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2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 291 - State Financial Administration › Section 291.223 - Furnishing budget estimates to Legislative Fiscal Officer and Legislative Revenue Officer; confidentiality of estimates.

(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 under subsection (1) of this section, the Legislative Fiscal Officer or staff and the Legislative Revenue Officer or staff may not reveal to any other person the contents or nature of the Governor’s budget or other materials, except with the written consent of the Governor. [1969 c.173 §4; 1975 c.789 §9; 2016 c.117 §24]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 291 - State Financial Administration › Section 291.232 - Declaration of policy.

(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 responsibilities imposed on the agency through the budget and through statutes governing the agency; and
(b) Except as provided in subsections (2) and (3) of this section, appropriations from the General Fund to a state agency constitute a direction to the agency to spend the amount of moneys appropriated in order to meet the responsibilities imposed on the agency through the budget and through statutes governing the agency.
(2) If a state agency does not need all of the moneys that are made available to it by the legislatively adopted or approved budget to meet its responsibilities, the agency need not spend all moneys appropriated or otherwise made available to it.
(3) The Governor and the Oregon Department of Administrative Services are given the powers granted by ORS 291.201 to 291.222 and 291.232 to 291.260 in order that the Governor and the department might effect savings, without reducing the responsibilities imposed on state agencies, by:
(a) Careful supervision throughout each biennium, with due regard to changing conditions; and
(b) Promotion of more economic and efficient management of state agencies. [Amended by 2003 c.734 §11]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 291 - State Financial Administration › Section 291.234 - Department to make allotments to state officers and agencies of appropriations and funds; allotment period; exemptions.

(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 divided into four quarterly allotment periods, beginning, respectively, on the first days of July, October, January and April. The department may prescribe a different period suited to the circumstances or may exempt agencies that have demonstrated to the department’s satisfaction that the appropriate fiscal controls are in place. [Amended by 1993 c.724 §4]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 291 - State Financial Administration › Section 291.236 - Application of allotment system; controlling expenditures and encumbering of emergency, contingent, revolving and trust funds.

(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 periodical allotments are impracticable, the Oregon Department of Administrative Services may dispense therewith and prescribe such regulations as will insure proper application and encumbering of funds.
(2) Subject to ORS 291.238, emergency or contingent funds, revolving funds and trust funds shall be subject to such regulations as the department may prescribe for controlling the expenditures and encumbering of such funds.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 291 - State Financial Administration › Section 291.238 - Expenditures without allotment prohibited; expenditures from dedicated, revolving and trust funds.

(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 shall not be binding against the state, but where the obligation violates this section only for having been made in excess of an allotment, the Oregon Department of Administrative Services may authorize payment thereof from unallotted funds.
(2) Excepting as to administrative expenditures from dedicated, revolving and trust funds and to revolving funds established to provide services rendered by any state agency to other state agencies or to any body politic of the State of Oregon, expenditures from dedicated funds, revolving funds and trust funds may be made by any state agency without appropriation or allotment.
(3) No person shall make or order or vote to make any expenditure from or chargeable to a revolving fund or trust fund in excess of the amount standing to the credit of such fund or for any purpose for which such fund may not lawfully be expended.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 291 - State Financial Administration › Section 291.242 - Allotment required before expenditure of appropriation; submitting estimates; notice to Legislative Fiscal Office.

(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 prescribes, for the allotment period, of the amount required for each activity to be carried on during that period; and
(b) The estimate is approved, increased or decreased by the department and funds allotted therefor.
(2) At the time a state agency submits an estimate to the department under subsection (1)(a) of this section, the agency shall submit a copy of the estimate to the Legislative Fiscal Office. The department may not allot funds under subsection (1)(b) of this section until the agency submits a copy of the estimate to the Legislative Fiscal Office. [Amended by 2009 c.885 §2]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 291 - State Financial Administration › Section 291.244 - Department action on estimates.

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 the term for which the appropriation was made, and if the department determines that there is a need for the estimated amount for the allotment period, the department shall approve the estimate and allot the estimated amount for expenditures. Otherwise the department shall modify the estimate so as to conform with the terms of the appropriation and the prospective needs of the agency, and shall reduce the amount allotted accordingly.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 291 - State Financial Administration › Section 291.246 - Allotments to be made for purpose or classification of expenditure prescribed in appropriation measure.

