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would ¡be that the heads of these de-
partments and the Board of Control
could control the salaries and positions
q £ all employees under these elective
offices and in the various state institu-
tions. Due to opposition of the Civil
Service Commission, The League, of
Women Voters, ydur Association and
others, the proposal died in committee.
e retirement
S. B. 22, which failed to piss^ would
have allowed any employee to elect to
F. come under the retirement act, and
ro- wjoutd force his employer to contribute^
B even though the governing body or
re- political subdivision had rejected the
es; act.
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S. B. 65, was proposed and sponsored
pd by the Retirement Board. It provided
iit (1) th at no employee should become
:e; a member of the System until he had
d- been employed for a period of six
or months; ($) th a t contributions should
by be made oh the first $2400 of salary
He earned each year, instead of on the
¡Is, first $200 of salary earned each m onth;
ed (3) that the I governing' authority of
;s- political subdivisions'' should determine
K- what prior service credit they desired
to give their employees. This latter pro­
fs- vtison was urged by the Port, of Port-
he t n d ' and the Cify ^of Portland em-
n- pfoyees; (4 )’ that employees'who haver
in reduced their Contribution rate to 5
ill per cdnt. may increase- their contyibu-
'fio n taie,v,to their fixed rate during
h- their first two years of membership
to and, (5) that all school districts of
d- the State' Constitute one employer for
3n purposes of actuarially computing these
ns contribution rates so that all school dis-
H «Fcts contribute at m uniform rate,
or This bill passed w ith little opposition?
be i S. B. 177 would have' given unlim it-
id ed prior service credit for state em-
he ployees and school teachers. The bill'
;§e received an unanimous "do pass” re-
>n port from the Senate State Affair's
ar Committee but was referred to the
ae W ays and Means Committee, who re-
tie ported back th at it "do not pass.” The
d. Senate rejected the Ways and Means
it Committee report. However, when the
bill came up for final passage, certain
senators changed their positions and
there were insufficient votes f o r z its
passage. I shall State the reasons why I
f eel the bill did not I pass, not as ¡-ah
excuse for its failure to pass? but as a
guide for future presentation of a simi­
lar bill. First, the legislators and others
who*had sponsored the retirement act
were very reluctant to make I any'
amendments to the act, except admin-,
istrative 1 amendments, at this session.
They said, "W e should have some ex­
perience under,the operation of the. H^H
before any/ changes are made.” H ow ­
ever, in spite of. this attitude, I think
we had convinced enough Senators and
L am positive we could have convinced
enough I Representatives, t h a t .-'¡¡this
amendment, should be made at. this
time, I except that certain persons and
interests' worked against the passage of
the bill and^also,. submitted inaccurate
and exorbitant cost figures which we
were not able to correct until it>?was
too late to erase. the false impression
from the minds of certain; legislators
and lobbyists. I believe t h a t this bill
will be passed
properly presented to
the, next, Legislative Assembly.
S. B. 349. The present act provides
that continuous service is service not
interrupted by more than five years.
This bill was designed to re-define con­
tinuous service as that which was not
interrupted by more than 10 years, but
failed to pass the Senate.
I S. B.>359, was proposed by the Pub­
lic Library Association of Portland. I
believe that, we were all in sympathy,
with the bill, but the Public Library
pf Portland is not a publicly owned
library, being owned by a private as­
sociation.. Also as Multnomah County,
which pays the salaries of the librar­
ians; had. rejected the^;act, it seemed
impossible to draw a bill to meet the
as(tit>tion.
S. B. 456 provided th at for employees
who were over 75 years of age on July
lg ||9 4 ih all their service should be con­
sidered I continuous service, and should
be computed w ithout regard to inter-