HB384 Alabama 2012 Session

Updated Feb 27, 2026

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Summary

Primary Sponsor: Paul DeMarco
Republican
Session: Regular Session 2012
Title: Property, state owned, Department of Finance required to maintain list of all facilities and lands owned, leased, rented by state agency or judicial branch.
Summary: HB384 requires the Department of Finance to create and maintain a centralized, automated inventory of all state facilities and lands, with updates from each agency and the judicial branch.
What This Bill Does
The bill directs the Department of Finance to develop and maintain automated inventories of facilities and lands owned, leased, or occupied by state agencies and the judiciary, including location and owning/occupying agency. It defines 'facility' as buildings, structures, and building systems and excludes State Transportation Department facilities, which will manage its own inventory; the Commission on Higher Education and the State Department of Postsecondary Education must likewise inventory university and community college facilities and provide data in a format DoF accepts. The lands inventory must include location and ownership, and DoF may use existing inventories to build the new system. Inventories must be updated at least every 3 years and as acquisitions or significant changes occur, with DoF providing each agency their most recent inventory and agencies/judicial branches reporting changes as prescribed.

Who It Affects
State agencies and the judicial branch: must rely on and report significant changes to the centralized inventories and use the data for planning and management.
Department of Finance: responsible for creating, maintaining, and distributing the inventories and for coordinating data from other agencies.
Department of Transportation: facilities are excluded from the central inventory; DOT will maintain its own facility inventory.
Commission on Higher Education and State Department of Postsecondary Education: must develop and maintain inventories of all state university and community college facilities and provide data in a format acceptable to the Department of Finance.

Key Provisions
The Department of Finance shall develop and maintain an automated inventory of all state facilities and lands owned, leased, rented, or otherwise occupied or maintained by any state agency or the judicial branch.
A facility includes buildings, structures, and building systems, but does not include facilities of the State Transportation Department; DOT must maintain its own inventory of facilities.
The Commission on Higher Education and the State Department of Postsecondary Education shall develop and maintain inventories of all state university and community college facilities and provide the data in a format acceptable to the Department of Finance.
The lands inventory shall include the location and ownership; the Department may use information from existing inventories to build the new system.
Inventories must be updated at least every 3 years, and also updated for acquisitions and significant changes as they occur; DoF will provide each agency with the most recent inventory applicable to them.
Agencies and the judicial branch must report significant changes to the inventories as they occur, in the manner prescribed by the Department of Finance.
Effective date: January 1, 2013.

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Subjects: Property