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AB 1822: School facilities: project priorities: extreme heat and climate change.
What AB 1822 does, verified June 8, 2026
<p>This bill aims to improve school facilities by prioritizing projects that address extreme heat and climate change. The state allocation board is authorized to include these priorities in its project applications, starting from January 1, 2027. The new priorities will apply only to projects submitted after this date. The bill also builds on the existing Leroy F. Greene State School Building Lease-Purchase Law, which aims to reconstruct, remodel, or replace inadequate or outdated school buildings, and to acquire new school sites and buildings for local school districts.</p>
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| May. 27, 2026 | Referred to Com. on ED. |
| May. 14, 2026 | In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. |
| May. 14, 2026 | Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5046.) |
| May. 07, 2026 | Read second time. Ordered to third reading. |
| May. 06, 2026 | From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 6). |
Latest bill textAmended version, March 23, 2026 · 424 words
| 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.
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.(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.
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