AB1822 - School facilities: project priorities: extreme heat and climate change.

Amended IN Assembly March 23, 2026 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1822 Introduced by Assembly Member Muratsuchi February 11, 2026 An act to amend Section 17016 of the Education Code, relating to school facilities. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 1822, as amended, Muratsuchi. School facilities: project priorities: extreme heat and climate change. Existing law, the Leroy F. Greene State School Building Lease-Purchase Law of 1976, effectuates the declaration of the Legislature that it is in the interest of the state and its people to reconstruct, remodel, or replace existing school buildings that are educationally inadequate or that do not meet present-day structural safety requirements, and to acquire new schoolsites and buildings for the purpose of making them available to local school districts for the pupils of the public school system. Existing law authorizes the State Allocation Board, by adoption of rules, to establish priorities for the construction and leasing of projects to schools districts whose pupils will benefit most. This bill would authorize the board to include, as priorities for projects, an efficient response to extreme heat and climate change. If the board adopts priorities related to an efficient response to extreme heat and climate change, the bill would require those priorities to apply only to project applications received after January 1, 2027. Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO Bill Text The people of the State of California do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 17016 of the Education Code is amended to read: 17016. (a) The board, by the adoption of rules, may establish priorities for the construction and leasing of projects to those school districts the pupils of which will benefit most. The priorities for projects may include an efficient response to extreme heat and climate change. The board may make exceptions from established priorities when it determines that to do so will benefit the pupils affected. (1) If the board adopts priorities related to an efficient response to extreme heat and climate change, those priorities shall apply only to project applications received after January 1, 2027. (2) The board may make exceptions from established priorities when it determines that to do so will benefit the pupils affected. (b) The board may adopt rules establishing priorities for the acquisition and leasing of portable classrooms to county superintendents of schools that will most benefit pupils needing a county community school. The board shall require each county superintendent of schools who leases portable classrooms pursuant to Section 17017.2 to demonstrate that the portable classrooms are utilized solely for operation of a county community school.