Bill Text: CT HB05244 | 2016 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning The Utilization Of Buildings Occupied By Executive Branch Agencies.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-04-27 - Senate Calendar Number 518 [HB05244 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2016-HB05244-Comm_Sub.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 5244
February Session, 2016		LCO No. 1365
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Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
(GAE)

AN ACT CONCERNING THE UTILIZATION OF BUILDINGS OCCUPIED BY EXECUTIVE BRANCH AGENCIES.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Section 4-67g of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2016):

(a) The Office of Policy and Management shall be responsible for: (1) Long-range planning with regard to the use of all state real property; (2) determining the level of efficiency of each and every state agency's use of any and all real property under its control, including, but not limited to, reviewing whether buildings occupied by the departments listed in section 4-38c are being underutilized; (3) maintaining an inventory of state real property; (4) maintaining an inventory of real property leased by state agencies; and (5) determining the appropriate use of state real property.

(b) In creating and maintaining such inventories, the secretary shall make recommendations concerning the reuse or disposition of state real property and identify in such inventories existing buildings that (1) are of historic, architectural or cultural significance, including buildings listed or eligible to be listed in the national register established under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, 80 Stat. 915 (1966), 16 USC 470a, and (2) would be suitable, whether or not in need of repair, alteration or addition, to meet the public building needs of the state or to meet the needs of the public in accordance with the provisions of subsection (m) of section 4b-23. At the request of the secretary, the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development shall advise the secretary as to whether such buildings are of historic, architectural or cultural significance.

(c) On and after October 1, 2016, the secretary shall include in the inventories required by this section the number of state employees per square foot in each building that is owned or leased by any department listed in section 4-38c.

[(c)] (d) All state agencies shall provide the secretary, in the manner and form prescribed by the secretary, with any information requested by said secretary for the purposes of maintaining the inventories required by this section.

[(d)] (e) The secretary shall update such inventories not less than annually and shall provide the Commissioner of Administrative Services with a copy of such inventories whenever the inventories are updated.

[(e)] (f) Not later than March 15, 2013, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall submit a copy of such inventories, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to government administration and appropriations and the budgets of state agencies.

[(f)] (g) Each state agency shall request and obtain the written approval of the secretary or his or her designee prior to any (1) change in ownership of state real property, (2) change in use of state real property, (3) use of state real property by an entity other than a state agency, or (4) use of state real property by a state agency other than the state agency with custody and control over such state real property. For the purposes of this subsection, "state agency" does not include a constituent unit of the state system of higher education, a technical high school or an agency in the legislative or judicial branch of state government.

[(g)] (h) Except as otherwise provided, for the purposes of this section, "state real property" means any improved or unimproved real property owned by a state agency, and "state agency" means any office, department, board, council, commission, institution, constituent unit of the state system of higher education, technical high school or other agency in the executive, legislative or judicial branch of state government.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	October 1, 2016	4-67g

GAE

Joint Favorable