§ 10-3-1104 - Powers and duties. - Arkansas Statutes

10-3-1104. Powers and duties.

(a) The Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Facilities shall review the existing usage of the space presently used by the General Assembly in the State Capitol Building and shall make such reallocations thereof or improvements thereto as in the judgment of the committee are necessary to serve the needs of the Senate and the House of Representatives, their respective standing committees, and the several interim committees of the General Assembly and legislative staff services.

(b) The committee may undertake any or all of the improvements contemplated in this subchapter after conferring with the Legislative Council, the agencies affected, and the Governor, giving due consideration to the needs and convenience of the several state agencies presently housed in the State Capitol Building in space to be converted to legislative use, and especially after considering the plans for providing space for said agencies in a state office building, and may undertake improvements as a single project or in a series of projects as the committee may determine to be in the best interest of the General Assembly.

(c) If, after proper investigation and the exhausting of all other reasonable alternatives, the committee deems it necessary to require any of the state agencies currently housed in space which under the provisions of this subchapter is made available for legislative use to vacate the space, the committee may use funds appropriated in Acts 1973, No. 572, 1, to provide rented quarters to house any such agency until space for the agency becomes available in a state-owned facility.