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East Oregonian
Thursday, June 11, 2015
Legislature advances
bills for sick leave,
retirement savings
a contractor must like the existing
529 Oregon College Savings Plan.
But Rep. Carl Wilson, R-Grants
Pass, said workers already can
choose from a variety of plans
available in the market.
“We are putting together a great
statewide mechanism for something
that few people will take advantage
of,” he said.
The task force found, however,
that half of Oregon’s private-sector
workers lack access to a savings
plan at work — and that participa-
tion is likely to jump if one becomes
available.
By PETER WONG
Capital Bureau
SALEM — Majority Democrats
in the Oregon Legislature have
advanced requirements for busi-
nesses to provide paid sick leave
and offer state-sponsored retirement
savings plans to workers.
The Senate passed the sick-
leave requirement on a 17-13 vote
Wednesday and moved Senate Bill
454 to the House. The House passed
the retirement-savings option on a
32-26 vote Wednesday and moved
House Bill 2960 to the Senate.
Both bills are expected to come
up for votes in the other chamber
soon.
Sen. Betsy Johnson of Scap-
poose was the sole Democrat to join
the 12 Republicans in opposition to
SB 454.
Reps. David Gomberg, of Otis,
and Caddy McKeown, of Coos Bay,
were the Democrats who joined
24 Republicans in opposition to
HB 2960. One Democrat and one
Republican were excused.
The bills passed after debates of
more than an hour in the Senate and
90 minutes in the House.
Sick leave
Photo contributed by the Sherman County Sheriff’s Department
Biggs Junction fire destroys two homes
In the Senate, Democrats turned
aside Republican attempts to apply
the sick-leave requirement only
to businesses with 25 or more
workers, to require paid leave only
for victims of crime and domestic
violence, and to exempt agricultural
workers.
“What I see is another polarizing
issue,” said Sen. Chuck Thomsen,
R-Hood River, an orchardist who
moved unsuccessfully for the agri-
cultural exemption.
SB 454 would allow workers to
accrue leave at one hour for every
30 hours worked, or one and a third
hours for every 40 hours worked, up
to a maximum of 40 hours per year.
Employers could set a maximum of
80 hours accrual, and limit use to 40
hours each year.
The bill applies to businesses
with at least 10 workers. Part-time
workers would accrue leave at the
same rate.
“Working people shouldn’t be
forced to choose between their
jobs and their health,” said Senate
Majority Leader Diane Rosenbaum,
D-Portland.
Oregon would become the fourth
state to provide for such a require-
ment, after Connecticut, California
and Massachusetts. If Senate Bill
454 passes the House and is signed
by Gov. Kate Brown, it would take
effect Jan. 1, although penalties for
violations could not be levied until
January 2017.
Portland already has a sick-leave
requirement for businesses with
six or more employees. The bill
would allow Portland to retain that
standard, which the city council
put into effect in January 2014, but
also nullify a Eugene ordinance that
would apply the requirement to all
businesses regardless of size.
Retirement savings
“Far too many Americans and
Oregonians are not saving enough
for retirement,” said Rep. Tobias
Read, D-Beaverton, one of the chief
sponsors of HB 2960. “We can
make it easier for Oregonians to do
what is in their own best interests.”
A task force led by state
Treasurer Ted Wheeler advanced
the retirement-savings bill, which
would make Oregon the third state
to pass such legislation, after Cali-
fornia and Illinois.
After the vote, Wheeler said in a
statement:
“Far from being a burden on
small businesses, the retirement
security bill provides an attractive
option to small business owners who
would like to offer their employees a
retirement plan, but cannot because
of cost and administrative hassle.”
While businesses would be
required to make a state-sponsored
savings plan available in 2017, HB
2960 would not compel them to
contribute to a plan, and workers
could opt out of participating. A
state board created in the Oregon
State Treasury would develop a plan
that is similar to an individual retire-
ment account, and would be run by
A fire that started in an abandoned apartment building in the Columbia River Gorge town of
Biggs Junction destroyed that structure and two homes before winds began spreading it east-
ward through grass and brush toward the small community of Rufus. By Wednesday night, the
blaze was 60 percent to 70 percent contained.
Umatilla man won’t face death penalty in triple murder
killed. Under Washington law, a
Resendez Miranda was arrested
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an unborn baby.
Umatilla County Jail until his
On Tuesday, defense attorney Oregon charges were resolved and
A Umatilla man charged with
fatally shooting three people in Shane Silverthorn of Ellensburg the extradition paperwork cleared
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and he is working with states.
summer will not face the
Miller to set up witness
Then he was moved in mid-Jan-
death penalty.
interviews.
uary to the Benton County jail
Prosecutor
Andy
Silverthorn also told in Kennewick, where he is held
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Judge Bruce Spanner that without bail because it is an aggra-
court Tuesday that his
co-counsel Michael Iaria vated murder case. He also has a
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of Seattle will withdraw U.S. Immigration and Customs
that sentence in the case
from the case at some Enforcement hold.
of Francisco J. Resendez
point this summer and be
Resendez Miranda worked with
Miranda.
replaced by an unnamed Perez-Saucedo at a Wyckoff Farms
Resendez Miranda,
attorney, who will move property along the Columbia River
24, is charged in Benton Miranda
to the area and accept in Paterson.
County Superior Court
Court documents show the slay-
with three counts of aggravated a public defender contract with
ings might have been in retaliation
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The trial date was pushed back for a break-in at Resendez Miran-
of even one count of aggravated
murder, he is looking at life in a week to Nov. 2 because of a da’s apartment the night before.
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Torres-Renteria and a fourth person
release.
When asked if he was OK with had gone to Umatilla, possibly to a
Prosecutors allege he killed
Abigail
Torres-Renteria,
23, the delay, Resendez Miranda told party, late Aug. 8. A farmworker
Victoria Torres, 19, and David Spanner: “Well, I don’t have any discovered the three bodies at
other choice. You will be gone.”
5:30 a.m. the next morning in a
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The bodies of the three Pasco
residents were found Aug. 9 on trial date, but does not want to go Resendez Miranda’s apartment.
No one else has been charged.
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89° 55°
83° 49°
MONDAY
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Mostly sunny
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78° 48°
82° 50°
86° 54°
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93° 58°
85° 50°
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76°
104° (1910)
58°
51°
31° (1897)
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Enterprise
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High 101° in Vernon, Texas
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