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Construction Contractors Board Seeks Fee Ratification for SB 5510 to Fund Licensing System Modernization
Summary
The Ways and Means Subcommittee on General Government held a public hearing March 18 on SB 5510, which would ratify a Construction Contractors Board fee increase from $325 to $400 for two-year licenses to stabilize revenue and fund an aging licensing system replacement.
The Ways and Means Subcommittee on General Government held a public hearing March 18 on SB 5510, a fee-ratification bill for the Oregon Construction Contractors Board that would authorize a change in the two-year contractor license fee from $325 to $400 and help pay for a replacement of the agency's aging licensing system.
Chris Huntington, administrator of the Oregon Construction Contractors Board, told the committee the proposal is intended to “establish a sustainable revenue source” to maintain current service levels and to protect reserves for a planned information-technology modernization. “I call it existential,” Huntington said of the agency’s current licensing system, which he described as more than 30 years old.
The fee proposal moved by the board in 2024 and now before the Legislature has a tiered implementation: the $400 rate has applied to renewals since July 2024 and is scheduled to take effect for new applicants on July 1, 2025, pending legislative ratification. Huntington said the board intentionally delayed the charge for new businesses by one year to reduce near-term impacts on startups.
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