Bills in the 2009 Regular Session, House.
Kim Thatcher
Sponsored
Became law1
Allows family members and certain other persons to effectuate insurance that provides for funeral expenses of adult.
Passed the House1
Exempts records and information that identify person as holder of or applicant for concealed handgun license from disclosure.
Out of committee2
Creates Director of Legislative Audit Office appointed by Joint Legislative Audit Committee.
Establishes Oregon Retired Senior Volunteer Program within Department of State Police.
In committee32
Provides that person who is legally present in any place is not liable for failing to retreat from attacker.
Prohibits officer or employee of state agency from engaging in lobbying and certain other activities on behalf of any state agency.
Expands purposes for which surplus revenue "kicker" refund may be donated to include public safety and services for seniors and persons with disabilities.
Requires notification to residents of property, in addition to property owners, of proposed land use decisions, limited land use decisions and other governmental decisions affecting real property.
Prohibits agency that conducts hearing on proposed rules from excluding individual from submitting written or oral testimony at hearing in cases where security ban would otherwise prohibit attendance at hearing by individual.
Requires authorization by Legislative Assembly before Department of Transportation may construct or operate, or enter into agreement for construction or operation of, tollway.
Authorizes issuance of bonds for financing transportation improvement projects.
Authorizes issuance of lottery bonds for financing transportation improvement projects.
Allows court to consider fault in awarding spousal support in dissolution of marriage.
Establishes maximum withholding limit of 25 percent of obligor's disposable monthly income when obligor's disposable monthly income falls below federal poverty level.
Requires Oregon Department of Administrative Services to establish Retired Senior Volunteer Program.
Requires Department of Education to establish Retired Senior Volunteer Program.
Establishes Retired Senior Volunteer Program within Department of Human Services.
Creates crimes of drug-induced homicide and drug-induced assault.
Modifies offenses for which person must report as sex offender.
Shields person making report of child pornography found on electronic device from civil and criminal liability for report.
Directs Department of Transportation to participate in National Motor Vehicle Title Information System.
Allows Department of Education to award grants from School Improvement Fund for dropout prevention and student retention programs.
Allows school districts to submit information to Department of State Police for purpose of conducting criminal records checks.
Requires driver license or identification card issued by Department of Transportation to indicate that person may not purchase alcoholic liquor if person is convicted at least two times of driving while under influence of intoxicants.
Requires Department of Human Services to develop proposal allowing state to operate demonstration project testing use of health savings accounts in state medical assistance program, to submit proposal for project to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for approval and to implement project upon notification that project is approved.
Authorizes board of elections officials to enhance or duplicate ballot for purposes of counting ballot by vote tally machine.
Requires Secretary of State or county clerk to send list of invalid signatures on state initiative, referendum or recall petition to chief petitioners.
Requires evidence of citizenship for persons registering to vote for first time in this state.
Requires that notice be sent by certified mail to electors who need to update voter registration and to any person who votes challenged ballot and for whom registration cannot be validated.
Requires ballots returned by mail to be postmarked not later than day before date of election.
Prohibits state government from employing individual who is not legal resident or does not have legal authorization to work.
Requires Department of Human Services to verify legal presence in United States for applicants of public assistance.
Establishes Center for the Assessment, Advancement and Adoption of Agricultural Technologies as agricultural experiment station.
Authorizes State Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision or county sheriff to release inmate to custody of United States Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement under certain circumstances.
Requires county to verify immigration status of person incarcerated in county correctional facility.
Directs court to prohibit person from purchasing alcoholic liquor for certain amount of time if person is convicted at least two times of driving while under influence of intoxicants.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 15
Directs Department of Transportation to make report regarding capacity, availability and efficiency of rail transportation in Oregon.
Includes removal of noxious weeds as part of Oregon Adopt-a-Highway Program.
Creates sentencing enhancement for sexual abuse in second degree when offender is 21 years of age or older and is minor victim's athletic coach.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to develop and make available Oregon transparency website for purpose of allowing people to view information that is public record and not exempt from disclosure.
Allows certain long term absent electors to use facsimile machine to cast ballot.
Exempts from definition of "gift," for purposes of ethics laws, specified program material, specified expenses for attendance at conference and reasonable expenses paid to public school employee for accompanying students on educational trip.
Modifies definition of "vulnerable user of a public way.".
Allows certain veterans with honorable discharges to pay tuition and fees at discounted rates.
Requires Legislative Counsel to solicit bids for printing of Oregon Revised Statutes each biennium.
Exempts employee of United States Department of Agriculture in course of lawful taking of wildlife from criminal laws related to possession and discharge of firearms.
Modifies definition of online communication for purposes of online sexual corruption of child.
Adds pharmacists to list of public or private officials required to report child abuse.
Directs Joint Boards of Education to report to Legislative Assembly on development of applied baccalaureate degree programs at state institutions of higher education and community colleges.
Provides that mandate to sell gasoline blended with ethanol does not apply to gasoline with octane rating of 91 or above.
Classifies crime of assault in second degree as assault in first degree if defendant knows victim is pregnant.
Vetoed · 1
Allows facilities that generate electricity by using biomass or combusting municipal solid waste to comply with renewable portfolio standard under certain conditions.
Passed the House · 6
Transfers administration of Rural Health Services Program from Oregon Student Assistance Commission to Office of Rural Health.
Increases maximum amount of revenues from civil penalties assessed for violations of occupational safety or health statutes that may be credited to Workers' Memorial Scholarship Account.
Reduces to 72 hours minimum time before first day of employment that employer is required to notify employee in written employment offer that arbitration agreement is required as condition of employment.
Requires interim committee on judiciary to study and recommend changes in occupational licensing laws to encourage employment of persons with criminal convictions while protecting public.
Requires school district to submit written plan of instruction for talented and gifted children to Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Directs Department of Transportation to issue Keep Kids Safe registration plates.
Out of committee · 7
Requires Department of Transportation to study feasibility of constructing highway between Coos Bay and Ontario.
Directs Department of State Police to adopt rules that identify reciprocal licenses that allow holder of license to carry concealed handgun in another state.
Requires driver license or identification card issued by Department of Transportation to indicate that person may not purchase alcoholic liquor if person is convicted at least two times of driving while under influence of intoxicants.
Defines "economically distressed worker training" and "eligible economically distressed workers" for purposes of unemployment insurance benefits.
Changes record to be used by county in recording long term care lien or recording discharge or release of long term care lien.
Directs Department of Transportation to establish education registration plate program.
Directs State Board of Education to establish system to assess financial management practices of school districts and education service districts.
In committee · 59
Specifies amount of income from Common School Fund that Department of State Lands must transfer each calendar year to Superintendent of Public Instruction for apportionment among counties and school districts.
Modifies required contents of statement of economic interest.
Requires Department of Human Services, law enforcement agency and other entity or person responsible for taking child into protective custody to provide parents or guardian with written information about parents' and guardian's rights and responsibilities, and resources for legal assistance, when child is taken into protective custody.
Specifies that statutes and rules that apply to school district boards, school districts or public schools do not apply to small schools.
Defines "medium-speed electric vehicle" for purposes of Oregon Vehicle Code.
Allows motorcycle operator to replace discharge nozzle after dispensing fuel.
Removes requirement for State Department of Agriculture to monitor ethanol fuel production and issue notice when ethanol production reaches specified level.
Requires Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services to adopt rules allowing insurers to offer health insurance policies excluding benefits or coverage of specified conditions and services otherwise required by law.
Requires Department of Human Services and Department of Revenue to collaborate in establishing outreach program to educate senior citizens and persons with disabilities about property tax deferral.
Provides that consumer contract may not contain provision to renew contract for additional term automatically or unless consumer declares intention to terminate or not renew contract.
Requires that certain public officials submit to drug test two times every calendar year.
Authorizes imposition of sentencing enhancement of 36 to 60 months upon conviction of gang-related felony.
Authorizes Department of Transportation to issue duplicate disabled parking permit placards for each vehicle registered by applicant in this state.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to adopt rules setting fees payable by labor organizations that receive amounts deducted from salary or wages of certain public employees.
