BILL NUMBER: AB 801	CHAPTERED  09/18/00

	CHAPTER   458
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 18, 2000
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   SEPTEMBER 15, 2000
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 30, 2000
	PASSED THE SENATE   AUGUST 29, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   AUGUST 25, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JULY 6, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JUNE 21, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   JANUARY 3, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   APRIL 28, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   APRIL 5, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Cardenas

                        FEBRUARY 24, 1999

   An act to add Section 17071.46 to the Education Code, relating to
school facilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 801, Cardenas.  School facilities.
   Existing law, the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998,
establishes the 1998 State School Facilities Fund from which the
State Allocation Board may apportion funds to school districts for
certain purposes, including new construction.  Existing law requires
each school district that elects to participate in the new
construction program under the act to submit to the State Allocation
Board a one-time report of existing school building capacity,
pursuant to a prescribed calculation.
   This bill would adjust the calculation when an applicant school
district proposes to demolish a single story building and replace it
with a multistory building on the same site, if specified conditions
are met.


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


  SECTION 1.  Section 17071.46 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   17071.46.  (a) When an applicant school district proposes to
demolish a single story building and replace it with a multistory
building on the same site, the State Allocation Board shall provide a
supplemental grant for 50 percent of the replacement cost of the
single story building to be demolished, if all of the following
conditions are met:
   (1) The school at which the building demolition and replacement is
to occur is operating on a multitrack year-round education schedule.

   (2) The cost of the demolition and replacement is less than the
total cost of providing a new school facility, including land, on a
new site for the additional number of pupils housed as a result of
the replacement building, as determined by the State Allocation
Board.
   (3) The school district will maximize the increase in pupil
capacity on the site when it builds the replacement building, subject
to the limits imposed on it pursuant to paragraph (5) of subdivision
(a).
   (4) The State Department of Education has determined that the
demolition of an existing single story building and replacement with
a multistory building at the site is the best available alternative
and will not create a school with an inappropriate number of pupils
in relation to the size of the site, as determined by the State
Department of Education.
   (b) The State Allocation Board shall establish additional
requirements it deems necessary to ensure that the economic interests
of the state and the educational interests of the children of the
state are  protected.