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Regular Session, 2014
HOUSE BILL NO. 522
BY REPRESENTATIVE JAMES
SCHOOLS/DISTRICTS: Provides relative to the use and control of school property by the
Recovery School District
AN ACT1
To amend and reenact R.S. 17:1990(B)(4)(a), relative to the Recovery School District; to2
provide with respect to the use of school buildings, facilities, and property in certain3
circumstances; and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 17:1990(B)(4)(a) is hereby amended and reenacted to read as6
follows: 7
ยง1990. Recovery School District; creation; governance; operation8
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B.10
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(4)(a) The school district shall have the right to use any school building and12
all facilities and property otherwise part of the school and recognized as part of the13
facilities or assets of the school prior to its placement in the school district and shall14
have access to such additional facilities as are typically available to the school, its15
students, and faculty and staff prior to its placement in the school district. Such use16
shall be unrestricted, except that the school district shall be responsible for and17
obligated to provide for routine maintenance and repair such that the facilities and18
property are maintained in as good an order as when the right of use was acquired19
by the district. The right of use and access granted to the school district by this20 HLS 14RS-575 ORIGINAL
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Subparagraph applies only while the facilities and assets are used as a school; if a1
school is closed after its placement in the school district, the right to use buildings,2
facilities, and property recognized as part of the facilities or assets of the school prior3
to its placement in the school district thereby returns to the prior system. There shall4
be no requirement for the district to provide for the type of extensive repair to5
buildings or facilities that would be considered to be a capital expense. Such6
extensive repairs shall be provided by the governing authority of the city, parish, or7
other local public school system or other public entity which is responsible for the8
facility.9
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DIGEST
The digest printed below was prepared by House Legislative Services. It constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument. The keyword, one-liner, abstract, and digest do not constitute
part of the law or proof or indicia of legislative intent. [R.S. 1:13(B) and 24:177(E)]
James HB No. 522
Abstract: Provides that the use of a school's buildings, facilities, and property by the
Recovery School District terminates if the school is closed.
Present law provides for the creation, governance, and operation of the Recovery School
District (the school district). Further provides that the school district is established to
provide an appropriate education for children attending any public elementary or secondary
school operated under the jurisdiction and direction of any city, parish, or other local public
school board or any other public entity which has been transferred to its jurisdiction pursuant
to present law.
Present law provides that the school district shall have the right to use any school building
and all facilities and property otherwise part of the school and shall have access to such
additional facilities as are typically available to the school, its students, faculty and staff.
Further provides that such use shall be unrestricted, except that the school district shall be
obligated to provide for routine maintenance and repair such that the facilities and property
are maintained in as good an order as when the right of use was acquired by the district.
Also provides that there shall be no requirement for the district to provide for the type of
extensive repair to buildings or facilities that would be considered to be a capital expense.
Such extensive repair shall be provided by the prior system.
Proposed law provides that if the school is closed after its placement in the school district,
the prior system thereby acquires the right to use any school building and all facilities and
property otherwise part of the school. Otherwise retains present law.
(Amends R.S. 17:1990(B)(4)(a))