PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 409 PRINTER'S NO. 1226
No. 396 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY HELFRICK, THOMPSON, COSTA, ROBBINS, KUKOVICH,
WAUGH, LEMMOND, EARLL, HOLL, BELL, MOWERY, RHOADES, MELLOW,
ARMSTRONG AND STACK, FEBRUARY 8, 2001
AS AMENDED ON THIRD CONSIDERATION, JUNE 18, 2001
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 62 (Procurement) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, imposing additional requirements on the Board of
3 Commissioners of Public Grounds and Buildings relating to the
4 approval of leases of real estate.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Section 326 of Title 62 of the Pennsylvania
8 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
9 § 326. Board of Commissioners of Public Grounds and Buildings.
10 (a) General rule.--No lease of real estate for use by an
11 executive or independent agency and no sole source procurement
12 of supplies for an executive or independent agency for which the
13 department acts as the purchasing agency shall be valid or
14 effective unless, upon review, it is approved by the Board of
15 Commissioners of Public Grounds and Buildings. Where the board
16 is reviewing a proposed sole source lease or procurement being
17 submitted pursuant to section 515 (relating to sole source
18 procurement), approval of the lease or procurement shall require
1 the unanimous vote of the board. Where the board is reviewing a
2 proposed non-sole source lease, the lease shall be approved when
3 one member of the board votes to approve the lease. All votes
4 shall take place at a public meeting.
5 (b) State and local REAL PROPERTY taxation provisions <--
6 required for approval of real estate leases.--From and after the
7 effective date of this subsection, the Board of Commissioners of
8 Public Grounds and Buildings shall only approve leases for real
9 estate or renewals of leases for real estate which contain
10 provisions requiring the lessor to provide annual statements to
11 the department which prove that the lessor has paid all county,
12 municipal and school district taxes levied on the leased
13 property and; that there are no outstanding delinquent real <--
14 property taxes on the leased property owed to any taxing
15 authority AND NO MUNICIPAL UTILITY BILLS, FINES OR FEES OWED TO <--
16 THE MUNICIPALITY THAT ARE MORE THAN ONE YEAR OUTSTANDING.
17 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 90 days.
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