Bill Text: OR SB971 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relating to state finance; prescribing an effective date; providing for revenue raising that requires approval by a three-fifths majority.

Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Failed) 2011-06-30 - In committee upon adjournment. [SB971 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2011-SB971-Introduced.html

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     76th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2011 Regular Session

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LC 3995

                         Senate Bill 971

Sponsored by Senator GEORGE; Senator BOQUIST

                             SUMMARY

The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.

  Directs state agencies to deposit moneys that agencies receive
through imposition of fees, fines or civil penalties into General
Fund and not into other funds account continuously appropriated
to agency.
  Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

                        A BILL FOR AN ACT
Relating to state finance; prescribing an effective date; and
  providing for revenue raising that requires approval by a
  three-fifths majority.
Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:
  SECTION 1.  { + (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of law,
a state agency may not deposit the following moneys into an other
funds account:
  (a) Moneys the agency receives through the collection of fees
paid to the agency pursuant to law or rule; or
  (b) Moneys the agency receives through the imposition, by the
agency, of fines or civil penalties.
  (2) A state agency shall deposit moneys described in subsection
(1) of this section into the General Fund.
  (3) Subsections (1) and (2) of this section do not apply to:
  (a) Moneys appropriated from the General Fund to an other funds
account;
  (b) Moneys in funds or accounts established by the Oregon
Constitution or whose expenditures are limited or otherwise
directed by provisions of the Oregon Constitution;
  (c) Federal funds or lottery funds deposited in any fund or
account that includes dedicated or continuously appropriated
moneys;
  (d) Dedicated or continuously appropriated moneys in an other
funds account that are authorized by law to be expended without
limitation;
  (e) Moneys paid as tuition to an institution of the Oregon
University System listed in ORS 352.002 or to a community college
as defined in ORS 341.005;
  (f) Revenues from taxes imposed under ORS chapter 657; or
  (g) Moneys from the tax on motor vehicle fuel or aircraft fuel
imposed under ORS 319.020 or moneys from the tax on fuel used in
motor vehicles imposed under ORS 319.530.
  (4) As used in this section:

  (a) 'Other funds account' means a statutory fund or account
that includes fees, moneys or other revenues, including
Miscellaneous Receipts, but excluding lottery funds and federal
funds, collected or received by a state agency that are dedicated
or continuously appropriated to the agency by statute for the
uses and purposes of the agency.
  (b) 'State agency' has the meaning given that term in ORS
291.322. + }
  SECTION 2.  { + This 2011 Act takes effect on the 91st day
after the date on which the 2011 regular session of the
Seventy-sixth Legislative Assembly adjourns sine die. + }
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