language.
  Chapter 405, Statutes of 2022
• AB 2375 (Rivas, Luz) – Homeless children and youths and unaccompanied youths: housing questionnaire.
  Current law requires an LEA that receives certain funds from the federal American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to administer a housing questionnaire and to ensure that, commencing no later than the beginning of the 2021–22 school year, the housing questionnaire is based on best practices developed by CDE. AB 2375 instead requires an LEA, regardless of the receipt of those federal funds, to ensure, by the end of the 2021–22 school year, that the housing questionnaire is based on best practices developed by CDE.
  Chapter 912, Statutes of 2022

Mental Health

• AB 58 (Salas) – Pupil health: suicide prevention policies and training.
  AB 58 requires an LEA, on or before January 1, 2025, to review and update its policy on pupil suicide prevention, and revise its training materials, to incorporate best practices identified by CDE in the department’s model policy. The bill also requires CDE, on or before June 1, 2024, to complete the development of, and issue to LEAs, resources and guidance on how to conduct suicide awareness and prevention training remotely. The bill then encourages an LEA, commencing with the 2024–25 school year, to provide suicide awareness and prevention training to teachers of pupils in all of the grades served by the LEA.
  Chapter 428, Statutes of 2022
• AB 748 (Carrillo) – Pupil mental health: mental health assistance posters.
  This bill requires, on or before the start of the 2023–24 school year, each schoolsite in a school district, COE, or charter school, serving pupils in any of grades 6 to 12, inclusive, to create a poster that identifies approaches and shares resources regarding pupil mental health. The bill requires the poster to be prominently and conspicuously displayed in appropriate public areas that are accessible to, and commonly frequented by, pupils at each schoolsite. AB 748 also provides that no basis for civil liability is created by the above provisions for those LEAs.
  Chapter 431, Statutes of 2022
• AB 2072 (Gabriel) – Mental health professionals: natural disasters: county offices of education: personnel sharing agreements.
  AB 2072 requires, on or before November 1, 2024, COEs, in consultation with CDE and other relevant state and local agencies, to coordinate agreements between school districts and charter schools within the county to develop a system for rapidly deploying qualified mental health professionals and other key school personnel employed by individual school districts and charter schools throughout the county to areas of the county that experienced a natural disaster or other traumatic event. The bill also requires single school district COEs to enter into agreements with at least one other COE that they share a border with and requires COEs that share a county border with a single school district COE to consult with and enter into agreements with at least one single school district COE.
  Chapter 909, Statutes of 2022
• AB 2317 (Ramos) – Children’s psychiatric residential treatment facilities.
  This bill requires the California Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) to license and establish regulations for psychiatric residential treatment facilities, which the bill defines as a licensed residential facility operated by a public agency or private nonprofit organization that provides psychiatric services, as prescribed under the Medicaid regulations, to individuals under 21 years of age, in an inpatient setting. The bill requires DHCS to establish regulations for the facilities that include, among other things, the implementation of a plan that is designed to achieve the patient’s discharge from inpatient status, step-down service, at the earliest possible time, and which ensures continuity of care with the patient’s family, school, and community upon discharge.
  Chapter 589, Statutes of 2022
• ACR 179 (O’Donnell) – Student Mental Health Week.
  ACR 179 declares the week of May 9, 2022, to May 13, 2022, inclusive, as Student Mental Health Week.
  Chapter 137, Statutes of 2022
• SB 528 (Jones) – Juveniles: medication documentation.
  Upon approval or denial by the juvenile court judicial officer of a request for authorization for the administration of psychotropic medication, existing law requires the person or entity that submitted the request to provide a copy of the court order approving or denying the request to the caregiver. This bill would specify that the court order approving a request shall include the last 2 pages of form JV-220(A) or JV-220(B), and all medication information sheets attached thereto, and require these documents also be provided to the caregiver.
  Chapter 812, Statutes of 2022

