Bills in the 2015 Regular Session, Senate.
Floyd Prozanski
Sponsored
Became law13
Designates February 14 of each year as Oregon Statehood Day.
Allows medical marijuana dispensaries, beginning October 1, 2015, to sell limited marijuana retail product to persons at least 21 years of age in accordance with certain conditions.
Provides that record is effective as financing statement if record satisfies requirements for financing statement and sufficiently provides name of debtor.
Permits person who has certain physical condition, or person in same household, to use window tinting that is darker than otherwise allowed if person shows police officer prescription or letter on letterhead from physician or optometrist.
Specifies duties and liabilities of community mental health program with respect to commitment proceedings initiated for individuals with mental illness.
Authorizes scrap metal business to make payment by electronic funds transfer, stored value card or stored value device.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to disseminate information to health care professionals and public related to adrenal insufficiency.
Requires State Board of Education to adopt rules under which school personnel may administer medications that treat adrenal insufficiency to students experiencing adrenal crisis.
Changes requirements for operating moped or motorcycle.
Exempts individual from requirement to obtain mortgage loan originator's license if individual as seller during any 12-month period offers or negotiates terms for not more than three residential mortgage loans that are secured by dwelling unit that individual owns or that limited liability company of which individual is member owns and that did not serve as individual's residence if membership in limited liability company consists only of individual and individual's relatives, if individual and
Provides that seed not intended for planting but remaining capable of germination is agricultural hemp seed.
Requires private person to complete transfer of firearm by appearing with transferee before gun dealer to request criminal background check or shipping or delivering firearm to gun dealer in certain circumstances.
Creates free license for organizers of certain fishing derbies to take and sell fish taken during duration of derby.
Passed the Senate1
Exempts for-profit or nonprofit business entity, if business entity provides only palliative care or operates rural health clinic, from requirement that licensed physicians hold majority of voting stock in professional corporation organized for purpose of practicing medicine or be majority of directors of professional corporation.
Out of committee1
Increases interstate highway speed limit to 70 miles per hour for most vehicles.
In committee8
Requires natural gas company, if company is condemning private property for purpose of laying pipeline, to make proposal to owner of property that includes offer to pay owner annual payment and certain other guarantees.
Permits person to get replacement driver license or driver permit if person dislikes photograph on current driver license or driver permit.
Prohibits registrant under the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act from processing cannabinoid extracts unless registrant is certified by Oregon Health Authority to process cannabinoid extracts.
Authorizes court, as part of settlement or judgment in class action, to approve process for payment of damages.
Requires reporting certain information regarding commercial or governmental pesticide applications to Department of Environmental Quality or to state database designated by department.
Requires ballots returned by mail to be postmarked not later than date of election.
Requires State Department of Agriculture to adopt rules prohibiting application of pesticide products containing nitro-group neonicotinoids.
Establishes pilot project designed to assist small school districts in identifying and using diverse funding sources for capital construction costs.
Carried from the House
Became law4
Provides that information or complaint may be verified by complainant's certifying sufficient grounds to believe defendant committed offense.
Provides court discretion to order person participating in driving while under influence of intoxicants diversion agreement to install ignition interlock device if person submitted to chemical test of person's breath, blood or urine and test disclosed blood alcohol content below 0.08 percent by weight.
Modifies requirements for composition of boards of directors of regional air quality control authorities.
Requires insurers that cover prescription contraceptives to cover refills at specified frequency.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 5
Repeals sunset on provisions related to low carbon fuel standards.
Authorizes Commissioner of Bureau of Labor and Industries to issue warrants for collection of certain debts owed to bureau.
Prohibits possession of firearm or ammunition by person who is subject to certain court order protecting intimate partner or child of person or intimate partner, or who has been convicted of certain misdemeanor crimes committed against family member.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to develop plan for communication among local mental health authorities and systems to improve notifications and information-sharing when death suspected to be suicide involves individual 24 years of age or younger.
Extends sunset related to grants distributed to small school districts with one or more small high schools.
Out of committee · 3
Provides for annual adjustment of judges' salaries based on Consumer Price Index.
Appropriates moneys to Department of Education to be expended for purpose of awarding grants under Career and Technical Education Revitalization Grant Program.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Health Authority for Senior Farm Direct Nutrition Program and Women, Infants and Children Farm Direct Nutrition Program.
In committee · 5
Requires law enforcement agency to establish policies and procedures for retaining recordings from cameras worn upon police officer's person to record officer's interactions with members of public.
Permits employee of contracting agency that conducts cost analysis or determines feasibility of procurement, or exclusive representative of employee's bargaining unit, to seek judicial review of cost analysis or determination.
Requires filing notice with State Forestry Department of proposed aerial application of pesticide or proposed use of fire as planned forest management activity on privately owned forestland.
Establishes Health Care for All Oregon Board to develop, implement and have oversight of Health Care for All Oregon Plan to be administered by Oregon Health Authority.
Provides definition for determining undeveloped portion of water right for municipal use.