Title EDC — California Educ. Code

(a) The board may approve, in whole or in part, an application submitted by a school district under Section 17017 or 17020 in an amount not exceeding the amount applied for as the board may deem appropriate. (b) The board may, upon approval of the application, in whole or in part…

Notwithstanding Section 17017.7, the definition of “substantial enrollment” set forth in that section shall apply only to elementary and unified school districts. For a high school district, “substantial enrollment in multitrack year-round schools,” for the purposes of Section 17…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, priority for the approval of project funding for new construction under this chapter, shall be as follows: (1) First priority for construction funds shall be given to school districts with a substantial enrollment in multit…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a project shall be accorded, subject to subdivision (b), the priority status that otherwise is accorded under Section 17017.7 to a project for which state funding is requested for only 50 percent of the cost, if all of the following…

In approving applications pursuant to this chapter, the board shall encourage the design and construction of facilities which will conserve unreplenishable energy resources by consideration of alternate design and insulation concepts as well as unconventional energy sources. In s…

(a) The Legislature intends for the board to encourage school districts to utilize alternative methods to fund school facilities. (b) The board shall approve applications pursuant to the requirements of this section that request the board to share a portion of the cost of project…

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, a school district that has, within the previous 24-month period, constructed or otherwise acquired school facilities with 100 percent local funding, may apply for funding for the construction of a gymnasium or multip…

Before the board approves any project that includes the acquisition of furniture or equipment, it shall establish current cost and quality standards for furniture and equipment, including, but not limited to, educational technology hardware. The standards shall not exceed the cos…

(a) Any applicant school district may contract with a firm, as defined in Section 4525 of the Government Code, for construction project management services to assist in the development or implementation of a project for which the district has applied for funding under this chapte…

For a school district having an average daily attendance of 2,500 or less for the prior fiscal year, the board may approve, subject to the building cost standards established under this chapter, a supplemental apportionment up to five thousand five hundred dollars ($5,500) for an…

(a) Notwithstanding other provisions of this chapter, in order to expedite a total school facility a school district may first apply for a project which includes only the advance purchase of the land and preparation of plans and specifications. The acquisition of the site and the…

No project shall be approved for the reconstruction, modernization, or replacement of any school building that was constructed or reconstructed less than 30 years, or, in the case of any portable classroom, as defined in subdivision (e) of Section 17042.5, less than 20 years, pri…

(a) For purposes of this chapter, “modernization” or “renovation” means any modification of an existing structure, the costs of which do not exceed 25 percent of the replacement cost of that structure. (b) No project shall be approved for the modernization of any school facility …

Notwithstanding the limitation set forth in subdivision (a) of Section 17021.3, the costs of a modernization or renovation project funded under this chapter may exceed 25 percent of the replacement cost of an existing structure where the costs in excess of that amount are funded …

Except as provided in Section 17041, the board shall not approve any new school facilities for any applicant school district or county superintendent of schools until it first has made a determination that the applicant will utilize all existing facilities and sites to the extent…

(a) The funding for any reconstruction project approved by the board pursuant to this chapter that meets the requirements set forth in subdivision (b) shall include all of the following, not to exceed the total cost of the reconstruction project or 75 percent of the replacement c…

Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed as changing the powers and duties of the Department of Education or the Department of General Services in respect to schoolsites and the construction of school buildings as contained in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 17211)…

(a) The board shall not authorize the selection of any schoolsite, or a contract for the construction of any new school building, or for any addition to, or alteration of, any existing building, for lease-purchase to any school district, unless the applicant district has obtained…

Upon request of any school district, the State Department of Education shall provide assistance in the evaluation and utilization of existing school facilities and the justification of the need for schoolsites, new facilities, and the rehabilitation or replacement of existing fac…

(a) The board shall not authorize a contract for the construction of any new school, or for the addition to, or reconstruction or alteration of, any existing building, for lease-purchase to any school district unless the applicant district has submitted plans therefor to the Depa…

(a) The board shall authorize the applicant school district to act as its agent in the performance of acts specifically approved by the board and all acts required pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 17280) of Chapter 3 of Part 10.5. That authorization shall include, b…

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, the funding by the board of contracts entered into by a school district pursuant to this chapter shall not, in itself, make the board liable for any tort, breach of contract, or any other action for damages caused by a school …

(a) In expending funds for any project under this chapter, a school district acts as an agent of the state and all sites purchased and improved, all equipment purchased, and all buildings constructed, altered or added to through the expenditure of funds apportioned under this cha…

Notwithstanding any other provision to the contrary, all lease agreements shall terminate 40 years from the date of execution and title to the property covered therein shall revert to the district as though full payment had been made.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, any project funded under this chapter that involves only the identification, assessment, or abatement of hazardous asbestos in school facilities shall not be subject to Section 17014 or 17032, nor shall that funding cause the t…

Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, no funds authorized by any act for the purpose of this chapter may be expended for any purpose without specific authorization from the board or its designated representatives.

