(a) The Office of Policy and Management shall be responsible for: (1) Long-range planning with regard to the use of all state real property; (2) determining the level of efficiency of each and every state agency’s use of any and all real property under its control; (3) maintaining an inventory of state real property; (4) maintaining an inventory of real property leased by state agencies; and (5) determining the appropriate use of state real property.

(b) In creating and maintaining such inventories, the secretary shall make recommendations concerning the reuse or disposition of state real property and identify in such inventories existing buildings that (1) are of historic, architectural or cultural significance, including buildings listed or eligible to be listed in the national register established under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, 80 Stat. 915 (1966), 16 USC 470a, and (2) would be suitable, whether or not in need of repair, alteration or addition, to meet the public building needs of the state or to meet the needs of the public in accordance with the provisions of subsection (m) of § 4b-23. At the request of the secretary, the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development shall advise the secretary as to whether such buildings are of historic, architectural or cultural significance.

(c) All state agencies shall provide the secretary, in the manner and form prescribed by the secretary, with any information requested by said secretary for purposes of maintaining the inventories required by this section.

(d) The secretary shall update such inventories not less than annually and shall provide the Commissioner of Administrative Services with a copy of such inventories whenever the inventories are updated.

(e) Not later than July 1, 2016, and annually thereafter, the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall submit a copy of such inventories, in accordance with the provisions of § 11-4a, to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to government administration and appropriations and the budgets of state agencies.

(f) Each state agency shall request and obtain the written approval of the secretary or his or her designee prior to any (1) change in ownership of state real property, (2) change in use of state real property, (3) use of state real property by an entity other than a state agency, or (4) use of state real property by a state agency other than the state agency with custody and control over such state real property. For purposes of this subsection, “state agency” does not include a constituent unit of the state system of higher education, a technical education and career school or an agency in the legislative or judicial branch of state government.

(g) Except as otherwise provided, for the purposes of this section, “state real property” means any improved or unimproved real property owned by a state agency, and “state agency” means any office, department, board, council, commission, institution, constituent unit of the state system of higher education, technical education and career school or other agency in the executive, legislative or judicial branch of state government.