• Family Leave Hearing - On Monday, March 25 at 6pm, the House Business & Labor Committee and Senate Workforce Committee plan to host a joint public hearing on paid family & medical leave bills that would SIGNIFICANTLY alter Oregon's business climate.

• Applies to employers with 1+ employees
• Mandates 32 weeks of paid and protected family and medical leave each year
• Establishes new payroll tax of up to 1%:
• 0.5% paid by employers
• 0.5% paid by employees
• Creates state run family insurance program
• Doesn't allow employers to provide substantially similar plans/ currently existing plans

• Expands OFLA eligibility to 1+ employees
• Expands family member definition
• Mandates 24 weeks of paid and protected leave AND an additional 24 weeks of unpaid family and medical leave each year
• Requires 100% of employee wages to be paid 100% by employers while employee is on leave

• Cap & Trade - We are reaching out to Senator Laurie Monnes Anderson. for a sit down with her about Cap & Trade. If you would like to be included in this discussion, please email lynn.ceo@greshamchamber.org. No time or date has been set yet.

• Corporate Tax Increases. It appears the committee is leaning toward selecting a Commercial Activity Tax, which is a pure gross receipts tax, as the basis for implementing a new business tax. The Commercial Activity Tax is being discussed 'in addition to' current business income taxes, not 'in lieu of.'

• Kicker. (HB 2975) - HB 2975 includes an accounting change that reduced the upcoming kicker by over $100 million by transferring this money into the next biennium. HB 2975 adds an additional $100 million of revenue into the 2019-21 budget by taking it out of the $748 million personal income kicker due to taxpayers next year.