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Subcommittee OKs LFO recommendation to advance $7.09 million budget for Oregon Government Ethics Commission
Summary
A Ways and Means subcommittee voted to advance Senate Bill 5522, approving a $7,093,909 other-funds budget and 15 FTE for the Oregon Government Ethics Commission and recommending the bill to the full committee; members discussed rising caseloads, serial complainants and planned upgrades to case-management and filing systems.
The Joint Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on General Government on May 6 voted to advance Senate Bill 5522 as amended, approving a Legislative Fiscal Office (LFO) recommendation for a $7,093,909 other-funds budget and 15 full-time equivalent positions for the Oregon Government Ethics Commission (OGEC).
The LFO recommendation represents a 24.5% increase over the 2023–25 legislatively approved budget and a 21.9% increase over the current service level, the LFO staff told the subcommittee. The increase reflects standard personal-services growth, inflation for services and supplies, and one-time costs to upgrade the commission’s case-management and electronic filing systems.
Lawmakers pressed OGEC staff on the surge in filings and the costs that follow. “We have complainants who just file one complaint after another,” Susan Myers, executive director of the Oregon Government Ethics Commission, said, describing both individuals who repeatedly file…
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