School District Solar Garden Lease Term

Added a requirement for school districts to develop a policy defining affordable housing for each project they lease property for.

Added a requirement that affordable housing projects must undergo the appropriate local governmental land use approval process.

Clarified the structure of Section 1(f) to separate the ten-year lease provision from the charter school and affordable housing provisions using new subsections (I) and (II).

Removed 'Final Act' status and signature lines indicating the bill was sent to the Governor, reverting the document to its pre-signature draft version.

Removed page headers, committee assignments, and official document formatting that were present in the final version but not in the original draft.

Changed document title from 'Final Act' to 'PREAMENDED' indicating this is an unofficial version with committee amendments not yet adopted.

Added signature lines and formatting notes indicating the bill is ready for official signatures.

Corrected text errors such as changing 'Ni' to 'No' and 'ncccssary' to 'necessary' in the lease terms section.

Reorganized the document structure to match final act formatting standards.

Added eligibility for lease terms exceeding ten years for solar fields, energy storage systems, and affordable housing projects, with a maximum of thirty years for unimproved real property leased to charter schools and up to fifty years for sublease situations.

Modified the lease term limits by adding specific conditions for subleases where the district becomes a subtenant, allowing terms up to fifty years in those circumstances.

Added a new requirement that school boards must develop a policy defining affordable housing when leasing property for affordable housing projects.

Added multiple new co-sponsors to the House sponsorship list including Bacon, Bird, Boesenecker, Brown, Camacho, Clifford, Duran, Froelich, Lindsay, Lindstedt, Mauro, McCluskie, McCormick, Phillips, Ricks, Rutinel, Sirota, Smith, Stewart K., Titone, Valdez, and Willford.

Updated the bill header from 'ENGROSSED' to 'REENGROSSED' and revised the amendment adoption language to reflect that this version includes all amendments adopted in the House of Introduction.

Added a note indicating that a bill summary for the reengrossed version will be available after third reading in the House of Introduction, dated February 4, 2025.

Added solar fields and energy storage systems as eligible purposes for leasing district property alongside affordable housing.

Requires school boards to develop a policy defining affordable housing for projects under this section.

Clarified that lease terms may exceed ten years (up to fifty years) if the district becomes a subtenant, with specific conditions.

Added requirement that use restrictions on district property must include public notice and discussion at a regularly scheduled board meeting.