Amended in Senate April 2, 2013

Senate BillNo. 316


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 amended, Block. School safety: door locks.

Existing law, the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998begin delete (the act)end delete, 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 billbegin insert, on and after January 1, 2016,end insert 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,begin delete 2015end deletebegin insert 2017end insert, would require the governing board of each school district and each county superintendent of schoolsbegin insert, for each of its schools,end insert tobegin delete, for each of its schools,end delete 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:

begin deleteP2    1

SECTION 1.  

Section 17075.50 of the Education Code is
2amended to read:

3

17075.50.  

(a) All new construction and modernization projects
4submitted to the Division of the State Architect pursuant to this
5chapter shall include locks that allow doors to classrooms and any
6room with an occupancy of five or more persons to be locked from
7the 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.

end delete
13begin insert

begin insertSECTION 1.end insert  

end insert

begin insertSection 17075.50 of the end insertbegin insertEducation Codeend insertbegin insert is
14amended to read:end insert

15

17075.50.  

(a) begin insert(1)end insertbegin insertend insert On and after July 1, 2011, all new
16construction projects submitted to the Division of the State
17Architect pursuant to this chapter shall include locks that allow
18doors to classrooms and any room with an occupancy of five or
19more persons to be locked from the inside.

begin insert

20(2) On or after January 1, 2016, all modernization projects
21submitted to the Division of the State Architect pursuant to this
22chapter shall include locks that allow doors to classrooms and
23any room with an occupancy of five or more persons to be locked
24from the inside.

end insert

P3    1(b) The locks shall conform to the specifications and
2requirements set forth in Title 24 of the California Code of
3Regulations.

4(c) Doors that are locked from the outside at all times and pupil
5restrooms are exempt from the requirements of this section.

6

SEC. 2.  

Article 4.5 (commencing with Section 32247) is added
7to Chapter 2 of Part 19 of Division 1 of Title 1 of the Education
8Code
, to read:

9 

10Article 4.5.  Security Locks
11

 

12

32247.  

(a) Notwithstanding any other law, no later than
13January 1,begin delete 2015end deletebegin insert 2017end insert, the governing board of each school district
14and each county superintendent of schools shall, for each school
15within its jurisdiction, equip the doors of every classroom and
16every room with an occupancy of five or more persons with locks
17that allow the doors to be locked from the inside.

18(b) The locks shall conform to the specifications and
19requirements set forth in Title 24 of the California Code of
20Regulations.

begin insert

21(c) Doors that are locked from the outside at all times and pupil
22restrooms are exempt from the requirements of this section.

end insert
23

SEC. 3.  

If the Commission on State Mandates determines that
24this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to
25local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made
26pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division
274 of Title 2 of the Government Code.



O

    98