Pupil Health

• AB 32 (Aguiar-Curry) – Telehealth.
  AB 32 permits a health care provider, a federally qualified health center (FQHC) or a rural health clinic (RHC) to establish a new patient relationship using an audio-only synchronous interaction (for example, a telephone call) when the visit is related to sensitive services (defined by reference to include health care services related to mental or behavioral health, sexual and reproductive health, sexually transmitted infections, substance use disorder, gender affirming care, and intimate partner violence), and when established in accordance with DHCS-specific requirements and consistent with federal state law, regulations and guidance. The bill also permits a health care provider, an FQHC or RHC to also establish a new patient relationship using an audio-only synchronous interaction when the patient requests an audio-only modality or attests they do not have access to video, and when established in accordance with DHCS specific requirements and consistent with federal and state laws, regulations and guidance. Implements these changes only to the extent that any necessary federal approvals are obtained, federal financial participation is available and not otherwise jeopardized.
  Chapter 515, Statutes of 2022
• AB 1797 (Weber, Akilah) – Immunization registry.
  Current law authorizes, but does not require, health care providers and other agencies, including, among others, schools and childcare facilities, to disclose specified immunization information with local health departments and the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), and authorizes local health departments and the department to disclose that same information to each other and to health care providers, schools, and childcare facilities, among others. AB 1797 instead now requires health care providers and other agencies, including schools and childcare facilities, to disclose specified immunization information, and adds the patient’s or client’s race and ethnicity to the list of information to be disclosed.
  Chapter 582, Statutes of 2022
• AB 1810 (Levine) – Pupil health: seizure disorders.
  If a pupil diagnosed with seizures, a seizure disorder, or epilepsy has been prescribed an emergency anti-seizure medication by the pupil’s health care provider, AB 1810 authorizes the pupil’s LEA, upon receipt of a request from the pupil’s parent or guardian, to designate one or more volunteers at the pupil’s school to receive initial and annual refresher training regarding the emergency use of anti- seizure medication. The bill also authorizes a school nurse or, if the school does not have a school nurse or the school nurse is not onsite or available, a volunteer who has been designated and received training regarding the emergency use of anti-seizure medication, to administer emergency anti-seizure medication to a pupil diagnosed with seizures, a seizure disorder, or epilepsy if the pupil is suffering from a seizure. The bill requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish minimum standards of training for the administration of emergency anti-seizure medication.
  Chapter 906, Statutes of 2022
• AB 2329 (Carrillo) – Pupil health: eye examinations: schoolsites.
  This bill authorizes an LEA, defined as a school district, COE, or charter school maintaining kindergarten or any grades 1 to 12, to enter into a memorandum of understanding with a nonprofit eye examination provider to provide noninvasive eye examinations at any schoolsite within the LEA. Eye examinations provided pursuant to the bill’s provisions must be supplemental to, and shall not replace, the vision appraisals or screenings provided pursuant to existing law. The bill requires a school to provide parents and guardians with an opportunity to opt out their child from receiving these eye care services and requires CDE, no later than March 1, 2023, to develop and post on its website a model opt-out form for these purposes.
  Chapter 911, Statutes of 2022
• AB 2906 (Patterson) – Telecommunications: automatic dialing-announcing devices: pupil health and safety exemption.
  Current law authorizes the Public Utilities Commission to control and regulate the use of automatic dialing-announcing devices to a telephone line and specifies the hours during which the devices may not be operated. This bill exempts from that control and regulation the use of an automatic dialing- announcing device for purposes of a school contacting parents or guardians of pupils regarding the health or safety of pupils.
  Chapter 36, Statutes of 2022
• SB 1184 (Cortese) – Confidentiality of Medical Information Act: school-linked services coordinators.
  The Confidentiality of Medical Information Act prohibits a provider of health care, a health care service plan, or contractor from disclosing medical information, as defined, regarding a patient of the provider of health care or an enrollee or subscriber of the health care service plan without first obtaining an authorization, except as prescribed. SB 1184 authorizes a provider of health care or a health care service plan to disclose medical information to a school-linked services coordinator, pursuant to written authorization.
  Chapter 993, Statutes of 2022
• SB 1479 (Pan) – COVID-19 testing in schools: COVID-19 testing plans.
  This bill requires every LEA, after consulting with its local health department regarding any local guidance or best practices from the Safe Schools for All Hub, to create a COVID-19 testing plan that is consistent with guidance form CDPH. The bill provides that an LEA can also meet this requirement by adopting the “Preliminary Testing Framework for K-12 Schools for the 2022-23 School Year” that was issued by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) on May 27, 2022. The bill requires every LEA to publish its testing plan/framework on its website.
  Chapter 850, Statutes of 2022
• SCR 65 (Rubio) – Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month.
  SCR 65 proclaims the month of February 2022 as Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month, and calls upon the people of California to observe the month with programs and activities that raise awareness about the dynamics of teen dating violence and that support youth in learning the skills to have safe and healthy relationships.
  Chapter 20, Statutes of 2022

