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General Assembly Committee Bill No. 6283
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 5791
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION
AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
(GAE)
AN ACT CONCERNING TH E 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 Section 4-67g of the general statutes is repealed and the 1
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2019): 2
(a) The Office of Policy and Management shall be responsible for: (1) 3
Long-range planning with regard to the use of all state real property; 4
(2) determining the level of efficiency of each and every state agency's 5
use of any and all real property under its control, including, but not 6
limited to, reviewing whether buildings occupied by the departments 7
listed in section 4-38c are being underutilized; (3) maintaining an 8
inventory of state real property; (4) maintaining an inventory of real 9
property leased by state agencies; and (5) determining the appropriate 10
use of state real property. 11
(b) In creating and maintaining such inventories, the secretary shall 12
make recommendations concerning the reuse or disposition of state 13
real property and identify in such inventories existing buildings that 14
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(1) are of historic, architectural or cultural significance, including 15
buildings listed or eligible to be listed in the national register 16
established under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, 80 17
Stat. 915 (1966), 16 USC 470a, and (2) would be suitable, whether or not 18
in need of repair, alteration or addition, to meet the public building 19
needs of the state or to meet the needs of the public in accordance with 20
the provisions of subsection (m) of section 4b-23. At the request of the 21
secretary, the Commissioner of Economic and Community 22
Development shall advise the secretary as to whether such buildings 23
are of historic, architectural or cultural significance. 24
(c) On and after July 1, 2019, the secretary shall include in the 25
inventories required by this section the number of state employees per 26
square foot in each building that is owned or leased by any 27
department listed in section 4-38c. 28
[(c)] (d) All state agencies shall provide the secretary, in the manner 29
and form prescribed by the secretary, with any information requested 30
by said secretary for purposes of maintaining the inventories required 31
by this section. 32
[(d)] (e) The secretary shall update such inventories not less than 33
annually and shall provide the Commissioner of Administrative 34
Services with a copy of such inventories whenever the inventories are 35
updated. 36
[(e)] (f) Not later than July 1, 2016, and annually thereafter, the 37
Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall submit a copy 38
of such inventories, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, 39
to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having 40
cognizance of matters relating to government administration and 41
appropriations and the budgets of state agencies. 42
[(f)] (g) Each state agency shall request and obtain the written 43
approval of the secretary or his or her designee prior to any (1) change 44
in ownership of state real property, (2) change in use of state real 45
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property, (3) use of state real property by an entity other than a state 46
agency, or (4) use of state real property by a state agency other than the 47
state agency with custody and control over such state real property. 48
For the purposes of this subsection, "state agency" does not include a 49
constituent unit of the state system of higher education, a technical 50
education and career school or an agency in the legislative or judicial 51
branch of state government. 52
[(g)] (h) Except as otherwise provided, for the purposes of this 53
section, "state real property" means any improved or unimproved real 54
property owned by a state agency, and "state agency" means any 55
office, department, board, council, commission, institution, constituent 56
unit of the state system of higher education, technical education and 57
career school or other agency in the executive, legislative or judicial 58
branch of state government. 59
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2019 4-67g
Statement of Purpose:
To require the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management to
include in the annual inventories of state real property the number of
state employees per square foot in buildings occupied by executive
branch agencies.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline,
except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is
not underlined.]
Co-Sponsors: REP. FRANCE, 42nd Dist.
H.B. 6283