School property: Civic Center Act.

Existing law, known as the Civic Center Act, authorizes a school district governing board to grant the use of school facilities or grounds as a civic center, for specified purposes, upon terms and conditions deemed proper by the governing board. Existing law authorizes a school district governing board to charge a fee, not to exceed the school district's direct costs, as defined, for use of the school facilities or grounds by entities that promote youth and school activities or that arrange for and supervise sports league activities for youths. This bill, until January 1, 2020, would expand the definition of direct costs that a school district governing board may charge an entity for the use of school facilities or grounds to include a specified share of the operating and maintenance costs proportional to the entity's use of the school facilities or grounds under this provision and a share of the costs for maintenance, repair, restoration, and refurbishment of the school facilities or grounds proportional to that entity's use of school facilities or grounds, as specified. The bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop, and the State Board of Education to adopt, regulations to be used by a school district in determining the proportionate share and the specific allowable costs that a school district may include as direct costs for the use of its school facilities or grounds. The bill would make other related changes.