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SB 1578

Missouri SenateIn Senate Committee

Summary

SB 1578, which creates a new fund for moneys received from the sale of real property owned by the state, was introduced in the Senate on Jan 20, 2026 by Sen. David Gregory (R). It last saw action on Mar 23, 2026: Voted Do Pass S Government Efficiency Committee.


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SB 1578 has no co-sponsors and has not gone to a roll call.

sb1578/introduced.txt
SECOND REGULAR SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 1578
103RD GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR GREGORY (15).
6732S.01I KRISTINA MARTIN, Secretary
AN ACT
To repeal section 37.005, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to moneys
received from the sale of real property owned by the state of Missouri.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 37.005, RSMo, is repealed and one new
section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 37.005,
to read as follows:
37.005. 1. Except as provided herein, the office of
administration shall be continued as set forth in house bill
384, seventy-sixth general assembly and shall be considered
as a department within the meaning used in the Omnibus State
Reorganization Act of 1974. The commissioner of
administration shall appoint directors of all major
divisions within the office of administration.
2. The commissioner of administration shall be a
member of the governmental emergency fund committee as ex
officio comptroller and the director of the department of
revenue shall be a member in place of the director of the
division of facilities management, design and construction.
3. The office of administration is designated the
"Missouri State Agency for Surplus Property" as required by
Public Law 152, eighty-first Congress as amended, and
related laws for disposal of surplus federal property. All
the powers, duties and functions vested by sections 37.075
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and 37.080, and others, are transferred by type I transfer
to the office of administration as well as all property and
personnel related to the duties. The commissioner shall
integrate the program of disposal of federal surplus
property with the processes of disposal of state surplus
property to provide economical and improved service to state
and local agencies of government. The governor shall fix
the amount of bond required by section 37.080. All
employees transferred shall be covered by the provisions of
chapter 36 and the Omnibus State Reorganization Act of 1974.
4. The commissioner of administration shall replace
the director of revenue as a member of the board of fund
commissioners and assume all duties and responsibilities
assigned to the director of revenue by sections 33.300 to
33.540 relating to duties as a member of the board and
matters relating to bonds and bond coupons.
5. All the powers, duties and functions of the
administrative services section, section 33.580 and others,
are transferred by a type I transfer to the office of
administration and the administrative services section is
abolished.
6. The commissioner of administration shall, in
addition to his or her other duties, cause to be prepared a
comprehensive plan of the state's field operations,
buildings owned or rented and the communications systems of
state agencies. Such a plan shall place priority on
improved availability of services throughout the state,
consolidation of space occupancy and economy in operations.
7. The commissioner of administration shall from time
to time examine the space needs of the agencies of state
government and space available and shall, with the approval
of the board of public buildings, assign and reassign space
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in property owned, leased or otherwise controlled by the
state. Any other law to the contrary notwithstanding, upon
a determination by the commissioner that all or part of any
property is in excess of the needs of any state agency, the
commissioner may lease such property to a private or
government entity. Any revenue received from the lease of
such property shall be deposited into the fund or funds from
which moneys for rent, operations or purchase have been
appropriated. The commissioner shall establish by rule the
procedures for leasing excess property.
8. The commissioner of administration is hereby
authorized to coordinate and control the acquisition and use
of network, telecommunications, and data processing services
in the executive branch of state government. For this
purpose, the office of administration will have authority to:
(1) Develop and implement a long-range computer
facilities plan for the use of network, telecommunications,
and data processing services in Missouri state government.
Such plan may cover, but is not limited to, operational
standards, standards for the establishment, function and
management of service centers, coordination of the data
processing education, and planning standards for application
development and implementation;
(2) Approve all additions and deletions of network,
telecommunications, and data processing services hardware,
software, and support services, and service centers;
(3) Establish standards for the development of annual
data processing application plans for each of the service
centers. These standards shall include review of post-
implementation audits. These annual plans shall be on file
in the office of administration and shall be the basis for
