School safety: door locks.

Existing law, the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998, 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. Existing law requires all new construction projects submitted to the Division of the State Architect pursuant to the act to include locks that allow doors to classrooms and rooms with an occupancy of 5 or more persons to be locked from the inside, except as specified. This bill, on and after January 1, 2016, would additionally require all modernization projects submitted to the Division of the State Architect pursuant to those provisions to include those locks, except as specified. The bill would require the State Allocation Board to adopt regulations to adjust the modernization per-pupil grant allowance to reflect the associated cost of installing the locks. This bill would, if federal funding becomes available for purposes of school safety, require a school district to first consider using these funds to install locks that are lockable from the inside in every classroom and every room with an occupancy of 5 or more persons, except as specified. By imposing new requirements on school districts, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.