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	Oregon Ballot Measure 5 (1990) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Measure 5 was followed up with Measure 47 in 1996 and Measure 50 in 1997.
		Measure 5 is often seen as the beginning of the Oregon tax revolt.
		The measure was sponsored by Oregon Taxpayers United, an anti-tax group.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oregon_Ballot_Measure_5_(1990) (362 words)

	Relating to finance; creating new provisions; amending ORS 250.037 and 280.070; and declaring an emergency.
		(7) 'Pre-reduction Measure 50 taxes' means the amount determined by subtracting those taxes not subject to reduction under section 11 (3), Article XI of the Oregon Constitution, from the Measure 5 imposed tax estimate.
		(2) The department shall compute a reduction percentage for Measure 50 taxes by comparing the total statewide pre-reduction Measure 50 tax amount with the total statewide Measure 47 comparison tax amount and calculating the statewide percentage by which the total Measure 47 comparison tax amount is less than the total pre-reduction Measure 50 tax amount.
		The Legislative Assembly is expressly not adopting by reference any provision of repealed Ballot Measure 47 (1996) under sections 1 to 11 of this Act.
	www.leg.state.or.us /97reg/measures/hb3700.dir/hb3710.b.html (2753 words)

	Tobacco Tax Initiative -- Oregon, 1996
		The measure presented to voters on November 5, 1996, authorized 10% of the new tobacco tax revenue to be used to develop and implement statewide tobacco-use prevention and education programs managed by the State Health Division, Oregon Department of Human Resources, and 90% to be used to expand health-care coverage under the OHP.
		In 1995, tobacco use contributed to the deaths of 6274 persons in Oregon (1995 population: 3,132,000) as reported by physicians on death certificates; annual costs in Oregon for the direct and indirect consequences of tobacco use were approximately $1 billion (State Health Division, Oregon Department of Human Resources, unpublished data, 1997).
		Michigan passed a citizen initiative to increase the tobacco excise tax from 25[ to 50[ in March 1994 as part of a multifaceted ballot initiative to replace property tax funding of schools with other taxes.
	www.cdc.gov /mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00047031.htm (1117 words)

	OSB Bulletin Magazine - October 2000
		According to the appellate court staff, ballot measure cases represented 46 of the 1,102 original actions and appeals filed in the Oregon Supreme Court in 1999; 44 of the 613 actions and appeals filed with the court through July 31, 2000 were ballot measure cases.
		Signatures required to place a measure on the ballot are a percentage of the number of votes for all candidates for governor in the last such election, six percent for statutory measures and eight percent for amendments to the constitution.
		Ballot measures, unlike most legislation, are drafted to be the centerpiece of a political campaign.
	www.osbar.org /publications/bulletin/00oct/0010initiatives.htm (4881 words)

	Oregon Judicial Department Appellate Court Opinions
		In April 1997, the month before the voters adopted Measure 50 in a special election, this court held that the word "property" in Measure 5 means "a specific unit of realty (with or without improvements) that is identified by the appropriate authority by tax lot number or by some other method." Shatzer v.
		The legislature referred Measure 50 to the voters to replace a property tax limitation measure that the voters had approved in 1996, which had been known popularly as Ballot Measure 47.
		Taxing authorities contend that Measure 47 is a vital part of the context of Measure 50 because both measures aimed generally at tax reduction and Measure 50 was adopted "in the historical and legal shadow" of Measure 47.
	www.publications.ojd.state.or.us /S47940.htm (4548 words)

	Springfield News: Measure 37 could change state's landscape
		The timber industry, which is among Oregon's biggest private landowners, is one of the biggest donors to the ballot measure.
		Measure 37 similarly creates no new source of income to pay for new administrative costs, estimated at between $50 and $300 million a year, and identifies no money to cover the expected flood of claims.
		However, that measure was overturned on technical grounds by the Oregon Supreme Court.
	www.springfieldnews.com /articles/2004/11/03/local/news09.txt (863 words)

	Oregon Ballot Measure 50 (1997)
		Oregon's Measure 50 of 1997 clarified the state constitutional property tax limits imposed by the previous year's Measure 47.
		The measure was approved by voters in the 20 May 1997 special election, with 429,943 votes in favor, and 341,781 votes against.
		After the passage of Measure 47, as part of Oregon's ongoing anti-tax movement, there was some confusion as to how that measure would be interepreted by the courts.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/oregon_ballot_measure_50__1997_ (301 words)

	Polk County Tax Office
		School districts in Polk County are affected by the Measure 5 limits and experience compression of their tax rates, but districts in the general government category have no or minimal tax compression.
		Utility property is assessed by the Oregon Department of Revenue and allocated to the county assessment roll based on line miles or other appropriate means that reflects where the property is located.
		This measure limited the combined rate for education to $5.00 per $1,000 and the combined rate for general government to $10.00 per $1,000, applied against the Real Market Value of the property.
	www.co.polk.or.us /Treasurer (2273 words)