equipment approval requests;
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(4) Review of all state network, telecommunications,
and data processing services applications to assure
conformance with the state information systems plan, and the
information systems plans of state agencies and service
centers;
(5) Establish procurement procedures for network,
telecommunications, and data processing services hardware,
software, and support service;
(6) Establish a charging system to be used by all
service centers when performing work for any agency;
(7) Establish procedures for the receipt of service
center charges and payments for operation of the service
centers.
The commissioner shall maintain a complete inventory of all
state-owned or -leased network, telecommunications, and data
processing services equipment, and annually submit a report
to the general assembly which shall include starting and
ending network, telecommunications, and data processing
services costs for the fiscal year previously ended, and the
reasons for major increases or variances between starting
and ending costs. The commissioner shall also adopt, after
public hearing, rules and regulations designed to protect
the rights of privacy of the citizens of this state and the
confidentiality of information contained in computer tapes
or other storage devices to the maximum extent possible
consistent with the efficient operation of the office of
administration and contracting state agencies.
9. (1) Except as provided in subsection 12 of this
section, the fee title to all real property now owned or
hereafter acquired by the state of Missouri, or any
department, division, commission, board or agency of state
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government, other than real property owned or possessed by
the state highways and transportation commission,
conservation commission, state department of natural
resources, and the University of Missouri, shall on May 2,
1974, vest in the governor. The governor may not convey or
otherwise transfer the title to such real property, unless
such conveyance or transfer is first authorized by an act of
the general assembly. The provisions of this subsection
requiring authorization of a conveyance or transfer by an
act of the general assembly shall not, however, apply to the
granting or conveyance of an easement for any purpose to any
political subdivision of the state; a rural electric
cooperative as defined in chapter 394; a public utility,
except a railroad, as defined in chapter 386; or to
accommodate utility service, including electrical, gas,
steam, water, sewer, telephone, internet, or similar utility
service, extended upon or provided to state property or
facilities; to accommodate rights of access, ingress and
egress on or to any state property or facilities; or to
facilitate the construction, location, relocation, or use of
any common elements of condominium property if the state is
a unit owner within the condominium development. The
governor, with the approval of the board of public
buildings, may, upon the request of any state department,
agency, board or commission not otherwise being empowered to
make its own transfer or conveyance of any land belonging to
the state of Missouri which is under the control and custody
of such department, agency, board or commission, grant or
convey without further legislative action, for such
consideration as may be agreed upon, easements across, over,
upon or under any such state land to any political
subdivision of the state; a rural electric cooperative as
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defined in chapter 394; a public utility, except a railroad,
as defined in chapter 386; or to accommodate utility
service, including electrical, gas, steam, water, sewer,
telephone, internet, or similar utility service, extended
upon or provided to state property or facilities; to
accommodate rights of access, ingress and egress on or to
state property or facilities; or to facilitate the
construction, location, relocation, or use of any common
elements of condominium property if the state is a unit
owner within the condominium development. The easement
shall be for the purpose of promoting the general health,
welfare and safety of the public and shall include the right
of access, ingress or egress for the purpose of
constructing, maintaining or removing any street, roadway,
sidewalk, public right-of-way or thoroughfare, pipeline,
power line, gas line, water or steam line, telephone line,
internet cable, sewer line, or other similar installation or
any equipment or appurtenances necessary to the operation
thereof; except that, a railroad as defined in chapter 386
shall not be included in the provisions of this subsection
unless such conveyance or transfer is first authorized by an
act of the general assembly. The easement shall be for such
consideration as may be agreed upon by the parties and
approved by the board of public buildings. The attorney
general shall approve the form of the instrument of
conveyance. The commissioner of administration shall
prepare management plans for such properties in the manner
set out in subsection 7 of this section.
(2) There is hereby created in the state treasury the
"Real Estate Fund", which shall consist of moneys received
from the sale of real property owned by the state of
Missouri as described in this subsection. The fund shall be
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administered by the commissioner of administration or his or
