ASSEMBLY BILL NO. 1719
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Date Published: 03/22/2022 09:00 PM
AB-1719 Housing: Teacher Housing Act of 2016: faculty and community college district employees.(202
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 22, 2022
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION
Introduced by Assembly Member Ward
January 27, 2022
An act to amend Sections 53571, 53572, 53573, and 53574 of the Health and Safety Code, relating to housing.
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AB 1719, as amended, Ward. Housing: Teacher Housing Act of 2016: faculty and community college district employees.
Existing law, the Teacher Housing Act of 2016, authorizes a school district to establish and implement programs that addressthe housing needs of teachers and school district employees who face challenges in securing affordable housing, as provided.Under existing law, a program established under the act is restricted to “teacher or school district employees,” except asspecified. Existing law defines the term “teacher or school district employees” for these purposes to mean any person employedby a unified school district maintaining prekindergarten, transitional kindergarten, and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, an elementaryschool district maintaining prekindergarten, transitional kindergarten, and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, or a high school districtmaintaining grades 9 to 12, inclusive, including, but not limited to, certificated and classified staff.
This bill would expand the authorized scope of a program established under the Teacher Housing Act of 2016 to include housingfor faculty and community college district employees and would make various conforming changes in this regard. The bill wouldalso specify that a school district or community college district may allow foster youth or former foster youth to occupy housingcreated through the program.
Vote: majority Appropriation: no Fiscal Committee: yes Local Program: no 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 affordablerental housing for teachers, faculty, school district employees, and community college district employees to allow teachers,faculty, school district employees, or community college district employees to access and maintain housing stability. (b) A program established under this part shall be restricted to “teacher, faculty, school district employees, or communitycollege district employees,” except that a school district or community college district may allow local public employees or othermembers of the public, including foster youth or former foster youth, public to occupy housing created through this part,subject to applicable laws and regulations. (c) A school district or community college district shall retain the right to prioritize school district or community college districtemployees over local public employees or other members of the public to occupy housing.
HomeBill Information California LawPublicationsOther ResourcesMy SubscriptionsMy Favorites 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 amajority of its rents restricted to levels that are affordable to persons and families of low or moderate income, as defined inSection 50093, but neither definition is restrictive to only projects with five or more units. (b) “Local public employees” includes employees of a city, county, city and county, charter city, charter county, charter city andcounty, special district, or any combination thereof. (c) “Teacher, faculty, school district employee, or community college district employee” means any person employed by a unifiedschool district maintaining prekindergarten, transitional kindergarten, and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, an elementary schooldistrict maintaining prekindergarten, transitional kindergarten, and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, a high school district maintaininggrades 9 to 12, inclusive, or a community college district, including, but not limited to, certificated and classified staff.
SEC. 3. Section 53573 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:
53573. A school district or community college district may establish and implement programs that address the housing needs ofteachers, faculty, school district employees, and community college district employees who face challenges in securingaffordable housing. To the extent feasible, the school district or community college district may establish and implementprograms that, among other things, do the following:
(a) Leverage federal, state, and local public, private, and nonprofit programs and fiscal resources available to housingdevelopers. (b) Promote public and private partnerships.
(c) Foster innovative financing opportunities.
SEC. 4. Section 53574 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to read:
53574. This part specifically creates a state policy supporting housing for teachers, faculty, school district employees, andcommunity college district employees as described in Section 42(g)(9) of the Internal Revenue Code, and, further, permitsschool districts, community college districts, and developers in receipt of local or state funds or tax credits designated foraffordable rental housing to restrict occupancy to teachers, faculty, school district employees, and community college districtemployees on land owned by school districts or community college districts, including permitting school districts, communitycollege districts, and developers in receipt of tax credits designated for affordable rental housing to retain the right to prioritizeand restrict occupancy on land owned by school districts or community college districts to teachers, faculty, school districtemployees of the school district that owns the land, and community college district employees of the community college districtthat owns the land, so long as that housing does not violate any other applicable laws.
SEC. 5. The provisions of this act are severable. If any provision of this act or its application is held invalid, that invalidity shallnot affect other provisions or applications that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application.