Item 3: Ratification of Unanimous IGR Actions and Action on Non-Unanimous IGR Actions

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Comments: This bill would remove the time limit for public bodies to sue an architect, engineer, surveyor, landscape architect, etc. for negligence or breach of contract relating to their work for the public body. Recommend asking LOC about what others are doing with this bill. HB 2517 Relating Clause: Relating to tax expenditure goal statements; prescribing an effective date. Title: Requires goal statement, including administration plan, for measures that create or renew tax expenditures or provide connection to tax expenditures provided in federal law. Sponsored by: Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed (at the request of House Interim Committee on Revenue) URL: http://www.leg.state.or.us/11reg/measpdf/hb2500.dir/hb2517.intro.pdf Contact Respondent Dept Updated Priority Recommendation Larry Hill CS-FIN 01/19/2011 Pri 2 Support Comments: HB 2517 would require state agencies to prepare and submit a "goal statement" for any tax expenditure. The goal statement must demonstrate how the expenditure achieves the policy goals of the state. Among other things it must describe the targeted problem and demonstrate how the public benefits will outweigh the cost. This would be helpful in controlling the proliferation of tax exemptions, including those that reduce local government property tax revenues. The bill would be significantly improved if it were amended to specifically include analysis of the impact of any tax expenditure on local units of government, including municipal governments. The current language only addresses impacts on the state and overlooks the offer large impacts on cities. References to impacts on local governments should be included in Section 1(2), as well as section 1(3)(c) & (e). A tax expenditure is "...any law of the Federal Government or this state that exempts, in whole or in part, certain persons, income, goods, services or property from the impact of established taxes, including but not limited to tax deductions, tax exclusions, tax subtractions, tax exemptions, tax deferrals, preferential tax rates and tax credits.” (Oregon Laws 1995, Chapter 746) HB 2533 Relating Clause: Relating to tax on cigarettes; prescribing an effective date; providing for revenue raising that requires approval by a three-fifths majority. Title: Increase tax on cigarettes. Sponsored by: Introduced and printed pursuant to House Rule 12.00. Presession filed (at the request of House Interim Committee on Revenue) 15