Bill Text: CA AB85 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: School facilities: security locks.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-02-01 - Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution. From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB85 Detail]
Download: California-2011-AB85-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 85 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MAY 10, 2011
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 7, 2011
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Mendoza
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Ammiano, Hall, and Solorio)
JANUARY 6, 2011
An act to add Sections 17075.52 and 81131 to ,
the Education Code, relating to school facilities.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 85, as amended, Mendoza. School facilities: security locks.
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. Under existing law, all new construction
projects submitted to the Division of the State Architect pursuant
to the Greene Act are required to include locks that allow doors to
classrooms and rooms with an occupancy of 5 or more persons to be
locked from the inside, except as specified.
Existing law requires the Department of General Services to pass
upon, and approve or reject, all plans for the construction of, or,
if the estimated cost exceeds $25,000, the alteration of, any
building used, or designed to be used, for community college
purposes.
This bill, on and after July 1, 2012, would require modernization
projects for school facilities submitted under the Greene Act to the
Division of the State Architect that include rehabilitation in a
classroom or a room with an occupancy of 5 or more persons, as well
as construction plans for community college facilities submitted to
the Department of General Services and plans for the alteration
of community college facilities that include rehabilitation in a
classroom or a room with an occupancy of 5 or more persons , to
include the installation of locks that allow doors to be
locked from the inside, except as specified.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 17075.52 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
17075.52. (a) On and after July 1, 2012, all modernization
projects submitted to the Division of the State Architect pursuant to
this chapter that include rehabilitation in a classroom or a room
with an occupancy of five or more persons shall include the
installation of locks that allow the doors to the classroom or room
to be locked from the inside.
(b) The locks shall conform to the specifications and requirements
set forth in Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations.
(c) Doors that are locked from the outside at all times and pupil
restrooms are exempt from the requirements of this section.
SEC. 2. Section 81131 is added to the Education Code, to read:
81131. (a) On and after July 1, 2012, all plans for the
construction or of community college
facilities submitted to the Department of General Services pursuant
to this article and plans for the alteration of any
community college facilities that include
rehabilitation in a classroom or a room with an occupancy of five or
more persons submitted to the Department of General Services
pursuant to this article shall include the installation of
locks that allow doors to classrooms and any
the classroom or room with an occupancy of five or more
persons to be locked from the inside.
(b) The locks shall conform to the specifications and requirements
set forth in Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations.
(c) Doors that are locked from the outside at all times and
student restrooms are exempt from the requirements of this section.
