AB-1822 • 2026

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: 2026-05-27
Official status: Referred to Com. on ED.
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide details on how this law interacts with existing rules for reconstructing, remodeling, or replacing old school buildings.

School Buildings: Priorities for Extreme Heat

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

What This Bill Does

Allows the State Allocation Board to set priorities for school building projects that address an efficient response to extreme heat and climate change.
Requires these new priorities to apply only to project applications submitted on or after January 1, 2027.

Who It Names or Affects

Local school districts
The State Allocation Board

Terms To Know

State Allocation Board: A state agency that decides how to allocate funds for projects like building new schools.
Project priorities: Important goals or areas of focus when deciding which school building projects get funding first.

Limits and Unknowns

Does not specify what exactly counts as an 'efficient response to extreme heat and climate change'.
Only applies to project applications submitted after January 1, 2027.
The actual priorities will depend on rules the State Allocation Board makes.

Bill History

2026-05-27 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on ED.
2026-05-14 California Legislative Information
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
2026-05-14 California Legislative Information
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0.)
2026-05-07 California Legislative Information
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2026-05-06 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 6).
2026-03-24 California Legislative Information
Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2026-03-23 California Legislative Information
Read second time and amended.
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).
2026-02-23 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on ED.
2026-02-12 California Legislative Information
From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
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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