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Committee advances bill allowing counties to add mediation fee to marriage-license costs
Summary
The House Judiciary Committee moved Senate Bill 97A to the House floor with a due-pass recommendation. The bill lets counties optionally increase a portion of marriage-license fees to fund conciliation and mediation services for family-law disputes, and requires quarterly financial reporting of those accounts to local presiding judges.
The House Committee on Judiciary voted to advance Senate Bill 97A to the House floor with a due-pass recommendation. The measure authorizes counties to add an optional fee — up to $35 above the $25 base fee — to marriage licenses and domestic partnership declarations in order to fund conciliation and mediation services.
Kimberly, an Oregon Judicial Department staff member, told the committee the fee is optional and county-by-county: "This is an optional fee that the counties can decide…
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