California Education Code

§ 49455.5

EDC § 49455.5 Effective Jan 1, 2026Div. 4 · Title 2 · Part 27 · Ch. 9 · Art. 4

Statute text

(a)A local educational agency maintaining kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, may enter into a memorandum of understanding with a nonprofit eye examination provider to provide eye examinations to pupils at any schoolsite within the local educational agency. Eye examinations provided under this section shall be supplemental to, and shall not replace, the vision screenings provided pursuant to Section 49455, and shall be noninvasive and provided exclusively for the purpose of providing eyeglasses. Examination providers providing eye examinations pursuant to this section shall provide reports to parents and guardians consistent with Section 49456.

(b)(1) Before an eye examination is provided at a schoolsite pursuant to subdivision (a), the local educational agency shall have a memorandum of understanding in place with a nonprofit eye examination provider, including, but not limited to, a nonprofit mobile eye examination provider, and the school shall notify parents and guardians of the upcoming provision of eye examinations at the schoolsite. Notification shall include a form on which a parent or guardian may indicate that they do not consent to an eye examination being provided, pursuant to subdivision (a), to their child. The parent or guardian may opt out of their child receiving an eye examination, pursuant to subdivision (a), by submitting the completed form to the school before an eye examination is provided at the schoolsite. Except as provided in clause (ii) of subparagraph (D) of paragraph (3) of subdivision (d), a parent or guardian who submits a written statement in accordance with Section 49451 is deemed to have opted out of their child receiving an eye examination pursuant to subdivision (a).

(2)No later than March 1, 2023, the department shall develop and post on appropriate department internet websites a model opt-out form for purposes of paragraph (1).

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2025, Ch. 163, Sec. 3. (AB 677) Effective January 1, 2026.