rent are used in the most efficient manner, is directed to develop a program to manage the leasing of all public and private space of state agencies a governmental body. The department must submit regulations for the implementation of this section to the General Assembly as provided in the Administrative Procedures Act, Chapter 23, Title 1. The regulations, upon board’s department’s General Assembly approval, shall include procedures for: (1) assessing and evaluating agency needs, including the authority to require agency justification for any request to lease public or private space; (2) establishing standards for the quality and quantity of space to be leased by a requesting agency; (3) devising and requiring the use of a standard lease form (approved by the Attorney General) with provisions which assert and protect the prerogatives including, but not limited to, a state’s right of cancellation in the event of: (a) a nonappropriation for the renting agency, (b) a dissolution of the agency, and (c) the availability of public space in substitution for private space being leased by the agency; (4) rejecting an request for additional space or agency’s space at a specific location, or both; (5) directing agencies to be located in public space, when available, before private space can be leased; (6) requiring the agency to submit a multiyear financial plan for review by the budget office department with copies board’s sent to Ways and Means Committee and Senate Finance Committee, before any new lease for space is entered into; and requiring prior review by the Joint Bond Review Committee and the requirement of Budget and Control Board approval before the adoption of any new lease that commits more than one million dollars in a fiveyear period; and (7) requiring prior review by the Joint Bond Review Committee and the requirement of Budget and Control Board South Carolina Contracts and Accountability Authority approval before the adoption of any new or renewal lease that commits more than two hundred thousand dollars annually in rental or lease payments or more than one million dollars in such payments in a fiveyear period. (B) Leases or rental agreements involving amounts below the thresholds provided in item (7) of subsection (A) may be executed by the Department of Administration without this prior review and approval.
rent are used in the most efficient manner, is directed to develop a program to manage the leasing of all public and private space of state agencies a governmental body. The department must submit regulations for the implementation of this section to the General Assembly as provided in the Administrative Procedures Act, Chapter 23, Title 1. The board’s department’s regulations, upon General Assembly approval, shall include procedures for: (1) assessing and evaluating agency needs, including the authority to require agency justification for any request to lease public or private space; (2) establishing standards for the quality and quantity of space to be leased by a requesting agency; (3) devising and requiring the use of a standard lease form (approved by the Attorney General) with provisions which assert and protect the state’s prerogatives including, but not limited to, a right of cancellation in the event of: (a) a nonappropriation for the renting agency, (b) a dissolution of the agency, and (c) the availability of public space in substitution for private space being leased by the agency; (4) rejecting an agency’s request for additional space or space at a specific location, or both; (5) directing agencies to be located in public space, when available, before private space can be leased; (6) requiring the agency to submit a multiyear financial plan for review by the board’s budget office department with copies sent to Ways and Means Committee and Senate Finance Committee, before any new lease for space is entered into; and requiring prior review by the Joint Bond Review Committee and the requirement of Budget and Control Board approval before the adoption of any new lease that commits more than one million dollars in a fiveyear period; and (7) requiring prior review by the Joint Bond Review Committee and the requirement of Budget and Control Board South Carolina Contracts and Accountability Authority approval before the adoption of any new or renewal lease that commits more than two hundred thousand dollars annually in rental or lease payments or more than one million dollars in such payments in a fiveyear period. (B) Leases or rental agreements involving amounts below the thresholds provided in item (7) of subsection (A) may be executed by the Department of Administration without this prior review and approval.
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