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asked about the purpose of the bill. Mr. Cushman explained the current policy related to contacts between law enforcement vehicles and fleeing suspect vehicles. He said that the Department of Motor Vehicles had asked the Attorney General for an opinion as to whether such contacts constituted an accident and required the filing of a report, and the Attorney General cited cases that indicated it was under current law. The bill was an attempt to change that. Ms. Taylor, seconded by Ms. Bettman, moved to change the status of SB 0897, which would declare the Statewide planning goals related to transportation to be advisory in na- ture, to Priority 1. Mr. Jones did not oppose changing the bill's priority status but questioned whether it was going anywhere. Mr. Heuser did not think so. If it did, he would inform the committee. Ms. Taylor withdrew her motion and Ms. Bettman withdrew her second. Responding to a request for clarification from Ms. Taylor about SB 0907, related to controlled substances, Mr. Cushman overviewed the details of the bill. Ms. Taylor opposed the element related to prenatal exposure to such substances. Ms. Taylor moved to oppose the bill unless it was amended by the deletion of the reference to "prenatal exposure." The motion died for lack of a second. Ms. Taylor, seconded by Ms. Bettman, moved to change the status of liB 2487 to Priority 2 and recommended an amendment increasing the proposed tax to two percent. Ms. Boyle explained the details of liB 2487, relating to tax compliance, noting that it compelled the State to collect any locally imposed income tax. She believed that the source of the bill was likely to be Portland because the State had declined to collect Portland's income tax. Portland was doing its own collection, which was less efficient. The tax was not well-complied with by the public. She was concerned about the one percent limitation currently in the bill as the City had discussed different percentages in the past. The motion passed unanimously. Priority 3 Bills The committee requested information regarding HB 2514, relating to tax credits for mental health. Mr. Hill explained this was one of many bills that would expand the tax credit in the state. The bill would expand the definition of those who could claim a tax credit for providing rural health care. He said that many of the bills had social merit as well as a revenue impact. His recommendation to oppose the bill was based on adopted council policy related to State shared revenues. The bill would expand the tax credit without replacing the revenues. Mr. Pap6 observed that the bill seemed fair to him. He did not believe the revenue impact would be that big. Ms. Bettman agreed. She asked where the State was in its examination of what she termed "luxury loopholes." Mr. Heuser said the House and Senate revenue committees had been holding hearings on both expansions and deletions of the existing list. He believed in the end the deletions and additions would cancel each other out. He termed the bill in question "DOA" given the scrutiny the Senate had been giving all such MINUTES--Council Committee on Intergovernmental Relations March 17, 2005 Page 4