Bills in the 2009 Regular Session, Senate.
Fred Girod
Sponsored
Became law1
Creates antitrust immunity for Oregon blackberry cooperatives and other participants negotiating price of blackberries under state regulatory program actively supervised by Director of Agriculture.
In committee28
Prohibits scrap metal business from conducting transaction involving metal property with individual unless individual provides name, valid street address and telephone number at time of transaction.
Provides persons licensed to carry concealed handgun in another state with protections provided to persons with Oregon concealed handgun license.
Requires Superintendent of State Police to allocate at least half of trooper positions created during current biennium to areas outside Interstate 5 corridor.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon State University for men's and women's athletic teams to compete in track and field events.
Requires surgeon to obtain informed consent of patient before engaging in surgical procedure.
Permits motor vehicle liability insurance policy to limit coverage of insured or member of insured's household to minimum coverage required by law.
Sets first Tuesday in February of presidential election years as date of presidential primary election.
Designates offices of state Senator and state Representative as nonpartisan.
Increases amount of highway funds distributed to counties.
Requires chief administrative law judge to ensure training in water law for certain administrative law judges.
Requires that chief administrative law judge of Office of Administrative Hearings provide statement of administrative law judge's qualifications upon request of party.
Requires person objecting to sale of forest products to do so within certain date of notice of sale by State Forester.
Limits expenditure of lottery moneys used to create jobs or further economic development to use within economically distressed counties.
Prohibits sex offenders released on probation, parole or post-prison supervision from residing in location where police officer is not on duty at all times.
Alters definition of "electric assisted bicycle." Requires that electric assisted bicycle be equipped with horn and lighting equipment.
Requires that district school board sending pupils to another school district agree to accept equal number of pupils from other school district.
Increases penalty for driving while suspended or revoked.
Directs State Parks and Recreation Commission to authorize use of state parks, individual campsites and day use fee areas free of charge for person who has adopted child.
Exempts water rights from forfeiture provisions in certain cases.
Exempts certain facilities from requirement to obtain permit to hold wildlife.
Expands ability of employer to prohibit use of medical marijuana in workplace.
Allows employer to adopt comprehensive drug-free workplace program, including drug and alcohol testing policies.
Authorizes hunters to use certain decoys to hunt game birds.
Authorizes certain hunters to use bow and arrow with movable blade broadheads to hunt game mammals.
Prohibits taking salmon, steelhead or sturgeon in Columbia River using any type of net.
Directs State Department of Fish and Wildlife to double number of hatchery smolts by specified date.
Provides that prevailing wage laws do not apply to certain public works projects funded by or through school districts.
Allows distributor or importer of beverage containers to participate in statewide distributor cooperative organization.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 9
Exempts individual under age of 17 from requirement to obtain business license or permit.
Requires certain places of public assembly to have automated external defibrillator .
Requires scrap metal business to create and maintain certain records of purchase or receipt of metal property or other transactions related to metal property.
Exempts military discharge records from public records disclosure.
Establishes February 9 of each year as Ewing Young Day.
Adds dentist as member of Health Services Commission.
Requires Administrator of Office for Oregon Health Policy and Research to adopt rules for approval of community-based health care initiative and of community-based health care improvement program operated by initiative.
Requires Department of Human Services to determine whether immunosuppressant drug used in connection with organ transplants is narrow therapeutic index drug within 180 days of expiration of United States patent on drug.
Removes requirement that proposals for purchase of real property from state be accompanied by certified check or by sufficient bond furnished by surety company in sum not less than 10 percent of total amount of value of proposal.
Passed the Senate · 1
Directs Oregon Investment Council and State Treasurer to try to ensure that investment funds are not invested in company doing business in or with Iran or owned or controlled by government of Iran.
Out of committee · 2
Makes definition of "highway work zone" for provisions relating to highway work zones contingent on presence of workers.
Classifies crime of murder as aggravated murder if defendant committed murder knowing victim was pregnant.
In committee · 29
Allocates portion of Criminal Fine and Assessment Account to Emergency Medical Services Enhancement Account.
Imposes limits on awards of punitive damages based on nature of action and type of defendant.
Provides that upon offer of expert scientific evidence at trial, court must first determine whether theory or technique supporting offered evidence is based on scientifically valid principles and is pertinent.
Provides that class action may be maintained only for members of class who are residents of this state.
Limits contingent fees permitted in negligence claims.
Raises threshold for filing inheritance tax return to $2 million for estates of decedents dying on or after January 1, 2009, but before January 1, 2010, and $3.5 million for estates of decedents dying on or after January 1, 2010.
Eliminates mandatory boating safety education program.
Requires State Department of Fish and Wildlife to create and develop Blue Ribbon Still Water Fisheries.
Designates offices of Secretary of State, State Treasurer and Attorney General as nonpartisan.
Requires additional persons to file statement of economic interest with Oregon Government Ethics Commission, including staff of commission, board members of public benefit corporations and statewide representatives of labor organizations.
Allows electricity from certain older generating facilities to be used as qualifying electricity for purpose of compliance with renewable portfolio standard.
Reduces personal income tax rates for certain taxpayers by modifying income tax brackets.
Directs Department of Transportation to establish program to issue active duty military registration plates to qualified owner of motor vehicle.
Expands range of activities that count as providing drug test falsification equipment.
Directs Department of Human Services to adopt rules requiring drug testing of persons applying for or receiving public assistance who have been convicted of certain offenses related to controlled substances.
Limits recovery of attorney fees and costs in nuisance or trespass cases that involve farming or forest practices to defendants.
Suspends for 2009-2011 biennium requirements placed on school districts related to self-evaluations, local district improvement plans, alternative placements for students, alcohol and drug abuse prevention programs, instructional materials, substitute teacher salaries, talented and gifted students, instructional time, guidance and counseling programs, media programs and class sizes.
Temporarily reduces amount of required income tax withholding.
Provides tax credit for certain expenses of home school education for eligible child.
Requires local government to demonstrate adequacy of 20-year supply of buildable lands for each discrete portion of local government's urban growth boundary.
Establishes policy direction for management of state forestlands, including management for timber harvesting.
Requires harvesting in areas of Tillamook State Forest and Clatsop State Forest exhibiting moderate to extreme occurrence of Swiss needle cast disease.
Exempts county that fails to enforce public health laws due to lack of sufficient state funding from requirement that county reimburse Department of Human Services for enforcing laws when county fails to do so.
Establishes Oregon Graduate and Professional Education Program for Veterans.
Provides for enforcement of judgment against current or former public employee convicted of crime that occurred while employee was engaged in performance of duties, or that employee's position allowed employee to commit.
Creates subtraction from federal taxable income for first $2,400 of unemployment compensation paid to taxpayer in tax year.
Provides that mandate to sell gasoline blended with ethanol does not apply to gasoline with octane rating of 91 or above.
Establishes Oregon Other Funds Reserve Fund.
Expands criminal homicide to include causing death of unborn child.