BILL NUMBER: AB 1749	CHAPTERED  10/10/07

	CHAPTER  424
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  OCTOBER 10, 2007
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  OCTOBER 10, 2007
	PASSED THE SENATE  SEPTEMBER 11, 2007
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 12, 2007
	AMENDED IN SENATE  SEPTEMBER 7, 2007
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 30, 2007
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 23, 2007
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 9, 2007
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 2, 2007
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 14, 2007

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Dymally

                        MARCH 22, 2007

   An act relating to health facilities, and declaring the urgency
thereof, to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1749, Dymally. Health facilities: private nonprofit university
medical education project.
   The California Educational Facilities Authority Act establishes
the California Educational Facilities Authority, the purpose of which
is to provide private institutions of higher education within the
state an additional means by which to expand, enlarge, and establish
dormitory, academic, faculty, and staff housing, and related
facilities, finance those facilities, refinance existing facilities,
and to provide private and public institutions of higher education
within the state an additional means to assist students in financing
their costs of attendance. A provision of the act that became
effective on September 29, 2006, requires an applicant for financing
to provide documentation, before the authority approves the issuance
of bonds for the project for which financing is sought, that the
project is either in compliance with the California Environmental
Quality Act or is not within the scope of that act.
   This bill would instead require that, until July 1, 2008, the
provision described above would not apply to a private nonprofit
university medical education project consisting of a single building
if the State Treasurer determines that the university received from
an underwriting firm a draft engagement agreement that was dated
September 25, 2006, and that was subsequently entered into by the
university, for purposes that included the issuance of bonds by the
California Educational Facilities Authority for that project based on
the requirements of that provision as it read from January 1, 1987,
to September 28, 2006, inclusive.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.


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

  SECTION 1.  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
amendments enacted by Chapter 714 of the Statutes of 2006 (Assembly
Bill No. 1341 of the 2005-06 Regular Session) to subdivision (b) of
Section 94212 of the Education Code shall not apply to a private
nonprofit university medical education project consisting of a single
building if the State Treasurer determines that the university
received from an underwriting firm a draft engagement agreement that
was dated September 25, 2006, and that was subsequently entered into
by the university, for purposes that included the issuance of bonds
by the California Educational Facilities Authority for that project
based on the requirements of that subdivision as that subdivision
read from January 1, 1987, to September 28, 2006, inclusive.
   (b) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2008, and, as
of January 1, 2009, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute,
that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2009, deletes or
extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.
  SEC. 2.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order that a medical education project may be financed to
provide necessary health care in a timely fashion in an underserved
community, it is necessary for this act to go into effect
immediately.