Bill Text: CA AB1126 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: School facilities: heating, ventilation, and air conditioning: inspection reports.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From Senate committee without further action. [AB1126 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB1126-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1126	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 20, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Rendon

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2015

   An act to add Section 17583 to the Education Code, relating to
school facilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1126, as amended, Rendon. School facilities: heating,
ventilation, and air conditioning:  posting of 
inspection reports.
   Existing law establishes a system of public elementary and
secondary schools in this state, and authorizes local educational
agencies throughout the state to operate schools and provide
instruction to pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive.
Existing regulations require schools to have their heating,
ventilation, and air conditioning systems inspected at least
annually.
   This bill would require  each public school maintaining
kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to post a copy of
any   the most recent date of a  heating,
ventilation, and air conditioning system inspection report 
on its   and information on how the report may be
obtained to be posted on the  Internet Web site  and on
the Internet Web site of its school district or county office of
education, as applicable.   of certain local educational
agencies.  The bill would also state related findings and
declarations of the Legislature. By imposing additional duties on
local educational agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated
local program.
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) Many pupils and staff members in California's public schools
have a variety of respiratory illnesses such as asthma.
   (b) Many schools are located in agricultural areas, industrial
areas, or areas that have an unsafe level of air pollution.
   (c) Many pupils and  school  staff learn and work in
portable classrooms or offices that are extremely vulnerable to rot,
mold, and other airborne pathogens.
   (d) California's public schools are required to have an annual
inspection of their heating, ventilation, and air conditioning
systems.
   (e) California's public schools are authorized to reserve funding
for facility repairs as a condition of participating in the school
facilities program under existing law.
   (f) The documentation of these inspections is often not easily
available for review by  school  staff, parents, or pupils
to make sure that the inspections are being carried out in accordance
with existing law.
  SEC. 2.  Section 17583 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   17583.   Each public school maintaining kindergarten or
any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, shall post a copy of any 
 The most recent date of a  heating, ventilation, and air
conditioning system inspection report  on its  
and information on how the report may be obtained shall be posted on
the  Internet Web site  and on the Internet Web site of
its school district or county office of education, as applicable.
  of all of the following:  
   (a) A public school that maintains an Internet Web site. 

   (b) A school district for a school that does not maintain an
Internet Web site.  
   (c) A county office of education for schools in its jurisdiction.

  SEC. 3.  If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this
act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local
agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant
to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of
the Government Code.