From any moneys in the State School Building Lease-Purchase Fund, the board shall make available to the Director of General Services such amounts as it determines necessary to provide the assistance, pursuant to this chapter, required by Section 15504 of the Government Code.

The applicant district, acting as agent for the state, shall comply with all laws pertaining to the construction, reconstruction, or alteration of, or addition to school buildings.

The board shall fix rents for all projects acquired and may change the rents from time to time as may be needed provided the rents shall not in any year exceed the sum of the following: (a) One dollar ($1). (b) Any interest earned on funds in the county school lease-purchase fund…

(a) Any school district for which one or more projects has been funded under this chapter may, pursuant to written agreement with any other public or private person or entity, utilize any school buildings, land, or other real property interest that the governing board determines …

(a) The board shall establish the annual rent and conditions to be met by the lessee of a portable classroom leased pursuant to Section 17717.2 and shall require lessees to undertake all necessary maintenance, repairs, renewals, and replacements to ensure that a project is at all…

Rent, charges, and fees collected in error may be refunded by the board in accordance with regulations prescribed by the board.

A county school lease-purchase fund is hereby created in the county treasury within each county for each school district project in the county.

The board may from time to time authorize the Controller to transfer any funds that the board may deem necessary from the State School Building Lease-Purchase Fund established for a given project to the corresponding county school lease-purchase fund in the county treasury.

(a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), funds may be expended from the county school lease-purchase fund by the applicant school district only when specifically authorized by the board for either direct project costs or reimbursements. (b) Upon specific authorization by the bo…

Any remaining funds, including any interest earned on those funds, in a county school lease-purchase fund for a school district that remains in the fund on and after January 1, 2026, shall not be reported or returned to the state and may be used by the school district for capital…

The board shall require school districts to insure at their own expense for the benefit of the state, all sites, equipment and buildings which are, under Section 17030, the property of the state, against such risks and in such amounts as the board may deem necessary to protect th…

(a) Not more than one hundred fifty million dollars ($150,000,000) of the moneys authorized by the State School Building Lease-Purchase Bond Law of 1982 (Sec. 34, Ch. 552, Stats. 1995) shall be reserved for the reconstruction or modernization of facilities within the meaning of t…

Not more than two hundred million dollars ($200,000,000) of the moneys authorized by the State School Building Lease-Purchase Bond Law of 1982 (Sec. 34, Ch. 552, Stats. 1995) shall be reserved for the reconstruction or modernization of facilities within the meaning of this chapte…

Of the moneys reserved for the rehabilitation or modernization of facilities pursuant to Section 17039.1, the board may reserve not more than twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) for apportionments to school districts that the board has determined to be in severe need of the…

Except as provided in Section 17041, no project shall be approved, the building area of which, when added to the area of adequate school construction existing in the applicant school district at the time of application, will provide a total area of school building construction pe…

(a) The allowable building area of any project, as calculated under this article, may be increased by any applicant school district, where the increase is funded exclusively from sources other than any state programs administered by the State Allocation Board. Any increase in bui…

Where 75 percent or more of the total cost of a project approved under this chapter is to be funded by the applicant district from sources other than any state program administered by the board, the area of the allowable new building construction for that project, and the amount …

(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, the estimate of average daily attendance for an applicant school district shall be calculated for up to and including two years longer than the period of time permitted by Section 17040, as requested by the district, where 50 …

Notwithstanding any other provision of this part, the board may use, for purposes of determining the estimate of average daily attendance for an applicant school district, a master plan that has been prepared by a district that includes the additional pupils due to increases in h…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, the board shall exclude the area of enclosed stairs and appropriate landings for each floor level served from the computation of the allowable building area of multistory buildings for any applicant school district.

(a) For any school of two or more stories, the project funding provided under this chapter shall include, at the request of the applicant district, the costs of any or all of the following: (1) Compliance with applicable requirements of law for fire safety, and for handicapped ac…

Notwithstanding any other provision of this article, the board shall provide that building area for enclosed hallways in the second or higher story of any building shall be counted as two-thirds of the actual area. For purposes of this section “enclosed hallways” includes, but is…

Where an applicant district that is eligible under this chapter for project funding of new construction of school facilities on an existing schoolsite, which site has less than 50 percent of the land recommended under State Department of Education guidelines, as published in the …

(a) (1) The board shall allocate the amount calculated under subdivision (b), in addition to any other project funding authorized under this chapter, to each project funded under this chapter for which the resulting pupil density will exceed the following: (A) For a project for k…