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Committee hears bill language to restore and expand state property inventory reporting (H.50)
Summary
Agency officials told the Senate Committee on Institutions that the Department maintains a detailed ‘space book’ of state-owned and leased property and that H.50 would restore earlier inventory practices and add an annual reporting requirement to the Legislature.
The Senate Committee on Institutions on April 17 considered language tied to H.50 that would expand and formalize state reporting of real property and leasable space maintained by the Department of Buildings and General Services.
Agency staff told the committee they already maintain a detailed annual "space book" listing state-owned and leased buildings, land holdings, tower leases, rest areas, vacant properties and buildings, square footage and rentable area by town and by occupant. "We have this information, and we report it every year," said the agency presenter, describing a document the committee members can review online.
Why it matters: the bill’s amendments would require the commissioner to collect, annually, a full inventory of state-owned buildings and land and to submit that…
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