SB 316, as introduced, Block. School safety: door locks.
Existing law, the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998 (the 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. Existing law requires all new construction projects submitted to the Division of the State Architect pursuant to the act to include locks that allow doors to classrooms and rooms with an occupancy of 5 or more persons to be locked from the inside, except as specified.
This bill would additionally require all modernization projects submitted to the Division of the State Architect pursuant to those provisions to include those locks, except as specified.
This bill, no later than January 1, 2015, would require the governing board of each school district and each county superintendent of schools to, for each of its schools, equip the doors of every classroom and every room with an occupancy of 5 or more persons with locks that allow the doors to be locked from the inside, except as specified. By imposing new requirements on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: yes.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 17075.50 of the Education Code is
2amended to read:
(a) begin deleteOn and after July 1, 2011, all end deletebegin insertAll end insertnew
4constructionbegin insert and modernizationend insert projects submitted to the Division
5of the State Architect pursuant to this chapter shall include locks
6that allow doors to classrooms and any room with an occupancy
7of five or more persons to be locked from the inside.
8(b) The locks shall conform to the specifications and
9requirements set forth in Title 24 of the California Code of
10Regulations.
11(c) Doors that are locked from the outside at all times and pupil
12restrooms are exempt from the requirements of this section.
Article 4.5 (commencing with Section 32247) is added
14to Chapter 2 of Part 19 of Division 1 of Title 1 of the Education
15Code, to read:
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(a) Notwithstanding any other law, no later than
20January 1, 2015, the governing board of each school district and
21each county superintendent of schools shall, for each school within
22its jurisdiction, equip the doors of every classroom and every room
23with an occupancy of five or more persons with locks that allow
24the doors to be locked from the inside.
25(b) The locks shall conform to the specifications and
26requirements set forth in Title 24 of the California Code of
27Regulations.
If the Commission on State Mandates determines that
2this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to
3local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made
4pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division
54 of Title 2 of the Government Code.
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