BILL NUMBER: AB 747	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 14, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Emmerson

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2009

   An act  to amend Section 32372 of the Education Code, 
relating to school facilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 747, as amended, Emmerson. School facilities: recycling
programs. 
   Under existing law, each school district and campus of the
California State University and Colleges is encouraged to establish
and maintain a paper recycling program in specified areas owned or
leased by the school district or campus where a significant quantity
of wastepaper is generated or may be collected.  
   This bill would encourage school districts and campuses of the
California State University and Colleges also to establish and
maintain beverage container recycling programs in those areas. 

    Existing law, the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998,
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 bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would provide incentives to school districts with
recycling programs when applying for state funding for construction
and modernization of school facilities. 
   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 32372 of the  
Education Code   is amended to read: 
   32372.  (a) Each school district may, and is encouraged to,
establish and maintain a paper  and beverage container 
recycling program in all classrooms, administrative offices, and
other areas owned or leased by the school district where a
significant quantity of wastepaper  or beverage containers 
is generated or may be collected.
   (b) Each campus of the California State University and Colleges
may, and is encouraged to, establish and maintain a paper  and
beverage container  recycling program in administration offices
and other areas owned or leased by the campus, including areas
frequented by students, where a significant quantity of wastepaper
 or beverage containers  is generated or may be collected.
   (c) In establishing paper  and beverage container 
recycling programs, school districts, and campuses of the California
State University and Colleges shall attempt to cooperate with
existing paper  and beverage container  recycling programs.
   (d) Nothing in this article shall limit or supersede any other
requirement of law imposing a paper  and beverage container 
recycling program on school districts or the California State
University and Colleges. 
  SECTION 1.    It is the intent of the Legislature
to enact legislation that would provide incentives to school
districts with recycling programs when applying for state funding for
construction and modernization of school facilities.