School facilities: shade structures.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide information about how the increased costs will be funded or if it changes existing building standards for schools.

Shade Structures for Schools

This law increases the limit on costs for installing accessible paths to free-standing, open-sided shade structures and sets a new limit for integrating these with playground equipment in schools.

What This Bill Does

• Increases the cost limit for adding an accessible path of travel to free-standing, open-sided shade structures from 20% to 25% of the adjusted construction cost.
• Sets a new limit at 20% of the adjusted construction cost for installing shade structures that are part of playground equipment in schools.

Who It Names or Affects

• School districts
• County offices of education
• Charter schools
• Community colleges

Terms To Know

Accessible path of travel

A clear and safe route that allows people with disabilities to move around a building or facility.

Adjusted construction cost

The total cost of building something, adjusted for any special factors like inflation or changes in materials.

Limits and Unknowns

• Does not specify how the increased costs will be funded.
• Only applies to shade structures that meet certain requirements and are installed on school grounds.

Official Summary Text

SB 1107, as amended, Stern.
School facilities: shade structures.
The Field Act requires the Department of General Services under the police power of the state to supervise the design and construction of any school building or the reconstruction or alteration of or addition to any school building, if not exempted, to ensure that plans and specifications comply with adopted rules and regulations and building standards published in regulations, and to ensure that the work of construction is performed in accordance with the approved plans and specifications for the protection of life and property.
The California Building Standards Code requires that specified buildings, structures, and facilities be accessible to, and useable by, persons with disabilities, including that when alterations or additions are made to existing buildings or facilities, an accessible path of travel to the specific area of alteration
or addition is provided.
Existing law limits the cost of complying with the requirement to provide an accessible path of travel to
the installation of
a free-standing, open-sided shade structure project that meets specified requirements and that is on a school district, county office of education, charter school, or community college campus to 20% of the adjusted construction cost, as defined, of the shade structure project.
This bill would increase the above-described limit on the cost of complying with the requirement to provide an accessible path of travel to a shade structure project to instead be 25% of the adjusted construction cost of the shade structure project.
This bill would additionally limit the cost of complying with the requirement to provide an accessible path of travel to the installation of a shade structure integrated with playground equipment that meets specified requirements and that is on a school district, county office of education, charter school, or community college campus to 20% of the adjusted construction cost, as defined, of the shade structure project.

Current Bill Text

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