Bill Text: FL S1516 | 2010 | Regular Session | Engrossed

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Bill Title: State-owned Lands [WPSC]

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2010-07-20 - Veto Message received (2010-C) -SJ 00004; Veto Message referred to Rules -SJ 00005 [S1516 Detail]

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CS for CS for SB 1516                           Second Engrossed 
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1                        A bill to be entitled 
2         An act relating to state-owned lands; amending s. 
3         193.023, F.S.; requiring the property appraiser to 
4         physically inspect any parcel of state-owned real 
5         property upon the request of the taxpayer or owner; 
6         amending s. 193.085, F.S.; removing provisions 
7         requiring the Department of Revenue to notify property 
8         appraisers of state ownership of real property; 
9         requiring local governments to notify property 
10         appraisers of lands owned by the local government; 
11         amending s. 213.053, F.S.; authorizing the Department 
12         of Revenue to disclose certain information to the 
13         Department of Environmental Protection regarding 
14         state-owned lands; amending s. 216.0152, F.S.; 
15         requiring the Department of Management Services to 
16         maintain an automated inventory of all facilities 
17         owned, leased, rented, or otherwise occupied or 
18         maintained by any agency of the state, the judicial 
19         branch, or a water management district; requiring that 
20         the facilities inventory data be provided to the 
21         department on or before a specified date each year by 
22         the owning or operating state agency; requiring that 
23         the Department of Transportation identify and dispose 
24         of surplus property pursuant to ss. 337.25 and 339.04, 
25         F.S.; requiring the Department of Management Services 
26         to adopt rules; directing the department to update its 
27         inventory with information concerning the physical 
28         condition of facilities that have 3,000 square feet or 
29         more of space; creating s. 216.0153, F.S.; directing 
30         the Department of Environmental Protection to create, 
31         administer, operate, and maintain a comprehensive 
32         system for all state lands and real property leased, 
33         owned, rented, or otherwise occupied or maintained by 
34         any state agency, the judicial branch, or a water 
35         management district; providing for a database of all 
36         real property owned or leased by the state; requiring 
37         all state agencies to enter required real property 
38         information into the comprehensive state-owned real 
39         property system; requiring the Division of State Lands 
40         to submit an annual report to the Governor and 
41         Legislature which lists the state-owned real property 
42         recommended for disposition; amending s. 253.03, F.S.; 
43         requiring the Department of Revenue to furnish, in 
44         electronic form, annual current tax roll data for 
45         public lands to the Board of Trustees of the Internal 
46         Improvement Trust Fund to be used in compiling the 
47         inventory of public lands; requiring the board to use 
48         tax roll data from the Department of Revenue to assist 
49         in the identification and confirmation of publicly 
50         held lands; amending s. 253.034, F.S.; removing 
51         provisions relating to an inventory of public lands, 
52         including federal lands, within the state; requiring 
53         that a building or parcel of land be offered for lease 
54         to state agencies, state universities, and community 
55         colleges before being offered for lease, sublease, or 
56         sale to a local or federal unit of government or a 
57         private party; requiring that priority consideration 
58         for such a lease be given to state universities and 
59         community colleges; requiring that a state university 
60         or community college submit a plan regarding the 
61         intended use of such building or parcel of land for 
62         review and approval by the Board of Trustees of the 
63         Internal Improvement Trust Fund before approval of a 
64         lease; providing that priority consideration be given 
65         to the University of South Florida Polytechnic for the 
66         lease of vacant land and buildings located at the G. 
67         Pierce Wood facility in DeSoto County; providing for 
68         future expiration; implementing the comprehensive 
69         state-owned real property system; setting forth the 
70         timeframes in which the Department of Environmental 
71         Protection must complete the comprehensive state-owned 
72         real property system; requiring the department to 
73         report to the Governor and Legislature by a specified 
74         date; providing for an executive steering committee 
75         for management of the comprehensive state-owned real 
76         property system; describing the composition of the 
77         executive steering committee; setting forth the 
78         responsibilities of the executive steering committee; 
79         creating a project management team to work under the 
80         direction of the executive steering committee; 
81         requiring the project management team to be headed by 
82         a full-time project manager and to consist of senior 
83         managers and personnel appointed by members of the 
84         executive steering committee; setting forth the 
85         responsibilities of the project management team; 
86         providing an appropriation; providing an effective 
87         date. 
