Committee advances bill requiring disclosure of development impact fees upon written request

The House Government Affairs Committee advanced Senate Bill 593 after a brief presentation that read the bill’s language aloud and described it as a transparency measure.

The presenter said the bill would add language to code section 36-71-14 requiring that, upon written request containing a specific project scope, a municipality or county imposing development impact fees disclose the total amount of fees that would be due to the local government for partial parcels on transfer of ownership. The presenter characterized the measure as “basically a transparency bill” and said it is “fairly straightforward.”

The committee moved and seconded a do-pass recommendation, recorded a voice vote and the chair declared the motion passed; one person in the room had waved to speak but no substantive public testimony was recorded in the transcript.

The transcript shows the bill was presented as a concise one-sentence amendment to disclosure requirements; the presenter identified Senator Hatchett as the bill’s primary sponsor and read the statutory language for the committee.