BILL NUMBER: AB 1006	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 1, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Buchanan
    (   Coauthors:   Assembly Members 
 Huber   and Portantino   ) 
    (   Coauthor:   Senator   Cox
  ) 

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to add Section 15817.5 to the Government Code, relating to
state buildings.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1006, as amended, Buchanan. State buildings: building
locations: considerations.
   The State Building Construction Act of 1955 generally sets forth
procedures for the acquisition and construction of state buildings.
Existing law requires the Department of General Services to prepare
plans and specifications for any public building constructed pursuant
to the act.
   This bill would require, notwithstanding any other provision of
law, the department to consider specified factors in selecting a
location for the lease, lease with the option to purchase,
construction, or purchase of a state building  in excess of 10,00
  0  square feet  .
   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 15817.5 is added to the Government Code, to
read:
   15817.5.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
Department of General Services, in selecting a location for the
lease, lease with the option to purchase, construction, or purchase
of a state building  in excess of 10,000 square feet  ,
shall consider all of the following:
   (a) The location of the community or population served by the
state building.
   (b) The residential location of the workforce to be housed in the
building. Priority shall be given to the areas that can 
demonstrates both of the following: 
    (1)     The 
 demonstrate the  highest reduction of miles traveled by its
workforce. 
   (2) The highest reduction of traffic congestion in the use of
state highways and surface streets. 
   (c) The availability and proximity of high quality and frequent
transit service, including regularly operated bus lines, that are
operational at the time a state agency occupies the building.