School facilities.

Existing law, the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998 (Greene Act) , 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. The Greene Act requires all school facilities purchased or newly constructed pursuant to the act for use, in whole or in part, by pupils who are individuals with exceptional needs, as defined, to be designed and located on the schoolsite so as to maximize interaction between those individuals with exceptional needs and other pupils as appropriate to the needs of both. This bill would require, as a condition of receiving approval by the State Department of Education for the project, the school district or county office of education to provide written confirmation or documentation that each has conferred with the other, as specified, and certify that the project includes appropriate facilities, which may include, but are not limited to, the necessary classrooms, toilet rooms, and medical therapy facilities for pupils who are individuals with exceptional needs with due consideration for identifying and planning for the least restrictive environment that supports the education of these pupils or certify that the project site has dedicated acreage of sufficient size and in an appropriate location to support the construction of appropriate facilities, which may include, but are not limited to, classrooms, toilet rooms, and medical therapy facilities in the future by the district or the county office of education, unless the applicant school district or county office of education certifies that the district and the county office of education have conferred and determined that there are no special education facilities needs.