SJR 201 repeals limits on property taxes

VOTE:NO
Died In Committee
 
Summary: Amends the Oregon constitution by repealing the constitutional limits on property taxes, creating convoluted government mechanisms for adjusting real property valuation.  Will significantly allow unrestricted increases for all property taxes, including local taxing districts, counties and cities.

Fiscal Responsibility:  Funds government at undetermined rates at the expense of public.

Free Markets: Creates additional convoluted government mechanisms for adjusting Real Property Market Values, outside of the market precess.  Property taxes affect markets since they drive up costs and must be taken into account whenever a business tries to move into a new market or increase capacity (and thus value) of the current property.

Limited Government:  Creates additional convoluted government mechanisms for adjusting Real Property Market Values  Local Control.  keeps the $5/$1,000 valuation limit on the schools.  However, the state keeps the responsibility for funding while our property taxes skyrocket.  Keeps the 50% turnout requirement for bonded indebtedness questions submitted to voters at any election other than the regularly scheduled ones in May and November.

Personal Choice and Responsibility: Refers issue to voters in November, because this is a proposed amendment to the state constitution, all Oregon voters will have the opportunity to weigh in on the matter.

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SB 1532A Minimum wage increase

VOTE:NO
 
SUMMARY FOR SB 1532A: Establishes tiered system base on geographical location of employer. Establishes annual increase to base minimum wage rate until July 1, 2023 when inflation based rates resume. Employers within Portland's urban growth boundary will pay a higher rate. Allows employers located within certain counties to pay rate lower than base rate for minimum wage. Declares emergency.

PERSONAL CHOICE: A recent report by Eric Fruits, Ph.D., president and chief economist for Economics International Corp. and an adjunct professor at Portland State University, agrees with the LRO. Fruits reports increasing the minimum wage to $13.50 would result in the loss of around 55,000 jobs by 2020, and raising it to $15 would cost 67,000 jobs. For workers increased to $13.50 per hour, their average annual income would be $1,512 less and $15 per hour workers would loss $1,515 per year. The LRO July 2014 reports says that a $2.40 raise per hour that nearly 3,000 jobs will be lost the first year and it would continue to increase to 20,000 jobs lost by 2025.

FREE MARKET: California announced this week, a minimum wage of $12.55 an hour in Oakland, Calif., and Wal-Mart announced it was the reason for its store’s closure.  We are hearing of small business planning to close and others moving out of state should this bill pass.

FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY: The January 2016 LFO reports an increase in income from taxes to the state as $13.5 million and shrink over time for a minimum wage of $13.50. Fruits says that $13.5 million comes at the expense of reduced wages and salary incomes by an estimated $6.2 billion, and by $6.9 billion for $15 per hour by the year 2020. A Kellogg professor built a model that "strongly suggests that everyone— employers, customers, employees who lose their jobs, and even those who stay—ends up in a worse situation when the minimum wage increases.”

The January 2016 LFO report indicates that all social programs will be affected to the detriment of low income people. The rise in unemployment and increase in homeless, which Oregon is 3rd in the nation for homelessness, will be significant to the state and taxpayers. This bill also establishes a Wage Enforcement Fund that is funded by a 'minimum wage tax' at the rate of $0.01 each hour worked by all employees.

LIMITED GOVERNMENT: “Oregon has the 10th highest rate of Unemployment among the states. In fact, Oregon has spent most of the past decade among the top 10 states with the highest rates of residents looking for work, but unable to get a job. A steep increase in the minimum wage will only worsen employment opportunities for Oregon job seekers.”

In 2015, BOLI reported 141,000 minimum wage workers. A third of these people will have their American Dream squashed by an over-zealous ignorant government.

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SB 1530A Federal agencies to determine, state and federal mining programs can be better coordinated

VOTE: NO
Died In Committee
SB 1530 Requires certain state agencies to consult with certain federal agencies to determine whether state and federal mining programs can be better coordinated.
Summary: This bill will further eliminate Oregon’s small-scale mining industry and negatively affect the economies of Oregon’s rural communities.
 
Fiscal Responsibility:
Increases burdens on state funds by requiring implementation and  oversight by multiple state agencies.
 
Local Control:
Attempts to gain authority over Federal mining laws. 
 
