Requires certain nonprofits that receive public funds to obey open meetings and public records laws; applies to nonprofits with gross annual revenue over $100,000 or more than 25 full-time or part-time employees, which receive 75% or more of their annual revenues or budget from public funds or nonprofit-specific tax breaks, and perform governmental functions under contract; applies to organizations that designate recipients of public funds or otherwise controls or influences such public expenditures; requires covered nonprofits to post their proposed annual budget on their website, and identify public funds proposed to be used; requires covered nonprofits to submit to and cooperate with an audit by the Secretary of State; requires the nonprofit's directors, officers, and employees to comply with government ethics standards; sets penalties for noncompliance, including clawback of public funds, a 10-year ban on receiving public funding, administrative dissolution of the nonprofit, and a 10-year bar on board members or officers serving on another board; allows the Secretary of State to provide certificates of exemption; applies provisions of the Act over a 15-year period, with required compliance during the period depending on the proportion of the budget or revenues of the nonprofit that comes from public funds; declares emergency; takes effective on passage.

Subjects "publicly funded entities" to investigations by the State Auditor, and defines such entities as "any individual, private corporation, institution, association, board, or other organization that receives, disburses, or otherwise handles State or federal funds"; requires the State Auditor to investigate allegations of improper governmental activities of State agencies and employees and publicly funded entities, including misappropriation, mismanagement, or waste of State resources, fraud, violations of State or federal law, rule or regulation by State agencies or State employees administering State or federal programs, and substantial and specific danger to the public health and safety; provides for referrals to proper authorities when actionable allegations surface; provides State Auditor with access to persons, records, papers, reports, vouchers, correspondence, books, databases, datasets, digital records, and any other documentation in possession of a publicly funded entity that pertains to either amounts received under a State, federal, or local government grant or contract, or amounts received, disbursed, or handled on behalf of the State, federal or a local government, and where these funds pay for social or medical services, it allows the State Auditor access to the records of recipients these services; allows State Auditor to examine and inspect all property, equipment, and facilities of any publicly funded entities if those items were paid for by State or federal funds; provides for injunctive relief if a person fails or refuses to provide the Auditor with access to persons and records, as required; limits the State Auditor's audit or investigation of a publicly funded entity to the State or federal funds it received, disbursed, or handled. UPDATE - new status.

Requires all local government invoices to be itemized, disclosing the payee, amount paid, items or services purchased, and performance dates' requires local government websites to link to all quarterly invoices, unredacted unless otherwise required by law; allows for public inspection of invoices for jurisdictions without websites; requires local government websites to provide links to top three bidders on every project, service, or goods purchased with tax dollars, with quarterly updates, unredacted unless otherwise required by law.

Requires employees of state departments and boards to report suspected fraud; requires state departments and boards to post an organizational chart on the entity’s website that includes the names of, and contact information for, the commissioner, deputy commissioner, assistant commissioner(s), and the head of each division or bureau within the agency;
requires the commissioner of the Department of Administration to provide leadership and direction to state agencies regarding the prevention of fraud, waste, and abuse in state grant programs; requires the Department of Administration, as part of its grantmaking policies for state agencies, to require agencies to, without exception: (1) conduct at least one in-person, unannounced monitoring visit before final payment of any grant over $50,000 and annual unannounced in-person monitoring visits for grants over $250,000; (2) conduct a financial reconciliation of each grant project expenditure prior to disbursement for grants over $50,000; and (3) withhold funds from any grantee that does not submit a required progress report provides that a state employee who knowingly violates one or more of these requirements is guilty of a misdemeanor crime; requires state employees to report violations of grantmaking laws or rules; provides that grant agreements between the state and grantees must require the grantee to post on its website a current organizational chart for the duration of the grant agreement; provides that grant agreements between the state and grantees must require the grantee to allow audits; requires state agencies, when performing the mandatory pre-award financial review of potential nonprofit or for-profit grantees, to confirm that the grantees internal controls, at a minimum, require the segregation of duties concerning the authorization, disbursement, and recording of expenditures; requires agencies to require additional information and provide additional oversight when the potential grantee has not previously received state or federal grants of similar amounts or for similar duties or has not demonstrated the ability to perform the duties on the required scale; requires agencies, when requiring additional information from potential nonprofit grantees, to request and examine certain information concerning employee compensation; require state grant agreements to include a clause providing that the state will immediately suspend the grant if the grantee is charged with a criminal offense relating to a state grant agreement.

