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Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to establish single searchable website listing aggregate and specific expenditures made and revenues received by state agencies in executive, legislative and judicial branches of state government.

Directs state agencies to maintain expenditure transaction register and monthly statement of all credit card receipts. Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to include link to registers and credit card statements from single searchable website.

Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to include listing for each state agency of all full-time employee positions grouped by class on single searchable website.

Becomes operative January 1, 2010.

Declares emergency, effective on passage.

A BILL FOR AN ACT

Relating to public finance; and declaring an emergency.

Whereas the Seventy-fifth Legislative Assembly finds that taxpayers should be able to easily access the details on how the state is spending their tax dollars and what performance results are achieved for those expenditures; and

Whereas the size of the state budget and the number of state agencies continues to grow; and

Whereas there currently is no single, easily accessible searchable website that allows taxpayers to track state revenues and expenditures; and

Whereas the Seventy-fifth Legislative Assembly finds that the creation of a single website searchable website detailing the location, purpose and results of taxpayer investments in state government is beneficial to our state; now, therefore,

Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:

As used in sections 1 to 6 of this 2009 Act:

(1) "Class" means a group of employee positions sufficiently similar in the duties performed, degree of supervision exercised or received, minimum requirements of education or experience and the knowledge, skills and abilities required to perform the functions and duties of the position.

(2) "State agency" means any officer, board, commission, department, division or institution in state government, as defined in ORS 174.111.

(1) The Director of the Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall develop and make available a single searchable website that allows any person to search and aggregate the information described in subsection (2) of this section. The website must be accessible without cost and contain plain, easily understandable language.

(2) The website shall include, for each year of a biennium:

(a) Expenditures for each state agency, including but not limited to: