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2024 SESSION
24108077DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 2.2-1516, 2.2-1517, and 2.2-1518 of the Code of Virginia are amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 2.2-1516. Six-Year Capital Outlay Plan Advisory Committee.
A. There is hereby established the Six-Year Capital Outlay Plan Advisory Committee. The Advisory Committee shall consist of the following, or their designees: the Secretary of Finance, the Director of the Department of Planning and Budget, the Director of the Department of General Services, the Executive Director of the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia, and the staff directors of the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations.
B. 1. On or before November 1, 2008 of each year,
the Advisory Committee shall submit communicate to the Governor
and the Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations and the Chairman of
the Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations a proposed list of new
capital outlay projects (and previously planned or authorized capital outlay
projects) to be funded entirely or partially from general fund-supported
resources for the six fiscal years beginning July 1, 2009 of the
following year.
2. The list shall include projects by agency, in priority order for each agency. In determining priorities, the Advisory Committee shall consider, but not be limited to, the following:
a. Projects that address safety, health, regulatory, security, environmental requirements, or accreditation;
b. Projects to upgrade or replace major mechanical systems and utility infrastructure;
c. Projects to renovate or maintain existing facilities;
d. Projects to construct, expand, or acquire facilities in order to meet programmatic needs;
e. For public institutions of higher education, projects that meet State Council of Higher Education for Virginia recommendations or guideline parameters;
f. Projects that improve energy efficiency;
g. Projects that are listed on, or eligible to be listed on, the Virginia Landmarks Register;
h. Renovation projects for which a facility condition assessment has been completed; and
i. Projects previously planned.
3. The list shall:
a. Identify each capital outlay project;
b. Describe the scope and nature of the project; and
c. Include any other information that the Advisory Committee deems useful.
C. Beginning in 2011, on or before November 1 of each year,
the Advisory Committee shall make recommendations to the Governor and the
Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations and the Chairman of the
Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations of any changes to the current
six-year capital outlay plan (described in § 2.2-1518) and of project funding,
including adjusting the fiscal years covered by the plan so that the plan will
cover the six fiscal years beginning July 1 of the following year.
§ 2.2-1517. Agency and institution submission of information.
A. In addition to all other reporting requirements imposed
upon state agencies and public educational institutions provided under law,
state agencies and public educational institutions shall submit information as
determined by the Advisory Committee for the initial development of the
capital outlay project list as described in § 2.2-1516, as well as for the
annual modifications to the six-year capital outlay plan described in §
2.2-1518. The information for the annual modifications shall include, but not
be limited to, changes in cost estimates.
B. On or before January 30 each year Annually,
the Director of the Department of General Services Planning and
Budget, on behalf of the Advisory Committee, shall advise state agencies
and public educational institutions of the content, format, and method
established by the Advisory Committee for submitting the information described
in subsection A.
C. State agencies and public educational institutions shall
submit the information, in the manner prescribed by the Director of the Department
of General Services Planning and Budget on behalf of the Advisory
Committee pursuant to subsection B, to the Department of General Services
and the Department of Planning and Budget on or before March 30
the deadline established by the Advisory Committee each year. In
addition, public educational institutions shall submit the information to the
State Council of Higher Education.
D. The Department of Planning and Budget, the Department of
General Services, and the staff of the State Council of Higher Education for
Virginia shall review the information submitted and shall submit the
information and the results of their review, in the manner prescribed by the
Advisory Committee, to the Advisory Committee on or before June 30
the deadline established by the Advisory Committee each year.
E. On the same day that the Governor presents his
preliminary report pursuant to § 2.2-813, the The Advisory Committee
shall meet at a time and place specified by the Secretary of Finance to
consider the information provided pursuant to subsection D, as well as a
capital outlay project status report, to be prepared by the Director of the
Department of General Services, on all active projects that have received any
funding, including completed planning estimates, project bids, and project
timelines. The Advisory Committee shall submit communicate its
evaluations and recommendations regarding capital outlay projects to the
Governor and the General Assembly on or before November 1 each year.
§ 2.2-1518. Communication of six-year capital outlay plan by Advisory Committee.
A. 1. No later than January 13, 2009, the Governor
shall submit to the General Assembly a tentative bill establishing a capital
outlay plan that includes new capital outlay projects (and previously planned
or authorized capital outlay projects) that the Governor proposes three
months after a newly enacted budget, the Advisory Committee shall communicate
and annually amend a six-year capital outlay plan in the form of a report to
the Governor and the General Assembly. The six-year capital outlay plan shall
include projects that have been authorized for planning only, in addition to
any other obligations for authorized projects that the Advisory Committee deems
appropriate that have not yet been funded in an appropriation act or other
legislation and for which planning or future project stages are to be
funded entirely or partially from general fund-supported resources for the six
fiscal years beginning July 1, 2009 of the year of any newly enacted
budget. Projects included in the six-year capital outlay plan shall
be in addition to any projects for which funds are appropriated from the
Central Maintenance Reserve of the general appropriation act.
2. B. The six-year capital outlay plan
submitted by the Governor shall list capital outlay projects in different
tiers. Each tier shall be a grouping of capital outlay projects with the total
estimated cost of each project in the tier falling within a minimum and a
maximum project cost assigned to the tier, provided that no estimated project
costs shall be set out in the six-year capital outlay plan. The minimum
and maximum range assigned to a tier shall be mutually exclusive of all other
minimum and maximum ranges assigned to other tiers in order that no capital
outlay project shall be reported in more than one tier.
For each Each capital outlay project listed in
the six-year capital outlay plan the Governor shall provide the
following information: (i) the agency or public educational institution to
which the project is related, (ii) a description of the project, and (iii) a
ranking number assigned to the project, which number shall signify the priority
of the project when compared to all other projects of the agency or institution
listed in the six-year capital outlay plan.
B. For the 2021 Regular Session of the General Assembly and
thereafter, the Governor shall ensure that a prefiled bill is submitted to the
Chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations and the Chairman of the
Senate Committee on Finance and Appropriations in accordance with the deadlines
for prefiling under subdivision A 3 of § 30-19.3 for any proposed amendments to
the current capital outlay plan enacted into law, including adjusting the
fiscal years covered by the plan so that the plan will cover the six fiscal
years beginning on the immediately following July 1. Any such prefiled bill
shall be submitted using the format described in subsection A.
In submitting to the General Assembly prefiled bills for
plan amendments, the Governor shall consider the capital outlay project list
submitted by the Advisory Committee pursuant to § 2.2-1516 and any amendments
to the six-year capital outlay plan recommended by the Advisory Committee
pursuant to such section.