BILL NUMBER: SB 45	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Corbett

                        DECEMBER 13, 2012

   An act to amend Section 17070.55 of the Education Code, relating
to school facilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 45, as introduced, Corbett. The Leroy F. Greene School
Facilities Act of 1998.
   (1) The California Constitution prohibits the Legislature from
creating a debt or liability that singly or in the aggregate with any
previous debts or liabilities exceeds the sum of $300,000, except by
an act that (A) authorizes the debt for a single object or work
specified in the act, (B) has been passed by a 2/3 vote of all the
Members elected to each house of the Legislature, (C) has been
submitted to the people at a statewide general or primary election,
and (D) has received a majority of all the votes cast for and against
it at that election.
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would create the Kindergarten-University Public
Education Facilities Bond Act of 2014, to become operative only if
approved by the voters at the next statewide general election, and
that would provide for the submission of the bond act to the voters
at that election.
   (2) Existing law requires the State Department of Education, upon
request of any school district, to provide assistance in the
evaluation and utilization of existing school facilities and the
justification of the need for schoolsites, new facilities, and the
rehabilitation or replacement of existing facilities, in accordance
with State Allocation Board regulations.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.
   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 create the Kindergarten-University Public
Education Facilities Bond Act of 2014, to become operative only if
approved by the voters at the next statewide general election, and to
provide for the submission of the bond act to the voters at that
election.
  SEC. 2.  Section 17070.55 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   17070.55.  Upon request of  any   a 
school district, the State Department of Education shall provide
assistance in the evaluation and  utilization  
use  of existing school facilities and the justification of the
need for schoolsites, new facilities, and the rehabilitation or
replacement of existing facilities, in accordance with board
regulations.