LIST OF AMENDMENTS TO THE CALIFORNIA RULES OF COURT Adopted by the Judicial Council of California on April 21, 2006, Effective April 21, 2006 Rule 6.150. Court facilities guidelines standards...........................................................2 Rule 6.180. Court facilities policies, procedures, and guidelines standards ...............2 Rule 6.150. Court facilities guidelines standards (a) [Development of guidelines standards] The Administrative Office of the Courts is responsible for developing and maintaining guidelines standards for the alteration, remodeling, renovation, and expansion of existing court facilities and for the construction of new court facilities. (Subd (

a) amended effective April 21, 2006.) (b) [Adoption by the Judicial Council] The guidelines standards developed by the Administrative Office of the Courts must be submitted to the Judicial Council for review and adoption as the guidelines standards to be used for court facilities in the state. Nonsubstantive changes to the guidelines standards may be made by the Administrative Office of the Courts; substantive changes must be submitted to the Judicial Council for review and adoption. (Subd (

a) amended effective April 21, 2006.) (c) [Use of guidelines standards] The Judicial Council, the Administrative Office of the Courts, affected courts, and advisory groups on court facilities issues created under these rules must use the guidelines standards adopted under (

b) in reviewing or recommending proposed alteration, remodeling, renovation, or expansion of an existing court facility or new construction. Courts and advisory groups must report deviations from the guidelines standards to the Administrative Office of the Courts through a process established for that purpose. (Subd (

c) amended effective April 21, 2006; previously amended effective June 23, 2004.) Rule 6.150 amended effective April 21, 2006; adopted effective July 1, 2002; previously amended effective June 23, 2004. Rule 6.180.

Court facilities policies, procedures, and guidelines standards The Administrative Office of the Courts, after consultation with the Court Facilities Transitional Task Force, must prepare and present to the Judicial Council recommendations for policies, procedures, and guidelines standards concerning the operation, maintenance, alteration, remodeling, renovation, expansion, acquisition, space programming, design, and construction of appellate and trial court facilities under Government Code sections 69204(

c) and 70391(e). The policies, procedures, and guidelines standards must ensure that decisions are made in consultation with the affected court, when appropriate, and that decisions concerning acquisition, design, and construction of court facilities are made in consultation with local governmental and community interests, when appropriate. Rule 6.180 amended effective April 21, 2006; adopted effective June 23, 2004.