SB367 Alabama 2018 Session

Summary

Primary Sponsor

Bill Hightower

Republican

Session

Regular Session 2018

Title

Relating to state owned lands; to further provide for sale of state owned land and surplus state-owned land; to provide for inventory of state-owned lands, Secs. 9-15-70, 9-15-74, 9-15-75, 9-15-76, 9-15-80, 9-15-82, 9-15-83, 9-15-84, 41-4-18 am'd.

Description

Existing law requires the State Department of Finance to develop and maintain an inventory of all facilities and lands owned, leased, rented, or otherwise occupied and maintained by any agency of the state or the judicial branch. Existing law also provides procedures for the sale and lease of state owned property.

This bill would require all state agencies to self-report facilities and lands they own or lease to the State Department of Finance; would further provide for the sale or transfer of surplus lands; would provide for the distribution of proceeds from the sale of surplus lands to both the General Fund and the agency that owned or maintained the property; and would provide penalties.

Amendment 621 of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, now appearing as Section 111.05 of the Official Recompilation of the Constitution of Alabama of 1901, as amended, prohibits a general law whose purpose or effect would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds from becoming effective with regard to a local governmental entity without enactment by a 2/3 vote unless: it comes within one of a number of specified exceptions; it is approved by the affected entity; or the Legislature appropriates funds, or provides a local source of revenue, to the entity for the purpose.

The purpose or effect of this bill would be to require a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of the amendment. However, the bill does not require approval of a local governmental entity or enactment by a 2/3 vote to become effective because it comes within one of the specified exceptions contained in the amendment.

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Subjects

Surplus Property