Drowning prevention: public schools: informational materials.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not specify the exact date when the changes will take effect.

Drowning Prevention: School Materials

This law requires drowning prevention organizations to provide materials in English to public schools, encourages translations into other common languages, and mandates the State Department of Education to compile water safety resources online.

What This Bill Does

• Requires drowning or injury prevention groups (DIP) to give informational materials about drowning prevention to public schools in English only.
• Encourages DIP organizations to provide materials in other commonly spoken languages at the school, but it is not required.
• Mandates that any materials given by DIP organizations are free for schools and align with information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
• Requires the State Department of Education to collect water safety resources and make them available on their website.

Who It Names or Affects

• Public schools in California.
• Drowning or injury prevention organizations that work with schools.

Terms To Know

DIP organization

A group that works to prevent drowning and injuries.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

An agency of the U.S. government that provides information on health, including water safety and drowning prevention.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify when these changes will take effect.
• It is unclear how much it will cost to gather and maintain the online resources for schools.
• The bill encourages but does not require DIP organizations to provide materials in languages other than English.

Official Summary Text

AB 1005, Davies.
Drowning prevention: public schools: informational materials.
(1) Existing law authorizes specified drowning or injury prevention organizations (DIP organization) to provide informational materials, in electronic or hardcopy form, to a public school regarding specified topics relating to drowning prevention. Existing law requires a DIP organization that chooses to provide informational materials to provide, upon request by a public school, the informational materials in the 3 most commonly spoken languages associated with the population attending the school.
This bill would instead require a DIP organization that chooses to provide informational materials to provide, upon request by a public school, the informational materials in English and would encourage the DIP organization to provide informational materials in the other most commonly spoken languages associated with the
population attending the school. The bill would require a DIP organization that chooses to provide informational materials to a public school to provide those materials at no cost to the public school, allow the school to offer copies of the materials to pupils and parents, and provide written evidence to a school administrator that demonstrates that the informational materials provided by the DIP organization align with the drowning, drowning prevention, water safety, rescue, and swim skills lesson information found on the drowning prevention web page of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as provided. The bill also would require the State Department of Education, in consultation with the State Department of Developmental Services and the State Department of Public Health, to gather and make available on its internet website school-based water safety and drowning prevention education resources and curriculum, as provided. The bill would authorize public schools to provide to their pupils
those water safety informational materials identified by the department and provided by a DIP organization, as provided.
(2) Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to adopt and enforce regulations relating to public swimming pools, as defined.
This bill would expressly authorize the State Department of Public Health to review and evaluate existing statutes and regulations under its jurisdiction recommended by the California Unintentional Injury Prevention Strategic Plan Project to ensure clarity, consistency, and alignment with current public health practices, as provided, and would authorize the department to recommend to the Legislature updates or nonsubstantive technical corrections to support effective implementation and regulatory compliance.

Current Bill Text

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