BILL NUMBER: SB 305	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 13, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Corbett

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2009

   An act to add Section 17075.20 to the Education Code, relating to
school facilities.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 305, as amended, Corbett. School facilities: construction:
seismic mitigation. 
   Existing law requires the Department of General Services, in
consultation with the Seismic Safety Commission, to conduct an
inventory of public school buildings that are concrete tilt-up school
buildings and school buildings with nonwood frame walls that do not
meet specified standards. The Kindergarten-University Public
Education Facilities Bond Act of 2006 makes available up to $199.5
million dollars for the purposes of seismic repair, reconstruction,
or replacement pursuant to the Hardship Assistance Program of the
Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998.  
   The Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998 establishes a
school facilities construction and modernization program that
requires the State Allocation Board to provide state per-pupil
funding to applicant school districts. The act authorizes a school
district that meets specified characteristics established pursuant to
regulations to receive financial hardship assistance for school
facility construction and modernization in cases of extraordinary
circumstances. Extraordinary circumstances may include the need to
repair, reconstruct, or replace the most vulnerable school facilities
that are identified as Category 2 buildings and determined by the
department to pose an unacceptable risk of injury to its occupants in
the event of a seismic event. 
   This bill would  state the intent of the Legislature to
enact legislation that would modify the standards used to identify
school districts that are eligible to receive hardship assistance
that is made available by the Kindergarten-University Public
Education Facilities Bond Act of 2006 for the purposes of seismic
repair, reconstruction, or replacement of school buildings 
 define "most vulnerable Category 2 building" for purposes of the
above provisions  .
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no
  yes  . State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 17075.20 is added to the Education Code, to
read: 
   17075.20.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would modify the standards used to identify school
districts that are eligible to receive hardship assistance that is
made available by the Kindergarten-University Public Education
Facilities Bond Act of 2006 for the purposes of seismic repair,
reconstruction, or replacement of school buildings. 
    17075.20.   For purposes of subdivision (a) of Section
17075.10, "most vulnerable Category 2 building" means a building that
meets all of the following criteria:
   (a)  The building is located where the short period spectral
acceleration is 1.50g or more based on the 2002 United States
Geological Survey National Seismic Hazard Maps adjusted for site
class factors.
   (b) The building is designed for occupancy by pupils and staff.
   (c) The building type is either C1-Concrete Moment Frame,
PC1A-Precast/Tilt-up Shear Wall with Flexible Roof, PC2-Precast
Concrete Frame and Roofs with Concrete Shear Walls, or
URM-Unreinforced Masonry Bearing Wall.
   (d) A structural engineer provides a structural report that
demonstrates the lateral force-resisting system of the building does
not meet collapse prevention performance objectives and that includes
the specific deficiencies and reasoning for concluding that the
building has potential for catastrophic collapse.