Bills in the 2011 Regular Session, House.
Mike McLane
Sponsored
In committee4
Requires contracting agency to set aside amount equal to 1.5 percent of amount contracting agency budgeted for public improvement contracts and dedicate amount toward including appropriate solar energy technology in construction, reconstruction or major renovation of public buildings.
Prohibits distribution of list of electors that indicates whether elector cast ballot in election until day after date of election.
Allows worker leasing companies and temporary service providers to apply for loan or grant from Building Opportunities for Oregon Small Business Today (BOOST) Account.
Excludes woody biomass combusted as fuel from definition of "solid waste." Excludes wood residue combusted as fuel from definitions that apply to solid waste regulation.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 18
Allows taxpayer to make direct deposit contribution of income tax refund into Oregon 529 College Savings Network account.
Repeals sunset of provisions permitting sales of diesel fuel containing additives.
Extends, except for purpose of specified corporate excise or income tax credit, sunset date of enterprise zone program.
Directs Department of Transportation to erect and maintain roadside memorial sign under certain circumstances for police officer killed in line of duty.
Expands definition of "bakery product" for purposes of laws regulating bakeries.
Allows household member to continue to use confidential address on records maintained by Department of Transportation for up to four years after eligible employee or corrections officer is killed in line of duty.
Allows State Department of Agriculture to waive routine inspection of certain food establishments.
Allows commercial production and sale of bread, rolls and buns made only with whole grain flours.
Requires state institutions of higher learning to allow military recruitment on campus on equal footing with other employment recruitment.
Requires State Department of Agriculture to establish program for issuing grants to counties for noxious weed control.
Extends sunset on allowance of certain foreign exchange students to be considered residents of school district.
Modifies provisions for development and maintenance of telephone service that provides referral information regarding services after emergency and health and human services.
Requires Department of Environmental Quality to consult with applicant regarding Federal Water Pollution Control Act variances in order to seek to minimize negative economic impacts of variances.
Requires person who submits death certificate after decedent's death was caused by suicide to make reasonable efforts to ascertain and to notify Center for Health Statistics whether decedent was veteran, whether decedent served in combat and where decedent served if decedent served in combat.
Postpones requirement that Water Resources Commission repeal certain rules regarding ground water mitigation in Deschutes Basin ground water study area.
Requires that each application for issuance of license, tag or permit by State Fish and Wildlife Commission include separate section under which applicant may make voluntary contribution for predatory animal control in county or counties in which license, tag or permit allows person to hunt.
Expands types of entities that may sponsor public charter school.
Directs Adjutant General to form commission to develop and name medal to honor fallen military members from Oregon.
Passed the House · 8
Prohibits public body from releasing information that identifies holder of or applicant for concealed handgun license.
Prohibits Department of Land Conservation and Development from requiring area within urban growth boundary with population of 10,000 or less to have transportation financing program.
Directs State Board of Higher Education to report to legislature in 2012 on civic literacy at state institutions of higher education.
Establishes process through which person may obtain reservation through city or county to conduct funeral service on public property.
Directs Department of Transportation to issue Keep Kids Safe registration plates.
Allows person without administrative license to be superintendent, or assistant superintendent, of public school, public charter school or virtual public charter school.
Provides that person may take gray wolf in certain situations.
Provides that State Department of Agriculture water quality management plans and supporting rules and programs of department are exclusive public body means to protect and improve water quality through agricultural activity regulations regarding nonpoint sources of pollution on lands located outside urban growth boundary.
Out of committee · 5
Provides credit against income taxes for fees paid by member of Oregon National Guard or military reservist for Internet service provided outside United States.
Authorizes State Parks and Recreation Commission to establish reductions in, waivers of or exemptions from fees and charges imposed on users of areas established and maintained by State Parks and Recreation Department for Oregon armed services members returning from overseas combat zone deployment or honorably discharged from active overseas combat zone deployment.
Requires state agency to report to Director of Oregon Department of Administrative Services when any budgeted position is vacant for six months.
Designates Oregon Board of Accountancy Account, Department of Agriculture Service Fund, state agency real property or facilities accounts, Forest Research and Experiment Account, Oregon Forest Land Protection Fund, Oregon Forest Smoke Management Account, certain moneys in State Forestry Department Account, Forest Resource Trust Fund and Oregon Forest Resources Institute Fund as trust accounts or funds exclusively for purposes described by law.
