California Assembly Bill AB2549 Latest Draft

 BILL NUMBER: AB 2549INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Smyth FEBRUARY 19, 2010 An act to amend Section 11011.11 of the Government Code, relating to surplus state property. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2549, as introduced, Smyth. Surplus state real property. The California Constitution requires that the proceeds from the sale of surplus state property, with certain exceptions, be used to pay the principal and interest on specified bonds, and, when the principal and interest on those bonds are fully paid, be deposited in the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties. Existing law makes a statement of legislative findings regarding the lack of a complete inventory of all state real property holdings and the state's need to improve management of its real property. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes in the statement of legislative findings described above. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 11011.11 of the Government Code is amended to read: 11011.11. (a) The Legislature finds and declares as follows: (1) There is no complete inventory of  all  state real property holdings containing information on present use, characteristics of the holding, or its value. (2) Both the Auditor General and the California Commission on State Government Organization and Economy have found that there is state-owned real property  which   that  is presently unused and should be declared surplus, and that there is little or no internal or external review to determine if lands could be declared surplus. (3) The Auditor General, in a report entitled "California Could Earn Millions of Dollars from Better Management of its Excess Land," also found that the state is losing money by retaining property which is not being used. This deprives the General Fund of revenues which could be generated by the sale or transfer of surplus land. (b) It is the intent of the Legislature to improve the state's management of its real property holdings by delegating to the Department of General Services the responsibility for maintaining a central inventory of the state's real property holdings. (c) It is also the intent of the Legislature that the staff of the Office of Space and Real Estate Services of the Department of General Services be utilized  for the implementation of   to implement  Section 11011.15.