Plain English Breakdown
The official text uses conditional language ('If the board adopts...'), meaning the new priorities may never be implemented if the Board chooses not to act.
School Building Projects for Heat and Climate Change
This law allows the State Allocation Board to consider how well school projects handle extreme heat and climate change when deciding which ones get funding.
What This Bill Does
- Allows the State Allocation Board to add rules that make responding to extreme heat and climate change a priority for school building projects.
- Requires these new priorities to apply only to project applications received after January 1, 2027.
Who It Names or Affects
- The State Allocation Board
- Local school districts applying for construction or leasing of school buildings
Terms To Know
- State Allocation Board
- A state group that decides which school building projects get funding or help with leases.
- Project priorities
- Rules used to decide which school construction requests are most important and should be approved first.
Limits and Unknowns
- The bill only allows the board to create these rules; it does not require them to do so.
- It is unclear if or when the board will actually adopt priorities for extreme heat and climate change.