88 
89  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida: 
90 
91         Section 1. Subsection (2) of section 193.023, Florida 
92  Statutes, is amended to read 
93         193.023 Duties of the property appraiser in making 
94  assessments.— 
95         (2) In making his or her assessment of the value of real 
96  property, the property appraiser is required to physically 
97  inspect the property at least once every 5 years. Where 
98  geographically suitable, and at the discretion of the property 
99  appraiser, the property appraiser may use image technology in 
100  lieu of physical inspection to ensure that the tax roll meets 
101  all the requirements of law. The Department of Revenue shall 
102  establish minimum standards for the use of image technology 
103  consistent with standards developed by professionally recognized 
104  sources for mass appraisal of real property. However, the 
105  property appraiser shall physically inspect any parcel of 
106  taxable or state-owned real property upon the request of the 
107  taxpayer or owner. 
108         Section 2. Paragraph (a) of subsection (3) of section 
109  193.085, Florida Statutes, is amended to read: 
110         193.085 Listing all property.— 
111         (3)(a) The department will coordinate with all other 
112  departments of state government to ensure that the several 
113  property appraisers are properly notified annually of state 
114  ownership of real property. The department shall promulgate 
115  regulations to ensure that All forms of local government, 
116  special taxing districts, multicounty districts, and 
117  municipalities shall provide written annual notification to 
118  properly notify annually the several property appraisers of any 
119  and all real property owned by any of them so that ownership of 
120  all such property will be properly listed. 
121         Section 3. Paragraph (z) is added to subsection (8) of 
122  section 213.053, Florida Statutes, to read: 
123         213.053 Confidentiality and information sharing.— 
124         (8) Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, 
125  the department may provide: 
126         (z) Information relative to ss. 253.03(8) and 253.0325 to 
127  the Department of Environmental Protection in the conduct of its 
128  official business. 
129 
130  Disclosure of information under this subsection shall be 
131  pursuant to a written agreement between the executive director 
132  and the agency. Such agencies, governmental or nongovernmental, 
133  shall be bound by the same requirements of confidentiality as 
134  the Department of Revenue. Breach of confidentiality is a 
135  misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided by s. 
136  775.082 or s. 775.083. 
137         Section 4. Section 216.0152, Florida Statutes, is amended 
138  to read: 
139         216.0152 Inventory of state-owned facilities or state 
140  occupied facilities.— 
141         (1) The Department of Management Services shall develop and 
142  maintain an automated inventory of all facilities owned, leased, 
143  rented, or otherwise occupied or maintained by any agency of the 
144  state, or by the judicial branch, or the water management 
145  districts, except those with less than 3,000 square feet. The 
146  inventory data shall be provided by the owning or operating 
147  agency and shall include the location, occupying agency, 
148  ownership, size, condition assessment, valuations, operating 
149  costs, maintenance record, age, parking and employee facilities, 
150  building uses, full-time equivalent occupancy, known 
151  restrictions or historic designations, leases or subleases, 
152  associated revenues, and other information as required in a rule 
153  adopted by the department. The department shall use this data 
154  for determining maintenance needs, conducting strategic 
155  analyses, including, but not limited to, analyzing and 
156  identifying candidates for surplus, valuation, and disposition, 
157  and life-cycle cost evaluations of the facility. Inventory data 
158  shall be provided to the department on or before July 1 of each 
159  year by the owning or operating agency in a format prescribed by 
160  the department. The inventory need not include a condition 
161  assessment or maintenance record of facilities not owned by a 
162  state agency, or by the judicial branch, or a water management 
163  district. The term “facility,” as used in this section, means 
164  buildings, structures, and building systems, but does not 
165  include transportation facilities of the state transportation 
166  system. For reporting purposes, the Department of Transportation 
167  shall develop and maintain an inventory of transportation 
168  facilities of the state transportation system. The Department of 
169  Transportation shall also identify and dispose of surplus 
170  property pursuant to ss. 337.25 and 339.04. The Board of 
171  Governors of the State University System and the Department of 
172  Education, respectively, shall develop and maintain an 
173  inventory, in the manner prescribed by the Department of 
174  Management Services, of all state university and community 
175  college facilities and shall make the data available in a format 
176  acceptable to the Department of Management Services. By March 
177  15, 2011, the department shall adopt rules pursuant to ss. 
