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- Date: Monday, May 5
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Monday - May 5, 2025
Bills of Concern
Senate Committee On Rules 1:00 pm
SB 88 – Relating to expenditures nonrecoverable from ratepayers; declaring an emergency. Digest: Bans a power or gas company from including in its rates certain costs or expenses. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8).
Prohibits an electric or gas company from recovering from ratepayers costs or expenses associated with advertising, political influence activity, litigation, penalties or fines and certain compensation.
Directs the Public Utility Commission to limit the amount that an electric or gas company may recover from ratepayers for costs and expenses incurred by the electric or gas company in preparing for, attending, participating in or appealing a contested proceeding conducted before the commission.
Requires an electric or gas company to submit an annual report to the commission that includes an itemized list of all costs and expenses incurred by the electric or gas company that are nonrecoverable from ratepayers.
Imposes civil penalties for violations.
Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Featured Testimony: NW Gas Assoc. Opposes
Senate Committee on Energy and Environment 3:00 pm
HB 3546 A – Digest: Tells the PUC to provide for a class of service for facilities that use large amounts of energy. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.3). Directs the Public Utility Commission to provide for a classification of service for large energy use facilities. Requires any tariff schedule adopted for the class to allocate the costs of serving large energy use facilities to the facilities and mitigate the risks to other classes of retail electricity consumers. Defines “large energy use facility.” Directs the commission to require an electric company to use a contract when providing electricity service to a large energy use facility. Requires the contract to meet certain requirements and conditions. Directs the commission to report each even-numbered year to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to energy on trends in load requirements and other implications from large energy use facilities. Sunsets January 2, 2035. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Featured Testimony: Data Center Coalition Opposes!
Bills to Support
House Committee on Agriculture, Land Use, Natural Resources, and Water 8:00 am
SB 360 – Digest: This Act allows some workers to apply pesticides without a license if they use a device that runs on a battery. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Creates a pesticide licensing exemption for certain employees using a battery-powered device to apply pesticides.
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Featured Testimony: Less Regulation Please!
House Committee on Housing and Homelessness 1:00 pm
SB 974 – Digest: This Act speeds up review of housing permits. (Flesch Readability Score: 82.3). Requires local governments or special districts to complete final review of final engineering plans for residential development within 90 days of submission. Defines “urban housing application.” Requires urban housing applications to be reviewed as limited land use decisions. Authorizes award of attorney fees to applicant if engineering plans or land use applications for residential development are not processed timely. Prohibits local governments from applying certain design review requirements for certain urban housing applications.
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Featured Testimony: Waiting for Land Use Approvals is Time Wasted!
House Committee on Housing and Homelessness 1:00 pm
SB 1086 – Digest: Tells DCBS to help a group of building officials to develop a plan to set up a program to train people to inspect buildings. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.6). Requires the Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services to assist and provide support to the Oregon Building Officials Association to develop a proposal for establishing an apprenticeship program for building inspectors.
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Featured Testimony: Less Regulation Please!
Tuesday - May 6, 2025
Bills of Concern
Senate Committee On Labor and Business 8:00 am
HB 2957 A – Digest: The Act prohibits certain contracts that shorten certain statutes of limitations. The Act sets the time limits for when BOLI must issue a notice of rights to a complainant. The Act sets the time limits for when a complainant must file a lawsuit after issuance of the notice. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.4). Prohibits employers from entering into agreements that shorten the statute of limitations with respect to violations over which the Bureau of Labor and Industries has enforcement authority. Designates a violation of the prohibition as an unlawful employment practice. Establishes time limits for when the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries must issue a notice of rights to complainants. Clarifies that the bureau will not issue a notice for matters that have been resolved by a settlement agreement. Establishes time limits for filing a civil action after issuance of the notice. Makes conforming amendments. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Featured Testimony: Oppose – Could be used as “Pay for Protection Racket”!
HB 3646 – Digest: Lets state agencies that buy goods or services prefer doing so from businesses owned by their employees. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Adds entities in which employees of the entity own at least 50 percent of the ownership interest in the entity directly or through an employee stock ownership plan to the list of sources to which a contracting agency may give preference in procuring goods or services for public contracts.
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Featured Testimony: No Opposing testimonies at this writing.
