BILL NUMBER: AB 1647	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Wiggins

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2003

   An act to add and repeal Section 17357.5 to the Education Code,
relating to public schools.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1647, as introduced, Wiggins.  School building construction:
prefabricated materials.
   Existing law establishes various school construction health and
safety requirements, including, but not limited to, certain
requirements that the Department of General Services approve
construction plans for compliance with prescribed seismic safety and
fitness-for-use requirements.
   Existing law authorizes the department to adopt regulations for
safety and design of factory-built buildings for use as school
buildings, and to approve or reject plans and specifications
submitted by manufacturers of factory-built buildings.
   This bill would require the department to study the use, and its
approval, of prefabricated materials in the construction of public
schools, and to report to the Legislature by January 1, 2005.  This
bill would repeal this provision on January 1, 2006.
   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.  Section 17357.5 is added to the Education Code, to
read:
   17357.5.  (a) The Department of General Services shall study the
use, and its approval, of prefabricated materials in the construction
of public schools.  The Department of General Services shall report
its findings, including, but not limited to, an inventory of all
types of prefabricated materials submitted to the department for
approval pursuant to this article or any other provisions of law, to
the Legislature by January 1, 2005.
  (b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2006,
and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute,
that is enacted before January 1, 2006, deletes or extends that date.