HB 2500
(b) The name of the payee; and
(c) A detailed statement of the purpose of the expenditure.
(4) The register may not include:
(a) An entry for salary, wages or other compensation paid to individual employees.
(b) Any information that can be used to identify an individual employee.
(5) The register must be accompanied by a complete explanation of any codes, abbreviations or acronyms used to identify a payee or an expenditure.
(6) The register must be searchable and updated at least once a month.
SECTION 4. (1) Each state agency shall maintain a copy of each monthly statement for all its credit cards, including credit cards issued to its officers and employees for official use. The Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall maintain a link to each state agency monthly credit card statement from the website described in section 2 of this 2009 Act. Each state agency shall make the monthly credit card statement available to the department for purposes of establishing and maintaining the link.
(2) The state agency shall redact the credit card number on each statement before making the statement available to the department.
(3) Each credit card statement described in this section must be made available from the link described in subsection (1) of this section not later than the 30th day after the first date that any portion of the balance due as shown on the statement is paid.
SECTION 5. (1) Each year, on or before January 1, the Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall list on the website described in section 2 of this 2009 Act, for each state agency, a listing of all state agency full-time positions grouped by class.
(2) The listing must provide the number of full-time employees, average compensation in each class and the actual compensation for each position receiving annual compensation equal to or more than $50,000 per year.
(3) The listing required under this section may not contain any information that can be used to identify an individual employee.
SECTION 6. Sections 1 to 6 of this 2009 Act may be cited as the Taxpayer Transparency Act.
SECTION 7. On or before July 1, 2010, the Director of the Oregon Department of Administrative Services shall add data for the 2005-2007 and 2007-2009 biennia to the website created under section 2 of this 2009 Act.
SECTION 8. (1) Sections 1 to 6 of this 2009 Act become operative on January 1, 2010.
(2) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services and a state agency as defined in section 1 of this 2009 Act may take any action before the operative date specified in subsection (1) of this section that is necessary to enable the department or agency to exercise, on and after the operative date specified in subsection (1) of this section, all the duties, functions and powers conferred on the department or agency by this 2009 Act.
SECTION 9. This 2009 Act being necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared to exist, and this 2009 Act takes effect on its passage.
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