BILL NUMBER: AB 1631	CHAPTERED  10/12/03

	CHAPTER  904
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  OCTOBER 12, 2003
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  OCTOBER 12, 2003
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 11, 2003
	PASSED THE SENATE  SEPTEMBER 10, 2003
	AMENDED IN SENATE  SEPTEMBER 8, 2003
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 18, 2003
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 3, 2003
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 29, 2003
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 1, 2003

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Salinas
   (Coauthor:  Senator McPherson)

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2003

   An act to amend Section 17071.46 of the Education Code, relating
to public schools.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1631, Salinas.  School facilities funding:  replacement
buildings.
   Existing law, the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998,
requires the State Allocation Board to provide a supplemental grant
for 50% of the replacement cost of a single-story building if a
school district proposes to demolish the building and replace it with
a multistory building on the same site, if certain conditions are
met, including, but not limited to, a condition that the school is
operating on a multitrack year-round education schedule.
   This bill would delete the condition relating to a school
operating on a multitrack year-round education schedule from the
requirements to qualify for the supplemental grant and would provide
a method for estimating site acquisition costs savings.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 17071.46 of the Education Code is amended to
read:
   17071.46.  (a) If an applicant school district proposes to
demolish a single-story building and replace it with a multistory
building on the same site, the State Allocation Board shall provide a
supplemental grant for 50 percent of the replacement cost of the
single-story building to be demolished, if all of the following
conditions are met:
   (1) The cost of the demolition and construction of a new
multistory building on the same site is less than the total cost of
providing a new school facility, including land, on a new site for
the additional number of pupils housed as a result of the multistory
replacement building on the existing site, as determined by the State
Allocation Board.  For purposes of this subdivision, the method of
estimating the site acquisition costs savings shall be based on
previous actual site sizes and acquisition costs in the district for
equivalent numbers of pupils, or as otherwise determined by the board
if actual site acquisition comparisons are not available for the
district.
   (2) The school district will maximize the increase in pupil
capacity on the site when it builds the multistory replacement
building, subject to the limits imposed on it pursuant to paragraph
(3).
   (3) The State Department of Education has determined that the
demolition of an existing single-story building and replacement with
a multistory building at the site is the best available alternative
and will not create a school with an inappropriate number of pupils
in relation to the size of the site, as determined by the State
Department of Education.
   (b) The State Allocation Board shall establish additional
requirements it deems necessary to ensure that the economic interests
of the state and the educational interests of the children of the
state are protected.