her designee for the purposes of acquiring interest in real
property to be used to support state operations. The state
treasurer shall be the custodian of the fund and shall
approve disbursements from the fund at the request of the
commissioner of administration or his or her designee. The
following moneys shall be deposited to this fund, unless
required by statute or constitutional provision to be
deposited in some other specifically named fund:
(a) Any moneys or proceeds resulting from a real
property transaction involving state-owned property as
described in this subsection; and
(b) Any funds appropriated to the fund by the general
assembly or otherwise credited to the fund.
(3) The commissioner of administration shall prepare
an annual report of all receipts and expenditures from the
fund established pursuant to subdivision (2) of this
subsection. Notwithstanding the provisions of section
33.080 to the contrary, any moneys remaining in the fund at
the end of the fiscal year shall not revert to the credit of
the general revenue fund. The state treasurer shall invest
moneys in the fund in the same manner as other funds are
invested. Any interest and moneys earned on such
investments shall be credited to the fund.
10. The commissioner of administration shall
administer a revolving "Administrative Trust Fund" which
shall be established by the state treasurer which shall be
funded annually by appropriation and which shall contain
moneys transferred or paid to the office of administration
in return for goods and services provided by the office of
administration to any governmental entity or to the public.
The state treasurer shall be the custodian of the fund, and
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shall approve disbursements from the fund for the purchase
of goods or services at the request of the commissioner of
administration or the commissioner's designee. The
provisions of section 33.080 notwithstanding, moneys in the
fund shall not lapse, unless and then only to the extent to
which the unencumbered balance at the close of any fiscal
year exceeds one-eighth of the total amount appropriated,
paid, or transferred to the fund during such fiscal year,
and upon approval of the oversight division of the joint
committee on legislative research. The commissioner shall
prepare an annual report of all receipts and expenditures
from the fund.
11. All the powers, duties and functions of the
department of community affairs relating to statewide
planning are transferred by type I transfer to the office of
administration.
12. The titles which are vested in the governor by or
pursuant to this section to real property assigned to any of
the educational institutions referred to in section 174.020
on June 15, 1983, are hereby transferred to and vested in
the board of regents of the respective educational
institutions, and the titles to real property and other
interests therein hereafter acquired by or for the use of
any such educational institution, notwithstanding provisions
of this section, shall vest in the board of regents of the
educational institution. The board of regents may not
convey or otherwise transfer the title to or other interest
in such real property unless the conveyance or transfer is
first authorized by an act of the general assembly, except
as provided in section 174.042, and except that the board of
regents may grant easements over, in and under such real
property without further legislative action.
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13. Notwithstanding any provision of subsection 12 of
this section to the contrary, the board of governors of
Missouri Western State University, University of Central
Missouri, Missouri State University, or Missouri Southern
State University, or the board of regents of Southeast
Missouri State University, Northwest Missouri State
University, or Harris-Stowe State University, or the board
of curators of Lincoln University may convey or otherwise
transfer for fair market value, except in fee simple, the
title to or other interest in such real property without
authorization by an act of the general assembly.
14. All county sports complex authorities, and any
sports complex authority located in a city not within a
county, in existence on August 13, 1986, and organized under
the provisions of sections 64.920 to 64.950, are assigned to
the office of administration, but such authorities shall not
be subject to the provisions of subdivision (4) of
subsection 6 of section 1 of the Omnibus State
Reorganization Act of 1974, Appendix B, RSMo, as amended.
15. All powers, duties, and functions vested in the
administrative hearing commission, sections 621.015 to
621.205 and others, are transferred to the office of
administration by a type III transfer.

Creates a new fund for moneys received from the sale of real property owned by the state

Sponsors

Sen. David Gregory (R) sponsors SB 1578 alone.

Committees

SB 1578 went before 1 committee: Government Efficiency.

Government Efficiency
Government Efficiency
Referred to · Feb 5, 2026

History

SB 1578 has taken 5 actions since Jan 20, 2026, the latest on Mar 23, 2026.

ChamberAction
Mar 23, 2026
Senate
Hearing Conducted S Government Efficiency Committee
Mar 23, 2026
Senate
Voted Do Pass S Government Efficiency Committee
Mar 9, 2026
Senate
Hearing Cancelled S Government Efficiency Committee
Feb 5, 2026
Senate
Second Read and Referred S Government Efficiency Committee
Jan 20, 2026
Senate
S First Read

Votes

SB 1578 has not gone to a roll call.


Source: senate.mo.gov · legiscan.com