	Assessment & Taxation
		Ballot Measure 50 - This is a property tax limitation measure which was approved by Oregon's voters in May 1997.
		Ballot Measure 5 - Taxes from fiscal year 1991-92 to 1995-96 were increasingly limited until the limit of $5 per $1,000 Real Market Value for school taxes and $10 per $1,000 Real Market Value for general government taxes was reached.
		Tax districts were given permanent tax rates under Measure 50.
	www.co.multnomah.or.us /dbcs/assess_tax/prop_tax.shtml (836 words)

	Food Industry Is Campaigning Against Oregon GMO Proposal PATRICIA CALLAHAN / Wall Street Journal 30sep02
		Buried among six other ballot measures in Oregon this November is an initiative that could upend the way the U.S. food industry operates.
		The Oregon measure, which would likely face court challenges if passed, would require labeling of food sold in the state, as well as of products made or housed in Oregon and distributed to other states.
		Oregon is the only state where all ballots are mailed to voters.
	www.mindfully.org /GE/GE4/Industry-Against-Oregon-Proposal30sep02.htm (2785 words)

	.: Corvallis Gazette-Times :. Archives
		Ballot Measure 25 raised the minimum wage from $6.50 to $6.90 effective Jan. 1, 2003, and amended the minimum wage law (ORS 653.025) by providing for annual adjustments.
		The CPI is a measure of the average change in prices over time in a fixed "market basket" of goods and services, such as food, shelter, medical care, transportation fares, and other goods and services purchased for day-to-day living.
		Because the Oregon minimum wage is higher than the federal minimum wage, and applies to all Oregon employers, employers must pay the higher state rate.
	www.gazettetimes.com /articles/2004/12/13/news/business/sunbiz02.txt (665 words)

	meas53
		Ballot Measure 50, passed in 1997, allows passage of certain local property tax measures by majority vote only if: at least 50 percent of registered voters cast ballots; or measure is voted upon in a general election held in an even-numbered year.
		Measure 53 is an attempt by the legislature to give back to tax and spend politicians their secret weapon: the ability to place huge tax increases on the ballot in small elections that hardly anyone knows are being held.
		Measure 53 would repeal a little-noticed provision of the Oregon Constitution that was originally enacted in 1996 as part of a $1 billion cut in property taxes.
	www.sos.state.or.us /elections/may1998/guide/meas/meas53.htm (6496 words)

	Oregon State Government After Measure 47
		With Oregon planning the construction of several new prisons and expecting an increase in prison population (attributed to minimum sentencing requirements enacted by voter initiative in 1994 [14]), this is an excellent time to privatize one or more prisons without threatening existing jobs in ODOC.
		The costs of tax credits for children already in independent schools is $50 million per year and the net gain to the public schools is $150 million per year or $300 million per biennium.
		For example, electric power companies have sometimes paid customers to adopt conservation measures, reducing demand for their product, because "negawatts," the energy saved, are a cheaper energy source than building additional power plants.
	www.cascadepolicy.org /pdf/fiscal/measure47.htm (2987 words)

	Oregon Judicial Department Appellate Court Opinions
		Petitioners contend that the true subject of the proposed measure is the transformation of Oregon's system of property taxation from one based in significant part on the property's assessed value to one that, due to the cap, assesses taxes at a flat amount regardless of the property's assessed valuation.
		Due to the similarity of the proposed measures, the Attorney General has certified ballot titles for the proposed measures that also are similar.
		The proposed caption cannot identify the subject matter of the proposed measure, in the statutory sense, by assuming that voters are aware of its subject matter instead of stating it.
	www.publications.ojd.state.or.us /S51105.htm (3511 words)

	OREGON’S INITIATIVE SYSTEM:
		The Oregon Supreme Court dismissed appeals of these rulings, without vacating the decisions, because it was too late for the measures to get on the ballot.
		Measured in constant dollars, average spending on an initiative (not counting costs of signature collection) doubled from $862,433 in the late 1970s to $1,704,482 in the 1990s.
		The Oregon Court of Appeals agreed with the plaintiffs saying that amendments are closely related only when a vote in favor of one implies a vote in favor of another.
	www.open.org /lwvor/Initiative.htm (3525 words)

	Newport News-Times: County support for new taxes - out of touch or new harbinger?
		This week's passage of Ballot Measure 21-97 by rural voters in Lincoln County raises the tax the Lincoln County Library District already receives from them by nine cents per $1,000 of assessed value, in a five-year levy expected to bring in $1.3 million.
		That option, Library District Chairperson Diedre Conklin has said, was the chief alternative to cutbacks in library services if the ballot measure had not been approved.
		That measure received a 53-percent approval vote, and got over the hurdle of the state's double-majority vote requirement in non-general elections, receiving a majority of the votes cast in an election where a majority of eligible voters voted.
	www.newportnewstimes.com /articles/2004/11/05/news/news13.txt (1349 words)

