Establishes the Nonprofit Organization Advisory Council within the Oregon Department of Administrative Services. Specifies the membership of the council and requires the council to review the state’s granting and procurement processes as applied to nonprofit organizations and report to the Legislative Assembly. Establishes the Nonprofit Organization Partnership Fund to fund the council. Specifies requirements for grant agreements and public contracts into which state agencies enter with nonprofit organizations. Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to create a centralized database for use in managing the state’s grants to nonprofit organizations. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

The Oregon Business & Industry testified: “First, the bill conflates grant making and the state procurement process. Those are very different processes and have unique requirements. Both the bill and testimony seem to be arguing for a system where nonprofits are entitled to state funding without meeting essential requirements. If an agency is distributing grants for a specific, narrowly defined project it may make sense to allocate start-up costs in the grant. If, however, the state is procuring ongoing services with a service provider who happens to be a nonprofit, those same provisions are not a good fit.”

The bill creates a system that focuses exclusively on how state funding and contracting works with a narrow subset of nonprofits, which goes against the Supreme Court decision on Chevron, rather than a comprehensive approach for all grant recipients and procurement contracts.

DAS has got a history of fumbling big projects—read Cody James testimony.

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