Authorizes Oregon Medical Board to issue certificates of prescriptive authority to certain licensed psychologists who meet specified requirements.
In committee · 34
Requires Joint Boards of Education to adopt comprehensive articulation and transfer system for students of community colleges and state institutions of higher education.
Eliminates requirement that Water Resources Commission repeal certain rules regarding ground water mitigation in Deschutes Basin ground water study area.
Creates subtraction for net capital gain for purposes of personal income and corporate income and excise taxation.
Establishes uniform corporate minimum tax of $150 and removes provisions basing amount of tax on amount of Oregon sales.
Permits taxpayer to defer recognition of long-term capital gain if taxpayer invests in business entity in Oregon during tax year.
Requires Department of Education to grant waiver to allow school districts to contract with entity that meets specified criteria for purpose of administering nationally normed assessments.
Declares that data used to diagnose, maintain or repair motor vehicles that is created, collected or contained in motor vehicle is exclusively owned by motor vehicle owner.
Allows certain districts to offer benefit plans other than benefit plans provided by Oregon Educators Benefit Board.
Requires that person seeking to appeal land use decision or limited land use decision to Land Use Board of Appeals must be adversely affected by decision.
Requires Department of Human Services to operate pilot program, subject to approval by United States Department of Agriculture, to prohibit purchase of foods of minimal nutritional value using Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.
Allows use of dog to hunt cougars during final three months of general cougar hunting season if State Fish and Wildlife Commission determines that harvest quota for particular hunt zone might not be met.
Creates crime of unlawfully residing within 1,000 feet of school and makes crime applicable to sex offenders.
Creates Task Force on Nuclear Power.
Removes mandatory requirement to set aside one percent of amount of contract to construct or alter state building for acquiring art and instead permits contracting agency to set aside amount to acquire art.
Directs State Department of Fish and Wildlife to create pilot program that allows persons hunting or pursuing cougars to use dogs.
Establishes Council on Efficient Government.
Creates Task Force on Privatization.
Directs Legislative Fiscal Officer to prepare fiscal impact statement on legislative measures reported out of committee that would have financial effect on small businesses in this state.
Requires county sheriff to waive age requirement for obtaining concealed handgun license for military veterans and persons currently serving in military.
Extends sunset of enterprise zone program to June 30, 2023.
Prohibits abortion unless physician has first determined probable post-fertilization age of unborn child, except in case of medical emergency.
Prohibits public employer from agreeing to pay or provide retirement benefit to member of Public Employees Retirement System other than payments required or provided for in statutes governing retirement benefits of members of system.
Prohibits pharmacist from dispensing drug that is not therapeutically equivalent to drug ordered or prescribed unless prescriber and patient have consented in writing.
Provides credit against personal income taxes for costs associated with growing produce.
Requires Department of Human Services to operate demonstration project, subject to approval by United States Department of Agriculture, to require recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits to participate in shopping and nutrition education program.
Allows person to teach certain courses in schools without being licensed by or registered with Teacher Standards and Practices Commission if certain requirements are met.
Requires sponsor of public charter school to pay school amount per ADMw that is equal to amount received by sponsoring school district or by school district where public charter school is located.
Provides that if public body agrees to pay or provide benefit to retired employees other than payments required or provided for in statutes, public body must create separate account for funding of those benefits and make annual contributions to account in amounts necessary to amortize liability for benefits in 25 years or less.
Authorizes State Treasurer to issue lottery bonds to assist in financing acquisition or construction of graduate studies facility for Oregon State University Cascades Campus.
Requires law enforcement unit to train public safety officers in veterans' issues.
Expands definition of "farm use" to include facilities for training dogs in canine skills on land zoned for exclusive farm use.
Prohibits Water Resources Department from charging or collecting temporary fee for dam that is part of waste water control facility for confined animal feeding operation.
Expands immunity from liability for health care provider who provides services for charitable organization without compensation.
Directs State Board of Education to determine whether one or more education service districts shall be joined together based on specified criteria, including resulting fiscal efficiencies, and to enter order joining districts if criteria are met.