OSPIRG is tracking measures during the 2009
Oregon Legislative Session that would bring
Improve current online reporting of contracts
HB 2037 (Riley) would improve the current online reporting of agency contracting (ORPIN) by requiring all state and local agencies who do over $50,000 in public contracting each year to report information on all contracts over $5,000 to the Department of Administrative Services (DAS). DAS would post all information online, potentially into a searchable database. Reports would include information about contracts solicited, contracts awarded, performance standards set, and performance standards met. Information would be searchable by contract, and also aggregated by agency and statewide.
Create a searchable database
HB 2500 (Smith, Thatcher,
Roblan, Whisnant) would put many of the current elements of the Tax Expenditure
Report into a searchable database, consolidate relevant agency audits (now
housed at the Secretary of State’s website) with agency spending reports and
make the TER more comprehensive, allowing users to examine spending not only by
tax program, but also by agency, contract, revenue source, and other
categories.
Require disclosure of economic subsidies
HB 2933 (Shields) would require
annual disclosure of how state-appropriated economic development subsides were
used. The bill would require the report
to include every individual or entity that either received an economic
development subsidy or claimed an economic development tax break of some sort,
as well as aggregated information by all state-funded economic development entities. The bill would also require anyone receiving
an economic development subsidy to report annually on the impact of the
subsidy, including number of jobs created, actual wages, and other benchmarks,
and provisions for companies to return tax funds if benchmarks are not met.
