California Assembly Bill AB2367 Introduced / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: AB 2367INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Bonilla FEBRUARY 24, 2012 An act to amend Section 32020 of the Education Code, relating to school safety. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2367, as introduced, Bonilla. School safety: gates to school grounds. Existing law requires the governing board of a school district and the governing authority of a private school that maintains any building used for the instruction or housing of pupils on land entirely enclosed by fences or walls to provide for the erection of gates in those fences or walls that are of sufficient size to permit the entrance of ambulances, police equipment, and firefighting apparatus used by law enforcement and fire protection agencies, subject to specified requirements. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these provisions. 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 32020 of the Education Code is amended to read: 32020. The governing board of every school district, and the governing authority of every private school, which maintains any building used for the instruction or housing of school pupils on land entirely enclosed (except for building walls) by fences or walls, shall, through cooperation with the local law enforcement and fire protection agencies having jurisdiction of the area, make provision for the erection of gates in  such   those  fences or walls. The gates shall be of sufficient size to permit the entrance of the ambulances, police equipment, and firefighting apparatus  ,  used by the law enforcement and fire protection agencies. There shall be no less than one  such  access gate and there shall be as many  such  gates as needed to  assure   ensure  access to all major building and grounds areas. If  such   the  gates are to be equipped with locks, the locking devices shall be designed to permit ready entrance by the use of the chain or bolt cutting devices with which the local law enforcement and fire protection agencies may be equipped.