178  120.536 and 120.54 to administer this section. 
179         (2) For the purpose of assessing needed repairs and 
180  renovations of facilities, the Department of Management Services 
181  shall update its inventory with condition information for 
182  facilities of 3,000 square feet or more and cause to be updated 
183  the other inventories required by subsection (1) at least once 
184  every 5 years, but the inventories shall record acquisitions of 
185  new facilities and significant changes in existing facilities as 
186  they occur. The Department of Management Services shall provide 
187  each agency and the judicial branch with the most recent 
188  inventory applicable to that agency or to the judicial branch. 
189  Each agency and the judicial branch shall, in the manner 
190  prescribed by the Department of Management Services, report 
191  significant changes in the inventory as they occur. Items 
192  relating to the condition and life-cycle cost of a facility 
193  shall be updated at least every 5 years. 
194         (3) The Department of Management Services shall, every 3 
195  years, publish a complete report detailing this inventory and 
196  shall publish an annual update of the report. The department 
197  shall furnish the updated report to the Executive Office of the 
198  Governor and the Legislature no later than September 15 of each 
199  year. 
200         Section 5. Section 216.0153, Florida Statutes, is created 
201  to read: 
202         216.0153 Comprehensive state-owned real property system. 
203  Whereas, the Legislature finds that it is in the best interest 
204  of the state to identify surplus property and dispose of such 
205  property owned by the state that is unnecessary to achieving the 
206  state’s responsibilities, that may cost more to maintain than 
207  the revenue generated, that does not serve any public purpose, 
208  or from which the state may derive a substantially similar 
209  public purpose under private ownership. 
210         (1) The Department of Environmental Protection shall 
211  create, administer, and maintain a comprehensive system for all 
212  state lands and real property leased, owned, rented, and 
213  otherwise occupied or maintained by any state agency, by the 
214  judicial branch, and by any water management district. The 
215  comprehensive state-owned real property system shall allow the 
216  Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund to 
217  perform its statutory responsibilities and the Division of State 
218  Lands in the Department of Environmental Protection to conduct 
219  strategic analyses and prepare annual valuation and disposition 
220  analyses and recommendations for all state real property assets. 
221         (a) The comprehensive state-owned real property system must 
222  contain a database that includes an accurate inventory of all 
223  real property that is leased, owned, rented, occupied, or 
224  managed by the state, the judicial branch, or the water 
225  management districts. 
226         (b) The Division of State Lands in the Department of 
227  Environmental Protection shall be the statewide custodian of the 
228  real property information and shall be accountable for its 
229  accuracy. 
230         (c) All state agencies and water management districts shall 
231  enter required real property information in the comprehensive 
232  system according to standards published by the Division of State 
233  Lands. 
234         (2) The comprehensive state-owned real property system must 
235  accomplish the following objectives: 
236         (a) Eliminate the need for redundant state real property 
237  information collection processes and state agency information 
238  systems. 
239         (b) Reduce the need to lease or acquire additional real 
240  property as a result of an annual surplus valuation, 
241  utilization, and disposition analysis. 
242         (c) Enable regional planning as a tool for cost-effective 
243  buy, sell, and lease decisions. 