Free Markets
Attempts to regulate production by requiring burdensome permitting and fees in operations using equipment other than hand tools.Changes prospecting and casual mining to exploration and requires an additional permit. Requires any motorized activities to pay $400 additional permitting.Regulates off stream mining and surface mining, to forms of mining that are not currently not part of the moratorium. As regulations regarding small plants and rocks, IE. Rock can only be moved  by one person, only using their hands. Removes under 50 cubit yard permit exemption for small operators.
 
Limited Government
Attempts to insert the state into matters of federal jurisdiction in several areas, from the amount of materials without a plan of operations or notice of intent to the simple ability to work a Federal mineral claim. Requires claim owners to prove they have a valuable deposit that can be economically mined, requiring validity tests conducted by BLM that costs Taxpayers about $20.000 per mining claim.
 
Personal Choice and Responsibility
Would require burdensome regulation and fees, provides opportunity in rulemaking to arbitrarily redefine lands and waters. Application requirements are subject to change by rule, and as written are intrusive to business strategy of operators. Attempts to allow the issuance of violations upon allegations.
 
SB1530 attempted to add “surface mining” to the law, which oversteps the intent of the moratorium. Does not lift moratorium in most places. Requires Indian tribes and NGO’s to give permit approval.
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Comments

  1. Favicon image winners says:

     

    All the areas that are closed under the moratorium will be kept closed by this legislation.
    It doesn’t mater if its legal, is it right… these mining claims mean to world to many people some claims have been passed down for generations, this is like taking the family farm with eminent domain just so you can put in a park, not just one family thousands…

     

     

  2. Favicon image Karen says:

    For the record, when SB838 went through legislature, it was passed as a law that would stop motorized dredge mining, but after making the rounds in rulemaking, that is not where it ended. In the end, it ended up banning efficient suction devices – motorized or not – and increased the applicable area of the law. Most importantly, it asked applicants to voluntarily forfeit their 4th Amendment rights to the state. It is my impression that those things would have been deal-breakers for the few votes in which they needed to get the bill passed, so they left them to Rulemaking to insert them there.

    With this history of the overstepping intent of the laws by Administrative Rule, I assume that there are unknown rules waiting in the wings – the deal-breaking proposals that would be deal-breakers on the legislative floors.

     

     
  3. Favicon image Gold Nuggets says:

     

    The proposed SB 1530 (Bates) will serve only to totally shut down Small Scale Mining operations by the miners in Oregon. Fees and over restrictive regulations will be far from equitable for miners, resulting in senarios that the State of Oregon had better be prepared to deal with……This is something that none of the miners, loggers, ranchers and users of public lands in this State want to see happen. But with the insane way the Legislators in Salem have been taking away rights and freedoms from Oregon Citizens…..it is inevitable.

     

     
  4. Favicon image dlorendarnell says:

     

    This bill and others will immediately strip tens of millions of dollars out of Oregon’s most economically depresses counties.

    Suppliers will shut their doors and all the ancillary businesses that supply the needs of miners (or anyone else who uses our forests) will suffer decreased revenue as well.

    Perhaps the worst cconsequence though, is many will lose a vital source of income.

    Urge you Representative to vote no.

     

     
  5. Favicon image Todd Kleinert says:

     

    Our constitution begins with, “We the people” (NOT “The corporations..”). So when will the government stop acting on behalf of big corp money? This is nonsense, and needs to stop. Mining is a necessary industry. Without mining, there would be no electronics, just as ONE example. Many other industries would suffer as well, if this is not stopped immediately.. Time to take back our rights, and our purpose. The government works for us, and they need to start to realize that. 
     

     

  6. Favicon image Richard says:

     

    I apologize….but I’m writing to you with emotion today.  I normally try to be analytical in my posts.  But after years of staying within the “normal game”, with no tangible gains, I think its time to change our game.

    Please know that I’ve spent 6 plus hours a day at this computer searching, researching a LOT of issues, not just small-scale dredging.

    – the timber industry has been screwed

    – the miners are getting screwed

    – the ranchers are getting forced out

    – the farmers are under the gun for using water

    – the off-roaders, and campers are being cut off from access due to massive agency- wide new policies.  You know all this of course…..

