BILL NUMBER: AB 2549	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Smyth

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to amend Section 11011.11 of the Government Code, relating
to surplus state property.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2549, as introduced, Smyth. Surplus state real property.
   The California Constitution requires that the proceeds from the
sale of surplus state property, with certain exceptions, be used to
pay the principal and interest on specified bonds, and, when the
principal and interest on those bonds are fully paid, be deposited in
the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties. Existing law makes a
statement of legislative findings regarding the lack of a complete
inventory of all state real property holdings and the state's need to
improve management of its real property.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes in the
statement of legislative findings described above.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 11011.11 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   11011.11.  (a) The Legislature finds and declares as follows:
   (1) There is no complete inventory of  all  state
real property holdings containing information on present use,
characteristics of the holding, or its value.
   (2) Both the Auditor General and the California Commission on
State Government Organization and Economy have found that there is
state-owned real property  which   that  is
presently unused and should be declared surplus, and that there is
little or no internal or external review to determine if lands could
be declared surplus.
   (3) The Auditor General, in a report entitled "California Could
Earn Millions of Dollars from Better Management of its Excess Land,"
also found that the state is losing money by retaining property which
is not being used. This deprives the General Fund of revenues which
could be generated by the sale or transfer of surplus land.
   (b) It is the intent of the Legislature to improve the state's
management of its real property holdings by delegating to the
Department of General Services the responsibility for maintaining a
central inventory of the state's real property holdings.
   (c) It is also the intent of the Legislature that the staff of the
Office of Space and Real Estate Services of the Department of
General Services be utilized  for the implementation of
  to implement  Section 11011.15.