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<section article="gsf" article_name="State Finance and Procurement" number="12-203" title_number="12" title_name="Organization and Supervision of State Procurement" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Supervision of Capital Expenditures and Real Property Leases">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The Board may adopt regulations that allow a unit of the State government to enter into a contract or make a change order related to a capital project without approval.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>These regulations shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>comply with this section; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>be subject to the approval of the Joint Committee on Administrative, Executive, and Legislative Review.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Regulations adopted under this section shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>establish an expenditure or use classification to determine which contracts or change orders may be made without Board approval;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>set an amount for each classification and require a unit of the State government to obtain approval of the Board if the annual dollar value of a contract and its change orders exceeds that amount; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>require a unit of the State government to establish a reporting system approved by the Board to inform the Board about contracts or change orders entered into without Board approval.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The amount established by the Board under paragraph (1)(ii) of this subsection shall be an amount that:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>frees the Board from direct review of relatively insignificant items; but</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>does not impair the strong public policy favoring direct review by the Board for items that have a substantial fiscal impact.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