    I’ve seen and heard countless scoping meetings, legislative committee meetings, etc.  And the one thing common to all, is we are playing by THEIR rules.  The call came out to comment on SB1530 (Bates), and I felt physically nauseous…”here we go again” good honest people playing a rigged game.

    We need to start asking ourselves what a few nights in jail are worth!!  Those kids spiking the trees knew how to effect change so long ago…ok, you get the picture…have a nice day, rant over…..

     

     
  7. Favicon image AnonymousMouse says:

     

    This isn’t about saving a species, and it’s not about murky water.

    We’ve all seen how muddy the rain swollen raging rivers become in the winter. If turbidty was really a pollutant, all fish would have been dead a long time ago.

    Progressives lie. They lie to you; they lie to your kids. That’s how they win.

    It’s about control. It’s about the state of Oregon realizing that there is a segment of an industry that they have not taxed and regulated to hell. It’s about the state ever wanting illegal authority to take more and more and more control over how its people live, do, eat and play.

    It’s about anti-industry, just like every other piece of Oregon legislation passed in the last year. It’s about de-development and campaign contributions, smug progressives assuming postions of authority over every aspect of our lives.

    Because they truly believe it is their right and responsibility to tell us what to do.

     

     
    • Favicon image BJ says:

       

      SPOT ON ANOYMOUSMOUSE, SPOT ON

       

       
  8. Favicon image Brody says:

     

    I am 10 years old and I have a two resons why this bill should not be passed.

    1. Dredge mineing shold not be reomoved because its esential for the fish or they will die

    2.It cleans water polution

     

     
  9. Favicon image mendoAu says:

     

    This is a blatant misuse of elected power. What happened to scientific proof that small scale mining causes less than minimal environment damage. Why after the few open to the public meetings have none/zero middle of the road suggestions been implimented? I guess in this day and age if you aren’t rich you just get kicked to the curb. On the other hand after some research I find that when I no longer have a job (mining) that I will qualify for about $800 a month on SSI, $180 a month in food assistance, FREE medical/dental (possibly $3000 in new dentures) , free $330 in current medications, and still maintain my claim by panning and sluicing. I don’t even have to pay tax on my found gold until/if I sell it. And just pretty much just sit on my butt and become a ward of the State…oh, well.

     

     

  10. Favicon image karend says:

     

    From a CA miner who spends resources in Oregon:

    “More regulations on an industry that doesn’t need more regulation and you’re not authorized to regulate?

    Oregon, how about you do something about solving the crime problems you already have instead of turning law abiding, hard working citizen miners into criminals w/ your illegal regulations.

    I belong to several mining organizations that have claims in your state so I have a vested interest in the things you do to miners. Mellisa Fernandez”

     

     

    • Favicon image karend says:

       

      Mellisa makes a great point. Radical envrionmentalists want to see to evolve Oregon into a tourist-based playground (and wildfire-based) economy, but are reducng reasons for tourism.

       

       
  11. Favicon image OVRBRDN says:

     

    I oppose SB 1530. It is unlawful and  denies the Mineral Estate Grantee  the ability to exercise their mineral estate grant.

    Per Alan Bates “we will make this defensible in court”
    so every comment, testimony or objection will be sent to the lawyers to make sure this is defensible in court.
    This is hostile law making against our common citizens, how can this be tolerated or condoned. 

     

     
  12. Favicon image KarenD says:

     

    Just stop voting for Democrats and this crap won’t happen. #KatesOregon

     

     
  13. Favicon image Jim says:

     

    I don’t get it, really. A couple years ago we were told that dredging hurt salmon, but that truned out to be a lie. Now we can’t dredge anyway. what do all of these taxes and fees and conditions and regulations have to do with saving the salmon that aren’t dying anyway?

    I just don’t get it.

     

    Favicon image Displaced Miner says:

     

    • Favicon image Karend says:

      OR Sen Alan Bates’ happy donor strategy: 1) miner too loud 2) silence ALL miners 3) regulate and tax miners 5) no more mining. Donor wins.

       

      Favicon image Karend says:

       

  14. When is enough, enough?! If the problem is a big donor of Bates’ and Kitzhaber’s who lives in Gold Hill not liking the sound of a small engine in the morning, why not just put regulations on operators who work in areas around homes? But they try to put us out of business instead? How does that even make sense? Why are we all being punished for one person’s bad manners? Funny, that doesn’t happen to some other demographic groups….