HB 3789 – Digest: The Act makes it unlawful for a person to falsely impersonate a union representative. The Act says that the union has the sole right to decide its own representatives based on its own rules. The Act allows a union to file a lawsuit against a person who breaks the law. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Makes it unlawful to falsely impersonate a union representative. Provides that a labor organization shall have, as a matter of internal governance, the sole authority to identify and designate the union representatives associated with the labor organization. Provides a cause of action for a union representative alleging a violation of the prohibition against falsely impersonating a union representative.
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Featured Testimony: Freedom Foundation Opposes
House Committee On Climate, Energy, and Environment 8:00 am
SB 726 A – Digest: This Act tells the EQC to make landfills test and fix methane gas leaks. (Flesch Readability Score: 95.9). Requires the owner or operator of a municipal solid waste landfill to conduct surface emissions monitoring and report data as specified in the Act. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Featured Testimony: Annoyed that this is even a bill!
Senate Committee On Natural Resources and Wildfire 1:00 pm
HB 3932 A – Digest: The Act prohibits a person from taking a beaver from certain waters. The Act prohibits a person from taking a beaver on public land within certain watersheds or near certain waters. The Act does not apply to agency staff. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). [Instructs the State Fish and Wildlife Commission to adopt rules that prohibit] Prohibits a person from taking a beaver on waters or watersheds that are classified in a certain manner or on public land that is within the watersheds or within 200 feet of the ordinary high water mark of the waters. [Creates an] Provides exceptions, including an exception for employees of federal and state land management agencies.
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Featured Testimony: Beaver Trappers & Ranchers Oppose!
Bills to Support
Senate Committee On Natural Resources and Wildfire 1:00 pm
SB 83 A – Wildfire Map Repeal – Digest: The Act makes changes related to reducing wildfire risk. The Act makes changes related to fire protection. The Act takes effect when signed. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.3). Eliminates certain building code standards and mapping requirements for wildfire hazard mitigation. Directs the State Fire Marshal to develop a model code for defensible space to reduce wildfire risk. Modifies the membership of the Wildfire Programs Advisory Council. Directs the Department of Consumer and Business Services to adopt certain wildfire hazard mitigation code standards. Voids the State Forestry Department orders that had assigned property to a wildfire hazard zone. Makes changes to certain wildfire risk reduction reports that certain state agencies are required to prepare.
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Featured Testimony: I reluctantly support this bill.
Wednesday - May 7, 2025
Bills of Concern
Senate Committee On Education 8:00 am
HB 3365 – Digest: The Act would make new laws that would require climate change instruction to be included in certain subjects taught in public schools. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.2).
Directs the State Board of Education to [include an interdisciplinary approach to sustainability and climate change across all subjects for which academic content standards are established] ensure that academic content standards for core subjects include sufficient instruction on the causes and effects of climate change and strategies for responding to such causes and effects.
Applies to academic content standards that are reviewed and revised on or after the effective date of the Act.
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Featured Testimony: Purpose of Bill to Make Students Future Climate Activists?
Special Message from Oregon Citizens Lobby:
Make Your Voice Heard in Salem!
Incorporating partisan politics into the classroom violates ORS 336.070.
The Act would make new laws that would require climate change instruction to be included in certain subjects taught in public schools.
Directs the State Board of Education to ensure that academic content standards for core subjects include sufficient instruction on the causes and effects of climate change and strategies for responding to such causes and effects. Applies to academic content standards that are reviewed and revised on or after the effective date of the Act.
Adding a political driven requirement to school curriculum is incorporating partisan politics into the classroom and violation of ORS 336.070. Curriculum values are intended to promote an upright and desirable citizenry and to foster respect and understanding among students. While this does not explicitly mandate a nonpartisan curriculum, it does suggest a focus on universal values and principles that transcend political affiliations. Oregon Department of Education is responsible for setting educational standards and guidelines, which are intended to reflect best practices generally aim to ensure that curriculums are accurate and effective. This bill reflects only a bad political agenda that will continue to not help students perform better.
Submit Testimony before 5/9/25 8:00 am!
–Oregon Citizen’s Lobby
HB 3026 A – Digest: The Act makes changes to the education laws of this state. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 79.3). Modifies eligibility requirements for a scholarship program for teacher candidates. Authorizes the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to procure or supervise the procurement of certain goods, services, personal services and information technology. Establishes an exception to the requirement that all subcommittees of the Transfer Council consist of equal numbers of faculty from public universities and community colleges. Exempts from public meetings laws meetings of certain subcommittees of the council. Directs the commission, in consultation with community colleges and public universities, to study reporting requirements affecting public institutions of higher education and the commission and to submit a report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to higher education no later than November 15, 2026. Extends the reporting deadline for a forestry workforce study to December 31, 2025. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Featured Testimony: No Opposing Testimonies at this writing.
Senate Committee On Housing and Homelessness 1:00 pm
HB 3054 A – MORE RENT CONTROL Digest: This Act limits rent increases and sales constraints by a landlord in a home park or marina. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.1). Fixes at six percent maximum rent increases for rental spaces in a larger facility beginning in 2026. Creates an exception for certain infrastructure upgrades approved by a vote of the tenants. Prohibits a landlord from requiring aesthetic improvements or internal inspections as conditions of sale of a dwelling or home in a facility. Declares an emergency, effective September 1, 2025
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Featured Testimony: Murex Properties Oppose!
Senate Committee On Healthcare 3:00 pm
SB 2385 – Relating to restrictions on 340B covered entities; prescribing an effective date. Digest: The Act tells drug makers not to take actions that make it hard for a drug store to get certain drugs for health care providers, deliver the drugs to the providers or dispense the drugs. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.5).
[Digest: The Act prohibits drug makers from taking actions that make it hard for a drug store to get certain drugs on behalf of health care providers, deliver the drugs to the providers or dispense the drugs. The Act makes these actions an unlawful practice. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.2).]
[Makes it an unlawful practice for] Prohibits drug manufacturers [to interfere] from interfering directly or indirectly with a pharmacy or drug outlet acquiring 340B drugs, delivering 340B drugs to certain health care providers or dispensing 340B drugs. [Makes it an unlawful practice for] Prohibits drug manufacturers [to require] from requiring utilization review data from a drug outlet or pharmacy as a condition of the acquisition, delivery or dispensation of a 340B drug.
Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Featured Testimony: Community Action for Responsible Hospitals Oppose!
Special Message from Oregon Citizens Lobby:
Make Your Voice Heard in Salem!
The Act tells drug makers not to take actions that make it hard for a drug store to get certain drugs for health care providers, deliver the drugs to the providers or dispense the drugs.
Prohibits drug manufacturers from interfering directly or indirectly with a pharmacy or drug outlet acquiring 340B drugs, delivering 340B drugs to certain health care providers or dispensing 340B drugs. Prohibits drug manufacturers from requiring utilization review data from a drug outlet or pharmacy as a condition of the acquisition, delivery or dispensation of a 340B drug. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Example: Overcharging taxpayers via Medicaid for drugs that were 15 cents but sell for up to $800.
THE OPPOSITION POINTS OUT THE BILL LACKS IN MEETING IT’S INTENT: Despite the program’s intent to serve medically underserved areas, only 35% of 340B hospitals and 23% of 340B contract pharmacies are actually located in these communities. Meanwhile, profit margins for 340B contract pharmacies are 3.3 times higher than those of independent pharmacies dispensing non-340B drugs, and medicine price markups at 340B hospitals are 6.6 times higher than at independent clinics.1 The lack of oversight and transparency has allowed these abuses to persist, straying far from the program’s original mission of improving access to affordable medications for those who need them most.
It is crucial that the 340B program is reformed to fulfill its original purpose: improving access to affordable medications for underserved communities. Any legislative action surrounding the 340B program should prioritize transparency, accountability, and equity. This includes ensuring that the savings from the program directly benefit patients, encouraging the expansion of services in rural and underserved areas, and requiring 340B entities to demonstrate how their revenues are reinvested into the communities they serve. Expanding the program without addressing its current shortcomings risks further harm to patients and local providers and perpetuates inefficiencies in the healthcare system.
SUBMIT TESTIMONY HERE before 5/7 at 3pm
EMAIL COMMITTEE
Sen.DebPatterson@OregonLegislature.gov
Sen.CedricHayden@OregonLegislature.gov
Sen.WinsveyCampos@OregonLegislature.gov
Sen.DianeLinthicum@OregonLegislature.gov
Sen.LisaReynolds@OregonLegislature.gov
–Oregon Citizen’s Lobby
House Committee On Labor and Workplace Standards 3:00 pm
SB 426 A – Digest: The Act makes laws about unpaid wages for workers who work on construction projects. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7).
Makes an owner and a direct contractor jointly and severally liable in a civil action for any unpaid wages owed to the unrepresented employees of the direct contractor and subcontractors at any tier. Provides the statute of limitations for actions regarding recovery for unpaid [and overtime] wages.