244         (d) Increase state revenues and maximize operational 
245  efficiencies by annually identifying those state-owned real 
246  properties that are the best candidates for surplus or 
247  disposition. 
248         (e) Ensure all state real property is identified by 
249  collaborating and integrating with the Department of Revenue 
250  data as submitted by the county property appraisers. 
251         (f) Implement required functionality and processes for 
252  state agencies to electronically submit all applicable real 
253  property information using a web browser application. 
254         (3) By October 1, 2010, and annually thereafter, the 
255  Division of State Lands in the Department of Environmental 
256  Protection shall submit to the Governor, the President of the 
257  Senate, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives a report 
258  that lists the state-owned real property recommended for 
259  disposition, including a report by the Department of Management 
260  Services of surplus buildings recommended for disposition. The 
261  report shall include specific information that documents the 
262  valuation and analysis process used to identify the specific 
263  state-owned real property recommended for disposition. 
264         Section 6. Subsection (8) of section 253.03, Florida 
265  Statutes, is amended to read: 
266         253.03 Board of trustees to administer state lands; lands 
267  enumerated.— 
268         (8)(a) The Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement 
269  Trust Fund shall prepare, using tax roll data provided by the 
270  Department of Revenue, or the county property appraisers, an 
271  annual inventory of all publicly owned lands within the state. 
272  Such inventory shall include all lands owned by any unit of 
273  state government or local government; by the Federal Government, 
274  to the greatest extent possible; and by any other public entity. 
275  The board shall submit a summary report of the inventory and a 
276  list of major discrepancies between the inventory and the tax 
277  roll data to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the 
278  House of Representatives on or before March 1 of each year. 
279         (b) In addition to any other parcel data available, the 
280  inventory shall include a legal description or proper reference 
281  thereto, the number of acres or square feet within the 
282  boundaries, and the assessed value of all publicly owned 
283  uplands. To the greatest extent practicable, the legal 
284  description or proper reference thereto and the number of acres 
285  or square feet shall be determined for all publicly owned 
286  submerged lands. For the purposes of this subsection, the term 
287  “submerged lands” means publicly owned lands below the ordinary 
288  high-water mark of fresh waters and below the mean high-water 
289  line of salt waters extending seaward to the outer jurisdiction 
290  of the state. By October 31 of each year, the Department of 
291  Revenue shall furnish, in machine-readable form, annual, current 
292  tax roll data for public lands to the board to be used in 
293  compiling the inventory. 
294         (c) By September 30 of each year, the Department of Revenue 
295  shall furnish to the board, in electronic form, the approved 
296  preliminary tax roll data for public lands to be used in 
297  compiling the inventory. By November 30 December 31 of each 
298  year, the board shall prepare and provide to each state agency 
299  and local government and any other public entity which holds 
300  title to real property, including any water management district, 
301  drainage district, navigation district, or special taxing 
302  district, a list of the real property owned by such entity, 
303  required to be listed on county assessment rolls, using tax roll 
304  data provided by the Department of Revenue. By January March 31 
305  of the following year, each such entity shall review its list 
306  and inform the appropriate property appraiser and the board of 
307  any corrections to the list. The appropriate county property 
308  appraiser Department of Revenue shall enter provide for entering 
309  such corrections on the appropriate county tax roll. 
310         (d) Whenever real property is listed on the real property 
311  assessment rolls of the respective counties in the name of the 
312  State of Florida or any of its agencies, the listing shall not 
313  be changed in the absence of a recorded deed executed by the 
314  State of Florida or the state agency in whose name the property 
315  is listed. If, in preparing the assessment rolls, the several 
316  property appraisers within the state become aware of the 
317  existence of a recorded deed not executed by the state and 
318  purporting to convey real property listed on the assessment 
319  rolls as state-owned, the property appraiser shall immediately 
320  forward a copy of the recorded deed to the state agency in whose 
321  name the property is listed. 
