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IN BRIEF Utility bill stalls as House, Senate pass unlike versions SALEM — Legislators on both sides of the aisle in Salem say they want to stop utilities from collecting extra from customers to pay for state and federal taxes, then paying almost nothing to the government. But as the session winds down, there has been no agreement over how to shut the loophole. Late this week, an Oregon House committee passed a dramatically re vamped version of a bill that has al ready passed the Senate. The House version drew immediate condemnation from consumer activists. They charge that the amended bill is actually worse than current law, mainly because it could make Oregon taxpayers pay for taxes owed by unconnected utility sub sidiaries, including those that are not based in Oregon. In addition, utilities would be able to maintain their current over-collec tion practice for three more years be fore the regulations would take effect. "This is a big, huge step backward from what passed the Senate," said Mark Nelson, a lobby ist for the Industrial Customers of Northwest Utilities. Utility companies, meanwhile, would prefer that legislators-leave the current law untouched, said Kevin Lynch, director of governmental af fairs for PacifiCorp, the parent com pany of Pacific Power. But if changes are inevitable, utility companies prefer the House version, he said. The legislation is headed to the House floor and then in all likelihood to a conference committee, where representatives of the Republican-run House and Democrat-led Senate will try to hammer out a compromise that can pass both chambers. Industry officials say not paying government taxes is a byproduct of an industry in which companies do more than own and run utilities. When utility-owning conglomer ates file their consolidated tax re turns, the profits from some of their businesses — such as their utilities — can be used to offset the losses from other subsidiaries. And that reduces their tax obliga tions, and they don’t pay as much — if any at all. Four schools fail to comply with No Child Left Behind PORTLAND — Half of Portland's neighborhood middle schools have failed to meet targets mandated by the federal No Child Left Behind Act. Parents of students at four of the Portland schools were notified on Friday that their children's school had failed to meet the federal standards, bringing to half the num ber of middle schools failing in the Portland area. The parents of 2,097 students at Binnsmead, Gregory Heights, Kel logg and Portsmouth middle schools now have the chance to transfer their children to a different neighborhood middle school. The letter said the children are eligible for free transportation. 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