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

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Comments: Agree with Stephanie. Excellent idea that removes a disincentive to providing services to homeless people. HB 3262 Relating Clause: Relating to prevention, treatment and recovery tax; appropriating money; prescribing an effective date; providing for revenue raising that requires approval by a three-fifths majority. Title:Imposes prevention, treatment and recovery tax on malt beverages. Sponsored by: By COMMITTEE ON REVENUE URL:http://www.leg.state.or.us/11reg/measpdf/hb3200.dir/hb3262.intro.pdf Contact Respondent Dept Updated Priority Recommendation Larry Hill CS-FIN 2/18/2011 Pri 1 Oppose Comments: Oppose unless significantly amended to protect cities' and counties' shares of malt liquor revenue. HB 3262 is unnecessary, complex and could reduce state shared revenue received by the City of Eugene. The bill would revise the state malt beverages tax. The proposed tax rate is blank in the bill as introduced, and the shares to be distributed to cities and counties are also blank, so the impact of the bill on state shared revenue cannot yet be determined. The bill also layers a new distribution scheme on top of the existing statutory distributions for malt beverage tax revenue. Instead this bill, the state could simply appropriate the 56% share it already gets from the existing malt beverage tax for the State Police and alcohol remediation services, leaving city and county shares intact. What is apparent to me is that this bill intends to steer significant malt beverage tax revenue to a new Alcohol Remediation fund and to the State Police away from counties and cities. The existing state tax on malt beverages is $2.60 per barrel. The revenue from the existing tax is currently distributed according to statute: 56% to the state general fund; 20% to cities based on shares of incorporated population; 10% to counties based on population; and 14% to cities based on a complex formula. HB 3262 would circumvent this established distribution formula for malt beverage revenues. Note: HB 3262 would not affect wine or liquor revenues, which are not included in the measures proposed changes. In FY11 the City of Eugene projects it will receive $3,510,000 from malt beverage, wine and liquor tax revenues collected by the state. A significant share of this is derived from taxes on malt beverages, but I cannot as yet determine the exact share. HB 3305 Relating Clause: Relating to county property tax collections. Title:Directs counties to recover costs of property assessment and tax collection from taxing districts. 10