BILL NUMBER: SB 316	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 23, 2013
	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,
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, 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,   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,  except as specified. By imposing new
requirements on  local educational agencies  
school districts  , 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) (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, 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. 
    32247.    (a) If federal funding becomes available
for purposes of school safety, a school district shall first consider
using these funds to install locks that are lockable from the inside
in every classroom and every room with an occupancy of five or more
persons. 
   (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.