Bills in the 2015 Regular Session, House.
Chris Gorsek
Sponsored
Became law3
Amends definition of "rural area" to mean area outside urban growth boundary of city of 40,000 or more, as boundary is acknowledged on date on which application is submitted for strategic investment program.
Requires Oregon State University Extension Service, in consultation with State Department of Agriculture and beekeeping organizations, to establish best practices for beekeeping within residential areas.
Directs State Board of Education to adopt specified standards related to student education records.
Out of committee2
Expands primary purposes of Oregon Center for Policing Excellence to include assisting with recruiting and community outreach.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to provide students with opportunity to explore careers in law enforcement and to become familiar with law enforcement.
In committee9
Requires police officer or certified reserve officer employed or utilized by law enforcement unit that employs at least 20 police officers to have associate degree.
Requires certain public employers that are subject to civil service system or public collective bargaining law or that employ law enforcement officers to implement employment examination for applicants that demonstrates actual proficiency in required areas.
Describes procedures that must be followed if person who has been found by court to have intellectual disabilities and to be in need of commitment for residential care, treatment and training leaves facility without approval or authorization.
Requires Department of Transportation to study feasibility of undertaking transportation project on Hayden Island.
Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission to develop plan for public universities to have ratio of at least 7 to 1 of public employees to supervisory employees.
Prohibits public universities and community colleges from increasing amount of tuition and mandatory fees charged to students during 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 academic years.
Requires Governor to consult with Metro before appointing director to governing board of mass transit district in metropolitan statistical area with population exceeding 400,000.
Directs Higher Education Coordinating Commission to conduct survey of community college students related to students' child care needs.
Provides that unemployment insurance benefits are payable during summer term to community college instructor who has received assignment for previous summer term.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Establishes Task Force on Capital Construction Budget Process.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 29
Directs Department of Human Services, in consultation with Early Learning Division and Office of Child Care, to adopt rules for subsidy programs for employment-related child care that, at minimum, provide for one year of eligibility regardless of change in employment, permit students enrolled in coursework and self-employed persons to receive subsidized employment-related child care, and provide for reduced copayments and incentive payments when child care provider meets specified minimum standa
Requires school district to provide lunch free of charge to students who are eligible for reduced price lunches.
Defines "inhalant delivery system." Amends laws concerning sale of tobacco products to, and use of tobacco products by, minors so those laws equally apply to inhalant delivery systems.
Requires health benefit plan to cover cost of colonoscopy for insured who is 50 years of age or older and who has positive fecal test result.
Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission to work with representatives from public universities to evaluate best method for overseeing public universities to ensure universities interview at least one minority applicant when hiring head coach or athletic director.
Allows direct purchase and sale of bulk distilled liquor between distillery licensees for blending and manufacturing purposes.
Requires law enforcement agency to establish policies and procedures for use and retention of recordings from cameras worn upon police officer's person to record officer's interactions with members of public.
Provides that person who records another person's intimate areas commits crime of invasion of personal privacy.
Requires universities with institutional governing boards to continue to participate in shared services relating to listed employee benefits and to collective bargaining until July 1, 2019.
Authorizes City of Portland to operate fixed photo radar on urban high crash corridors.
Disallows all filing fees, service fees and hearing fees in action for court's protective stalking order, even if stalking order is not only relief sought in action.
Requires public universities to establish priority enrollment system for qualified students who are active members of Armed Forces of the United States, who are qualified veterans or who receive veterans' educational benefits as federally qualified dependents of active members or qualified veterans.
Authorizes court, as part of settlement or judgment in class action, to approve process for payment of damages.
Creates exemption to prohibition on recording conversations for person who openly and in plain view records law enforcement officer while officer is performing official duties and person is in place where person may lawfully be.
Requires public contracting agencies to provide as material condition of public contract that contractor remain certified as disadvantaged, minority, women or emerging small business enterprise during entire term of public contract if contracting agency awarded public contract, in whole or in part, on basis of contractor's certification.
Requires school district to eliminate use of polystyrene foam plates, trays, food containers or food packaging in service of any meal unless school district recycles polystyrene foam.
Directs governing entity of public or private post-secondary institution of education that contracts with third party financial firm for student financial aid services to consider federal policies for contracting.
Requires Clackamas County to develop pilot program for forestry products grown on nonforest land in county to be commercially produced and marketed through forestry product cooperative.
Limits biennial expenditures by Oregon Business Development Department from lottery moneys for funding of cooperative efforts of National Policy Consensus Center of Portland State University and community organizations related to western juniper harvesting and related manufacturing.
Requires Oregon Business Development Department to provide economic development assistance to persons engaged in business of western juniper harvesting or of manufacturing products from western juniper, provide technical business assistance to western juniper harvesting and related manufacturing businesses and provide or fund workforce training assistance for potential western juniper harvesting and related manufacturing business workers.
Allows increased use of flashing lights in certain school zones.
Allows applicant for licensing as landscape construction professional, or for issuance of limited or specialty license, to take practical skills test and attend class on landscape contracting business practices as alternative to taking written examination.
