STEVE LAW
Statesman Journal
April 24, 2007
Rep. Deborah Boone, D-Cannon Beach, and four other lawmakers have introduced a House bill to raise fees on recording of real-estate documents, to finance affordable-housing projects.
As reported in the Statesman Journal, a similar Senate proposal, Senate Bill 38, was deemed by legislative lawyers to be a tax. Tax-raising bills must originate in the House.
Boone’s proposal helps keep the affordable-housing proposal alive.
Sen. Margaret Carter, D-Portland, worked with Boone to submit a House version of the bill. Other co-sponsors are Rep. Mary Nolan, D-Portland, the powerful co-chairwoman of the joint budget committee; Sen. Ryan Deckert, D-Beaverton, whose committee has already worked the bill in the Senate, and Rep. Paul Holvey, D-Eugene.
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