Current through 2024 Regular Session legislation effective June 6, 2024
Section 496.167 - Department recompensable assistance to agencies; tracking and statements(1) Subject to rules prescribed by the State Fish and Wildlife Commission, in rendering recompensable assistance to an agency, the State Department of Fish and Wildlife shall: (a) For fiscal years beginning on or after July 1, 2015, and before July 1, 2019, track and prepare statements reporting the number of hours spent by department personnel performing recompensable assistance for any executive department agency, including an hourly rate that would be charged, based on the class of department personnel performing the services. The department shall send statements to the agency receiving services, but may not charge for services. This paragraph does not prohibit the department from charging another state agency for services pursuant to an interagency agreement that is in effect between the department and the other agency at any time during the period beginning July 1, 2015, and ending July 1, 2021.(b) For fiscal years beginning on or after July 1, 2019, track and prepare statements reporting the number of hours spent by department personnel performing recompensable assistance for any executive department agency, including an hourly rate that would be charged, based on the class of department personnel performing the services.(2)(a) The charges for which statements are prepared and, after July 1, 2019, billed include, but are not limited to, costs of providing professional, investigatory, administrative and clerical services and capital outlay.(b) An executive department agency may not submit an invoice to a private entity, a member of the public or an applicant for a state-issued permit for services performed by the department, unless the invoice is authorized by a statute, rule or interagency agreement executed:(A) Prior to June 25, 2015; or(B) Following consultation with persons representative of those private entities, members of the public or permit applicants that are subject to invoicing under this paragraph.(3) As used in this section: (a) "Agency" means any department, board, commission, agency or officer of the executive department.(b) "Executive department" has the meaning given that term in ORS 174.112.(c) "Recompensable assistance" means assistance rendered by the department as part of advancing fee-funded programs administered by an agency.496.167 and 496.168 were enacted into law by the Legislative Assembly but were not added to or made a part of ORS chapter 496 or any series therein by legislative action. See Preface to Oregon Revised Statutes for further explanation.