BILL NUMBER: AB 747AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 14, 2009 INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Emmerson FEBRUARY 26, 2009 An act to amend Section 32372 of the Education Code, relating to school facilities. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 747, as amended, Emmerson. School facilities: recycling programs. Under existing law, each school district and campus of the California State University and Colleges is encouraged to establish and maintain a paper recycling program in specified areas owned or leased by the school district or campus where a significant quantity of wastepaper is generated or may be collected. This bill would encourage school districts and campuses of the California State University and Colleges also to establish and maintain beverage container recycling programs in those areas.Existing law, the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998, requires the State Allocation Board to allocate to applicant school districts, prescribed per-unhoused pupil state funding for construction and modernization of school facilities, including hardship funding and supplemental funding for site development and acquisition.This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would provide incentives to school districts with recycling programs when applying for state funding for construction and modernization of school facilities.Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 32372 of the Education Code is amended to read: 32372. (a) Each school district may, and is encouraged to, establish and maintain a paper and beverage container recycling program in all classrooms, administrative offices, and other areas owned or leased by the school district where a significant quantity of wastepaper or beverage containers is generated or may be collected. (b) Each campus of the California State University and Colleges may, and is encouraged to, establish and maintain a paper and beverage container recycling program in administration offices and other areas owned or leased by the campus, including areas frequented by students, where a significant quantity of wastepaper or beverage containers is generated or may be collected. (c) In establishing paper and beverage container recycling programs, school districts, and campuses of the California State University and Colleges shall attempt to cooperate with existing paper and beverage container recycling programs. (d) Nothing in this article shall limit or supersede any other requirement of law imposing a paper and beverage container recycling program on school districts or the California State University and Colleges.SECTION 1.It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would provide incentives to school districts with recycling programs when applying for state funding for construction and modernization of school facilities.