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OR HB3879
Bill
Status
Failed
6/27/2025
Primary Sponsor
Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans
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AI Summary
- Establishes a detailed outcomes-based budgeting process requiring the Governor and Legislative Assembly to identify statewide priority results, performance indicators, and rank state agency activities based on their contribution to desired outcomes
- Requires state agencies to report budgeted positions vacant for at least six months to the Director of the Oregon Department of Administrative Services, who may prohibit filling positions if insufficient justification is provided
- Mandates the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to prepare a biennial budget stress test report estimating effects of mild and severe economic downturns on state revenues, expenditures, and reserves
- Implements zero-based budgeting requiring agencies to justify all proposed expenditures from a baseline of zero, including descriptions of activities, adverse impacts if discontinued, and minimum versus current service level costs
- Takes effect 91 days after adjournment of the 2025 legislative session, with budgeting changes applying to biennia beginning on or after July 1, 2027
Legislative Description
Relating to state financial administration; prescribing an effective date.
Last Action
In committee upon adjournment.
6/27/2025
Committee Referrals
Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans3/4/2025
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