Bill Text: CA AB2967 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
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Bill Title: Teacher Housing Act of 2016: nonprofit organization employees.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-09-27 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 748, Statutes of 2024. [AB2967 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB2967-Amended.html
Section 53572 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:
Bill Title: Teacher Housing Act of 2016: nonprofit organization employees.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2024-09-27 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 748, Statutes of 2024. [AB2967 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB2967-Amended.html
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2967
| Introduced by Assembly Member Ting |
February 16, 2024 |
An act to amend Section Sections 53571 and 53572 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to housing.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2967, as amended, Ting.
Teacher Housing Act of 2016: definitions. teachers and school district employees: nonprofit childcare providers.
Existing law, the Teacher Housing Act of 2016, authorizes a school district to establish and maintain programs, as provided, that address the housing needs of teachers and school district employees who face challenges in securing affordable housing. The act defines the term “teacher or school district employee” to mean any person employed by a unified school district maintaining prekindergarten, transitional kindergarten, and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, an elementary school district maintaining prekindergarten, transitional kindergarten, and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, or a high school district maintaining grades 9 to 12, inclusive, including, but not limited to, certificated and classified staff.
This bill would expand the definition of a teacher or school district employee to include a person employed by a nonprofit organization operating early
childhood, prekindergarten, or school-aged schoolage childcare classrooms and programs on school district property with funding from the State Department of Education, the federal Head Start program, or other public funding targeted to children from families of low and moderate income. The bill, for housing made available or a contract for housing entered into on or after January 1, 2025, would require a program established under these provisions to provide certain teachers or school district employees with a right of first refusal to occupy housing acquired, constructed, rehabilitated, or preserved under the Teacher Housing Act of 2016.
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 53571 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:53571.
(a) The purpose of this part is to facilitate the acquisition, construction, rehabilitation, and preservation of affordable rental housing for teachers and school district employees to allow teachers or school district employees to access and maintain housing stability.(b) A program established under this part shall be restricted to “teacher or school district employees,” except that a school district may allow local public employees or other members of the public to occupy housing created through this part, subject to applicable laws and regulations.
(c) A school district shall retain the right to prioritize school district employees over local public employees or other members of the public to
occupy housing.
(d) A program established under this part shall provide teachers or school district employees, as described in paragraphs (1) to (3), inclusive, of subdivision (c) of Section 53572, with a right of first refusal to occupy housing acquired, constructed, rehabilitated, or preserved under this part.
(e) The amendments made to this section by the act adding this subdivision shall only apply to housing made available or a contract for housing entered into, amended, or extended under this part on or after January 1, 2025.
SECTION 1.SEC. 2.
Section 53572 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:53572.
As used in this part:(a) “Affordable rental housing” means a rental housing development, as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 50675.2, with a majority of its rents restricted to levels that are affordable to persons and families of low or moderate income, as defined in Section 50093, but neither definition is restrictive to only projects with five or more units.
(b) “Local public employees” includes employees of any city, county, city and county, charter city, charter county, charter city and county, special district, or any combination thereof.
(c) “Teacher or school district
employee” means any person employed by any of the following:
(1) A unified school district maintaining prekindergarten, transitional kindergarten, and grades 1 to 12, inclusive.
(2) An elementary school district maintaining prekindergarten, transitional kindergarten, and grades 1 to 8, inclusive.
(3) A high school district maintaining grades 9 to 12, inclusive, including, but not limited to, certificated and classified staff.
(4) A nonprofit organization operating early childhood, prekindergarten, or school-aged
schoolage childcare classrooms and programs on school district property with funding from the State Department of Education, the federal Head Start program, or other public funding targeted to children from families of low and moderate income.
