The Governor, during the preparation of the budget report and before its submission to the Legislative Assembly, shall:
(1)(a) Examine the budget forms filed by the various agencies and may make or cause to be made such further investigations by the Oregon Department of Administrative Services, with such hearings before the Governor or any state agency, as the Governor deems advisable, and may make such changes or revisions in policy and program and in specific details of the tentative budget report or tentative tax expenditure report as the Governor finds warranted; and
(b) Identify each tax expenditure that has a full or partial sunset that, if allowed to take effect, will have a fiscal impact on the state or on school districts for the next biennium, and shall prepare a recommendation as to each tax expenditure identified under this paragraph that indicates the Governor’s opinion on whether the full or partial sunset of the tax expenditure should be allowed to take effect as scheduled or should be revised to a different date.
(2) As used in this section:
(a) “Full sunset” means any provision that completely eliminates an existing tax expenditure on a specified date.
(b) “Partial sunset” means any provision that reduces the amount of an existing tax expenditure or that alters the eligibility requirements for the expenditure as of a specified date. [Amended by 1995 c.746 §67]
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