At the Legislature
Hurdles still face vote-18
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of articles evaluating the
performance of the 1971 Oregon legislature.
By PATTI MINTON
Of the Emerald
Rights for 18-21 year olds have been a key issue facing the
legislature this session. Almost without effort, house bills 1149 and 1150
were signed into law permitting ballot preparation for national
elections and initial registration procedures for newly-enfranchised
voters.
Of primary concern however, is HJR 47 which encountered stiff
hurdles earlier this month in the House, but managed to survive and is
currently sitting in the Senate’s committee on Elections and Reap
portionment.
The resolution would ratify the 18-year-old vote amendment to the
U S. Constitution. Considerable opposition on the bill was predicted as
Oregon was one of three original states to take the issue to the
Supreme Court.
HB 1162 would lower the age of majority from 21 go 18 providing
HJR 47 is passed. It is currently on the table in the House State and
Federal Affairs subcommittee B on Governmental Reorganization.
SB 437 would allow persons 18 or over to sell liquor and was passed
by the Senate 23-2 in late March. It is currently being considered by the
House State and Federal Affairs Committee.
SB 581 is sitting in the Senate committee on Judiciary. If passed, it
would allow 18 year olds to buy alcoholic beverages.
With the passage of SB 582,18-21 year olds could enter into legally
binding contracts. Currently in the Senate Judiciary Committee, the
bill exempts nonconsenting parents from liability under such con
tracts.
SB 583 would allow 18-21 year olds to serve on juries and is likewise
stalled in the Senate Judiciary committee. Senate bills 581,582, and 583
have not been tabled but are most likely pending affirmative action on
HJR 47.
The so-called “men’s lib” bill, (SB 584) has received more con
sideration than the other three measures. It would allow males bet
ween 18 and 21 to marry without parental consent.
SB 584 passed the Senate in late April and is currently under
consideration by the House State and Federal Affairs Committee.
Awaiting the Governor’s signature is HB 1802 which offers help to
first offenders, including those convicted of drug abuse.
Adopted by the Senate Tuesday, the measure provides that a
defendent convicted of a minor (Class C) felony or misdemeanor and
has fulfilled the conditions of his sentence can have his court record
cleared if he does not violate the law for three years.
A May 13 hearing on HB 1991 which seeks to limit the performance
of abortion only to cases where the mother’s life is endangered or the
pregnancy results from felonious intercourse, attracted the largest
crowd of any hearing held during the session.
Over 300 persons attended HB 1991's hearing before the House
Health, Education and Welfare subcommittee B on Health. The
measure is sponsored by Rep. Grace Peck (D-Multnomah) and seeks
to “tighten up” Oregon's current liberalized abortion law.
Oregon’s National Guard received a $2.3 million appropriation
from the Senate Monday as the upper house approved 23-7 the state’s
1971-73 military budget.
Considered to be its last major hurdle, the military budget’s
passage probably means the end of HB 1994 which sought to reduce the
size of the Guard.
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Students may get more voice
on incidental fee allocations
The State Board of Higher
Education may soon give
students a larger voice in in
cidental fee matters, if it ap
proves a set of guidelines to
regulate those fees on an in
dividual campus basis.
Such guidelines, submitted by
the University, were tentatively
approved by the board’s finance
committee during a half-day
meeting on the Portland State
University campus Tuesday.
University President Robert
Clark, who attended the meeting,
said the new guidelines should
give students a maximum voice
in determining how incidental
fees are spent.
The key points of the Univer
sity guidelines, developed by
ASUO and University ad
ministration officials, include:
• Division of budget activities
into “major” and “minor” ac
tivities. Major activities include
athletics, ASUO programs and
the EMU. Minor activities are
everything else, including in
dividual ASUO programs.
• Designation of the ASUO
Student Senate as the key
decision-making body in in
cidental fee budgeting.
• Requiring “satisfaction of
existing contractual
obligations,” and “orderly with
drawal” of support in cases
where fee support for major
budget activities is to be “sub
stantially” changed. Also, in
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cases of withdrawal of support,
alternate sources of funding must
be obtained, unless the
University president “feels the
circumstances” don’t require it.
•A limitation of 10 per cent on
decreasing fee support in any one
year for major budget activities
only and approval of the
University president for “en
suing consecutive reductions in
the same activity.” Voluntary
reductions beyond the 10 per cent
limit would be permitted,
however. The limit could also be
exceeded by a simple majority in
a referendum vote of the student
body where at least one-third of
the students cast ballots.
Maintaining an annual con
tingency fund to meet
emergencies.
Final review by the University
president, or his representative,
of the completed incidental fee
budget for major activities, as
approved by the student senate.
The president will review the
budget proposal “to insure
compliance with the guidelines
and statutory requirements, and
for compliance in respect to the
minor and traditionally funded
areas.”
The 10 per cent limitation and
other protections of existing
funding written into the
guidelines were included to
prevent threatened drastic
cutbacks in programs such as
athletics, which have fallen into
disfavor with some groups of
students in recent years.
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