Bill Text: CA AB1753 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: School facilities: certificate of compliance.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-21 - From printer. May be heard in committee March 22. [AB1753 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB1753-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1753	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Fletcher

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2012

   An act to amend Section 17315 of the Education Code, relating to
school facilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1753, as introduced, Fletcher. School facilities: certificate
of compliance.
   Existing law requires the Department of General Services to issue
a certification that a school building complies with specified
statutory requirements when construction of the school building is
completed, specified documents have been submitted, and other
specified requirements have been satisfied.
   This bill would make, nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 17315 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   17315.  (a) When a school building constructed in accordance with
plans and specifications approved by the Department of General
Services is completed, the notice of completion is filed, and all
final verified reports and all testing and inspection documents, as
required by this article or as required by the rules and regulations
adopted pursuant to this article, are submitted to and on file with
the Department of General Services, and all required fees paid by the
school district, the department shall issue a certification that the
school building complies with the requirements of this article.
Nothing in this article shall prevent beneficial occupancy by a
school district  prior to   before  the
issuance of this certification.
   (b) When a school building, constructed in accordance with
approved plans and specifications, is completed but final verified
reports, as  are  required  under 
 in  Section  39151   17309  ,
have not been submitted to the Department of General Services due to
the incapacitating illness, death, or the default of  any
persons   a person  required to file such reports,
the Department of General Services shall, upon written request of the
school district, review all of the project records and make such
examinations as it deems necessary to enable it to certify that the
school building otherwise complies with the requirements of this
article. The Department of General Services may request the school
district to have made, reported, and verified any other tests and
inspections which the department deems necessary to complete its
examinations of the construction.
   (c) The costs incurred by the Department of General Services in
connection with this section shall be paid by the school district.
The actual costs to perform the examinations, tests, and inspections
shall be an appropriate cost of the project to be paid from the
building funds of the  school  district. Certification of
the project by the Department of General Services shall be withheld
until all the costs have been paid by the school district.
   (d) This section shall not relieve  any   an
 individual of his or her responsibility to file verified
reports, as required in Section 17309, or  any 
other documents required by the rules and regulations adopted
pursuant to this article. This section shall not abrogate the
provisions of Section 17312.