AB 1822
School facilities: project priorities: extreme heat and climate change.
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Appropriation
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Bill overview
This bill changes how the State Allocation Board prioritizes school facility projects. It directs the board to consider an ‘efficient response to extreme heat and climate change’ as a priority when evaluating project applications. However, this new priority will only apply to applications received after January 1, 2027, allowing the board to continue using existing prioritization methods for older applications. The bill also clarifies rules regarding the use of portable classrooms for county community schools.
Key provisions
- The State Allocation Board will consider ‘efficient response to extreme heat and climate change’ as a project priority.
- This priority will only apply to project applications received after January 1, 2027.
- The board can make exceptions to existing priorities if it determines it will benefit students.
- The bill clarifies rules for county superintendents leasing portable classrooms for county community schools.
Who is affected
- School districts
- The State Allocation Board
- County superintendents of schools
- Students in public schools
Notable changes
- Introduces a new priority for school facility projects related to extreme heat and climate change.
- Specifies that this new priority will not apply to existing project applications.
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AB1822:v98#DOCUMENT
Bill Start
| 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.