BILL NUMBER: AB 986	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gipson

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2015

   An act to amend Section 17280 of the Education Code, relating to
school facilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 986, as introduced, Gipson. School facilities: Field Act.
   The Field Act requires the Department of General Services under
the police power of the state to supervise the design and
construction of any school building or the reconstruction or
alteration of or addition to any school building, if not exempted, to
ensure that plans and specifications comply with the adopted rules
and regulations and building standards published in regulations, and
to ensure that the work of construction is performed in accordance
with the approved plans and specifications for the protection of life
and property.
   This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the provision
described above.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 17280 of the Education Code is amended to read:

   17280.  (a) (1) The Department of General Services under the
police power of the state shall supervise the design and construction
of any school building or the reconstruction or alteration of or
addition to any school building, if not exempted under Section 17295,
to ensure that  the  plans and specifications comply with
the rules and regulations adopted pursuant to this article and
building standards published in Title 24 of the California Code of
Regulations, and to ensure that the work of construction  has
been   is  performed in accordance with the
approved plans and specifications, for the protection of life and
property.  Nothing in this section shall be construed to
  This article does not  allow a school district to
perform work with its own forces in excess of the limitations set
forth in Sections 17595 and 17599. In calculating the cost of any
project of reconstruction or alteration of, or addition to, any
school building for the purpose of determining the applicability of
the rules and regulations adopted pursuant to this article and
building standards published in Title 24 of the California Code of
Regulations, the Department of General Services shall not include, as
an element of that cost, any expenses of air-conditioning equipment
or insulation materials for that building, or of installing the
equipment or materials.
   (2) In the alternative, for a leased or purchased building, a
school district may comply with this section by complying with
Section 17280.5.
   (b) Whenever repairs due to fire damage  , not including
any damage caused by wind or earthquake,  must be made to
any school building previously approved by the Department of General
Services, the approved plans and specifications used in the original
work under then existing rules, regulations, and building standards
may be used without modification, providing all other provisions of
this article are carried out.  This subdivision does not apply to
damage caused by wind or earthquake. 
   (c) Notwithstanding any other  provision of  law,
 no   a  school district shall  not
 be authorized to construct or reconstruct any school building,
regardless of the source of funding, unless and until the governing
board of the district, by resolution,  has indicated
  indicates  the agreement of the district that any
school building construction or reconstruction that exceeds those
construction costs and allowable area standards or any allowable
building area computed for an attendance area pursuant to Section
17041 shall, in the event of the district's subsequent application
for state funding for school facility construction, be deducted from
the allowable building area for which the district would otherwise
have been  eligible, which   eligible. This
 restriction shall not be subject to waiver or exception as
otherwise may be provided by law.
   (d) If it is determined that, for any reason, a school district
failed to comply with the requirement of this section, the district
shall not be eligible for any additional building area pursuant to
Section 17049 and may be denied any time priority established for the
particular project pursuant to Section 17016.