322         (e) The board shall use tax roll data, which shall be 
323  provided by the Department of Revenue, to assist in the 
324  identification and confirmation of publicly held lands. Lands 
325  that are held by the state or a water management district and 
326  lands that are purchased by the state, a state agency, or a 
327  water management district and that are deemed not essential or 
328  necessary for conservation purposes are subject to review for 
329  surplus sale. 
330         Section 7. Subsections (8) and (16) of section 253.034, 
331  Florida Statutes, are amended, and subsection (17) is added to 
332  that section, to read: 
333         253.034 State-owned lands; uses.— 
334         (8)(a) Notwithstanding other provisions of this section, 
335  the Division of State Lands is directed to prepare a state 
336  inventory of all federal lands and all lands titled in the name 
337  of the state, a state agency, a water management district, or a 
338  local government on a county-by-county basis. To facilitate the 
339  development of the state inventory, each county shall direct the 
340  appropriate county office with authority over the information to 
341  provide the division with a county inventory of all lands 
342  identified as federal lands and lands titled in the name of the 
343  state, a state agency, a water management district, or a local 
344  government. The Legislature recognizes the value of the state’s 
345  conservation lands as water recharge areas and air filters and, 
346  in an effort to better understand the scientific underpinnings 
347  of carbon sequestration, carbon capture, and greenhouse gas 
348  mitigation, to inform policymakers and decisionmakers, and to 
349  provide the infrastructure for landowners, the Division of State 
350  Lands shall contract with an organization experienced and 
351  specialized in carbon sinks and emission budgets to conduct an 
352  inventory of all lands that were acquired pursuant to 
353  Preservation 2000 and Florida Forever and that were titled in 
354  the name of the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement 
355  Trust Fund. The inventory shall determine the value of carbon 
356  capture and carbon sequestration. Such inventory shall consider 
357  potential carbon offset values of changes in land management 
358  practices, including, but not limited to, replanting of trees, 
359  routine prescribed burns, and land use conversion. Such an 
360  inventory shall be completed and presented to the board of 
361  trustees by July 1, 2009. 
362         (b) The state inventory must distinguish between lands 
363  purchased by the state or a water management district as part of 
364  a core parcel or within original project boundaries, as those 
365  terms are used to meet the surplus requirements of subsection 
366  (6), and lands purchased by the state, a state agency, or a 
367  water management district which are not essential or necessary 
368  for conservation purposes. 
369         (c) In any county having a population of 75,000 or fewer, 
370  or a county having a population of 100,000 or fewer which is 
371  contiguous to a county having a population of 75,000 or fewer, 
372  in which more than 50 percent of the lands within the county 
373  boundary are federal lands and lands titled in the name of the 
374  state, a state agency, a water management district, or a local 
375  government, those lands titled in the name of the state or a 
376  state agency which are not essential or necessary to meet 
377  conservation purposes may, upon request of a public or private 
378  entity, be made available for purchase through the state’s 
379  surplusing process. Rights-of-way for existing, proposed, or 
380  anticipated transportation facilities are exempt from the 
381  requirements of this paragraph. Priority consideration shall be 
382  given to buyers, public or private, willing to return the 
383  property to productive use so long as the property can be 
384  reentered onto the county ad valorem tax roll. Property acquired 
385  with matching funds from a local government shall not be made 
386  available for purchase without the consent of the local 
387  government. 
388         (b)(d) If state-owned lands are subject to annexation 
389  procedures, the Division of State Lands must notify the county 
390  legislative delegation of the county in which the land is 
391  located. 
392         (16) Before a building or parcel of land is offered for 
393  lease, sublease, or sale to a local or federal unit of 
394  government or a private party, it shall first be offered for 
395  lease to state agencies, and state universities, and community 
396  colleges, with priority consideration given to state 
397  universities and community colleges. A state university or 
398  community college must submit a plan for review and approval by 
399  the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund 
400  regarding the intended use of the building or parcel of land 
401  before approval of a lease. 
