Pupil health: communicable diseases.

Existing law requires the governing board of each school district maintaining a high school to provide for the annual cleaning, sterilization, and necessary repair of football equipment of their schools and requires that all football equipment actually worn by pupils to be cleaned and sterilized at least once a year. This bill would authorize the governing board of each school district maintaining a high school to provide for the annual cleaning and sterilization of wrestling equipment as specified by the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the State Board of Education. The Superintendent and the state board would be required to develop and approve, respectively, information and guidelines on the prevention of communicable diseases at schoolsites, including the maintenance of locker rooms, athletic equipment, and synthetic ground covers used for athletic fields and ways to minimize the spread of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and meningococcal disease. The Superintendent would be required to post the information and guidelines on the department's Internet Web site.