    Why do they want to know my sercets, like the GPS location of my claim and how many ounces per ton I’m getting from my material? So they can rope it up into a new monument or wilderness? This is starting to smell like Harney County!

     

     

 

 

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SB 1563A New loan program for septic systems

SB 1563A VOTE: NO
Passed

SB 1563   Authorizes Environmental Quality Commission to develop low-interest loan program for on-site septic system repairs, replacements, upgrades or evaluations.  Declares emergency.

PERSONAL CHOICE: Makes loans more accessible for repair or replacement of septic systems.

FREE MARKET: The participating lenders must agree to subordinate their liens to the borrowers’ consensual mortgage liens. If the first mortgage is consensual for the secondary loan, then the free market could better serve.

FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY: Uses $250,000 General Fund taxpayer funds as startup to be continuously renewed to finance a new program that provides loans or grants to low and moderate income and small business applicants that are unable to obtain traditional financing. However, the loan is required to be attached as a second to the borrowers’ consensual mortgage lien.

LIMITED GOVERNMENT: Grows government with an added program of unnecessary services making rules, loans, grants, providing community outreach, financial risk analyses, loan origination and servicing and development of related programs. The majority of the $250,000 is to grow government adding a new line-item to DEQ’s budget for years to come – at taxpayer’s expense.

Legislative Assembly declares it to be the policy of this state to offer affordable loans – since when?

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SB 1548 expedited boundary expansion for housing

VOTE: YES
In Committee Upon Adjournment

This bill authorizes local governments to expedite expanding urban growth boundary to adjacent land when dedicated to housing resolving a need that meets certain requirements.

 


Personal Choice
Providing housing choices in areas where available housing is less than 6% of what is needed. Landowners must agree 100% to sell their property for an expansion.
Limited Government
Puts the option of expanding growth boundaries with local governments with public approval.
Local Control
Local governments demonstrating a need for housing may expand urban growth boundaries exclusive for the development of housing for 10 years. Protects agricultural lands by requiring 100% approval of sellers in the expanded area and voter approval.
Free Markets
Promotes the construction industry and economic growth in rural and urban areas.

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HB 4040A Removes gray wolves from endangered species list

HB 4040A VOTE: YES
Passed
 
Status (overview) of bill: https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2016R1/Measures/Overview/HB4040
 
SUMMARY: Ratifies decision of State Fish and Wildlife Commission to remove Canis lupus from state list of endangered species. Declares emergency.

PERSONAL: Collectively known as the gray wolf.  Once could be found throughout the US until federal and state government exterminated them prior to 1930. Canada did their own kill off until the1960s. Population zones have slowed their repopulation, but with the reintroduction into several western states, they are again becoming over populated and a preditor problem. When they outnumber their wild prey, they become a problem for ranchers attacking livestock and farm animals. Oregon has passed reasonable laws protecting the overkill of wildlife yet allowing remedies for farmers and ranchers when livestock or property is threatened.
MARKET: It is essential for the economic solvency of Oregon’s largest agricultural commodity in terms of sales, representing about 15 percent of Oregon’s entire agricultural sector.
GOVERNMENT: State Fish and Wildlife Commission voted to remove Canis lupus from the endangered species list on Nov. 9, 2015, unless populations in both the east and west zones decline to below the population status necessary for implementation of Phase II of the Oregon Wolf Conservation and Management Plan.

 
 
 

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SB 1574A Greenhouse gas emissions goals by rule

VOTE: NO
Died In Committee
 
Heathy Climate Act (SB 1574) 
 
SUMMARY: Repeals greenhouse gas emissions goals and requires EQC to adopt by rule statewide greenhouse gas emissions goal for 2025, and limits for years 2035 and 2050.
 
This Cap and Invest program would establish a program in which carbon emissions from transportation fuels, coal and gas electric power generation, and industrial emissions, would be capped. Pollution "allowances" would be auctioned by the state to those emitting entities. The proceeds from the sale of the allowances would be invested directly into efforts such as utility bill rate relief, carbon reducing transportation projects, greenhouse gas reduction investments, and community and economic adaptation and resilience measures; such as water storage and irrigation upgrades for rural economies. 
The program is an indirect tax on utilities based on air that will be passed on to consumers. It's a form of redistribution at consumers expense.
Oregon is ranked 39 in carbon emissions and would have met all federal goals if Oregon considered hydro power a renewable energy as most other states do.
 