Allotments shall be made according to purpose and classification of expenditures prescribed in the appropriation measure as enacted by the Legislative Assembly; provided, however, that the Oregon Department of Administrative Services may make allotments for agencies by purposes or by other classification of expenditures of amounts appropriated or authorized to be expended in appropriation measures enacted by the Legislative Assembly, whether or not such measures establish classification of expenditures. In making allotments, the department shall not authorize the expenditure of moneys for any purpose not authorized by the Act appropriating the money or authorizing it to be expended, and the funds allotted for each purpose or classification of expenditure shall be used for no other purpose or classification of expenditure. [Amended by 1963 c.182 §7]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 291 - State Financial Administration › Section 291.250 - Claims and encumbrances limited by amount and purpose of allotment.

The agency shall not create any claim or encumbrance for the future disbursement of appropriated moneys unless the proposed expenditure as estimated, together with expenses theretofore paid from or encumbered against such allotment, is within the total amount and for the purposes specified in the notice of allotment transmitted to such agency.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 291 - State Financial Administration › Section 291.252 - Modification of allotment previously made; notice to Legislative Fiscal Office.

(1) Upon application of or upon notice to the agency concerned, the Oregon Department of Administrative Services may at any time modify or amend any allotment previously made by the department.
(2) A modification or amendment of an allotment made under subsection (1) of this section may not reduce an allotment below the amount required to meet valid obligations or commitments previously incurred against the allotted funds, including, but not limited to, commitments for the payment of debt service as defined in ORS 291.261.
(3)(a) An agency that applies for modification or amendment of an allotment as authorized by subsection (1) of this section shall submit a copy of the application to the Legislative Fiscal Office at the same time it submits the application to the department.
(b) If the department modifies or amends an allotment upon notice to an agency as authorized by subsection (1) of this section, the department shall notify the Legislative Fiscal Office of the modification or amendment at the same time it notifies the agency. [Amended by 2009 c.1 §1; 2009 c.885 §3]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 291 - State Financial Administration › Section 291.258 - Approval of department required for establishment of new personnel position or classification.

A new personnel position or classification, not provided in the budget of an agency upon which appropriations have been based, may not be established without prior approval of the Oregon Department of Administrative Services. The department shall notify the Legislative Fiscal Office of establishment of any new personnel position or classification. [Amended by 2016 c.117 §26]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 291 - State Financial Administration › Section 291.260 - Approving, modifying or disapproving requests and budgets to be submitted to the federal government.

(1) At the request of the Oregon Department of Administrative Services, before a state agency makes requests or prepares budgets to be submitted to the federal government for funds, equipment, material or services, other than for highway purposes, the agency shall submit the request or budget to the department.
(2) The department may approve, disapprove, modify or amend the request or budget before it is submitted to the proper federal authority.
(3) The requirements of this section are in addition to the requirements of ORS 291.375 and 293.550. [Amended by 2016 c.117 §27]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 291 - State Financial Administration › Section 291.261 - Reducing allotment to prevent deficit; exception.