Requires insurers that cover prescription contraceptives to cover refills at specified frequency.
Establishes pollinator health outreach and education plan.
Provides that release decision for defendant charged with sex crime or crime constituting domestic violence must include order prohibiting attempted contact with victim and third-party contact with victim while defendant is in custody.
Increases penalty for crime of strangulation when committed knowing victim was pregnant.
Establishes privilege in civil, criminal, administrative and school proceedings for certain communications between persons seeking services related to domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking and victim services programs and advocates.
Creates position of Oregon Women Veterans Coordinator in Department of Veterans' Affairs and specifies responsibilities.
Directs Department of Corrections to establish Family Sentencing Alternative Pilot Program in partnership with circuit courts, county community corrections agencies and Department of Human Services.
Passed the House · 1
Prohibits inclusion, in instrument conveying or contracting to convey real property or in declaration or bylaws of planned community or condominium, of provisions prohibiting installation and use of solar panels for obtaining solar access.
Out of committee · 11
Establishes Oregon Spirits Board.
Modifies criteria to qualify for grant to be used to provide instructional time during summer program.
Directs Department of Education to administer pilot program to increase students' exposure and access to career and technical education.
Directs Department of Education and Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to advance career and technical education opportunities by fulfilling specified requirements.
Establishes Pay It Forward program.
Establishes Task Force on Vision Zero: Achieving Zero Traffic Crashes, Injuries and Fatalities.
Authorizes counties to establish programs for forestry products grown on nonforest lands in counties to be commercially produced and marketed through forestry product cooperatives.
Allows personal income taxpayers to subtract certain amounts paid as interest on qualified education loans from taxable income, subject to same income limitations applicable to federal education loan interest deduction.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Higher Education Coordinating Commission for Oregon State University for bee health diagnostic facility at Honey Bee Lab.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Higher Education Coordinating Commission for Oregon State University Extension Service activities relating to pollinator health.
Creates Task Force on Mental Health Care Reimbursement to study and make recommendations for payment structure to reimburse specified mental health practitioners.
In committee · 23
Increases fuel tax and motor carrier taxes.
Creates Task Force on Extending the Westside Express Service Commuter Line to Salem.
Requires Department of Transportation, for purpose of identifying land that could be planned and zoned for residential use, to inventory department land, determine whether land is essential, useful or excessive in relation to transportation plans and report results to Legislative Assembly.
Increases maximum total amount of tax credits allowed to affordable housing lenders for fiscal year.
Requires Oregon Business Development Commission and Oregon Business Development Department to ensure that agreement with recipient of financial incentives made by department establishes specific job creation or job retention performance measures which, if not achieved, will result in requirement that recipient pay back amount of financial incentives granted, and is drafted in accordance with best practice standards for contractual agreements involving financial incentives.
Requires electric companies to reduce allocation of electricity from coal-derived generating resources to zero on or before January 1, 2025, to customers of electric company that are located in this state.
Prohibits greyhound racing.
Adds woody biomass to types of green energy technology for which contracting agency must set aside 1.5 percent of contract price to include in public building.
Defines "vapor products." Amends laws related to use of tobacco products by minors to include use of vapor products by minors, including crime of endangering welfare of minor and other criminal offenses and civil penalties related to use or acquisition of tobacco products by minor.
Repeals state preemption of charter and statutory authority of local governments to set minimum wage requirements.
Excludes certain police officers from meaning of supervisory employee for purposes of public employment.
Funds free, or reduced-fare, transit passes for students attending public secondary schools and increased transit service in vicinity of public secondary schools.
Directs Department of Transportation to establish Mt.
Directs Department of Education to reimburse school districts for costs incurred in providing certain vision screenings.
Provides that funds held in trust by mass transit district for purpose of paying post-employment benefits other than pensions are not surplus funds and may be invested in accordance with standard of judgment and care for investment of investment funds set forth in ORS 293.726.
Requires governing boards of public universities to include graduate student employee and undergraduate student as voting members.
Authorizes county to provide for exemption from county property taxes imposed on land through which pipeline conveying liquefied natural gas is laid.
Provides for annual adjustment of motor vehicle fuel taxes by percentage equal to percentage by which ratio of gallons of motor vehicle fuel sold in state to motor vehicles registered in state decreased from previous accounting period.
Requires business entity that intends to make political expenditure to first obtain approval from shareholders or members by affirmative vote of majority of members or shares entitled to vote.
Directs Department of Transportation to establish Portland Trail Blazers license plate program for issuance of special registration plate.
Requires school districts and Department of Education to provide information related to confirmed acts of harassment, intimidation or bullying, or acts of cyberbullying.
Authorizes State Department of Agriculture to require person holding or applying for license to engage in seed transactions for commercial purposes to report grass seed supply information.
Directs State Parks and Recreation Department to remove official State of Mississippi flag from Walk of Flags display at State Capitol State Park and replace with Mississippi Magnolia Flag.