Referring this important issue for rule making allows unelected agencies to write law.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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SB 1551 Allows hold on firearms purchaser by defined “reporters”

VOTE:NO
Died In Committee

SB 1551 Summary

Authorizes specified reporters to make report to Department of State Police Firearms Unit that person is experiencing mental health emergency and is danger to self or others with firearm. Directs department, upon receipt of report, to record temporary firearm purchase hold preventing person from purchasing firearm. Provides civil immunity to reporter acting in good faith. Provides that knowingly making false report is criminal offense. Punishes by maximum of one year’s imprisonment, $6,250 fine, or both. Creates processes for person to obtain relief from firearm purchase hold. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Limited government

As with so many bills in the last couple of years, the sponsors of this bill are not listed and it also has an emergency clause at the end which causes it to go into effect before it can be referred to the voters. If you believe your bill is good, why will you not put your name on it?  And why if everyone supports your position as you claim, will you not allow the voters to have a say?  These things alone should disqualify this bill. Then, the bill is deemed an emergency so must go into effect immediately but the rules under which it will be carried out “shall be adopted” by the Department of State Police – with NO time frame given!  So the law is in effect, with no rules or procedures of how to implement it!  Finally, this is being introduced in an off-year legislative session which were implemented for purposes of small housekeeping work, not introducing controversial and impactful new changes, and scheduled for a hearing the very first week of session, giving the public very little time to provide input. This methodology is offensive.

Personal choice and responsibility

This bill as written is rife with the possibility of abuse of the liberties of perfectly sane and law abiding people.  The hold is for 30 days now but once this is in effect that could be extended to a year with a “housekeeping” bill with little notice or public input.  What about penalty for a false report?  Is a class A misdemeanor sufficient penalty for effectively falsely denying someone’s exercise of a constitutional right and possibly endangering their life by denying the means to self-defense? While this bill may be well-meaning, this needs a lot of work in order to ensure that protection of society is gained without loss of liberty.

Comments

  1. Favicon image Becky says:

    This bill is a perfect example why everyone needs to sign the No More Fake Emergencies petition – please do so here, then send an email to the committee members for this bill! http://www.nofakeemergencies.com

     

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HB 4147 Denies firearm purchase if background check cannot be completed

VOTE:NO
Died In Committee
Status (overview) of bill:https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2016R1/Measures/Overview/HB4147
 
Summary

Prohibits transfer of firearm by dealer or private party if Department of State Police is unable to determine whether recipient is qualified to receive firearm.

Limited Government

As the Oregon State law now stands, if the State cannot show within one business day that you should NOT be able to purchase a firearm, the seller can go ahead with the transfer to you.  Federal law is 3 days.  So today, when the State Police Firearms Check system is “down” or otherwise malfunctioning or if you received an “initial denial” which results in your check going into "pending" status waiting for investigation into the question raised, you can be delayed only a short time. Currently about 1% of background checks run in Oregon – 2,000 out of roughly 200,000 checks run per year, result in an “initial denial” and a "pending" status.  State Police investigation records show that 90% + of those are for non-prohibited persons – a “false positive.”  This can occur as a result of having a name similar to someone else, incomplete records in another state, or the dealer entering info inccorrectly.  With HB 4147, if the FICS unit does not finish their investigation and positively say that you CAN purchase the firearm, you will be delayed – indefinitely.  With HB 4147, the 1800 people per year who are not prohibited but are initially denied, will be denied forever or until FICS figures out the problem du jour, whichever comes first. This is a clearly unconstitutional prohibition of exercise of a constitutional right by law abiding people.  Statistics from http://www.oregon.gov/osp/ID/Pages/Firearms-Denial-Information-and-Reports.aspx.  

Further, this is being introduced in an off-year legislative session which were implemented for purposes of small housekeeping work, not introducing controversial and impactful new changes, and scheduled for a hearing the very first week of session, giving the public very little time to provide input. This methodology is offensive.

 

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