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Regular Session, 2010
SENATE BILL NO. 412
BY SENATOR DONAHUE
PUBLIC BUILDINGS/GROUNDS. Creates the State Buildings and Lands Highest and Best
Use Advisory Group. (7/1/10)
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 39:332.1, relative to property control; to create the State Buildings and Lands2
Highest and Best Use Advisory Group; to provide for duties and responsibilities; to3
provide for an effective date; and to provide for related matters.4
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:5
Section 1. R.S. 39:332.1 is hereby enacted to read as follows: 6
ยง332.1 State Buildings and Lands Highest and Best Use Advisory Group;7
creation8
A. The State Buildings and Lands Highest and Best Use Advisory Group,9
hereinafter referred to as the "Advisory Group." is hereby created to be10
composed of the director of the office of facility planning and control, the11
director of the office of state lands, the director of the office of risk12
management, and the director of the office of statewide reporting and13
accounting policy or their designees.14
B. The Advisory Group shall advise the commissioner of administration15
on all matters relating to state-owned property and development opportunities16
for the state to enter into public-private development partnerships with private,17 SB NO. 412
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non-profit or public partners, chosen by competitive bid, in order to develop1
and manage state-owned real estate in a manner that achieves the highest and2
best use of the property.3
C.(1) By the first of November each year, each agency in the executive4
branch, including each higher education agency which is funded or proposed5
by the Board of Regents to be funded through the higher education funding6
formula, shall report to the Advisory Group any land or buildings under the7
control of such agency that, in the estimation of the agency, is being8
underutilized or may represent an opportunity to be developed in accordance9
with the highest and best use of the property.10
(2) The Advisory Group shall review and analyze the various reports and11
shall, not later than January fifteenth of each year, make recommendations to12
the commissioner of administration regarding which properties present the13
most promise for development including public-private development.14
(3) The commissioner shall review the list of properties recommended15
by the Advisory Group and finalize the list of properties by accepting the list or16
by removing properties from the list. At the regular March meeting of the Joint17
Legislative Committee on the Budget , the commissioner of administration shall18
present the final list of such properties with a plan for the development of the19
highest and best use of such properties.20
Section 2. This Act shall become effective on July 1, 2010; if vetoed by the governor21
and subsequently approved by the legislature, this Act shall become effective on July 1,22
2010, or on the day following such approval by the legislature, whichever is later.23
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Jay R. Lueckel.
DIGEST
Proposed law creates the State Buildings and Lands Highest and Best Use Advisory Group,
referred to as the Advisory Group, to be composed of the director of the office of facility
planning and control, the director of the office of state lands, the director of the office of risk
management, and the director of the office of statewide reporting and accounting policy or
their designees. SB NO. 412
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Proposed law provides for the Advisory Group to advise the commissioner of
administration on all matters relating to state-owned property and development opportunities
for the state to enter into public-private development partnerships with private, non-profit
or public partners, chosen by competitive bid, in order to develop and manage state-owned
real estate in a manner that achieves the highest and best use of the property.
Proposed law requires that, by November 1 each year, each executive branch including
higher education agencies, report to the Advisory Group any land or buildings under the
control of such agency that, in the estimation of the agency, is being underutilized or may
represent an opportunity to be developed in accordance with the highest and best use of the
property.
Proposed law provides that the Advisory Group shall review and analyze the agency reports
and shall, not later than January 15 each year, make recommendations to the commissioner
of administration regarding which properties present the most promise for development or
including public-private development of such properties.
Proposed law provides that the commissioner shall review the list of properties
recommended by the Advisory Group and finalize the list by accepting the list or by
removing properties from the list. At the regular March meeting of the Joint Legislative
Committee on the Budget , the commissioner of administration shall present the final list of
such properties with a plan for the development of the highest and best use of such
properties.
Effective July 1, 2010.
(Adds R.S. 39:332.1)