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AB-1822 • 2026

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

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

Education
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Muratsuchi
Last action
2026-03-24
Official status
Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific details on what constitutes an 'efficient response' to extreme heat and climate change.

School Buildings: Priorities for Extreme Heat

This law allows the State Allocation Board to prioritize school construction projects that address extreme heat and climate change, but only for new project applications submitted after January 1, 2027.

What This Bill Does

  • Allows the State Allocation Board to set priorities for school construction projects if they respond efficiently to extreme heat and climate change.
  • Requires these priorities to apply only to project applications received on or after January 1, 2027.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Local school districts that submit new project applications for school construction after January 1, 2027.
  • The State Allocation Board which sets priorities for school projects.

Terms To Know

State Allocation Board
A state agency responsible for allocating funds and setting priorities for various public projects, including school construction.
Project Priorities
The order of importance given to different types of projects when deciding which ones to fund or prioritize.

Limits and Unknowns

  • Does not specify what exactly counts as an 'efficient response' to extreme heat and climate change.
  • Only applies to new project applications after January 1, 2027, so older applications are unaffected.

Bill History

  1. 2026-03-24 California Legislative Information

    Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  2. 2026-03-23 California Legislative Information

    Read second time and amended.

  3. 2026-03-19 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 18).

  4. 2026-02-23 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Com. on ED.

  5. 2026-02-12 California Legislative Information

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.

  6. 2026-02-11 California Legislative Information

    Read first time. To print.

Official Summary Text

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.

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