H97 - 2015 Appropriations Act, Sec. 31.16: Create Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Capital Improvements (SL 2015-241)

Overview: Sec. 31.16 of S.L. 2015-241 creates the new 16-member Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Capital Improvements. The Committee is empowered: (i) to examine capital improvements requested, authorized, or undertaken by State agencies; (ii) with oversight over implementation of the six-year capital improvements plan; (iii) to recommend, to the General Assembly, ways to improve various components of State capital improvements; and (iv) to report and make recommendations as to which requested capital improvements should be authorized and how those requests should be funded.

This section became effective July 1, 2015.