Staff present draft CDC bill updating procedures on chair elections, project submittals, encumbrance extensions and reporting
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Summary
Office of Legislative Legal Services staff presented a draft bill that incorporates Capital Development Committee staff recommendations to clarify committee procedures, timing and reporting across multiple sections of statute.
Megan McCall of the Office of Legislative Legal Services presented a draft bill that incorporates recommended changes from Capital Development Committee staff, based on the memorandum dated Jan. 28, 2025. McCall summarized the draft and answered committee questions.
McCall said the draft is organized into discrete sections tied to the staff memorandum. Key changes described to the committee included:
• Section 1 — clarifies and simplifies the process for election of the chair and vice chair.
• Section 2 — removes a requirement for an annual submittal by the Department of Transportation (CDOT) while preserving CDC review when CDOT elects to submit project requests.
• Section 3 — updates the statutory review process for projects from state institutions of higher education to align statute with current practice. McCall described this as one of the more substantive sections of the draft.
• Section 4 — changes the due date for the state treasurer's report on higher education bond matters from September to March to allow more up‑to‑date data.
• Section 5 — replaces an existing waiver process for encumbrances with an extension process to give CDC clearer oversight and sets a fixed deadline for certain encumbrance actions.
• Section 6 — adjusts an OSPB priority update due date from January 1 to January 2 for clarity around holiday timing.
• Section 7 — allows greater flexibility for waiver requests under the Art in Public Places program when presented to the committee.
• Section 8 — clarifies spending authority for supplemental appropriations, specifying that agencies have the remainder of the fiscal year and the next two full fiscal years to encumber funds following a supplemental appropriation.
McCall told the committee staff will continue coordination with other stakeholders and that committee members can expect follow‑up discussion at the next meeting. Committee members indicated they wanted to "shop around" the draft with other entities and planned to revisit the bill at the next scheduled meeting.
No committee motion or vote was recorded on the draft during the meeting.
