Bills in the 2016 Regular Session, Senate.
Sara Gelser Blouin
Sponsored
Became law2
Limits disclosure of records of college or university student health center, mental health center or counseling center, or records of health professional retained by college or university to provide health care, mental health care or counseling services to students, to other individuals, offices or entities within, affiliated with or acting on behalf of college or university and only to extent that person unaffiliated with college or university would be lawfully authorized to disclose records wh
Directs Department of State Police to adopt rules concerning prioritization of testing untested sexual assault forensic evidence kits.
Carried from the House
Became law5
Provides affirmative defense to public employee and certain nonprofit employee whistleblowers who provide lawfully accessed information to state or federal regulatory agency, law enforcement agency, manager employed by employer or employee's attorney .
Establishes Governor's Child Foster Care Advisory Commission to advise Governor and Director of Human Services regarding foster care system in this state.
Expands crime of promoting prostitution to include receiving goods, services or other things of value derived from prostitution activity in certain circumstances.
Provides for temporary lockout benefits, equal to weekly unemployment benefit amount of individual's most recent unemployment benefit claim, to individual who is unemployed due to lockout.
Expands crime of obstructing governmental or judicial administration to include engaging in business of notary public or immigration consultant without authorization.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 7
Directs Department of Education to conduct study on expenditure variations among school districts.
Increases maximum number of weeks for which unemployed individual participating in apprenticeship program may be eligible for unemployment insurance benefits.
Requires each electric company providing electricity to retail electricity consumers located in this state to eliminate coal-fired resources from electric company's electricity supply.
Authorizes city or county to adopt exemption for newly constructed or installed industrial improvements at location in rural area that have cost of initial investment of at least $1 million and not more than $25 million.
Creates crime of criminal impersonation.
Directs public universities and community colleges to increase voter registration access and information.
Authorizes prosecution of first-degree sex crimes any time after commission of crime if prosecuting attorney obtains corroborating evidence of crime.
In committee · 2
Expands definition of physical injury in Oregon Criminal Code to include physical trauma when injured person is vulnerable victim.
Increases amount of maximum total tax credits for certified film production development contributions for fiscal year.