0342: COMMITTEE SUMMARY (4-22-05) - STATE FACILITIES DIRECTIVES

STATE FACILITIES DIRECTIVES S.B. 342: COMMITTEE SUMMARY

Senate Bill 342 (as introduced 3-24-05)
Sponsor: Senator Dennis Olshove
Committee: Commerce and Labor

Date Completed: 4-22-05

CONTENT The bill would amend the Management and Budget Act to require the Department of Management and Budget (DMB) to issue directives to all State agencies regarding the leasing or construction of additional facilities.
The directives would have to require that, before leasing or constructing additional facilities, a State agency, in conjunction with the DMB, make a written determination of all of the following:

-- The agency's actual long- and short-term needs for the facilities.
-- Whether the agency's needs could be satisfied by combining with other State agencies' facilities.
-- Whether several agencies' needs could be satisfied by combining with other State agencies' facilities to create clusters of State facilities.
-- Whether the agency's needs unnecessarily increased urban sprawl and unnecessarily reduced the effectiveness and integrity of State facilities' existing infrastructure.

By October 1, 2005, the DMB would have to report to the Senate and the House of Representatives on the current status of State facilities. The report would have to contain a complete inventory of, and a maintenance plan for, all State facilities.

Proposed MCL 18.1252a Legislative Analyst: Patrick Affholter

FISCAL IMPACT
The Department of Management and Budget is currently in the process of developing the type of reviews that the bill would require as part of its long-term strategic space plan.

The Department of Management and Budget would incur costs to comply with the proposed reporting requirement. The Department currently has no estimate for costs.

Fiscal Analyst: Bill Bowerman

Analysis was prepared by nonpartisan Senate staff for use by the Senate in its deliberations and does not constitute an official statement of legislative intent. sb342/0506