Bill Text: CA SB1336 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended


Bill Title: Department of General Services: state property: Metropolitan State Hospital.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-23 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. [SB1336 Detail]

Download: California-2023-SB1336-Amended.html

Amended  IN  Senate  March 20, 2024

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill
No. 1336


Introduced by Senator Archuleta

February 16, 2024


An act to amend Section 11011 of the Government Code, relating to state property. An act to add Section 14670.05 to the Government Code, relating to state property.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


SB 1336, as amended, Archuleta. Surplus state property. Department of General Services: state property: Metropolitan State Hospital.
Existing law establishes the Department of General Services, which is under the control of the Director of General Services, within the Government Operations Agency and requires it to perform various functions and duties with respect to property within the state, including entering into lease agreements. Existing law authorizes the director, with the consent of the state agency concerned, to, among other things, let for a period not to exceed 5 years, any real or personal property that belongs to the state, the letting of which is not expressly prohibited by law, as specified. Existing law establishes various exceptions to that provision, including that the director, with the consent of the State Department of State Hospitals, may lease to a nonprofit corporation, for the purpose of conducting an educational and work program for individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities, and for a period not to exceed 50 years, real property not exceeding 10 acres located within the grounds of the Napa State Hospital.
This bill would, as an exception to the above-described provision, also authorize the director, with the consent of the State Department of State Hospitals, to lease to a nonprofit corporation or local government, for a period not to exceed 55 years, 7 buildings located at Metropolitan State Hospital in the City of Norwalk. The bill would require the lease to be entered into for the purposes of providing specified housing or facilities, including adult and youth interim housing, upon the terms and conditions deemed by the director to be in the best interest of the state.

The California Constitution requires that proceeds from the sale of surplus state property be applied to pay the principal and interest on bonds issued pursuant to the Economic Recovery Bond Act. Existing law requires a state agency to review all proprietary state lands under its jurisdiction, as specified, to determine what land is in excess of its needs, and to report on these lands to the Department of General Services. Existing law requires jurisdiction of all land reported as excess to be transferred to the Department of General Services, as specified.

This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to these latter provisions.

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NOYES   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 Section 14670.05 is added to the Government Code, to read:

14670.05.
 (a) Notwithstanding Section 14670, the Director of General Services, with the consent of the State Department of State Hospitals, may lease to a nonprofit corporation or local government, for a period not to exceed 55 years, 7 buildings located at Metropolitan State Hospital in the City of Norwalk.
(b) The lease shall be entered into for the purposes of providing housing or facilities specified in paragraphs (1) and (2) to persons with intellectual or developmental disabilities, upon the terms and conditions deemed by the director to be in the best interest of the state.
(1) Housing provided on the leased premises shall be adult and youth interim housing or permanent supportive housing.
(2) Facilities provided on the leased premises shall be psychiatric subacute facilities.

SECTION 1.Section 11011 of the Government Code is amended to read:
11011.

(a)On or before December 31 of each year, each state agency shall make a review of all proprietary state lands, other than tax-deeded land, land held for highway purposes, lands under the jurisdiction of the State Lands Commission, land that has escheated to the state or that has been distributed to the state by court decree in estates of deceased persons, and lands under the jurisdiction of the State Coastal Conservancy, over which it has jurisdiction to determine what, if any, land is in excess of its foreseeable needs and report thereon in writing to the Department of General Services. These lands shall include, but not be limited to, the following:

(1)Land not currently being utilized, or currently being underutilized, by the state agency for any existing or ongoing state program.

(2)Land for which the state agency has not identified any specific utilization relative to future programmatic needs.

(3)Land not identified by the state agency within its master plans for facility development.

(b)Jurisdiction of all land reported as excess shall be transferred to the Department of General Services, when requested by the director of that department, for sale or disposition pursuant to this section or as may be otherwise authorized by law.

(c)The Department of General Services shall report to the Legislature annually, the land declared excess and request authorization to dispose of the land by sale or otherwise.