Requires the Bureau of General Services (BGS) to disclose on a public website all records and supporting documents related to the competitive bidding process, including notices of intent to waive competitive bidding, requests for proposals with responses, accepted responses, and any related financial agreements; prohibits destruction of records related to procurement of goods and services; requires BGS to recover and publish past notices of intent to waive competitive bidding. AMENDED - Requires BGS to disclose on a public website all records and supporting documents related to the competitive bidding process, including notices of intent to waive competitive bidding and competitive solicitations, including question-and-answer summaries, evaluation team packets and award decision letters; specifies that all proposals submitted in response to a solicitation and resulting in an award are public documents, unless otherwise excepted by statute.

SUBSTITUTION: S.B. 245 is now substituted for S.B. 184. Requires Commissioner of Administration to create searchable public database of nongovernmental entities (NGOs), contact information, and the amounts, status, signature and completion dates, of any state or federal contracts or appropriations they have received; requires posting of contract or appropriation outcome assessments and performance goals; requires nongovernmental recipients of state funds to report its administrative expenses associated with the funds and submit its most recent sworn financial statement prior to receiving funds; requires the legislative auditor to pre-approve the CPA engaged to review the financials; requires financials to be submitted to and approved by the legislative auditor before funds are disbursed; requires nonprofits subject to audit requirements to have no unresolved audit findings, or certify that that are actively working with the appropriate agency to resolve them; allows the state agency to require a corrective action plan from a funded NGO; imposes 3-year funding bar for NGOs that fail to comply, unless it achieves compliance as determined by the state agency; bars public officials and employees and their immediate family members from receiving anything of value from an NGO that receives government funds, and requires such NGOs to refrain from political activities, including endorsement of a party or candidate; forbids the use of appropriated funds for lobbying, directly or indirectly; requires the head of each state agency distributing or awarding appropriated funds to furnish information on recipient NGOs.

Requires all nongovernmental organizations awarded state contracts and operate near the international border to submit quarterly financial reports with a detailed breakdown of all sources of funding and detailed account of all expenditures. "Dead" because of timelines.

Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to establish guidelines for state agencies to follow in designing programs and establishing budgets for ongoing or multiyear activities that state agencies intend to fund with grant moneys.

Requires the Office of State Budget and Management (OSBM) to certify that a state benefits, including TANF, food and nutrition services, housing, medication assistance, child care subsidies, foster care and adoption assistance, refugee assistance, low-income energy assistance, work first cash assistance, Medicaid, state and local grants and contracts, retirement, disability, unemployment, and caregiver support, are not being used to benefit “unauthorized aliens.” UPDATE - AMENDED - Requires Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to cease providing State-funded benefits to noncitizens residing in the U.S. without permission, and to develop a method for verifying immigration status of applicants; requires a report on the success of steps taken to implement the bill, and a list of State-funded benefits that cannot be withheld under federal law; requires the DHHS to cease providing unauthorized noncitizen residents with benefits including TANF, early intervention services, rental or housing assistance, medication assistance, child care subsidy, foster care and adoption assistance, refugee assistance, low-income energy assistance, Work First cash assistance and related services, Medicaid, single-stream funding, inpatient psych services, State-County hospital assistance, Home and Community Care Block Grant programs, and caregiver support programs; also ends eligibility of unauthorized noncitizen residents for publicly funded housing benefits, including Community Development Block Grants (CDBG), rental assistance and transitional housing programs, KEY rental assistance and subsidized housing assistance programs, Housing Choice Vouchers, NC Home Advantage Mortgage, NC 1st Home Advantage down payment, and HOME Investment Partnership programs, community living programs, essential single-family rehabilitation program, Affordable Housing Development Fund program, and the Emergency Solutions Grants program; requires State government to verify immigration status before providing unemployment benefits; waives governmental immunity for cities and counties that adopt sanctuary ordinances.

Expands state contracts to include memoranda of agreement, program administration contracts, and personal service contracts; authorizes the secretary of Finance and Administration Cabinet to review administrative regulations and policies and procedures governing timely payments, reimbursement, and dispute resolution for contracts; requires all contracts to include provisions for negotiated terms for timely payments, penalties, payment dispute and resolution process, partial payment terms, and invoice procedures; requires notice for errors in an invoice or other requirement; requires notice for interest accrual; applies a 1% per month interest penalty for late payments; permits interest and costs of credit for a loan, line of credit, revolving credit, or other financial instrument taken due to a late payment; requires a 10 day correction period; requires a report every 6 months by the Finance and Administration Cabinet. UPDATE - LINE-ITEM VETO to no longer require new administrative regulations on policies and procedures governing timely payments, partial payments, reimbursement, and dispute resolution for contract payments; also removes a provision that would have allowed state dollars to be spent to provide school resource officers (SROs) at private schools.