§ 41-4-401 — Electronic Submission and Signing of Documents

(a) The Division of Construction Management within the Department of Finance shall provide for the submission and signing of documents via electronic means, at no additional cost to the party submitting or signing the document.
(b) No later than November 30 of each year, the Division of Construction Management shall submit a report to the Speaker of the House, the Speaker Pro Tempore, the Lieutenant Governor, the President Pro Tempore of the Senate, and the Majority Leader and Minority Leader of both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The report shall include all of the following, as they relate to each plan or project proposal submitted to the division during the preceding fiscal year relating to a public K-12 school:
(1) The name of the public K-12 school at which the project will take place.
(2) The final cost of the project.
(3) The number of state building code violations of a project as discovered by the field inspection of the construction improvements by the division, itemized by categories, including, but not limited to, accessibility for disabled persons, fire safety, and life safety.
(4) For each document submitted to the division for review or approval, the time elapsed between the receipt of the document and the return of the document to the submitting party or other appropriate response by the division.

Legislative History

(Act 2021-476, §3; Act 2022-367, §1.)