(1) Notwithstanding the legislative policy and intent declared in ORS 291.232, if the Oregon Department of Administrative Services declares at any time during a biennium that there is a projected deficit in that biennium, the department may, with the approval of the Governor and in order to prevent the deficit, reduce the amount allotted to state agencies under ORS 291.234 to 291.260 from the General Fund in the manner provided in subsection (2) of this section.
(2)(a) In reducing allotments under this section, the department and the Governor shall follow legislative funding priorities as expressed in statutes and in the legislatively adopted or approved budget for the biennium. Unless statutes or the legislatively adopted or approved budget indicate otherwise, the department and the Governor shall assume that all General Fund appropriations have the same priority and shall reduce allotments of General Fund moneys for each state agency receiving General Fund moneys by the same percentage.
(b) The department and the Governor may not reduce allotments under this section by a total amount that exceeds the amount necessary to bring the total estimated General Fund ending balance to zero.
(3) For purposes of this section, the department may declare that there is a projected deficit if a quarterly estimate made as provided in ORS 291.342 indicates that the projected balance in the General Fund at the end of the biennium will be less than zero.
(4) Subsections (1) to (3) of this section do not apply to an allotment, or a portion of an allotment, that is designated by a state agency for the payment of debt service. After an allotment that is designated by a state agency for the payment of debt service is made, the department and the Governor may not reduce the allotment or a portion of the allotment below the amount needed for the payment of debt service in the biennium.
(5) As used in this section:
(a) "Agreement for exchange of interest rates" has the meaning given that term in ORS 286A.001.
(b) "Bond" has the meaning given that term in ORS 286A.001.
(c) "Credit enhancement device" has the meaning given that term in ORS 286A.001.
(d) "Payment of debt service" means:
(A) The payment of principal, interest or other amounts owed under a bond;
(B) The transfer, segregation or other disposition of moneys to comply with bond payment amounts or required reserve amounts; or
(C) The payment of amounts owed under an agreement for exchange of interest rates, a credit enhancement device or a similar instrument. [2003 c.734 §12; 2009 c.1 §2]
Note:
291.261 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 291 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 291 - State Financial Administration › Section 291.263 - Vacant positions; information to Oregon Department of Administrative Services; report to Legislative Fiscal Officer.

(1) As used in this section, "state agency" includes any state officer, department, board, commission or court, the Legislative Assembly, its committees, officers and employees.
(2) A state agency shall inform the Oregon Department of Administrative Services of any position that has remained vacant for a continuous period of six months by including a report on the position in the estimate submitted to the department under ORS 291.242. The department may consider the vacancy in its determinations under ORS 291.244 and may reduce the amount allotted to the state agency.
(3) The department shall, on or before February 1 of each year, provide a report to the Legislative Fiscal Officer of any position that has remained vacant for a continuous period of at least six months. The department shall include in the report the amount and source of funds for the position. For each position included on a previous report under this subsection, the department shall notify the Legislative Fiscal Officer of conditions that affect the position, including recruitment actions, filling the position or using the position for purposes other than what was anticipated in the legislatively approved budget. The Legislative Fiscal Officer shall review the list and make recommendations on adjustments to agency position authority to the Joint Committee on Ways and Means. [2001 c.858 §1; 2003 c.803 §11; 2017 c.746 §2]
Note:
291.263 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 291 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 291 - State Financial Administration › Section 291.272 - Definitions for ORS 291.272 to 291.278.

As used in ORS 291.272 to 291.278, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) "Governmental service expenses" means the expenses of state government that are attributable to the operation, maintenance, administration and support of state government generally, and includes the following:
(a) Administrative expenditures of the Oregon Department of Administrative Services supported out of the General Fund.
(b) Sixty percent of the administrative expenditures of the Legislative Assembly out of moneys appropriated from the General Fund, and all of the expenditures incurred in the administration of the duties of the Emergency Board.
(c) Sixty percent of the administrative expenditures incurred by the Legislative Fiscal Office out of moneys appropriated from the General Fund in the administration of the duties of the Joint Committee on Ways and Means and the Emergency Board.
(d) Sixty percent of the administrative expenditures incurred out of moneys appropriated from the General Fund in the administration of the duties of the Legislative Counsel Committee.
(e) Seventy-five percent of the administrative expenditures of the Office of the Governor incurred out of moneys appropriated from the General Fund.
(2) "State agency" means every state officer, board, commission, department, institution, branch or agency of the state government, whose costs are paid wholly or in part from funds held in the State Treasury, and includes the Legislative Assembly, the courts and their officers and committees. [1967 c.637 §2; 1973 c.439 §9; 1983 c.385 §1; 1985 c.565 §45; 1991 c.112 §1; 2013 c.722 §46; 2016 c.117 §28]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 291 - State Financial Administration › Section 291.274 - Determination of funds and appropriations to be assessed.

The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall determine and may at any time redetermine which state funds or appropriations shall be assessed a reasonable share of governmental service expenses. In determining or redetermining the funds that shall be so assessed:
(1) A fund consisting of moneys the use of which is restricted by the Oregon Constitution shall be assessed only those governmental service expenses ascertained as being necessarily incurred in connection with the purposes set forth in the Oregon Constitution.
(2) Trust funds shall be assessed only those governmental service expenses ascertained as being necessarily incurred in connection with the purposes for which the trust fund was established. [1967 c.637 §3]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 291 - State Financial Administration › Section 291.276 - Department allocation of governmental service expenses among state agencies.

