BILL NUMBER: SB 284	CHAPTERED  09/12/02

	CHAPTER  498
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 12, 2002
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 12, 2002
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 19, 2002
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 15, 2002
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JULY 8, 2002
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 24, 2002
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 11, 2002
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 14, 2001
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 22, 2001
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 26, 2001

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Polanco
   (Principal coauthor:  Assembly Member Cardenas)

                        FEBRUARY 16, 2001

   An act to add Section 17255 to the Education Code, relating to
school facilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 284,  Polanco.   School facilities.
   Existing law declares the policy of the state to use available
resources at state facilities that can substitute for traditional
energy and water supplies or produce electricity or water at its
facilities when use or production will reduce long-term energy or
water expenditures.  Existing law, the State Building Construction
Act of 1955, authorizes the State Public Works Board, in furtherance
of this policy, to develop energy and water conservation and
cogeneration and alternative energy and water supply sources at state
facilities, including, but not limited to, publicly funded schools
that maintain kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive.
   Existing law establishes certain siting and construction
requirements for school facilities.
   This bill would require the Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission, in consultation with the State Department of
Education and the Division of the State Architect and the Office of
Public School Construction within the Department of General Services,
to recommend best design practices that include energy efficiency
measures for all new public schools, and to report the
recommendations to the Governor and the Legislature by October 1,
2003.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 17255 is added to the Education Code, to read:

   17255.  The Energy Resources Conservation and Development
Commission shall, in consultation with the State Department of
Education and the Division of the State Architect and the Office of
Public School Construction within the Department of General Services,
recommend best design practices that include energy efficiency
measures for all new public schools.  The practices and measures
shall have as a goal incorporating energy efficiency design and
technologies that would provide the greatest amount of energy
efficiency savings within a cost recapture period of seven years.
The commission may additionally recommend best design practices and
measures that would be cost-effective taking into consideration
life-cycle costs.  The recommendations shall be reported to the
Governor and the Legislature by October 1, 2003.