Bill Text: CA AB2779 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Public buildings: shelter in place: guidelines.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-05-05 - Re-referred to Com. on A. & A.R. [AB2779 Detail]

Download: California-2019-AB2779-Amended.html

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Amended  IN  Assembly  May 04, 2020

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2779

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Introduced by Assembly Member Cooley

February 20, 2020

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An act to amend add Section 9114.5 of 14690.5 to the Government Code, relating to state public buildings.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2779, as amended, Cooley. State Capitol: west wing. Public buildings: shelter in place: guidelines.

Existing law establishes the Department of General Services, under the control of an executive officer known as the Director of General Services, in the Government Operations Agency and vests the department with specified powers and duties pertaining to state-owned real property and state buildings.

This bill, no later than March 1, 2021, would require the department to prepare and submit to the Joint Rules Committee a report summarizing current building safety guidelines of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or similar building safety guidelines, relating to the integration of shelter-in-place facilities in public buildings.

Existing law, known as the State Capitol Building Annex Act of 2016, authorizes the Joint Rules Committee to pursue the construction of a state capitol building annex or the restoration, rehabilitation, renovation, or reconstruction of the existing State Capitol Building Annex, as provided. In accordance with specified provisions of the California Constitution, the act also expressly appropriates a specified amount of moneys from State Project Infrastructure Fund to cover the costs of the design and construction of components of the project or projects authorized by the act that will modify portions of the west wing of the State Capitol in order to facilitate a fully functional State Capitol.

This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to this provision.

Digest Key

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

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Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 14690.5 is added to the Government Code, to read:

14690.5.

 No later than March 1, 2021, the department shall prepare and submit to the Joint Rules Committee a report summarizing current building safety guidelines of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or similar building safety guidelines, relating to the integration of shelter-in-place facilities in public buildings. The report shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795.

SECTION 1.Section 9114.5 of the Government Code is amended to read:

9114.5.

(a)There is hereby appropriated, without regard to fiscal years, from the State Project Infrastructure Fund to the Operating Funds of the Assembly and Senate an amount up to twenty million dollars ($20,000,000), as determined by the agreement entered into pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 9112, to cover the costs of the design and construction of those components of the project or projects authorized by Section 9112 that will modify portions of the west wing of the State Capitol in order to facilitate a fully functional State Capitol. Any transfer of the funds appropriated pursuant to this section shall occur at the same time as the transfer of funds pursuant to subparagraph (C) of paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 14692.

(b)It is the intent of the Legislature that the appropriation in subdivision (a) constitute an express appropriation for the alteration or modification of the color, detail, design, structure, or fixtures of the historically restored areas of the first, second, and third floors and the exterior of the west wing of the State Capitol, as required by Section 28 of Article IV of the California Constitution.