	Oregon -- Sources [ ALSO! -- U.S. Law ]
		Oregon counties are organized into 27 judicial districts with circuit courts.
		NOTE—Rules of evidence for Oregon state courts are compiled in the Oregon Evidence Code, which is chapter 40 of the Oregon Revised Statutes, and in chapters 41-through-45.
		Oregon circuit courts are also governed by uniform trial court rules and supplementary local rules (both are linked above) as well as the Oregon Rules of Civil Procedure.
	www.lawsource.com /also/usa.cgi?or (933 words)

	Washington's Timber Firms Target Oregon Initiative
		In Oregon, Measure 64 would prohibit clearcut logging by protecting all
		In Oregon, the political fault lines are breaking in familiar patterns.
		The Oregon acreage is the company's entire forest.
	forests.org /archive/america/clearban.htm (1004 words)

	Tobacco Tax Initiative -- Oregon, 1996
		The measure presented to voters on November 5, 1996, authorized 10% of the new tobacco tax revenue to be used to develop and implement statewide tobacco-use prevention and education programs managed by the State Health Division, Oregon Department of Human Resources, and 90% to be used to expand health-care coverage under the OHP.
		In 1995, tobacco use contributed to the deaths of 6274 persons in Oregon (1995 population: 3,132,000) as reported by physicians on death certificates; annual costs in Oregon for the direct and indirect consequences of tobacco use were approximately $1 billion (State Health Division, Oregon Department of Human Resources, unpublished data, 1997).
		Michigan passed a citizen initiative to increase the tobacco excise tax from 25[ to 50[ in March 1994 as part of a multifaceted ballot initiative to replace property tax funding of schools with other taxes.
	www.cdc.gov /mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00047031.htm (1117 words)

	oregon breaking news
		Before this month's decision, Oregon had contributed to three other Texas Pacific funds: $50 million in 1994 to TPG Partners; $300 million in 1997 to TPG Partners II; and $300 million in 2000 to TPG Partners III.
		Supporters contended before the vote, and a federal judge agreed, that ballot language warning that the measure could lead to more than a 3 percent increase in property taxes was misleading; "patently false" is how the judge put it.
		Oregon lawmakers adjourned in late August after considering, but ultimately rejecting, a proposed shifting of public-purposes dollars into the state's general fund.
	neaap.ncat.org /news/or-bn.htm (2304 words)

	Oregon Judicial Department Appellate Court Opinions
		At issue is the meaning of the phrase "each unit of property in this state" in Ballot Measure 50 (1997).
		The legislature referred Measure 50 to the voters to replace a property tax limitation measure that the voters had approved in 1996, which had been known popularly as Ballot Measure 47.
		Taxing authorities contend that Measure 47 is a vital part of the context of Measure 50 because both measures aimed generally at tax reduction and Measure 50 was adopted "in the historical and legal shadow" of Measure 47.
	www.publications.ojd.state.or.us /S47940.htm (4548 words)

	Oregon Ballot Measure 50 (1997)
		Oregon's Measure 50 of 1997 clarified the state constitutional property tax limits imposed by the previous year's Measure 47.
		The measure was approved by voters in the 20 May 1997 special election, with 429,943 votes in favor, and 341,781 votes against.
		After the passage of Measure 47, as part of Oregon's ongoing anti-tax movement, there was some confusion as to how that measure would be interepreted by the courts.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/oregon_ballot_measure_50__1997_ (301 words)

	Washington County, Oregon--Updates--Spring 1998
		Then in 1997 voters approved Measures 47 and 50, to lower property taxes and to change the way they are figured.
		Fish should be happier, too - working with the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, we have designed the new culvert to be over-sized, with native streambed material placed along its bottom to encourage safe fish passage.
		In 1995 voters approved a six-year, $130 million property tax measure, the third step of our Major Streets Transportation Improvement Program (MSTIP 3).
	www.co.washington.or.us /deptmts/lut/updates/spring98/newslttr.htm (301 words)

	Oregon tax revolt
		Problems with the legal wording of Measure 47 caused the legislature to send Oregon Ballot Measure 50 (1997)Measure 50/ to voters, which clarified Measure 47.
		The United States dollar$2.3 million judgment against Oregon Taxpayer's United serverly hurt Sizemore's ability to put measures on the ballot, and the allegations of fraud lead to the passage of Oregon Ballot Measure 26 (2002)Measure 26 in 2002/, which prohibits the payment of signature gatherers on a per-signature basis.
		However, in the same election Oregonians enshrined kicker checkkicker checks--refunds on unexpected state revenues--in the state constitution with Oregon Ballot Measure 86 (2000)Measure 86/.
	www.infothis.com /find/Oregon_tax_revolt (728 words)

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