(1) With respect to each biennium beginning on July 1 of an odd-numbered year, the Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall allocate among all state agencies the governmental service expenses, as determined by the department in accordance with ORS 291.272, for the biennium ending two years prior to the beginning of the biennium for which the allocation is made.
(2) The department, in accordance with the procedures and methods prescribed under subsection (3) of this section, shall determine and may at any time redetermine the reasonable share of governmental service expenses to be assessed against any fund or appropriation. Such expenses shall be a charge against any fund so designated and be considered an administrative expenditure of the agency administering the fund or appropriation.
(3) The department, with the approval of the Governor, shall prepare and prescribe the procedures and methods used in determining and redetermining the reasonable share of governmental service expenses assessed against any fund or appropriation.
(4) The department, with the approval of the Governor, may make rules necessary or proper to carry out the duties imposed upon it by ORS 291.272 to 291.278.
(5) The computation required by subsection (1) of this section shall be made by the department in advance of the biennium with respect to which the allocation is to be made. [1967 c.637 §4; 1969 c.105 §1; 2005 c.22 §213; 2016 c.117 §29]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 291 - State Financial Administration › Section 291.278 - Transfer of allocated amounts.

(1) Upon completion of the determination by the Oregon Department of Administrative Services under ORS 291.274 and 291.276, the department shall:
(a) Transfer to the Legislative Fiscal Office Operating Fund, with appropriate notice to the State Treasurer, out of moneys appropriated to each state agency, the amount of $4,500,000; and
(b) After deducting the amounts specified in paragraph (a) of this subsection, transfer to the General Fund, with appropriate notice to the State Treasurer, out of moneys appropriated to each state agency, the amount of governmental service expenses certified for the agency.
(2) In the case of a state agency that collects or receives moneys for fees, fines, licenses or taxes not by law made a part of the General Fund available for general governmental purposes, if moneys available to such state agency are not sufficient to permit the transfers under subsection (1) of this section, the department shall notify the state agency of the amount certified with respect to the state agency under ORS 291.274 and 291.276, less any amount transferred out of moneys appropriated to such state agency under subsection (1) of this section. Thereafter, until such balance has been paid into the General Fund, 10 percent of all moneys collected or received by the state agency for fees, fines, licenses or taxes not by law made a part of the General Fund available for general governmental purposes shall be:
(a) Transferred by the department to and made a part of the General Fund available for general governmental purposes if such moneys are paid to the State Treasurer by the state agency; or
(b) Paid to the State Treasurer by the state agency receiving such moneys at the time when they are received by the state agency if such moneys are authorized by law to be kept and disbursed other than by and through the State Treasurer, and be credited by the State Treasurer to and made a part of the General Fund available for general governmental purposes.
(3) The transfers and payments to the Legislative Fiscal Office Operating Fund and the General Fund required by this section shall be made notwithstanding any law that appropriates such moneys or any of them to any other purposes, and such portion so paid and transferred is not subject to any special uses thereby provided. [1967 c.637 §5; 2013 c.722 §47; 2015 c.840 §4; 2019 c.643 §20]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 291 - State Financial Administration › Section 291.285 - Payment of accounting charges from Economic Development Fund.

Moneys in the Administrative Services Economic Development Fund are continuously appropriated for the payment of accounting charges of the Oregon Department of Administrative Services in order to maintain accountability of the fund. [1985 c.828 §16]
Note:
291.285 and 291.290 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 Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 291 - State Financial Administration › Section 291.290 - Cash account of state agency for receipts from Economic Development Fund.

If a state agency is authorized to receive moneys from the Administrative Services Economic Development Fund based on approved legislative limitations, such moneys shall be deposited in a general fund cash account in the State Treasury unless funds are directed to be deposited elsewhere. If the receiving agency is not authorized by statute to have such a cash account, the Oregon Department of Administrative Services in cooperation with the State Treasurer may create a cash account in the General Fund for the receipt of these moneys. [1985 c.828 §17]
Note:
See note under 291.285.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 291 - State Financial Administration › Section 291.307 - Appropriation from General Fund to constitute a credit only.

