(1) The Oregon Department of Administrative Services and the Legislative Fiscal Officer shall prepare a tentative budget for the next biennium for which the Governor’s budget is prepared. The tentative budget shall consist of the estimated revenues under ORS § 291.342 for the next biennium and a preliminary estimate of the projected costs of continuing currently authorized programs for the next biennium.

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(2) The Legislative Fiscal Officer shall, during the development of the legislatively adopted budget, review and update projected costs of continuing currently authorized programs for the next biennium, including:

(a) Position vacancy assumptions;

(b) Standard and exceptional inflation adjustments;

(c) Mandated caseloads; and

(d) Other assumptions used in developing the tentative budget. [Amended by 1995 c.746 § 66; 2016 c.117 § 17; 2017 c.746 § 8]

[Repealed by 2016 c.117 § 75]