Prohibits allowance of tax incentives for use of biofuel or biomass that is fit for human consumption.
Limits fees governing bodies may charge for conducting reviews of proposed changes to property in historic districts.
Creates tax credit for educational expenses or contributions to qualified scholarship granting organization.
Directs Legislative Assembly to include appropriations exceeding $5 million in separate bills.
Prescribes salary calculation for substitute teachers in school district with four-day week class schedule.
Allows certain public charter schools to qualify as small high school for purpose of small school district grant.
Limits to federal funds assets that revert to State Board of Education when charter of public charter school is terminated or public charter school dissolves and public charter school had been existing public school.
Gives priority for grants and loans for public charter schools to schools that are only school in school district or that are in district that is remote and necessary school district.
Modifies method by which length of service of probationary teachers is calculated.
Establishes right of man claiming to be father of child born out of wedlock to challenge presumption or voluntary acknowledgment of paternity.
Clarifies language authorizing city or district to require consent to eventual annexation in exchange for providing extraterritorial service to landowner.
Exempts foreign insurers licensed to sell health insurance in another state from requirements of Insurance Code and certain other requirements.
Allows certain municipal corporations to publish budget summary on website.
Prohibits certain persons from simultaneously holding more than three permits issued pursuant to restricted vessel permit system.
Authorizes weddings and other commercial gatherings that do not involve overnight stay, including siting of associated structures, under conditionally allowable use of land in exclusive farm use zone as private park.
Allows Department of Transportation to issue group registration plate for group that promotes prevention of wildfires.
Requires Public Employees' Benefit Board to develop plan for providing health benefit plan options and employee contribution requirements based on Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.
Requires policy or certificate of health insurance to cover 90-day supply of prescription drugs covered by policy or certificate if prescribed by health care provider.
Requires counties to appoint service officers.
Permits counties to sell property tax lien certificates.
Exempts transferor of firearm from performing criminal history record check if purchaser or recipient has concealed handgun license.
Requires deposit of five percent of security amount, but not less than $5, in cases of security release.
Requires supervising agency to determine if supervised person is predatory sex offender.
Authorizes universities under control of State Board of Higher Education, Oregon Health and Science University and boards of education of community college districts to commission public safety officers.
Requires State Board of Higher Education to authorize each institution under its control to commission special campus security officers.
Creates income tax credit for capital improvements to business facilities or homes that are commenced prior to later of September 1, 2009, or effective date of Act.
Removes restriction on public charter schools offering online courses that 50 percent or more of students in school must reside in school district in which school is located.
Decreases minimum vineyard acreage requirement for low-volume winery located in exclusive farm use zone.
Allows person who filed claim with county or with state under Ballot Measure 37 (2004) to file claim under Ballot Measure 49 (2007) even though person did not file claim with both county and state.
Directs Department of Consumer and Business Services to adopt rules allowing and encouraging health insurers to use financial incentives or penalties to reinforce positive behaviors and discourage negative behaviors.
Allows community colleges and state institutions of higher education to recover from school districts costs of providing remedial education to students.
Adds sexual misconduct to definition of "abuse" for purposes of mandatory child reporting statutes.
Creates income tax credit for private correctional facilities.
Provides one-time $400 credit against income taxes for completion of parenting class.
Provides one-time credit against personal income taxes for completion of marriage class.
Permits small woodland owner to register vehicle as farm vehicle.
Requires State Forestry Department and other state agencies to support expeditious harvesting of downed trees as part of state forest recovery and restoration plans and policies.
Requires Department of Human Services to report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly on programs that serve senior citizens.
Eliminates 15-year limit for preference in public employment for veterans.
Authorizes State Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision or county sheriff to release inmate to custody of United States Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement under certain circumstances.
Describes circumstances in which gray wolf may be taken.
Permits private security professional to use warning lights on vehicle when responding to alarm or emergency call and private security professional has contacted police officer.
Modifies provisions related to training, licensure and certification of private security professionals.
Directs district attorney to consider servicemember's traumatic brain injury or mental disorder as factor in determining eligibility for diversion.
Prohibits commencement of civil action against health care provider until after submission of health care claim to medical legal panel.