SB367 Alabama 2018 Session

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

Relating to state-owned lands; to amend Sections 9-15-70, 9-15-74, 9-15-75, 9-15-76, 9-15-80, 9-15-82, 9-15-83, 9-15-84, and 41-4-18, Code of Alabama 1975; to require all state agencies to self-report lands they own or lease to the Department of Finance; to further provide for the sale or transfer of surplus lands; to provide for a distribution of proceeds from the sale of surplus lands to both the General Fund and the agency that owned or maintained the property; to provide penalties; and in connection therewith would have as its purpose or effect the requirement of a new or increased expenditure of local funds within the meaning of 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.