Bill Text: CA AB1859 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

California Assembly Bill 1859 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: School facilities: charter schools.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-07-10 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 80, Statutes of 2012. [AB1859 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB1859-Amended.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 1859	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 29, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Buchanan

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2012

   An act to  amend Section 17451 of   add
Section 12001.7 to  the Education Code, relating to school
facilities.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1859, as amended, Buchanan. School facilities:  leasing
of equipment: bid and contract requirements.   charter
schools.  
   Existing law assigns to the California School Finance Authority a
specified amount of the state's 2010 federal tax credit bond volume
cap for qualified school construction bonds, to be issued for the
benefit of charter schools, or to be further assigned and distributed
to one or more issuers in the state for the benefit of charter
schools, as the California School Finance Authority determines.
Existing law authorizes a charter school to apply for the federal
qualified school construction bond volume cap if specified criteria
are met.  
   This bill would require a charter school, if it applies for the
federal qualified school construction bond volume cap, or any other
federal bond borrowing authority, to notify, in writing and at least
45 days before submitting the application, the district
superintendent of schools and the governing board of the school
district in which the charter school is physically located of its
intent to rehabilitate, encumber, or otherwise alter school district
property.  
   Existing law requires a school district or county superintendent
of schools, as lessee, to comply with specified provisions for bids
and contracts before entering into a lease or lease-purchase
agreement for equipment, as defined, or service systems with a
person, firm, corporation, or public agency.  
   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 12001.7 is added to the 
 Education Code   , to read:  
   12001.7.  Notwithstanding any other law, if a charter school
applies for the federal qualified school construction bond volume
cap, or any other federal bond borrowing authority, the charter
school shall notify, in writing and at least 45 days before
submitting the application, the district superintendent of schools
and the governing board of the school district in which the charter
school is physically located of its intent to rehabilitate, encumber,
or otherwise alter school district property.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 17451 of the Education Code
is amended to read:
   17451.  Before a lease or lease-purchase agreement may be entered
into, the lessee shall comply with all applicable provisions for bids
and contracts prescribed by Article 3 (commencing with Section
17595) of Chapter 5 of this part. Every contract shall show the total
price for an outright purchase of an item and also its total cost
for the entire specified term of the contract.