Student Services

• AB 102 (Holden) – Pupil attendance at community colleges: College and Career Access Pathways partnerships: county offices of education.
  AB 102 makes various changes to the College and Career Access Pathways (CCAP) partnership program, including authorizing COEs to enter into CCAP partnership with the community board of California Community College districts, defining high schools for purposes of CCAP partnerships to include a community school continuation high school, juvenile court schools or adult education program offering courses for high school diplomas or high school equivalency certificates, and removing caps on when college courses can be offered in CCAP partnerships. The bill also removes the January 1, 2027 sunset date on CCAPs, effective enabling CCAP partnerships to continue indefinitely.
  Chapter 902, Statutes of 2022
• AB 2417 (Ting) – Juveniles: Youth Bill of Rights.
  Current law requires the Division of Juvenile Justice to close on June 30, 2023, and provides for the transition of youth who are currently housed within a Division of Juvenile Justice facility to the care and custody of counties. In response to this pending closure, AB 2417 clarifies that the Youth Bill of Rights applies to youth confined in any juvenile justice facility, rather than a “facility of the Division of Juvenile Justice Facilities.” The bill also adds rights to the Youth Bill of Rights, including the right of youth confined at juvenile justice facilities to have access to postsecondary academic and career technical education and programs as well as access to information regarding parental rights.
  Chapter 786, Statutes of 2022
• AB 2508 (Quirk-Silva) – Pupil services: educational counseling.
  AB 2508 amends currently law to reflect the changes in the school counselor profession over the past 50 years, emphasizing mental health services within a Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) structure. The bill also urges the governing board of a school district to provide access to a comprehensive educational counseling program for all pupils enrolled in the school district.
  Chapter 153, Statutes of 2022
• AB 2598 (Weber, Akilah) – Pupil rights: restorative justice practices.
  This bill requires CDE to develop evidence-based best practices for restorative justice practice implementation on a school campus and to make these best practices available on the department’s website on or before June 1, 2024. In the development of these best practices, the bill requires CDE to consult with school-based restorative justice practitioners, educators and pupils from K-12 public schools, community partners, and nonprofits, and encourages CDE to, to the extent feasible, take into account resources and best practices that have been identified or developed as part of aligned efforts.
  Chapter 914, Statutes of 2022
• ACR 128 (Medina) – National School Counseling Week.
  ACR 128 recognizes February 7, 2022, to February 11, 2022, as National School Counseling Week.
  Chapter 17, Statutes of 2022
• ACR 184 (Cooper) – Girls on the Run of Greater Sacramento Day.
  This Assembly concurrent resolution recognizes May 7, 2022, as Girls on the Run of Greater Sacramento Day and resolves that schools across the Sacramento region should encourage girls in grades 3 to 8, inclusive, to get involved and participate in a nearby Girls on the Run program. Girls on the Run of Greater Sacramento is a nonprofit organization that provides after school running programs in Sacramento, Yolo, and the western slops of Placer and El Dorado Counties for girls in grades 3-8.
  Chapter 80, Statutes of 2022
• ACR 199 (Bauer-Kahan) – “Parks Make Life Better!” Month.
  ACR 199 recognizes the importance of access to local parks, trails, open space, and facilities for the health, wellness, development, inspiration, and safety of all Californians and declares the month of July 2022 as “Parks Make Life Better!®” Month.
  Chapter 140, Statutes of 2022
• HR 90 (O’Donnell) – Relative to Read Across America Day.
  This Assembly Resolution resolves that the Assembly joins the California Teachers Association in recognizing March 2, 2022, as Read Across America Day.
  Adopted
• SB 1057 (Committee on Education) – Elementary and secondary education: omnibus bill.
  SB 1057 is the annual K-12 education omnibus bill that akees technical, clarifying, conforming, and the non-controversial revisions to a number of provisions in the Education Code. Included changes deal with school district organization, component districts, Saturday and Sunday classes, STEM and CTE programs, and Community Advisory Committees, among other things.
  Chapter 301, Statutes of 2022

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