Bill Text: CA AB1867 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: School facilities: modernization projects: bathrooms.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-09-19 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 434, Statutes of 2022. [AB1867 Detail]

Download: California-2021-AB1867-Amended.html

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Amended  IN  Assembly  April 19, 2022

Amended  IN  Assembly  March 03, 2022

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 1867

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Introduced by Assembly Member Lee

February 08, 2022

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An act to add Section 17584 to the Education Code, relating to school facilities.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1867, as amended, Lee. School facilities: modernization projects: bathrooms.

Existing law, the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998 (the Greene Act), requires the State Allocation Board to allocate to applicant school districts prescribed per-unhoused-pupil state funding for the construction and modernization of school facilities, including hardship funding, and supplemental funding for site development and acquisition.

This bill would require the governing board of a school district, if the governing board of the school district applies for intends to seek state funding pursuant to the Greene Act for a school modernization project for a school facility constructed before January 1, 2012, to include, as part of the modernization project, project submitted to the Division of the State Architect, faucet aerators, hand dryers, aerators and water-conserving plumbing fixtures in all bathrooms. The bill would provide that these provisions apply only to those projects seeking funding on or after January 1, 2023, and that were submitted to the Division of the State Architect for approval on or after January 1, 2023. beginning 3 months after voters approve a statewide general obligation bond that provides funds for certain school facilities at a statewide election occurring after November 1, 2022. The bill also would provide that these provisions apply only to those projects that propose to renovate, repair, or modernize repair or make alterations to the interior of a school building and do not apply to projects that only propose to renovate, repair, or modernize repair or make alterations to the exterior of a school building, the school grounds, or the playing fields of a school. The bill also would provide that these provisions do not apply to bathrooms that already contain both faucet aerators and water-conserving plumbing fixtures at the time the modernization project is submitted.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 17584 is added to the Education Code, to read:

17584.

 (a) If a governing board of a school district applies for intends to seek state funding pursuant to Chapter 12.5 (commencing with Section 17070.10) of Part 10, for a school modernization project for a school facility constructed before January 1, 2012, the governing board of the school district the modernization project submitted to the Division of the State Architect shall include, as part of the modernization project, faucet aerators, hand dryers, aerators and water-conserving plumbing fixtures, as defined in Section 1101.3 of the Civil Code, in all bathrooms.

(b) (1) The requirements of this section apply only to those projects seeking funding, as described in subdivision (a), on or after January 1, 2023, and that were submitted to the Division of the State Architect for approval on or after January 1, 2023. submitted to the Division of the State Architect three months after voters approve a statewide general obligation bond that provides funds for school facilities for kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, at a statewide election occurring after November 1, 2022.

(2) The requirements of this section shall apply only to those projects that propose to renovate, repair, or modernize repair or make alterations to the interior of a school building and do not apply to projects that only propose to renovate, repair, or modernize repair or make alterations to the exterior of a school building, the school grounds, or the playing fields of a school.

(3) Bathrooms that already contain both faucet aerators and water-conserving plumbing fixtures, as defined in Section 1101.3 of the Civil Code, at the time a modernization project is submitted to the Division of the State Architect, shall not be subject to the requirements in subdivision (a).