§ 17-M:2 — Powers and Duties

I. (a) The committee shall conduct a study of the physical needs and financial resources of the state. The study shall include, but not be limited to, the following matters:
(1) A continuing review of the need for additional space for all state agencies;
(2) A continuing review of all buildings and land presently owned by the state, together with those under consideration for construction or purchase and those under consideration for disposal;
(3) A continuing review of the quantity, type, sufficiency and cost of all space presently being leased or rented by state agencies;
(4) A plan to coordinate the physical plant needs and capital resources of the state into a feasible, long range capital improvement program for the entire state;
(5) Periodic recommendations for improvement in the capital budget process; and
(6) Investigation of the use of public property for low-income housing sites.
(b) [Repealed.]
II. In conducting its study, the committees may hold hearings at such times and in such places as the committee deems advisable.
III. The committee may require the assistance of any state department, commission, board, agency or institution in conducting its study, and such departments, commissions, boards, agencies and institutions are directed to assist the committee whenever the committee so requests.
IV. The committee may, with the approval of the senate president and the speaker of the house, employ a consultant to assist the committee in its duties; provided, any consultant employed shall receive compensation for his services only from federal or private funds, or from both.
V. The committee shall act in an advisory capacity to the director of the division of planning and community development.

Legislative History

1983, 428:4. 1986, 224:3. 1996, 101:2. 2003, 319:9. 2004, 257:44, eff. July 1, 2004. 2013, 83:1, eff. Aug. 18, 2013. 2017, 156:64, eff. July 1, 2017. 2021, 91:198, eff. July 1, 2021. 2025, 141:33, eff. July 1, 2025.