402         (17) Notwithstanding subsection (16), the Board of Trustees 
403  of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund shall transfer all lease 
404  interests in lands on which the G. Pierce Wood Hospital is 
405  located to the University of South Florida Polytechnic. Included 
406  in this transfer shall be any existing subleases. The University 
407  of South Florida Polytechnic shall honor the terms and 
408  conditions of all current leases and subleases. Current lessees 
409  may elect to terminate their leases. This subsection expires 
410  July 1, 2012. 
411         Section 8. Implementation of the comprehensive state-owned 
412  real property system.— 
413         (1) The development of the comprehensive state-owned real 
414  property system must be composed of the following implementation 
415  timeframes and initial deliverables: 
416         (a) By November 1, 2010, the Department of Environmental 
417  Protection shall submit an updated feasibility study for the 
418  Lands Inventory Tracking System, which shall include in its 
419  scope the comprehensive state-owned real property system. The 
420  feasibility study shall be submitted to the Governor, the 
421  President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of 
422  Representatives. 
423         (b) By February 1, 2011, the executive steering committee 
424  shall complete the business process analysis and documentation 
425  of both the detailed system requirements and the overall system 
426  architecture and submit this information to the Governor, the 
427  President of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House of 
428  Representatives. 
429         (c) By March 1, 2011, the facility inventory components of 
430  the comprehensive state-owned real property system must be fully 
431  operational. 
432         (d) By September 1, 2012, the remaining real property and 
433  land inventory components of the comprehensive state-owned real 
434  property system must be fully operational. 
435         (e) Within 12 months after the comprehensive system becomes 
436  operational, state agencies shall retire any real property 
437  databases or systems that duplicate the functionality or 
438  capability of the comprehensive system unless such systems are 
439  specifically required by law. 
440         (2) The Department of Environmental Protection shall 
441  implement the project governance structure until such time as 
442  the comprehensive state-owned real property system is 
443  successfully completed, suspended, or terminated. 
444         (3) The project sponsor for the comprehensive state-owned 
445  real property system is the Secretary of Environmental 
446  Protection or an appointed designee. 
447         (4) The project shall be governed by an executive steering 
448  committee composed of the following voting members or their 
449  designees: 
450         (a) The Secretary of Environmental Protection, who shall 
451  serve as chair of the committee. 
452         (b) The executive director or secretary of the Department 
453  of Management Services. 
454         (c) The executive director of the Department of Revenue. 
455         (d) The Chief Financial Officer. 
456         (e) A property appraiser appointed by the Florida 
457  Association of Property Appraisers, Inc. 
458         (f) A property appraiser appointed by the Property 
459  Appraisers’ Association of Florida, Inc. 
460         (g) The executive director of the Agency for Enterprise 
461  Information Technology. 
462         (5) The executive steering committee shall take action by 
463  majority vote of its members and has the overall management 
464  responsibility for ensuring that the system meets the main 
465  business objectives identified in s. 216.0153(2), Florida 
466  Statutes. The executive steering committee is specifically 
467  responsible for: 
468         (a) Providing management direction and support to the 
469  project management team. 
470         (b) Reviewing, approving, or disapproving project 
471  deliverables and any changes to the project’s scope, schedule, 
472  or costs. 
473         (c) Preparing an update to the feasibility study for the 
474  Lands Inventory Tracking System, including the scope of the real 
475  property system. The feasibility study shall include, but need 
476  not be limited to, a description of the overall scope of the 
477  comprehensive state-owned real property system. In determining 
478  the overall scope, the study shall address whether a single, 
479  comprehensive database of state-owned real property should 
480  replace existing real property databases and whether the 
481  comprehensive real property system should accept data from and 
482  send data to existing databases. The feasibility study update 
483  shall comply with the Schedule IV-B guidelines for the 2010-2011 
484  fiscal year, published by the Technology Review Workgroup 
485  pursuant to s. 216.023, Florida Statutes. 
