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House committee reviews H.50 requiring annual state property inventory to identify housing conversion sites
Summary
Legislative counsel presented draft H.50 to require the Department of Buildings and General Services to maintain an annual inventory of state‑owned buildings and land and, for a limited period, require agency heads to flag underutilized sites suitable for housing conversion. Lawmakers pressed for a clear start date and asked to see an executive‑order report before finalizing the session‑law language.
Legislative counsel John Gray told the House Corrections & Institutions committee on Jan. 27 that draft H.50 would require the commissioner of the Department of Buildings and General Services (BGS) to maintain an inventory of all state‑owned buildings and land and to annually compile and update that inventory for legislative review. "The head of each agency shall additionally indicate in its inventory…whether any building is vacant and whether any land is unnecessary for state purposes," Gray said.
The draft preserves a permanent statutory duty to inventory state property in Title 29 while carving a time‑limited session‑law duty intended to accelerate identification of sites that could be converted to housing. Under the bill’s session‑law…
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