BILL NUMBER: SB 111	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 2, 2015
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 4, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Fuller
   (Principal coauthors: Senators Vidak and Wolk)
   (Coauthors: Senators Bates, Huff, Morrell, Nielsen, and Stone)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Chávez, Grove, Lackey, Maienschein,
Mathis, Waldron, and Wilk)

                        JANUARY 9, 2015

   An act relating to school  facilities, and making an
appropriation therefor.   facilities. 


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 111, as amended, Fuller. School facilities: military
installations.
   Existing federal law provides for construction funding assistance
for elementary and secondary public schools that are located on
United States military installations and that meet specified
criteria.
   This bill would  appropriate $61,000,000 from the General
Fund to the State Department of Education for  express
the intent of the Legislature that assistance be provided to school
districts in  the 2015-16 fiscal year  for apportionment
to school districts  to meet the matching share requirement
of a school construction grant made by the Office of Economic
Adjustment of the federal Department of Defense to construct,
renovate, repair, or expand elementary and secondary public schools
located on military installations.  The bill would require the
Department of Finance to explore options, including, but not
necessarily limited to, making low-interest loans available to school
districts through the California Infrastructure and Economic
Development Bank,   on how best to assist school districts
in meeting the matching share requirement of the federal school
construction grant referenced in the bill. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation:  yes   no
 . Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.   Sixty-one million dollars ($61,000,000) is
hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the State Department of
Education for the 2015-16 fiscal year for apportionment 
 (a)     It is the intent of the Legislature
that assistance be provided  to school districts  in the
2015-16 fiscal year  to meet the matching share requirement of a
school construction grant made by the Office of Economic Adjustment
of the federal Department of Defense to construct, renovate, repair,
or expand elementary and secondary public schools located on military
installations. 
   (b) The Department of Finance shall explore options on how best to
assist school districts in meeting the matching share requirement of
the federal school construction grant referenced in subdivision (a).
These options shall include, but not necessarily be limited to,
making low-interest loans available to school districts through the
California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank.