(a) The Director of the Department of General Services is authorized to acquire, develop, design, and construct, according to plans and specifications approved by the Los Angeles Regional Crime Laboratory Facility Authority, an approximately 200,000 gross square foot regional criminal justice laboratory, necessary infrastructure, and related surface parking to accommodate approximately 600 cars on the Los Angeles campus of the California State University. In accordance with this authorization, the director is authorized to enter into any agreements, contracts, leases, or other documents necessary to effectuate and further the transaction. Further, the Los Angeles Regional Crime Laboratory Facility Authority is authorized to assign, and the director is authorized to accept, all contracts already entered into by the Los Angeles Regional Crime Laboratory Facility Authority for the development and design of this project. It is acknowledged that these contracts will have to be modified to make them consistent with the standards for state projects. The director is additionally authorized to enter into a long-term ground lease for 75 years with the Trustees of the California State University for the land within the Los Angeles campus on which the project is to be constructed. At the end of the ground lease term, unencumbered title to the land shall return to the trustees and, at the option of the trustees, ownership of any improvements constructed pursuant to this section shall vest in the trustees. The trustees are authorized and directed to fully cooperate and enter into a ground lease with the Department of General Services upon the terms and conditions that will facilitate the financing of this project by the State Public Works Board. The trustees shall obtain concurrence from the Los Angeles Regional Crime Laboratory Facility Authority in the development of the long-term ground lease referenced in this section. In his or her capacity, the director is directed to obtain concurrence and approval from the trustees relating to the design and construction of the facility consistent with the trustees’ reasonable requirements.

(b) The State Public Works Board is authorized to issue lease-revenue bonds, negotiable notes, or negotiable bond anticipation notes pursuant to the State Building Construction Act of 1955 (Part 10b (commencing with Section 15800)) for the acquisition, development, design, and construction of the regional crime laboratory as described in this section. The project shall be acquired, developed, designed, and constructed on behalf of the State Public Works Board and the Office of Emergency Services by the Department of General Services in accordance with state laws applicable to state projects provided, however, that the contractor prequalification specified in Section 20101 of the Public Contract Code may be utilized. For purposes of compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act (Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code) the agency or agencies designated by the Director of Finance pursuant to Section 13820 of the Penal Code is the lead agency, and the trustees, acting through the California State University at Los Angeles, and the Los Angeles Regional Crime Laboratory Facility Authority are responsible agencies.

(c) The State Public Works Board and the agency or agencies designated by the Director of Finance pursuant to Section 13820 of the Penal Code may borrow funds for project costs from the Pooled Money Investment Account, pursuant to Sections 16312 and 16313, or from any other appropriate source. In the event the bonds authorized by this section for the project are not sold, the agency or agencies designated by the Director of Finance pursuant to Section 13820 of the Penal Code shall commit a sufficient amount of its support appropriation to repay any loans made for the project.

(d) The amount of lease-revenue bonds, negotiable notes, or negotiable bond anticipation notes to be issued by the State Public Works Board shall not exceed ninety-two million dollars ($92,000,000) and any additional sums necessary to pay interim and permanent financing costs. The additional sums may also include interest and a reasonably required reserve fund. This amount includes additional estimated project costs associated with reformatting the initial local assistance appropriation into a state managed and constructed regional crime laboratory project.

(e) The agency or agencies designated by the Director of Finance pursuant to Section 13820 of the Penal Code may execute a contract with the State Public Works Board for the lease of the regional crime laboratory facilities described in this section that are financed with the proceeds of the board’s bonds. Further, and notwithstanding any other provision of law, the agency or agencies designated by the Director of Finance pursuant to Section 13820 of the Penal Code is authorized to enter into contracts and subleases with the trustees, the Los Angeles Regional Crime Laboratory Facility Authority, the Department of Justice, and any other appropriate state or local agency, with the consent of the State Public Works Board and the Department of General Services, for the use, maintenance, and operation of the financed regional crime laboratory facilities described in this section.

(f) When all of the bonds or notes authorized pursuant to subdivision (d) have been paid in full or provided for in accordance with their terms, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Department of General Services shall assign the ground lease entered into pursuant to subdivision (a) to the Los Angeles Regional Crime Laboratory Facility Authority or its successor agency. At that time, the ground lease may be amended as agreed to by the trustees and the Los Angeles Regional Crime Laboratory Facility Authority or its successor agency.

(Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 352, Sec. 293. (AB 1317) Effective September 26, 2013. Operative July 1, 2013, by Sec. 543 of Ch. 352.)