Federal Property Asset Management Reform Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-2548
Sponsor: Rep. Sessions, Pete [R-TX-32]
Introduced: 2003-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Airports
Building construction
Building laws
California
Capital investments
Charities
Commemorations
Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuum of care
Cost effectiveness
Data banks
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic government information
Elementary and secondary education
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Executive reorganization
Federal budgets
Federal employees
Federal officials
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
General Services Administration
Gifts
Government contractors
Government liability
Government paperwork
Government property
Government publicity
Health
Historic sites
History
Homeless
Housing and Community Development
Indexing (Economic policy)
Internet
Land transfers
Land use
Law
Leases
Local laws
Minorities
Monuments and memorials
Nonprofit organizations
Performance measurement
Productivity in government
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public records
Public-private partnerships
Real estate appraisal
Real estate business
Real estate development
School buildings
Science, Technology, Communications
Shelters for the homeless
Social Welfare
Special education
State laws
Surplus government property
Surveys
Tax-exempt organizations
Taxation
Transportation and Public Works
Web sites
Zoning and zoning law

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: 
Federal Property Asset Management Reform Act of 2003 - Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to direct the Administrator of General Services to: (1) establish, maintain, and apply current asset management principles to real and personal property; (2) establish performance measures to determine Federal real property management effectiveness; and (3) establish and maintain a single database of all Federal real property interests. 
 
Requires each Federal landholding agency to appoint a Senior Real Property Officer to monitor and administer real property assets. 
 
Authorizes landholding agencies to apply enhanced asset management tools, such as interagency transfers or exchanges, sales or exchanges with non-Federal sources, and subleases or outleases to other Federal agencies or non-Federal entities, for real property. Allows the Administrator to: (1) review any transaction undertaken by an agency utilizing such authority; and (2) disapprove such transaction if it does not reflect due diligence by the agency, is not in the best interest of the United States, or does not comply with property management requirements.
 
Permits a building to be constructed or altered only: (1) in compliance with one of the nationally recognized model building codes and with other applicable nationally recognized codes; and (2) after consideration of all requirements (other than procedural requirements) of zoning laws and laws relating to landscaping, open space, minimum distance from the property line, maximum height historic preservation, and esthetic qualities and other similar laws of a State that would apply if it were not a building constructed or altered by a Federal agency. Sets forth special rules for consultation, review, and inspections by State and local government officials. Allows such officials to make recommendations concerning measures that are necessary to meet such codes and measures that should be taken in consideration of local conditions. Waives such provisions with respect to any building if their application would adversely affect national security.
 
 Prohibits agency actions involving use of enhanced asset management tools, determing real property to be excess, or disposing of excess real property with respect to specified Federal land and improvements in Los Angeles and Sepulveda, California.
 

 
Provides for: (1) the crediting of monetary proceeds from the disposition of real and related personal property to existing agency accounts to pay for capital asset expenditures of that agency; (2) Federal agencies to retain from proceeds of sales of personal property amounts necessary for recovering full direct and indirect costs incurred in disposing of such property; and (3) implementation of such disposal and accounting requirements for FY 2003 through 2007. 
 
Authorizes the: (1) conveyance of surplus Federal property to non-profit organizations for preservation purposes and, generally, for public airport use; and (2) abandonment, destruction, or other disposal of property if it has no commercial value or if costs of continued care and handling would exceed its fair market value. 
Amends the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act to revise procedures for the consideration of surplus real property for homeless assistance.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-07-17
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2003-07-17
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2003-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-19
text: Introduced in House