Title 28, Public Financial Administration

(1) As used in the statute laws of this state, unless the context or specially applicable definition requires otherwise, the words “subaccounts,” “accounts” or “funds” are used interchangeably, where such use is consistent with state accounting principles and is accepted for use …

As used in ORS 291.001 to 291.034, 291.201 to 291.222, 291.232 to 291.260, 291.261, 291.307 and 291.990, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Classification of expenditures” means the categories of expenses for the purpose of budget-making and accounting that are provided …

Notwithstanding any provision of ORS 291.001 to 291.034, 291.201 to 291.222, 291.232 to 291.260, 291.261, 291.307 and 291.990, but subject to any applicable judgment or settlement agreement, in all cases where federal funds are involved, the federal laws, rules and regulations ap…

(1) The Director of the Oregon Department of Administrative Services may require a fidelity bond of any officer, employee or agent of the department or of any other state officer, employee or agent who has charge of, handles or has access to any money or property belonging to the…

(1) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services, under the direction of the Governor and as provided by law, is responsible generally for the administration and coordination of internal accounting and other affairs, controls, procedures and services of a fiscal nature of the…

The Oregon Department of Administrative Services, or the State Chief Information Officer for purposes related to information and telecommunications technology, may make or cause to be made administrative and organizational surveys of the state agencies for the purpose of determin…

The Oregon Department of Administrative Services, or the State Chief Information Officer for purposes related to information and telecommunications technology, shall conduct research for use in administrative planning, policy review and organization and methods improvement. Perio…

For the purposes of carrying out its duties, powers and functions, the Oregon Department of Administrative Services may examine the records, files, documents, accounts and financial affairs of any state agency, and shall have the right of access for that purpose. During business …

The Oregon Department of Administrative Services, upon the basis of its research and reports received, shall submit, from time to time, for the Governor’s consideration and appropriate action thereupon, suggestions for the development of interagency policies consistent with the e…

As used in ORS 291.032 and 291.034, “state agency” or “agency” includes the Legislative Assembly, at its option, or any of its statutory, standing, special or interim committees, at the option of such committee, and the courts and their officers and committees and the constitutio…

The Oregon Department of Administrative Services, or the State Chief Information Officer for purposes related to information and telecommunications technology, may provide technical services to state agencies for management improvement development and the development of economies…

The State Chief Information Officer may provide technical services to state agencies for data processing systems development and developing data processing methods and applications in a manner that is consistent with the State Chief Information Officer’s rules, policies and stand…

(1) Within 180 days of the close of each fiscal year, the Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall prepare a financial report for the State of Oregon. The report shall contain financial statements which fairly present the financial condition and results of operation of …

(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, the State Chief Information Officer: (a) May hold copyrights and obtain patents on copyrightable or patentable data processing programs, information or materials that a state agency develops, publishes or produces. (b) May…

(1) For each calendar quarter, a state agency shall report to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services the number of state agency employees during the preceding calendar quarter who received a pay-line exception and the amount of each pay-line exception. For each calendar…

As used in this section and ORS 291.047: (1) “Information technology” includes, but is not limited to, all present and future forms of hardware, software and services for data processing, office automation and telecommunications. (2) “State agency” includes every state officer, b…

(1) The Attorney General shall approve for legal sufficiency all personal services contracts, all architectural and engineering services contracts and all information technology contracts calling for payment in excess of $75,000 entered into by a state agency before any such cont…

(1) If the parties to a public contract perform under the contract before the contract is approved for legal sufficiency by the Attorney General as required under ORS 291.047 and section 3, chapter 869, Oregon Laws 1997, the agency may ratify the public contract if the Attorney G…

As used in ORS 291.050 to 291.060: (1) “Fee” means an amount imposed and collected by a state agency to defray or recover the costs of administering the law involved in providing a service to the public and used by the state agency to carry out or enforce a law under its jurisdic…

(1) Notwithstanding any other law that grants to a state agency the authority to establish fees, all new state agency fees or fee increases adopted during the period beginning on the date of adjournment sine die of a regular session of the Legislative Assembly and ending on the d…

The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall, no later than January 15 of each odd-numbered year, provide the Legislative Assembly with a report setting forth in detail all fees charged by each state agency, the purpose for the fee or charge, the persons affected by the…

(1) It is the intent of the Legislative Assembly, in funding the development and implementation of a new statewide financial management system, that statewide financial management systems and policies support program-driven budget planning and execution, based on timely and accur…

(1) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall ensure that state agency activities and programs are directed toward achieving performance outcomes. The department shall: (a) Monitor progress, identify barriers and generate alternative approaches for attaining performa…

(1) Pursuant to ORS 291.252, if the Oregon Department of Administrative Services certifies agency savings due to agency actions rather than changes in service demands and such actions do not materially reduce legislatively authorized programs, 50 percent of the savings shall be c…

ORS 291.195, 291.201 and 291.203 may be cited as the Budget Accountability Act. [1995 c.746 §61] Note: 291.190 and 291.195 were enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but were not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 291 or any series therein by legislative action. See Pr…

