Bill Text: CA AB263 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: School facilities: construction.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-01 - Died at Desk. [AB263 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB263-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 263	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Buchanan

                        FEBRUARY 7, 2011

   An act relating to school facilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 263, as introduced, Buchanan. School facilities: construction.
   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 construction and modernization of school facilities,
including hardship funding, and supplemental funding for site
development and acquisition, and requires the board to adopt rules
and regulations for the administration of the Greene Act.
   Existing law, the Field Act, requires the Department of General
Services under the police power of the state to supervise the design
and construction of a school building or the reconstruction or
alteration of, or addition to, a school building, if not exempted
under specified law, to ensure that plans and specifications comply
with adopted rules and regulations and building standards published
in regulations, and to ensure that the work of construction is
performed in accordance with the approved plans and specifications
for the protection of life and property.
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation relating to the construction of school facilities.
   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.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation relating to the construction of school facilities.