BILL NUMBER: AB 354	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Accountability and Administrative Review
(Assembly Members Salas (Chair), Lackey (Vice Chair), Brough, Burke,
Frazier, and Medina)

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2015

   An act to amend Section 13332.10 of the Government Code, relating
to state leases.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 354, as introduced, Committee on Accountability and
Administrative Review. Director of General Services: state leases:
notification.
   Existing law prohibits the Director of General Services from
entering into a building lease if the state's obligation as lessee is
for the occupancy of a state agency with a lease period of 5 years
or longer and an annual rental in excess of $10,000 unless, at least
30 days prior to entering into the lease, the director notifies, in
writing, the chairperson of the committee in each house of the
Legislature that considers appropriations and the Chairperson of the
Joint Legislative Budget Committee, as specified.
   This bill would require the Director of General Services to also
notify the chairperson of the appropriate policy committee in each
house of a pending building lease, as described above.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 13332.10 of the Government Code is amended to
read:
   13332.10.  The Director of General Services  may 
 shall  not enter into a lease agreement between the state
and another entity, public or private, in which the state is lessee
if the agreement is to be for the lease of a building or building
space, or both, which will be for the occupancy of any agency or
agencies of the state with a firm lease period of five years or
longer and an annual rental in excess of ten thousand dollars
($10,000), unless not less than 30 days prior to entering into the
lease the Director of General Services notifies the chairperson of
the committee in each house  which   of the
Legislature that  considers appropriations  , the
chairperson of the appropriate policy committee in each house, 
and the Chairperson of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, or his
or her designee, in writing of the director's intention to enter
into the agreement, or not sooner than  such   a
 lesser time as the Chairperson of the Joint Legislative Budget
Committee, or his or her designee, may in each instance determine.
 No funds   Funds  appropriated in any
Budget Act  may  shall not  be encumbered
or expended for any lease entered into on or after July 1, 1979, for
office space in the County of Sacramento unless all solicitations for
leases for office space in the County of Sacramento under the
above-described conditions contain the statement, "The state is
anticipating capital construction in the City of Sacramento and
intends to eventually reduce the use of space on a leased basis."