Bill Text: OR SB429 | 2013 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to state finance; prescribing an effective date; providing for revenue raising that requires approval by a three-fifths majority.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2013-07-08 - In committee upon adjournment. [SB429 Detail]
Download: Oregon-2013-SB429-Introduced.html
77th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2013 Regular Session NOTE: Matter within { + braces and plus signs + } in an amended section is new. Matter within { - braces and minus signs - } is existing law to be omitted. New sections are within { + braces and plus signs + } . LC 1142 Senate Bill 429 Sponsored by Senator GEORGE (Presession filed.) 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 a public university 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 2013 Act takes effect on the 91st day after the date on which the 2013 regular session of the Seventy-seventh Legislative Assembly adjourns sine die. + } ----------