An appropriation of any sum of money from the General Fund by any law shall not be considered as segregating or setting aside the amount of such appropriation from the moneys constituting the General Fund, but shall be considered and construed as constituting a credit in favor of the appropriation for the amount stated in the law making the appropriation, subject to allotment as provided in ORS 291.232 to 291.260. [Formerly 291.376]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 291 - State Financial Administration › Section 291.322 - Definitions for ORS 291.322 to 291.334.

As used in ORS 291.322 to 291.334:
(1) "Emergency" means any catastrophe, disaster or unforeseen or unanticipated condition or circumstance, or abnormal change of conditions or circumstances, affecting the functions of a state agency and the expenditure requirements for the performance of these functions.
(2) "State agency" means any elected or appointed officer, board, commission, department, institution, branch or other agency of the state government. [1953 c.386 §1]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 291 - State Financial Administration › Section 291.326 - Powers of board concerning expenditures by state agencies.

(1) The Emergency Board, during the interim between sessions of the Legislative Assembly, may exercise the following powers:
(a) Where an emergency exists, to allocate to any state agency, out of any emergency fund that may be appropriated to the Emergency Board for that purpose, additional funds beyond the amount appropriated to the agency by the Legislative Assembly, or funds to carry on an activity required by law for which an appropriation was not made.
(b) Where an emergency exists, to authorize any state agency to expend, from funds dedicated or continuously appropriated for the uses and purposes of the agency, sums in excess of the amount of the budget of the agency as approved in accordance with law.
(c) In the case of a new activity coming into existence at such a time as to preclude the possibility of submitting a budget to the Legislative Assembly for approval, to approve, or revise and approve, a budget of the money appropriated for such new activity.
(d) Where an emergency exists, to revise or amend the budgets of state agencies to the extent of authorizing transfers between expenditure classifications within the budget of an agency.
(2) No allocation, authorization or approval under subsection (1)(a), (b) or (c) of this section shall be effective unless made at a meeting at which 10 members of the board were present.
(3) The laws enacted by the Legislative Assembly making appropriations and limiting expenditures, or either, are not intended to limit the powers of the Emergency Board. [1953 c.386 §3; subsection (3) enacted as 1963 c.182 §2; 1973 c.201 §2]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 291 - State Financial Administration › Section 291.328 - Board may require presentation of evidence to support requests for action; filing of orders.

(1) Before the Emergency Board makes any allocation, grants any authorization or approves any budget under ORS 291.326, the board may require a state agency to submit written evidence to justify the allocation, authorization or approval or may require the head of the agency to appear before it in support thereof.
(2) The Emergency Board may require the Director of the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to submit a written report regarding the need and justification for the allocation, authorization or approval.
(3) Upon making an allocation, granting an authorization or approving a budget, the Emergency Board shall file with the department and the Secretary of State a copy of the order of allocation, grant of authorization or approved budget. [1953 c.386 §4; 2016 c.117 §30]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 291 - State Financial Administration › Section 291.330 - Members of board; confirmation.

The Emergency Board shall be composed of the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the chairpersons of the Senate and House Ways and Means Committees, eight other members of the Senate, at least four of whom shall have had some previous experience on the Ways and Means Committee, to be appointed by the President of the Senate and confirmed by a majority of all the members elected to the Senate, and eight other members of the House, at least four of whom shall have had some previous experience on the Ways and Means Committee, to be appointed by the Speaker and confirmed by a majority of all the members elected to the House. [1953 c.386 §5; 1973 c.201 §1; 1979 c.324 §1; 2007 c.695 §1]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 291 - State Financial Administration › Section 291.332 - Meetings of board; terms of members; filling vacancies on board.

