CS for CS for CS for SB 84 - Public-Private Partnerships

• Amends section 154.11 to allow public health trusts to lease real property as lessors, limited to office space controlled by the Public Health Trust, subject to section 125.35 requirements.

• Expands section 255.60 to authorize states, political subdivisions, public-private partnerships, and not-for-profit organizations to contract for public service work without competitive sealed bidding, with specific requirements for park land (minimum 20 acres with 5,000-person capacity facilities) and public education buildings (minimum 90,000 square feet); maintains annual contract limit of $250,000.

• Creates section 287.05712 establishing comprehensive framework for public-private partnerships including definitions, procurement procedures, project approval requirements, financing mechanisms, and sovereign immunity protections for public entities; creates Partnership for Public Facilities and Infrastructure Act Guidelines Task Force to submit recommendations by July 1, 2014.

• Creates section 336.71 authorizing counties to enter into public-private partnership agreements for county road construction projects upon public hearing and finding of public benefit and cost savings, with exemption from competitive bidding requirements under section 255.20.

• Effective date: July 1, 2013.