BILL NUMBER: SB 316	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 2, 2013

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 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  , on and after January 1, 2016,  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  
2017  , would require the governing board of each school
district and each county superintendent of schools  , for each of
its 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) 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. 

   SECTION 1.    Section 17075.50 of the  
  Education Code   is amended to read: 
   17075.50.  (a)  (1)    On and after July 1,
2011, all new construction 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. 
   (2) On or after January 1, 2016, all 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   2017  , 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. 
   (c) Doors that are locked from the outside at all times and pupil
restrooms are exempt from the requirements of this section. 
  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.