BILL NUMBER: SB 316	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Block

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2013

   An act to amend Section 17075.50 of, and to add Article 4.5
(commencing with Section 32247) to Chapter 2 of Part 19 of Division 1
of Title 1 of, the Education Code, relating to school safety.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   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 1.  Section 17075.50 of the Education Code is amended to
read:
   17075.50.  (a)  On and after July 1, 2011, all 
 All  new construction  and modernization  projects
submitted to the Division of the State Architect pursuant to this
chapter shall include locks that allow doors to classrooms and any
room with an occupancy of five or more persons to be locked from the
inside.
   (b) The locks shall conform to the specifications and requirements
set forth in Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations.
   (c) Doors that are locked from the outside at all times and pupil
restrooms are exempt from the requirements of this section.
  SEC. 2.  Article 4.5 (commencing with Section 32247) is added to
Chapter 2 of Part 19 of Division 1 of Title 1 of the Education Code,
to read:

      Article 4.5.  Security Locks


   32247.  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, no later than January
1, 2015, the governing board of each school district and each county
superintendent of schools shall, for each school within its
jurisdiction, equip the doors of every classroom and every room with
an occupancy of five or more persons with locks that allow the doors
to be locked from the inside.
   (b) The locks shall conform to the specifications and requirements
set forth in Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations.
  SEC. 3.  If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this
act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local
agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant
to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of
the Government Code.