Clarifies that the Attorney General may accept the assignment of claims and bring civil actions in the name of the State of Oregon on such claims. Permits the Attorney General to adopt rules regarding the assignment of claims.
Requires notice to be sent by certified mail that informs the owner and the direct contractor of the alleged violation and specifies the time period within which the owner and the direct contractor may correct the alleged violation.
Creates a rebuttable presumption that, in any action for unpaid wages, the person performing labor on a construction project is an employee. Provides that the party claiming otherwise may rebut the presumption by establishing that the person qualifies as an independent contractor.
Provides that an owner may bring an action against a direct contractor to recover damages for amounts paid by the owner.
Requires subcontractors to provide certain payroll records and other information to the owner or the direct contractor, upon request. Provides that subcontractors shall provide certain payroll records to an authorized third party representative in certain circumstances. Permits the owner and the direct contractor to withhold payment to a subcontractor in certain circumstances. Clarifies that the owner or direct contractor may withhold payment in an amount and to the extent that the owner or direct contractor paid, on behalf of the subcontractor, wages owed to the subcontractor’s employees.
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Featured Testimony: No One should be liable for the actions or inactions of a third party!
Special Message from Oregon Citizens Lobby:
Make Your Voice Heard in Salem!
Amendment: property owner is limited to when the contract with more than one contactor or subcontractor, which makes them a part of the contracting team, exempts owners primary residence from suit, reduces 6 years to 2 years to file a suit.
Makes an owner and a direct contractor jointly and severally liable in a civil action for any unpaid wages owed to the unrepresented employees of the direct contractor and subcontractors at any tier. Provides the statute of limitations for actions regarding recovery for unpaid and overtime wages. Requires subcontractors to provide certain payroll records and other information to the owner or the direct contractor, upon request. Permits the owner and the direct contractor to withhold payment to a subcontractor in certain circumstances.
SB 426 may say it is severally liable, but it makes the property owner as the direct contractor liable for when contractors they hire do not properly pay their employees, even though the landowner paid in full for the project. That is not severally liable and it doesn’t make the constructing industry accountable for their laborers’ wages.
The Official Staff Measure Summary says this bill is needed because ” BOLI has a
significant backlog for wage claims” and cannot help victimized workers. “Cannot”? Isn’t protecting workers BOLI’s priority?
Property owners are making the biggest financial decision of their life and are extremely vulnerable. They are already a victim if their home is forced to stop construction due to a serious unpaid wage problem that the landowner has no connection to.
SUBMIT TESTIMONY HERE before 5/9 at 3pm
EMAIL COMMITTEE
Rep.DacieGrayber@OregonLegislature.gov
Rep.LucettaElmer@OregonLegislature.gov
Rep.LeslyMunoz@OregonLegislature.gov
Rep.ShellyBoshartDavis@OregonLegislature.gov
Rep.LisaFragala@OregonLegislature.gov
Rep.TravisNelson@OregonLegislature.gov
Rep.AnnaScharf@OregonLegislature.gov
–Oregon Citizen’s Lobby
Bills to Support
Senate Committee on Education 8:00 am
HB 3731 A – Digest: The Act adds data to be added to the yearly reports made by higher learning schools. (Flesch Readability Score: 77.9). Provides additional data to be included by institutions of higher education in an annual report regarding allegations of sexual misconduct and violence on the campus of the institution.
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Featured Testimony: No testimonies at this writing to feature
Senate Committee on Education 8:00 am
SB 485 – Digest: The Act would repeal the estate tax. (Flesch Readability Score: 90.9). Provides that the Oregon estate tax is imposed only on the estates of decedents dying on or before January 1, 2025.
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Featured Testimony: Give Woring Families a Break
Senate Committee on Education 8:00 am
HB 2668 A – Digest: The Act says that private persons who help look for a missing person must first tell certain things to the family of the missing person and to the county sheriff. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Requires certain private persons, before engaging in search and rescue efforts, to make specified disclosures to the family of the missing person and to notify county sheriffs.
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Featured Testimony: Pendleton SAR Supports
Thursday, May 1, 2025
Bills of Concern
Senate Committee on Labor and Business 8:00 am
HB 3024 – Digest: The Act would get rid of the cut in maximum benefits when a worker is barred from benefits due to not working for cause and has not earned four times weekly benefits. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Eliminates the reduction of an individual’s maximum benefit amount by eight times the individual’s weekly benefit amount after the individual is disqualified from the receipt of benefits for cause and has not earned at least four times the individual’s weekly benefit amount.
