BILL NUMBER: AB 1508	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Torrico

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act relating to school facilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1508, as introduced, Torrico. School facilities: solar energy.
   Existing law, the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998
(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. A school district that applies for
funding under the Greene Act is authorized to seek a grant adjustment
for increased costs associated with plan design and other project
components that seek energy efficiency for the school facility that
approaches the ultimate goal of energy self-sufficiency for the
school facility.
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would encourage school districts to include solar
energy in their projects for the modernization and new construction
of school facilities.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would encourage school districts to include solar
energy in their projects for the modernization and new construction
of school facilities.