(d)The Department of General Services shall review and consider reports submitted to the Director of General Services pursuant to Section 66907.12 of this code and Section 31104.3 of the Public Resources Code before recommending or taking any action on surplus land, and shall also circulate the reports to all state agencies that are required to report excess land pursuant to this section. In recommending or determining the disposition of surplus lands, the Director of General Services may give priority to proposals by the state that involve the exchange of surplus lands for lands listed in those reports.

(e)Except as otherwise provided by any other law, whenever any land is reported as excess pursuant to this section, the Department of General Services shall determine whether or not the use of the land is needed by any other state agency. If the Department of General Services determines that any land is needed by any other state agency it may transfer the jurisdiction of this land to the other state agency upon the terms and conditions as it may deem to be for the best interests of the state.

(f)When authority is granted for the sale or other disposition of lands declared excess, and the Department of General Services has determined that the use of the land is not needed by any other state agency, the Department of General Services shall sell the land or otherwise dispose of the same pursuant to the authorization, upon any terms and conditions and subject to any reservations and exceptions as the Department of General Services may deem to be for the best interests of the state. The Department of General Services shall report to the Legislature annually, with respect to each parcel of land authorized to be sold under this section, giving the following information:

(1)A description or other identification of the property.

(2)The date of authorization.

(3)With regard to each parcel sold after the next preceding report, the date of sale and price received, or the value of the land received in exchange.

(4)The present status of the property, if not sold or otherwise disposed of at the time of the report.

(g)(1)(A)Except as otherwise specified by law, the net proceeds received from any real property disposition, including the sale, lease, exchange, or other means, that is received pursuant to this section shall be paid into the Deficit Recovery Bond Retirement Sinking Fund Subaccount, established pursuant to subdivision (f) of Section 20 of Article XVI of the California Constitution, as approved by the voters at the March 2, 2004, statewide primary election, until the time that the bonds issued pursuant to the Economic Recovery Bond Act (Title 18 (commencing with Section 99050)), approved by the voters at the March 2, 2004, statewide primary election, are retired. Thereafter, the net proceeds received pursuant to this section shall be deposited in the Special Fund for Economic Uncertainties.

(B)Notwithstanding subparagraph (A), the department may deposit some or all of the net proceeds into the Property Acquisition Law Money Account for the purposes of maintaining an operating reserve sufficient to continue redeveloping excess state properties as affordable housing.

(2)For purposes of this section, net proceeds shall be defined as proceeds less any outstanding loans from the General Fund, or outstanding reimbursements due to the Property Acquisition Law Money Account for costs incurred before June 30, 2005, related to the management of the state’s real property assets, including, but not limited to, surplus property identification, legal research, feasibility statistics, activities associated with land use, and due diligence.

(3)For the purposes of this section, “an operating reserve sufficient to continue redeveloping excess state properties as affordable housing” means an amount not to exceed three years of operating costs to redevelop excess state properties as affordable housing.

(h)The Director of Finance may approve loans from the General Fund to the Property Acquisition Law Money Account, which is hereby created in the State Treasury, for the purposes of supporting the management of the state’s real property assets.

(i)Any rentals or other revenues received by the department from real properties, the jurisdiction of which has been transferred to the Department of General Services under this section, shall be deposited in the Property Acquisition Law Money Account and shall be available for expenditure by the Department of General Services upon appropriation by the Legislature.

(j)Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to prohibit the sale, letting, or other disposition of any state lands pursuant to any law now or hereafter enacted authorizing the sale, letting, or disposition.

(k)(1)The disposition of a parcel of surplus state real property, pursuant to Section 11011.1, made on an “as is” basis shall be exempt from Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code. Upon title to the parcel vesting in the purchaser or transferee of the property, the purchaser or transferee shall be subject to any local governmental land use entitlement approval requirements and to Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code.

(2)If the disposition of a parcel of surplus state real property, pursuant to Section 11011.1, is not made on an “as is” basis and close of escrow is contingent on the satisfaction of a local governmental land use entitlement approval requirement or compliance by the local government with Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code, the execution of the purchase and sale agreement or of the exchange agreement by all parties to the agreement shall be exempt from Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code.

(3)For purposes of this subdivision, “disposition” means the sale, exchange, sale combined with an exchange, or transfer of a parcel of surplus state property.

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