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Committee amends H.50 inventory language to tie excess land to an agency’s statutory purpose
Summary
A legislative committee agreed on a committee amendment to H.50 that changes the state-owned property inventory language to ask whether land is unnecessary for the statutory purpose of the agency that controls it, rather than for the state generally.
On May 20, 2025, a legislative committee considering H.50 agreed to a committee amendment that narrows the property-inventory language to ask whether land is unnecessary for the statutory purpose of the agency that controls it rather than unnecessary for “state purposes.”
The change, presented as a committee amendment to H.50, is intended to make the inventory question more specific and to limit subjective judgments about whether state-owned land should be considered surplus or sold. Senator Watson said the amendment was designed to avoid a narrow reading that could remove properties from public use: “The language is intended to not be narrowing but rather expansive in terms of ensuring that the statutory purposes of…an agency are included in whatever we deem as purposes of the…
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