§ 62-901. Long-Range Capital Planning Commission - Annual state capital plan - Capital budget.

A.  There is hereby created a Long-Range Capital Planning Commission to advise and assist the Legislature in providing for real property capital facility needs for this state.  The Commission shall consist of nine (9) members as follows:

1.  Three members appointed by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate;

2.  Three members appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives; and

3.  Three members shall be appointed by the Governor.

All appointees shall be from the public at large.  Within thirty (30) days of the effective date of this act, the appointing authorities shall appoint new members to the Commission; provided, a member serving on the effective date of this act may be reappointed if he or she is otherwise qualified.  Of the members initially appointed by each appointing authority after the effective date of this act, one shall be appointed for a one-year term, one shall be appointed for a two-year term and one shall be appointed for a three-year term.  Thereafter, their successors shall be appointed for four-year terms.  Any vacancy shall be filled for the remainder of the unexpired term in the same manner as the original appointment.  The appointing authorities shall appoint members who possess knowledge, skills and abilities to perform the duties of the Commission.  No member of the Commission shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract entered into for a project approved by the Commission during the period of service of the member, nor shall any person be appointed as a member of the Commission if such person is interested, directly or indirectly, in a contract entered into for a project approved prior to the appointment.  An indirect interest shall include, but not be limited to, an interest of an immediate family member of the member of the Commission or a business with which the member of the Commission is associated.

B.  A chair of the Commission shall be elected from its membership.  Five members of the Commission shall constitute a quorum.  Members of the Commission shall serve without compensation, but shall be entitled to reimbursement, pursuant to the State Travel Reimbursement Act, for expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.

C.  Initial appointments to the Commission shall be made within thirty (30) days of the effective date of this act.

D.  The Commission shall have the authority to promulgate rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this act.

E.  The Office of Management and Enterprise Services, with the advice and assistance of the Oklahoma State Bond Advisor, shall provide staffing for the Commission and other such assistance as the Commission may require.

F.  1.  The Commission shall prepare each year an annual capital plan budget and a state capital plan for addressing state capital facility needs for the next ensuing eight (8) years.  The Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education and each state governmental entity as defined in Section 695.3 of this title shall cooperate with the Commission in the preparation of the state plan.  Each year, on or about December 1, the plan shall be submitted to the Governor, Speaker of the House of Representatives and President Pro Tempore of the Senate.  The Long-Range Capital Planning Commission shall annually update the eight-year plan.  The Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall perform routine services to support the eight-year plan, including but not limited to, agency-level planning, real estate services, construction services and facility operations as provided by law.

2.  In addition to the requirements set forth in Section 10 of this act, the capital plan should:

a.supplement and integrate, not replace, existing capital planning processes,

b.assess long-term needs for capital facilities to support state government needs as determined by the Commission,

c.review and assess the inventory of capital facilities held by the state, and make recommendations on reallocation, reuse or liquidation of properties for incorporation into the annual capital plan,

d.include a projection of economic and demographic trends likely to influence the needs of state government during the eight-year period,

e.address agency strategic facility plans for new, improved, renovated, or expanded capital facilities or facilities that should be reallocated or liquidated,

f.include estimates of life cycle costs for new and substantially expanded or renovated facilities,

g.evaluate the effectiveness of planning processes at the agency level to account for all capital facility costs for incorporation into the annual capital budget,

h.account for projections of debt service and revenues available from general obligation bonds and other sources, including but not limited to, the Maintenance of State Buildings Revolving Fund,

i.analyze the capacity of the state to incur debt or finance public capital facilities,

j.include a comprehensive listing of all capital expenditures of the state which the Commission recommends be undertaken or continued for any state agency in the next two (2) fiscal years, together with information as to the effect of such capital projects on future operating expenses of the state, and with recommendations as to the priority of such capital projects and the means of funding them,

k.forecast the requirements for capital projects of state agencies for the eight-year-period and for such additional periods, if any, as may be necessary or desirable for adequate presentation of particular capital projects, and include a schedule for the planning and implementation or construction of such capital projects,

l.set forth a proposed itemized budget for the next fiscal year of recommended capital expenditures inclusive of all funding sources, for each agency, including facility rent and lease payments, energy and utility expenditures, operations and maintenance, capital improvements and capital development projects as necessary to optimize and preserve the state's capital assets,

m.include the findings of the Oklahoma State Government Asset Reduction and Cost Savings Program and the indexing of the most necessary capital improvements to the expenditure of funds from the Maintenance of State Buildings Revolving Fund,

n.include such other information as the Commission deems relevant to its duties, and

o.include findings of the Oklahoma State Government Asset Reduction and Cost Savings Program and the indexing of the most necessary capital improvements to the expenditure of funds from the Maintenance of State Buildings Revolving Fund.

G.  The capital plan budget shall include, for each expenditure and class of expenditures, the capital facility costs to be incurred during the next ensuing fiscal year, inclusive of the annual operating and maintenance costs of such facilities and a schedule of depreciation calculated in accordance with the principles and standards of capital budgeting authorized by subsection H of this section.

H.  The Commission, with the assistance of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services, shall prepare and publish rules and regulations that set forth principles and standards for capital planning and budgeting to be used by state agencies.  The rules and regulations shall set forth definitions of relevant terms to be used in the capital planning and budgeting processes, establish accounting standards and standards for costs and benefits of public facility investments.

I.  1.  The Commission, the Office of Management and Enterprise Services, and the Oklahoma State Bond Advisor may request the assistance of such personnel of any state agency in order to perform their duties pursuant to the State Capital Improvement Planning Act and such agencies shall respond and provide any such assistance as may be required.  The Commission may use existing studies, surveys, plans, data and other materials in the possession of any state agency.  Each such agency shall make the same available to the Commission so that the Commission may have available to it current information with respect to the capital plans and programs of each such agency.

2.  The officers and personnel of any state agency may serve at the request of the Commission upon such advisory committees as the Commission may create and such officers and personnel may serve upon such committees without forfeiture of office or employment and with no loss or diminution of the compensation, status, rights and privileges which they otherwise enjoy.

J.  This section shall not be applicable to the following or their lands, properties, buildings, funds or revenue:

1.  The Oklahoma Ordnance Works Authority; and

2.  The Commissioners of the Land Office.

Added by Laws 1992, c. 330, § 2, emerg. eff. May 28, 1992.  Amended by Laws 2001, c. 33, § 57, eff. July 1, 2001; Laws 2012, c. 288, § 1, eff. Nov. 1, 2012; Laws 2013, c. 15, § 68, emerg. eff. April 8, 2013; Laws 2013, c. 209, § 9, eff. July 1, 2013.

Note

NOTE:  Laws 2012, c. 304, § 469 repealed by Laws 2013, c. 15, § 69, emerg. eff. April 8, 2013.