74th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2007 Regular Session
 
SA to A-Eng. SB 10
 
LC 2114/SB 10-A28
 
                      SENATE AMENDMENTS TO
                   A-ENGROSSED SENATE BILL 10
 
              By JOINT COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS
 
                             June 18
 
  On page 2 of the printed A-engrossed bill, delete lines 4
through 43 and insert:
  '  { +  SECTION 2. + }  { + (1) The Oregon Government Standards
and Practices Commission shall estimate in advance the expenses
that it will incur during a biennium in carrying out the
provisions of ORS 171.725 to 171.785 and 171.992 and this
chapter. The commission shall also determine what percentage of
the expenses should be borne by the following two groups of
public bodies:
  ' (a) Public bodies in state government and special government
bodies that are not subject to the Municipal Audit Law; and
  ' (b) Local governments, local service districts and special
government bodies that are subject to the Municipal Audit Law.
  ' (2) The commission shall charge each public body for the
public body's share of the expenses described in subsection (1)
of this section for the biennium. The amount to be charged each
public body shall be determined as follows:
  ' (a) The commission shall determine the rate to be charged
public bodies in state government and those special government
bodies that are not subject to the Municipal Audit Law. The same
rate shall be applied to each public body described in this
paragraph. To determine the amount of the charge for each public
body, the commission shall multiply the rate determined under
this paragraph by the number of public officials serving the
public body.
  ' (b) The commission shall set the charge for local
governments, local service districts and special government
bodies that are subject to the Municipal Audit Law so that each
local government, local service district or special government
body described in this paragraph pays an amount of the total
expenses for the group that bears the same proportion to the
total expenses that the amount charged to the local government,
local service district or special government body for the
municipal audit fee under ORS 297.485 bears to the total amount
assessed for the municipal audit fee.
  ' (3) Each public body shall pay to the credit of the
commission the charge described in this section as an
administrative expense from funds or appropriations available to
the public body in the same manner as other claims against the
public body are paid.
  ' (4) All moneys received by the commission under this section
shall be credited to the Oregon Government Standards and
Practices Commission Account established under ORS 244.345.
  ' (5) The commission shall adopt rules specifying the methods
for calculating and collecting the rates and charges described in
this section.
  ' (6) As used in this section:
  ' (a) 'Local government' and 'local service district' have the
meanings given those terms in ORS 174.116.
 
  ' (b) 'Public body' has the meaning given that term in ORS
174.109.
  ' (c) 'Public official,' notwithstanding ORS 244.020 (13),
means any person who, on the date the commission charges the
public body under this section, is serving the public body as an
officer, employee, agent or otherwise, irrespective of whether
the person is compensated for the services.
  ' (d) 'Special government body' has the meaning given that term
in ORS 174.117.
  ' (e) 'State government' has the meaning given that term in ORS
174.111. + } ' .
  On page 15, line 15, delete 'member of the household' and
insert 'relative' and after 'staff' insert 'member'.
  In line 18, delete 'outside the United States' and insert ' or
on other official business'.
  In line 21, after 'transaction' insert ', including any
business agreement between state government as defined in ORS
174.111 or a local government as defined in ORS 174.116 and a
private entity or public body as defined in ORS 174.109'.
  After line 26, insert:
  ' (K) Waiver or discount of registration expenses or materials
provided to a public official at a continuing education event
that the public official may attend to satisfy a professional
licensing requirement.
  ' (L) Expenses provided by one public official to another
public official for travel inside this state to or from an event
that bears a relationship to the receiving public official's
office and at which the official participates in an official
capacity.
  ' (M) Food or beverage consumed by a public official at a
reception where the food or beverage is provided as an incidental
part of the reception and no cost is placed on the food or
beverage.'.
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