BILL NUMBER: AB 1647	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 16, 2003

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 amended, 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.  
   This bill would require the Department of General Services to
develop an inventory of prefabricated buildings and modular units in
use immediately preceding January 1, 2004, by school districts in San
Bernardino and Riverside Counties and a list of all new
prefabricated and modular buildings and units authorized commencing
January 1, 2004, through January 1, 2005, and to report to specified
committees of the Legislature by July 1, 2005. 
   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and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute,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.
 
   17357.5.  The Department of General Services shall develop an
inventory of prefabricated buildings and modular units in use January
1, 2004, by school districts in San Bernardino and Riverside
Counties, including, but not limited to, the length of service and
the occupancy levels of those buildings and units.  The Department of
General Services shall develop a written list of all new
prefabricated and modular buildings and units authorized commencing
January 1, 2004, through January 1, 2005.  The Department of General
Services shall report to the Senate Labor and Industrial Relations
Committee, the Senate Education Committee, the Assembly Labor and
Employment Committee, and the Assembly Education Committee by July 1,
2005.  The report shall include, but not be limited to, the
inventory and the list.