486         1. At a minimum, the following database systems shall be 
487  included in this review and analysis: 
488         a. The Public Lands Inventory of the Department of 
489  Environmental Protection, the statewide public lands inventory, 
490  the Board of Trustees Land Document Systems, and the Lands 
491  Information Tracking System. 
492         b. The property tax rolls of the Department of Revenue. 
493         c. The state facilities inventory of the Department of 
494  Management Services. 
495         d. The risk management database of the Department of 
496  Financial Services. 
497         2. Further functions must include: 
498         a. Identification of the role and responsibilities of the 
499  county property appraisers in a comprehensive system of state 
500  owned real property which includes the integration of their real 
501  property data. 
502         b. A description of the methods for maintaining and 
503  updating the system and conducting strategic analyses, including 
504  valuation and real property surplus or disposition analysis. 
505         c. Specifications describing all functional and technical 
506  requirements of the comprehensive system. 
507         d. Reliable estimates of the initial and ongoing state and 
508  local effort required to implement the comprehensive system of 
509  state-owned real property. 
510         e. Identification of the business processes that county 
511  property appraisers and state agencies will use to keep the 
512  comprehensive system data complete, current, and accurate. 
513         f. Identification of state agency system usage requirements 
514  and responsibilities. 
515         g. Cost-benefit analysis documenting the specific direct 
516  and indirect costs, savings, and qualitative and quantitative 
517  benefits involved in or resulting from the implementation of the 
518  comprehensive state-owned real property system. 
519         (d) Identifying and recommending to the Governor and the 
520  chair of the House Full Appropriations Council on General 
521  Government & Health Care and the chair of the Senate Policy and 
522  Steering Committee on Ways and Means any fiscal and substantive 
523  policy changes that are needed to implement and maintain the 
524  comprehensive system as documented in the feasibility study. 
525         (6) The project management team shall be established no 
526  later than 30 days after this act becomes law and shall work 
527  under the direction of the executive steering committee. A 
528  memorandum of agreement between the Department of Environmental 
529  Protection, the Department of Management Services, the 
530  Department of Revenue, and the Department of Financial Services 
531  may be executed to clearly define the roles and responsibilities 
532  of the project management team. The project management team must 
533  be headed by a full-time project manager and consist of senior 
534  managers and personnel appointed by members of the executive 
535  steering committee. The project management team is responsible 
536  for: 
537         (a) Providing daily planning, management, and 
538  implementation resources and capabilities for the project. 
539         (b) Developing an operational work plan for the project and 
540  providing to the executive steering committee proposed updates 
541  to the work plan whenever necessary. The plan must specify 
542  project milestones, deliverables, a development and 
543  implementation schedule, and expenditures necessary to achieve 
544  the main objectives identified in s. 216.0153(2), Florida 
545  Statutes. 
546         (c) Submitting written monthly project status reports to 
547  the executive steering committee which describe: 
548         1. Planned project costs versus actual project costs. 
549         2. Completion status of major milestones and deliverables 
550  according to the project schedule. 
551         3. Any issues requiring resolution, the proposed resolution 
552  for the issues, and information regarding the status of the 
553  resolution. 
554         4. Specific risks that must be managed and methods for 
555  their management. 
556         5. Recommendations for necessary changes in the project’s 
557  scope, schedule, or costs. All recommendations must be reviewed 
558  by project stakeholders before submission to the executive 
559  steering committee in order to ensure that the recommendations 
560  meet required acceptance criteria. 
561         (d) Preparing the feasibility study required in subsection 
562  (1) under the direction of the executive steering committee. 
563         (e) Preparing project work plans and project status 
564  reports, which shall also be provided to the Governor and the 
565  chair of the House Full Appropriations Council on General 
566  Government & Health Care and the chair of the Senate Policy and 
567  Steering Committee on Ways and Means. 
568         Section 9. The Department of Environmental Protection is 
569  appropriated spending authority of $320,000 in contracted 
570  services from the Internal Improvement Trust Fund in the Land 
571  Administration budget entity for the creation of a comprehensive 
572  state-owned real property database. 
573         Section 10. This act shall take effect upon becoming a law.