Amended in Senate May 27, 2014

Amended in Senate April 21, 2014

Senate Bill No. 1421

Introduced by Senator Fuller

February 21, 2014

An act to add Section 17070.72 to the Education Code, relating to school facilities.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 1421, as amended, Fuller. School facilities: schoolsites on military bases.

Existing law establishes a system of public elementary and secondary schools in this state, and provides for the funding of the construction of new school facilities and the modernization of existing facilities. Existing law requires the State Allocation Board to apportion certain state funds to eligible school districts for school facilities. Existing federal law provides for construction funding assistance for schoolsites that are located on United States military bases and that meet specified criteria.

This bill begin delete would require end delete begin insert would end insert begin insert authorize end insert the State Allocation Board begin insert , if requested by an applicant, end insert to give priority begin insert on its Applications Received Beyond Bond Authority List end insert to applications begin insert submitted before May 1, 2014, end insert for certain state funds for projects on military installations that are eligible for specified federal school construction grants. begin insert The bill would provide that a school district that requests this priority for an application shall not apply for school facilities state bond funds for the 3 years after the date the board grants priority for an application, as described above. end insert

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Section 17070.72 is added to the Education Code,
to read:

17070.72.  

begin insert (a) end insert begin insert   end insert Notwithstanding subdivision (a) of Section
17070.70 and Section 17070.71, begin insert if requested by an applicant, end insert the
board begin delete shall end delete begin insert may end insert give priority begin insert on its Applications Received Beyond
Bond Authority List end insert to applications begin insert submitted before May 1, 2014, end insert
for funding under this chapter for projects on military installations
that are eligible for United States Department of Defense Office
of Economic Adjustment school construction grants.

begin insert

(b) A school district that requests priority pursuant to
subdivision (a) for an application shall not apply for school
facilities state bond funds for the three years after the date the
board grants priority for an application pursuant to subdivision
(a).

end insert