Current through Pa Acts 2024-53, 2024-56 through 2024-92
Section 26-2605-J - Building condition assessments.(a)Duties of department.-- (1) The department shall develop guidelines for school entities to voluntarily report information related to school building safety, inventory and condition. The guidelines shall include a building condition assessment to be voluntarily completed every 10 years for school entities that includes, but is not limited to, a projection of costs to maintain and renovate existing school buildings.(2) The department shall post completed building condition assessments on the department's publicly accessible Internet website.(3) The department shall provide additional points under the funding rubric contained in section 2604-J(d) for grants applied for by school entities that complete building condition assessments.(b)Completion incentive.--A school entity that completes a building condition assessment shall receive a 2% increase above the amount calculated under section 2606-J. The department shall develop a process, in coordination with the application process in section 2602-J, for awarding an enhanced reimbursement for completing a building condition assessment.Added by P.L. TBD 2019 No. 70, § 1, eff. 7/1/2020.