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legislation. Ms. Bettman, seconded by Mr. Pap6, moved to change the status of liB 2514 to Support. The motion passed unanimously. Responding to a question from Mr. Pap6 regarding SB 0002, relating to seismic safety, Mr. Heuser said staff's recommendation to monitor the bill was based on the lack of funding provided for the bill. The committee agreed to hold the bill over for more information. Ms. Bettman asked why staff did not recommend support for SB 0006, which would prohibit school personnel from administering, promoting, suggesting, or supplying performance enhancing drugs. Mr. Cushman said the department did not see the bill as a public safety issue but he thought the committee might have an interest in the bill from a public policy standpoint, and so included it in the list. Ms. Bettman, seconded by Mr. Pap6, moved to change the status of SB 0006 from Neutral to Support. The motion passed unanimously. Referring to SB 0546, which would prohibit law enforcement units from requiring peace officers to issue a minimum number of citations, Ms. Taylor suggested if the number of citations could be used in an officer's evaluation, it was as much an incentive as requiring a certain number of citations. Mr. Cushman said that if officers were given no minimum number of citations, law enforcement depended on what the individual officer decided to do. If the bill were passed, an officer could choose to write no citations at all and the department could do nothing about it. Ms. Bettman said the bill simply stated that the number of citations would be taken into account in an evaluation. Mr. Cushman said if the bill passed as written, the department could not do that. Ms. Bettman said Eugene has no reputation for being ;~ticket-happy." Ms. Taylor moved to change the recommendation to support SB 0546 without the proposed amendment. The motion died for lack of a second. Ms. Taylor referred to SB 0550, which would delete the provision in existing law that required the award of attorney's fees to those who prevail in contested cases. She objected to the change because it would penalize someone who had been unfairly accused and prevailed. Ms. Taylor, seconded by Mr. Pap6, moved to change the status of SB 0550 by rec- ommending an amendment deleting the provision of the bill that would eliminate current law requiring the awarding of attorney fees to those who prevail in con- tested cases. The motion passed unanimously. Referring to SB 0578, relating to State contracting for services performed within the United States, Ms. Bettman wanted to change the status of the bill from Monitor to Support. The bill encouraged the use of American companies and services but did not prohibit going out of the country for those services, merely required findings. Mr. Heuser noted that the bill had not been scheduled for a hearing. Ms. Bettman asked that the bill be held over to the next meeting. MINUTES--Council Committee on INtergovernmental Relations March 17, 2005 Page 5