Bill Text: IA HSB581 | 2023-2024 | 90th General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: A bill for an act relating to the department of administrative services' process for managing the physical resources of state government, including the selection of state employees' office space.(See HF 2425.)

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-02-08 - Committee report approving bill, renumbered as HF 2425. [HSB581 Detail]

Download: Iowa-2023-HSB581-Introduced.html
House Study Bill 581 - Introduced SENATE/HOUSE FILE _____ BY (PROPOSED DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES BILL) A BILL FOR An Act relating to the department of administrative services’ 1 process for managing the physical resources of state 2 government, including the selection of state employees’ 3 office space. 4 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA: 5 TLSB 5306DP (4) 90 sc/ns
S.F. _____ H.F. _____ Section 1. Section 8A.321, subsection 6, paragraph c, 1 subparagraph (1), Code 2024, is amended to read as follows: 2 (1) Prior to replacing or renovating publicly owned 3 buildings or relocating any state agencies at the seat of 4 government to any space in publicly owned buildings, the 5 department shall may issue a request for proposals for leasing 6 privately owned office space for state employees in the 7 downtown area of the city of Des Moines and shall may use 8 such proposals to compare the costs of privately owned space 9 to publicly owned space. The department shall locate state 10 employees in office space in the most cost-efficient manner 11 possible. In determining cost efficiency, the department shall 12 consider all costs of the publicly owned space, the costs of 13 the original acquisition of the publicly owned space, the costs 14 of tenant improvements to the publicly owned space, and the 15 anticipated economic and useful life of the publicly owned 16 building space. For purposes of this subparagraph, “publicly 17 owned building” does not include existing space within buildings 18 located at the capitol complex or otherwise owned by the state. 19 EXPLANATION 20 The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with 21 the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly. 22 Current law requires that, prior to replacing or renovating 23 publicly owned buildings or relocating any state agencies in 24 Des Moines within publicly owned buildings, the director of 25 the department of administrative services issue a request for 26 proposals for leasing privately owned office space and use 27 such proposals to compare costs of the public and private 28 spaces. This bill excludes existing space within capitol 29 complex buildings and buildings owned by the state from the 30 term “publicly owned building” for purposes of this process. 31 The bill also makes the decision to issue or use a request for 32 proposals discretionary. 33 The bill does not amend the provisions under current law 34 providing for an exemption to this process in emergency 35 -1- LSB 5306DP (4) 90 sc/ns 1/ 2
S.F. _____ H.F. _____ circumstances and excluding the department of public defense 1 and the armory board from this process. 2 -2- LSB 5306DP (4) 90 sc/ns 2/ 2
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