Bills in the 2009 Regular Session, House.
Nancy Nathanson
Sponsored
Became law5
Gives tenants' association, facility purchase association or tenants' association supported nonprofit organization 14-day right of first refusal for offer or agreement by owner to sell manufactured dwelling park or marina.
Requires Department of Consumer and Business Services to conduct study of options available for utilizing reinsurance and other mechanisms for spreading risk in individual and small employer group health insurance markets and submit report to Legislative Assembly by December 1, 2010.
Creates Task Force on Effective and Cost-Efficient Service Provision.
Directs Director of Housing and Community Services Department to convene interdepartmental work group within Interagency Council on Hunger and Homelessness for purpose of identifying and implementing methods to expand number of eligible taxpayers who claim specified earned income tax credits.
Directs Department of Veterans' Affairs to establish website that allows members of public to request information about veterans' benefits and services.
Out of committee2
Creates income tax credit for qualified investments in machinery and equipment.
Establishes tax credit for plug-in electric drive motor vehicles.
In committee4
Directs Oregon Liquor Control Commission to transfer amount equal to five percent of gross revenues derived from sales of distilled liquor by bottle to Oregon Criminal Justice Commission Account.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Housing and Community Services Department for biennial expenses related to financing of manufactured dwelling park purchases by or on behalf of tenants that are persons or families with lower income.
Requires Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to administer collaboration grants for local public safety coordinating councils.
Requires scrap metal business to create and maintain certain records of purchase or receipt of metal property or other transactions related to metal property.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Allows local public safety coordinating council to take action by affirmative vote of majority of quorum present at meeting.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 16
Requires state institutions of higher education and community colleges to waive tuition for any course audited by Oregon residents 65 years of age or older in specified circumstances.
Requires health plans to cover services of professional counselors and marriage and family therapists if certain other services are covered by plan.
Exempts from definition of "gift," for purposes of ethics laws, specified program material, specified expenses for attendance at conference and reasonable expenses paid to public school employee for accompanying students on educational trip.
Allows certain veterans with honorable discharges to pay tuition and fees at discounted rates.
Allows Department of Education to award grants for school library programs.
Authorizes Department of Environmental Quality to board and inspect certain vessels and to collect ballast water samples.
Imposes additional fine of $500 on person convicted of crime of interfering with law enforcement animal.
Designates May 8 of each year as Military Family Appreciation Day.
Establishes Interagency Compliance Network.
Directs Secretary of State to designate organizations to establish citizen panels to review and create statements on specified number of initiated state measures.
Permits certain health professional regulatory boards to adopt rules that permit practitioners to prescribe or dispense antibiotic drugs to partners of patient without examining partner for treatment of sexually transmitted diseases.
Extends period of time during which eligible individual may receive work benefits under shared work plan.
Transfers, credits or allocates certain moneys from specified funds and accounts to other specified funds, accounts or agencies to be used for specified purposes.
Prohibits county, city, special district or 9-1-1 jurisdiction from punishing or penalizing public or private safety agency for failure to meet contractually mandated response times during declared state of emergency for which agency has provided resources for emergency response outside normal jurisdiction.
Modifies definition of "child care facility" and creates definitions for "preschool recorded program" and "record" for purposes related to regulation of child care facilities.
Classifies crime of assault in second degree as assault in first degree if defendant knows victim is pregnant.
Passed the House · 2
Requires certain manufacturers of pharmaceuticals and other medical products to report annually to Department of Justice any payment or other transfer of value that manufacturer provides to certain recipients of those pharmaceuticals and products.
Removes prohibition against local government imposition of taxes on cigarettes and tobacco products.
Out of committee · 5
Establishes Aging and Disability Resource Center program in Department of Human Services.
Authorizes issuance of lottery bonds to finance extension of bus rapid transit system in west Eugene.
Requires drug manufacturers to file with State Board of Pharmacy annual report listing compensation given or paid to physicians and nurse practitioners.
Defines "economically distressed worker training" and "eligible economically distressed workers" for purposes of unemployment insurance benefits.
Directs Department of Education to provide reimbursements to school districts that serve Oregon food products as part of United States Department of Agriculture's National School Lunch Program or School Breakfast Program.
In committee · 17
Specifies amount of income from Common School Fund that Department of State Lands must transfer each calendar year to Superintendent of Public Instruction for apportionment among counties and school districts.
Requires person operating as scrap metal business to obtain certificate from Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services.
Prohibits sale or purchase of catalytic converter unless seller or purchaser has permit issued by Department of Transportation.
Prohibits person of any age from operating motor vehicle while using mobile communication device for purpose of receiving or transmitting text communication.
Denies public assistance to fleeing felons, Class A or B misdemeanants or probation, parole or post-prison supervision violators who are actively sought by law enforcement authorities.
Allows tenant to place political signs anywhere on space owned or leased by tenant.
Prohibits use, sale, transfer or exchange for value, for commercial purposes, of prescription drug information that identifies prescriber or subject of prescription drug order.
Requires that certain percentages of moneys spent by Judicial Department on specified treatment and intervention programs, and of moneys that offenders are required to pay for specified court-ordered treatment and intervention programs, must be for cost-effective, evidence-based programs.
Directs Governor to appoint Drug Policy Coordinator.
Establishes Initiative Petition Review Committee as joint committee of Legislative Assembly.
Adds state and federal tax identification numbers to personal information subject to provisions of Oregon Consumer Identity Theft Protection Act.
Directs Department of Transportation to use one-half of one percent of federal funds department receives for on-the-job training.
Authorizes Office for Oregon Health Policy and Research to require reporting of health care information from health insurers, third party administrators and other specified entities.
Creates limited license for nurses licensed in Idaho, California, Washington or Nevada who intend to work in certain rural Oregon settings.
Requires contracting agency to evaluate bids or proposals for software procurements using certain criteria.
Requires applicant seeking to construct liquefied natural gas terminal or pipeline directly related to terminal to enter into certain written agreement with state.
Authorizes Oregon Progress Board to enter into agreement with state agency, public institution of higher education or nongovernmental entity to provide administrative or operational support for board.