(1) The Legislative Assembly hereby declares that the ability to make fiscally sound and effective spending decisions has been enhanced by requiring agencies and programs to develop performance measures and to evaluate all General Fund, State Lottery Fund and other expenditures i…

(1) It is the intent of the Legislative Assembly to require the Governor, in the preparation of the Governor’s budget, to state as precisely as possible what programs the Governor recommends be approved for funding under estimated revenues under ORS 291.342. If estimated revenues…

As used in ORS 291.201 to 291.222, “tax expenditure” means any law of the federal government or this state that exempts, in whole or in part, certain persons, income, goods, services or property from the impact of established taxes, including but not limited to tax deductions, ta…

(1) Except as otherwise provided in ORS 291.222, the Governor shall prepare in each even-numbered year for the biennium beginning July 1 of the following year: (a) A Governor’s budget; and (b) A tax expenditure report. (2) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall ad…

(1) Not later than November 10 of each even-numbered year, the Governor shall cause the tax expenditure report to be compiled and prepared for printing. (2) In the tax expenditure report, the Governor shall: (a) List each tax expenditure; (b) Identify the statutory authority for …

(1) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services, by July 1 of each even-numbered year, shall furnish every state agency with: (a) Instructions for preparing for submission to the Governor the information required by the Governor in the preparation of the Governor’s budget; a…

(1) The Governor shall prescribe rules the Governor considers necessary for the guidance of agencies in the preparation of agency request budgets. The Governor shall use the classifications of expenditures provided in ORS 291.216 (6)(a) and shall prepare and prescribe classificat…

Each state agency shall file with the Oregon Department of Administrative Services, before September 1 in each even-numbered year in the manner required, an agency request budget containing the information required. The department shall prepare agency request budgets for all agen…

(1) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services and the Legislative Fiscal Officer shall prepare a tentative budget for the next biennium for which the Governor’s budget is prepared. The tentative budget shall consist of the estimated revenues under ORS 291.342 for the next …

(1) The Governor, during the preparation of the Governor’s budget and before its submission to the Legislative Assembly, shall identify each tax expenditure that has a full or partial sunset that, if allowed to take effect, will have a fiscal impact on the state or on school dist…

(1) Each biennium, the Governor shall propose as part of the Governor’s recommended budget an amount for deferred maintenance and capital improvements on existing state-owned buildings and infrastructure that is equivalent to at least two percent of the current replacement value …

(1) The Governor’s budget shall include a budget message prepared by the Governor, including recommendations of the Governor with reference to the fiscal policy of the state government for the coming biennium, describing the important features of the budget, embracing a general b…

(1) As used in this section: (a) “Continuous improvement” means a set of actions designed to permanently improve state agency performance, either in a specific targeted area or across all levels of an agency, through the use of structured process analysis and problem solving. (b)…

Except when the Governor under whose supervision the Governor’s budget and the tax expenditure report have been prepared will be succeeded in office in January next following: (1) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall have as many copies of the Governor’s budget …

(1) The Governor, upon request, shall furnish the Legislative Assembly any further information required concerning the Governor’s budget and the tax expenditure report. (2) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services, upon request, shall furnish a representative to assist th…

If the Governor under whose supervision the Governor’s budget and tax expenditure report have been prepared will be succeeded in office in January next following: (1) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall make available to the Governor-elect so much as the Govern…

(1) Not later than November 10 of each even-numbered year the Governor shall cause the Governor’s budget estimates to be made available to the Legislative Fiscal Officer and to the Legislative Revenue Officer. (2) Before December 1 of the year in which they were made available un…

(1) A capital construction program containing estimated capital construction needs, irrespective of how financed, must be included with the Governor’s budget. The capital construction program must contain the estimated physical construction requirements for each biennium of a per…

(1)(a) As part of the development of the legislatively adopted budget, each state agency that employs more than 100 employees shall report to the Joint Committee on Ways and Means the state agency’s maximum supervisory ratio for the biennium. (b) Before submitting the report to t…

(1) It is declared to be the policy and intent of the Legislative Assembly that: (a) The legislatively adopted or approved budget for a state agency constitutes a determination by the Legislative Assembly of the amount needed by the agency for the biennium to meet the responsibil…

(1) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall make allotments to state officers and agencies of appropriations and funds pursuant to the allotment system provided for in ORS 291.234 to 291.260. (2) For the purposes of the allotment system, each fiscal year shall be d…

(1) The provisions of ORS 291.234 to 291.260 relating to the allotment system shall apply to all appropriations for state officers and agencies. For this purpose “appropriation” includes standing, continuing and annual appropriations, and dedicated funds. In those cases where per…

(1) Except as expressly authorized in this section or ORS 291.236, no person shall incur, or order or vote to incur, any obligation against the state in excess of, or make or order or vote to make any expenditure not authorized by, an allotment. Any such obligation so incurred sh…

(1) An appropriation to which the allotment system is applicable does not become available to any state agency for expenditure during any allotment period until: (a) The agency submits to the Oregon Department of Administrative Services an estimate, in such form as the department…

The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall act promptly upon all estimates required by ORS 291.242. If the estimate is within the terms of the appropriation as to amount and purposes, having due regard for the probable further needs of the agency for the remainder of …