(1) The Emergency Board shall meet immediately upon adjournment sine die of each odd-numbered year regular session of the Legislative Assembly. The board shall meet thereafter at such times as it may determine, except that the activities of the board are suspended during the period beginning at the convening of a regular session of the Legislative Assembly and ending at the adjournment of that session.
(2)(a) The President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall serve as cochairpersons of the board.
(b) The President of the Senate shall appoint members of the board from among members of the Senate. The Speaker of the House of Representatives shall appoint members from among members of the House of Representatives.
(3) The board may not transact business unless a quorum is present. A quorum consists of a majority of board members from the House of Representatives and a majority of board members from the Senate.
(4) Action by the board requires the affirmative vote of a majority of board members from the House of Representatives and a majority of board members from the Senate.
(5) The term of members of the board shall run from the adjournment of one odd-numbered year regular session to the convening of the next odd-numbered year regular session.
(6) If a vacancy occurs in the board, either the Speaker, if the legislator previously filling the position was a member of the House, or the President, if the legislator previously filling the position was a member of the Senate, shall fill the vacancy by an appointment for the unexpired term. [1953 c.386 §6; 2007 c.695 §2; 2011 c.545 §14; 2016 c.117 §31]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 291 - State Financial Administration › Section 291.334 - Assistance of Legislative Fiscal Office to board; payment of board expenses.

(1) The Legislative Fiscal Office, upon request of the Emergency Board, shall furnish necessary assistance to the board.
(2) The expenses of the board, the cost of employed assistance, and other necessary expenses of the board shall be paid out of funds appropriated to the board specially for that purpose or, if no appropriation is made, out of any emergency fund that may be appropriated to the board. All claims for those expenses and cost must be approved by the cochairpersons of the board or other person authorized to approve claims, and warrants shall be drawn on the State Treasurer for the payment in the same manner as other expenses are paid. [1953 c.386 §7; 1967 c.454 §96; 1975 c.530 §7; 2016 c.117 §32]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 291 - State Financial Administration › Section 291.342 - Annual estimation of state revenues; apportionment among counties of any state property tax levy necessary to make up deficiency; quarterly estimates.

(1) By August 15 of each year, but not earlier than 90 days from the end of the regular session of the Legislative Assembly held in that calendar year, the Oregon Department of Administrative Services, with the assistance of the Department of Revenue, shall:
(a) Ascertain by computation and estimate the total amount of revenue available for state purposes for the current fiscal year; and
(b) Apportion the state tax levy on property, if any, among the several counties in the manner provided in ORS 291.445.
(2) In addition to the requirement in subsection (1) of this section, the Oregon Department of Administrative Services with the assistance of the Department of Revenue shall for each calendar quarter of the year ascertain by computation and estimate the total amount of revenue available for state purposes for the current fiscal year, as well as the amount of revenue received quarterly, cumulated throughout the biennium, and report its estimate to the Legislative Revenue Officer and to the Legislative Fiscal Officer.
(3) In carrying out its duties under subsection (2) of this section, the Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall issue quarterly a statement setting forth the methodology and assumptions used in making the revenue estimate. Nothing in this subsection requires the statement to set forth procedures used or methods used to determine either the methodology or the assumptions. [Formerly 309.510; 1971 s.s. c.5 §3; 1975 c.789 §10; 1980 c.11 §1; 2011 c.545 §21; 2012 c.107 §21]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 291 - State Financial Administration › Section 291.345 - Appropriation of certain excess corporate income and excise tax revenues to State School Fund.

(1) For purposes of implementing Article IX, section 14 (3), of the Oregon Constitution, if revenues received by the General Fund from the corporate income and excise taxes during the biennium exceed the amount estimated to be received from such taxes for the biennium by two percent or more, the Legislative Assembly shall appropriate an amount equal to the total amount of the excess to the State School Fund established by ORS 327.008 for apportionment as provided in ORS 327.008.
(2) The amount appropriated under this section shall be in addition to the total amount of revenues the Legislative Assembly would otherwise appropriate, allocate or make available for the biennium for funding kindergarten through grade 12 public education if excess revenues described in subsection (1) of this section were not available. [2013 c.733 §1]
Note:
291.345 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 291 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 291 - State Financial Administration › Section 291.348 - Biennial estimate of General Fund and State Lottery Fund revenues; certification to Secretary of State.

