Editor's note: Here are
highlights of the Oregon
Legislature last week.
Representative
Recalled
Rep. Pat Gillis, R-Portland.
was recalled by Multnomah
County voters in an election
Tuesday. Gillis was ousted by a
57-to-43-percent margin.
Gillis, a 24-year-old freshman
representative, had been in
dicted by a Marion County
grand jury for providing false
information in the Oregon
Voter's Pamphlet. He is the first
Oregon legislator to be recalled
in 50 years.
Republican precinct commit- .
tee leaders will meet April 11 to
submit nominations for Gillis’
successor.
The District 20 precinct
leaders will pick five nominees
whose names will be submitted
to the secretary of state and for
warded to the Multnomah
County Commission. The com
mission will name Gillis’ suc
cessor from the five nominees.
The selection process must be
completed within 30 days or the
governor will be required to ap
point a successor to Gillis.
Gillis’ successor must be a
registered Republican from
District 20.
Sales Tax
Sales tax supporters are ex
pected to put on the pressure to
move the proposal out of the
Senate Revenue Committee in
the coming week.
Senate President John Kit
zhaber, D-Roseburg, said he
wanted the tax panel to wind up
work by the end of the week and
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Senate.
That’s no guarantee it will
happen. But sales tax sup
porters are getting nervous
because the version of the tax
package that was whisked
through the House is churning
in heavy seas in the Senate.
The biggest sticking point is
how tight a property tax ceiling
to clamp on schools in trying to
ensure that those levies don’t
continue climbing if voters also
impose a sales tax on
themselves.
Senate Republicans want a
tighter revenue lid than the
House put in the package.
Formidable forces oppose
wholesale changes in the House
provisions, including Gov. Vic
Atiyeh and the Oregon Educa
tion Association, the state’s
largest teachers' union.
But minority Republicans in
the Senate also have plenty of
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clout because, as Kitzhaber
acknowledges, the Democrats
don’t have enough votes for the
sales tax plan in their caucus to
push it through by themselves.
Seat Belts
The Senate Transportation
Committee approved and sent
to the Senate a bill (Senate Bill
342) that would require
passengers under 16 years old
to wear a seat belt or other
restraint.
Current law requires restraint
for passengers under 5 years
old. The House recently
defeated a Senate bill that
would have required seat belts
for all passengers.
On Thursday, the Senate
passed and sent to the House a
bill (SB 30) making it a felony to
tamper with the odometers of
used cars and requiring that
odometer readings be recorded
on vehicle titles when cars
change hands.
This Week
Small business and the “Buy
Oregon” plan will be the topic
of a Lane County Caucus
“brown bag” forum Thursday.
Rep. Ron Eachus, D-Eugene,
will chair the meeting of Lane
County legislators at noon in
the State Capitol.
The Senate Energy/Natural
Resources Committee begins
hearings Thursday on a bill to
require refundable deposits,
now mandatory for soda pop
and beer bottles and cans, on
carbonated wine and car
bonated fruit juice containers.
The Senate Human Resources
Committee opens hearings
Thursday on a bill to expand the
law restricting smoking in
public places to include
workplaces in private industry.
The Senate Judiciary Commit
tee begins hearings Thursday
on a bill to give the governor
emergency authority to reduce
prison populations when
crowding becomes severe. The
House passed and sent to the
Senate a bill to extend the time
limit for prosecuting sex crimes
against children.
The House Human Resources
Committee begins hearings
Wednesday on a bill to forbid
investing state funds in
businesses and banks doing
business with South Africa.
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