BILL NUMBER: AB 211	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Mendoza

                        FEBRUARY 2, 2009

   An act to add Article 8.5 (commencing with Section 17075.50) to
Chapter 12.5 of Part 10 of Division 1 of Title 1 of the Education
Code, relating to school facilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 211, as introduced, Mendoza. School facilities: classroom
function locks.
   Existing law, the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998
(the Greene Act), requires the State Allocation Board to allocate to
applicant school districts prescribed per-unhoused-pupil state
funding for construction and modernization of school facilities,
including hardship funding and supplemental funding for site
development and acquisition.
   This, on and after January 1, 2010, bill would require all new
construction and modernization projects submitted to the Division of
the State Architect pursuant to the Greene Act to include classroom
function locks that allow doors to classrooms, offices, and other
rooms where pupils and staff gather to be locked from the inside.
   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.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) Violent incidents on school campuses are increasing at an
alarming rate. Lockdowns are an effective tool that can be used on
school campuses to facilitate the safety of pupils and staff during
violent incidents.
   (b) The locks in most school classrooms, offices, and other rooms
where pupils and staff gather can be locked only from the outside,
and the safety of school staff and pupils could be placed in jeopardy
if school staff is required to go out into a hallway to lock doors
during a violent incident.
   (c) Locking mechanisms that lock a door from the inside, commonly
referred to as classroom function locks, have been developed to
quickly lock doors to classrooms, offices, and other rooms from the
inside.
  SEC. 2.  Article 8.5 (commencing with Section 17075.50) is added to
Chapter 12.5 of Part 10 of Division 1 of Title 1 of the Education
Code, to read:

      Article 8.5.  Classroom Function Locks


   17075.50.  On and after January 1, 2010, all new construction and
modernization projects submitted to the Division of the State
Architect pursuant to this chapter shall include classroom function
locks that allow doors to classrooms, offices, and other rooms where
pupils and school staff gather to be locked from the inside.
   17075.52.  The classroom function locks required pursuant to this
article shall consist of locking mechanisms that allow doors to be
locked from the inside, or the best technology that accomplishes the
same result.