(1) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services, as soon as possible after June 30 of each even-numbered year, shall ascertain the total of General Fund revenues obtained from all sources during the preceding fiscal year, so far as is practicable.
(2) The Director of the Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall certify to the total of General Fund and State Lottery Fund revenues during the preceding fiscal year as determined under subsection (1) of this section.
(3) As used in this section:
(a) "General Fund revenues" means all payments of money credited to the State Treasury that are placed or to be placed by the State Treasurer to the credit of the General Fund of the State of Oregon for general governmental purposes.
(b) "State Lottery Fund revenues" means the net proceeds of the state lottery authorized by section 4, Article XV of the Oregon Constitution. [1965 c.615 §12; 1967 c.454 §98; 1985 c.828 §18; 2016 c.117 §33]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 291 - State Financial Administration › Section 291.351 - Certification of costs.

If, based on the report made under ORS 291.349 (2), an amount will be credited under ORS 291.349 (4), the Department of Revenue shall certify the costs that are incurred in calculating and administering the credits under ORS 291.349 (4). The amount of the costs certified by the department under this section may not exceed $250,000. Costs shall be certified by the department within 15 days of the date the report under ORS 291.349 (2) is made. As used in this section, "costs" means and is limited to those costs that, absent the requirement of providing credits under ORS 291.349 (4), would not be incurred by the department. [1995 c.815 §4; 1999 c.23 §2; 2011 c.299 §3]
Note:
291.351 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 291 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 291 - State Financial Administration › Section 291.357 - Limitation on rate of growth of appropriations for general governmental purposes; exceeding limitation.

(1) As used in this section, "general governmental purposes" means:
(a) Those activities defined as governmental activities under the accounting standards promulgated by the Governmental Accounting Standards Board of the Financial Accounting Foundation that are in effect on August 10, 2001; and
(b) Post-secondary educational activities that are partially funded by student tuition and fees.
(2) Each biennium, state governmental appropriations for general governmental purposes shall be no greater than eight percent of projected personal income in Oregon for the same biennium. Projected personal income shall be based on the United States Department of Commerce projections used by the Oregon Department of Administrative Services in the last forecast given to the Legislative Assembly before adjournment sine die of the odd-numbered year regular session on which the printed, adopted budget is based.
(3) For purposes of this section, the following are considered to be appropriations:
(a) An authorization, given by law, to expend moneys in a biennium;
(b) A limitation, imposed by law, on the expenditure in a biennium of moneys that are continuously appropriated; and
(c) An estimate of amounts of moneys that are continuously appropriated that will be spent in a biennium without limitation.
(4) The following appropriations are not subject to the limitation on appropriations contained in this section:
(a) Appropriations for the construction or acquisition of assets that are financed by state bonds, certificates of participation or other forms of borrowing.
(b) Appropriations of moneys received directly or indirectly from the federal government.
(c) Appropriations for fee remission programs of public universities listed in ORS 352.002.
(d) Appropriations of moneys voluntarily donated to a state agency.
(e) Appropriations of moneys from revenue increases or new revenue sources if the increases or sources result from approval of a measure by the people at an election held on or after August 10, 2001.
(f) Appropriations to fund new programs or to increase funding for existing programs if the need for new or increased funding results from approval of a measure by the people at an election held on or after August 10, 2001.
(5) The limitation on appropriations established by this section may be exceeded for a biennium if the Governor declares an emergency and three-fifths of the members serving in each house of the Legislative Assembly affirmatively vote to exceed the limitation for the biennium. [2001 c.956 §1; 2009 c.762 §53; 2011 c.545 §23; 2013 c.768 §128]
Note:
291.357 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 291 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 291 - State Financial Administration › Section 291.371 - Salary plan review by legislative review agency; approval for position reallocation; quarterly reports by state agencies.

