BILL NUMBER: AB 2811	CHAPTERED  07/24/00

	CHAPTER   202
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   JULY 24, 2000
	PASSED THE SENATE   JULY 6, 2000
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   MAY 11, 2000

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Robert Pacheco

                        FEBRUARY 28, 2000

   An act to amend Section 17284.5 of the Education Code, relating to
school facilities.

      e law without Governor's signature.  Filed with
Secretary of State July 24, 2000.)


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2811, Robert Pacheco.  Field Act:  waivers.
   Existing law, the Field Act, requires the approval of plans
relating to the structural safety of school buildings and for owned
and leased relocatable buildings to be used for school purposes.
Existing law authorizes the State Allocation Board to grant, and
provides for extensions of, certain waivers for noncompliant
buildings.  Existing law, notwithstanding any provision of law to the
contrary, extends until January 1, 2001, any waiver granted by the
State Allocation Board to a school district for occupancy of a
nonconforming existing private building acquired for conversion for
use as a school building that had not expired prior to January 1,
2000, if work to make the building a conforming structure commenced
prior to January 1, 2000, but had not been completed by that date.
   This bill would extend those waivers until January 1, 2002.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 17284.5 of the Education Code is amended to
read:
   17284.5.  (a) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the
contrary, any waiver granted by the State Allocation Board to a
school district for use of a nonconforming existing private building
acquired for conversion for use as a school building, that had not
expired prior to January 1, 2000, is hereby extended until January 1,
2002, if the work to make the building a conforming structure
commenced prior to January 1, 2001, but had not been completed by
that date.