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Featured Testimony: Oppose Most Bizzare Legislation To-Date
House Committee On Commerce and Consumer Protection 1:00 pm
SB 605 A – Digest: Stops people who provide medical services to patients from telling a credit bureau that a patient owes a debt, or the amount of the debt. Allows a person to sue a person who breaks this law. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.7). Prohibits medical service providers from reporting the amount or existence of medical debt to a consumer reporting agency. Prohibits a consumer reporting agency from including in a consumer report an item that the consumer reporting agency knows or should know is medical debt. Punishes a violation of the Act as an unlawful practice under the Unlawful Trade Practices Act.
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Featured Testimony: Common Sense Opposes!
Bills to Support
Senate Committee on Labor and Business 8:00 am
HB 2425 – Digest: Sets up a task force to look at who is supplying the goods and services that public bodies in this state buy and to make sure that the products don’t involve forced labor or child labor. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.8). Establishes the Task Force on Ethical Procurement with 11 members appointed by the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the Governor. Requires the task force to devise methods for verifying the identities of manufacturers, distributors, vendors or suppliers of products that public bodies procure in this state and ensuring that the public bodies do not procure products for which production, assembly, transportation or sale used or involved forced labor or oppressive child labor. Specifies methods by which the task force may carry out the task force’s purpose.
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Featured Testimony: Ed Diehl Supports!
House Committee on Early Childhood and Human Services 8:00 am
HB 3564 A – Digest: The Act changes the law about how to ask a publisher to correct or retract a statement. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Modifies provisions relating to demands for correction or retraction of a published defamatory statement.
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Featured Testimony: The right to respond to defamatory statements
Friday, April 11, 2025
Bills of Concern
Keep Watch Alert!
The proposed Oregon Transportation ReInvestment Package – “TRIP 2025”, is like more like a “psychedelic tax TRIP” for Oregonians. Here is what it really says.
BUYING AND LICENSING A CAR – NOT DRIVING IT YET….
- DMV FEES – Increase Title fees by $90 or around 100%. Current fees range from $90 to $190.
- Increase Vehicle registration FEES – Increase fees by $66. Current vehicle registration fees for gas powered passenger vehicles range from $126-$156. EV’s pay $316 unless they are registered in the OreGo program.
- New Car TAX (also known as the privilege tax passed in 2017 in HB2017 – ironically the last transportation package). Increases the tax applied to new vehicles from 0.5% to 0.8% or a 60%.
- The “New” Car TAX – Which will apply to all new and used cars and be in addition to the privilege tax. It will be a “one time fee of 1% of the vehicle price.
- Tire TAX – Brand new tax that will be 3% for all tires purchased.
ACTUALLY DRIVING
- Weight Mile TAX – Increase it by + 16.9%. These are the fees that trucks pay instead of the fuel tax. Former Senator Boquist and I called for a Special session on this issue in December of 2023 because the weight mile tax was already constitutionally out of balance with the fuel tax.
- Fuel TAX – Raise the current fuel tax of $0.40 per gallon to $0.60 per gallon. The Oregon gas tax was raised last year by 5%. Oregon has the nation’s 10th highest gas tax.
- ***FUTURE FUEL TAX INCREASES WOULD BE INDEXED AND TIED TO INFLATION – NO LEGISLATIVE APPROVAL, NO VOTE, NO INPUT, JUST AUTOMATIC INCREASES***
- Road Usage CHARGE for cars and pickups – pay per mile. Currently this is an optional program for EV vehicles in lieu of higher registration rates. The new program would eventually apply it to ALL vehicles.
- July 2026: Existing EVs
- July 2027: Newly purchased EVs
- July 2028: Plug-In Hybrids
- July 2029: New vehicles rated at 30 MPG or greater (starting with model year 2030).
DON’T DRIVE? – THERE IS A TAX FOR THAT TOO
- Delivery FEE – Businesses with 10 medium duty vehicles (10,000-26,000 pounds – Amazon vans, UPS, Fed Ex, Service providers like Cintas and Aramark, Batteries Northwest, Snap-on Tools, etc.) would be assessed a per mile fee somewhere in between the weight mile rate (which they do not pay today; they pay the gas tax most likely) and the road usage charge.
- Bike TAX increase — Currently the bike tax is $15 this would raise it to $24.9 for all bikes over $200. That is a 63% increase.
- Payroll wage TAX increase – Payroll tax is currently at 0.1%. The increase would take it to 0.18% an 80% increase.