SB 316, as amended, Block. School safety: door locks.
Existing law, the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998, 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 billbegin delete, no later than January 1, 2017, would require the governing board of each school district and each county superintendent of schools, for each of its schools, to 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,end deletebegin insert would, if federal funding becomes available for purposes of school safety, require a school district to first consider using these funds to install locks that are lockable from the inside in every classroom and every room with an occupancy of 5 or more persons,end insert
except as specified. By imposing new requirements onbegin delete local educational agenciesend deletebegin insert school districtsend insert, 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) (1) On and after July 1, 2011, all new
4construction projects submitted to the Division of the State
5Architect pursuant to this chapter shall include locks that allow
6doors to classrooms and any room with an occupancy of five or
7more persons to be locked from the inside.
8(2) On or after January 1, 2016, all modernization projects
9submitted to the Division of the State Architect pursuant to this
10chapter shall include locks that allow doors to classrooms and any
11room with an occupancy of five or more persons to be locked from
12the inside.
13(b) The locks shall conform to the specifications and
14requirements
set forth in Title 24 of the California Code of
15Regulations.
16(c) Doors that are locked from the outside at all times and pupil
17restrooms are exempt from the requirements of this section.
Article 4.5 (commencing with Section 32247) is added
19to Chapter 2 of Part 19 of Division 1 of Title 1 of the Education
20Code, to read:
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(a) Notwithstanding any other law, no later than
2January 1, 2017, the governing board of each school district and
3each county superintendent of schools shall, for each school within
4its jurisdiction, equip the doors of every classroom and every room
5with an occupancy of five or more persons with locks that allow
6the doors to be locked from the inside.
(a) If federal funding becomes available for purposes
8of school safety, a school district shall first consider using these
9funds to install locks that are lockable from the inside in every
10classroom and every room with an occupancy of five or more
11persons.
12(b) The locks shall conform to the specifications and
13requirements set forth in Title 24 of the California Code of
14Regulations.
15(c) Doors that are locked from the outside at all
times and pupil
16restrooms are exempt from the requirements of this section.
If the Commission on State Mandates determines that
18this act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to
19local agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made
20pursuant to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division
214 of Title 2 of the Government Code.
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