S747 - State-Owned Real Property Management/Program Evaluation Division. (SL 2016-119)

Overview: S.L. 2016-119 requires more active management of State-owned real property by the Department of Administration (DOA), as recommended by the Program Evaluation Division of the General Assembly, including:

• Ongoing identification and disposal of surplus State-owned real property.
• Ongoing measurement and reporting of utilization of State-owned real property.
• Ongoing updating of State-owned real property inventories.
• Ensuring that State-owned property is not available before leases are approved or renewed.

The provisions of this act that require DOA to review utilization data in the State-owned real property database to determine whether the property can meet the needs of a requesting State agency, will become effective July 1, 2018. The remainder of this act became effective July 28, 2016.