(1) As used in this section:
(a) "Legislative review agency" means the Joint Committee on Ways and Means during the period when the Legislative Assembly is in session and the Emergency Board or the Joint Interim Committee on Ways and Means during the interim period between sessions.
(b) "State agency" has the meaning given that term in ORS 291.002.
(2) Prior to making any changes in a compensation plan, the Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall submit the proposed changes to the legislative review agency. The proposed changes to be submitted to the legislative review agency include:
(a) Step pay increases;
(b) Cost of living adjustments;
(c) The addition of steps in position pay ranges;
(d) Any other actions that have an economic effect on a salary plan; and
(e) Estimates of the total cost of any salary plan changes for the current biennium and the next full biennium.
(3)(a) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services may approve the reallocation of positions or the establishment of new positions not specifically provided for in the budget of the affected state agency if it finds that the proposed change:
(A) Can be financed by the state agency within the limits of its biennial budget and legislatively approved program;
(B) Will not produce future budgetary increases; and
(C) Conforms to legislatively approved salary policies.
(b) Proposed changes not meeting the requirements of paragraph (a) of this subsection shall be presented to the legislative review agency.
(4) State agencies shall report on a quarterly basis to the legislative review agency. Each report shall include the number of budgeted positions that have remained vacant for a continuous period of six months, including all job categories and classifications, within the state agency. The legislative review agency shall order the reporting state agency to show cause why the budgeted positions have not been filled and shall assess fully the impact the vacancies have on:
(a) The state agency’s delivery of services, accounting for any seasonal fluctuation in the need for those services;
(b) The state agency’s budget due to increased use of overtime;
(c) The state agency’s use of temporary employees; and
(d) Employee workload. [1973 c.49 §1; 1985 c.713 §1; 1989 c.960 §1; 1993 c.724 §13; 1995 c.452 §16; 2009 c.595 §202; 2010 c.107 §1; 2012 c.107 §103; 2014 c.107 §9; 2016 c.117 §34; 2017 c.746 §3]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 291 - State Financial Administration › Section 291.374

[Amended by 1955 c.133 §1; 1955 c.672 §1; 1957 c.460 §1; 1959 c.686 §39; 1961 c.268 §13; 1961 c.485 §27; renumbered 293.160]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 291 - State Financial Administration › Section 291.375 - Legislative review of applications for federal financial assistance; submission, approval required; exemptions.

(1) Prior to the submission of any application for financial assistance or grants from the United States or any agency of the United States by or on behalf of any agency of this state, the application must be submitted for legislative review in the following manner:
(a) If the application is to be submitted to the federal government when the Legislative Assembly is in session, the application shall be submitted to the Joint Committee on Ways and Means for review.
(b) If the application is to be submitted to the federal government when the Legislative Assembly is not in session, the application shall be submitted to the Emergency Board or to the Joint Interim Committee on Ways and Means for review.
(2) If the legislative agency authorized under subsection (1) of this section to review applications described therein approves the application, it may be submitted to the appropriate federal agency. If the legislative agency disapproves of the application, it may not be submitted to any federal agency unless it is or can be modified to meet the objections of the legislative agency.
(3) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, the Joint Committee on Ways and Means, the Emergency Board or the Joint Interim Committee on Ways and Means may exempt any state agency from the requirements of this section. Project grants for departmental research, organized activities related to instruction, sponsored research or other sponsored programs carried on within the public universities listed in ORS 352.002, for which no biennial expenditure limitations have been established, are exempt from the requirements of this section.
(4) The review required by this section is in addition to and not in lieu of the requirements of ORS 293.550. [1973 c.44 §1; 2007 c.911 §9; 2009 c.762 §54; 2012 c.107 §10; 2013 c.768 §123e; 2015 c.767 §93]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 291 - State Financial Administration › Section 291.377 - Report to legislative review agency of state position reclassifications.

(1) As used in this section, "legislative review agency" has the meaning given that term in ORS 291.371.
(2) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall submit a report each calendar quarter for review by the legislative review agency on the reclassification of state positions, including which positions were filled at the time of the reclassification and the difference in compensation that results from each reclassification. The legislative review agency shall take data reported under this subsection into account in making any appropriation or expenditure limitation recommendation or any allocation determination. [2017 c.746 §1]
Note:
291.377 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 291 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 291 - State Financial Administration › Section 291.658

[Amended by 1953 c.59 §2; 1957 c.202 §3; 1961 c.167 §35; 1965 c.365 §8; 1967 c.419 §44; renumbered 283.110]
2023 Oregon Revised Statutes › Volume : 07 - Public Facilities and Finance › Chapter 291 - State Financial Administration › Section 291.730 - Cryptocurrency payments.

(1) Unless authorized by the State Treasurer, the state government, as defined in ORS 174.111, may not accept payments using cryptocurrency.
(2) As used in this section, "cryptocurrency" means digital or virtual currency that relies on cryptography to effect transfers and a decentralized network to record transactions. [2019 c.50 §1]
Note:
291.730 was enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but was not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 291 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.