Bills in the 2015 Regular Session, Senate.
Bill Hansell
Sponsored
Became law7
Authorizes electors in affected territory to propose plan for abating health hazard other than annexation of territory or extraterritorial extension of city or district services to territory.
Designates portion of U.S. Highway 395, known as Pendleton-John Day Highway, as Don Kendall Memorial Highway.
Requires Oregon Department of Administrative Services to transfer ownership of certain real property to City of Pendleton.
Requires petitioners in family law proceedings to disclose existence of certain protective orders entered between parties in petitions for marital annulment, dissolution or separation.
Requires Department of Justice to encourage and support services, programs and curricula to educate and inform students in grades 7 through 12 about domestic violence.
Directs Department of Transportation to make efforts to complete installation of median barriers between opposing lanes of travel on interstate highways in certain circumstances.
Permits Department of Transportation to issue vehicle registration plates from regular series for use on county-owned vehicle rather than plates from specially designed government series.
Out of committee1
Creates income tax credit for classroom expenses of educator .
In committee7
Directs Public Employees Retirement Board to study status of volunteer firefighters with respect to Public Employees Retirement System.
Requires State Department of Fish and Wildlife to take certain actions prior to adopting new programs or expanding existing programs.
Provides that county is exempt from applicability of statute banning use of dogs to hunt or pursue cougars if voters approve county measure proposed by initiative petition or referred to people by governing body of county.
Adds Oregon Volunteer Firefighters Association to list of entities eligible for individual income tax return checkoff contribution.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Human Services for deposit in Oregon Project Independence Fund.
Increases penalty for crime of strangulation.
Modifies authority to site or modify certain utility facilities on land zoned for exclusive farm use.
Carried from the House
Became law5
Directs Department of Transportation to establish Portland Trail Blazers license plate program for issuance of special registration plate.
Authorizes local government to create by ordinance or resolution Land Bank Authority as municipal corporation.
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.
Designates March 10 of each year as "Mighty Oregon" Day.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 6
Directs Department of Revenue to make shared services distributions out of unreceipted revenue.
Allows food establishment located within residential dwelling to produce limited amounts of certain foods for sale to public without being regulated by State Department of Agriculture.
Permits bicyclist or motorcyclist to proceed at stop light under certain conditions.
Requires public universities, community colleges and Oregon-based private universities and colleges to adopt written protocol for victims of sexual assault.
Modifies authority of metropolitan service district to acquire or construct visitor-oriented facilities.
Prohibits counties and districts from imposing vehicle registration fee on vehicles registered to employment address when registered owner's residence address is not in same county as employment address.
Passed the Senate · 1
Allows operators of motorcycles or mopeds to travel between adjacent lanes of traffic traveling in same direction under certain circumstances.
Out of committee · 7
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Military Department for Oregon Military Museum.
Increases interstate highway speed limit to 70 miles per hour for most vehicles.
Appropriates moneys to Higher Education Coordinating Commission for 2015 biennium for agricultural experiment station and branch station, Oregon State University Extension Service and Forest Research Laboratory programs of Oregon State University.
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.
Changes water management and conservation plan approval condition for extension of time to develop permit for municipal use of water.
Establishes task force to study essential indigenous anadromous salmonid habitat and its relationship to ditches and other man-made water conveyance channels.
In committee · 17
Requires name of member or committee of Legislative Assembly requesting set of proposed amendments to legislative measure to be identified on proposed amendments.
Eliminates sunset date of homestead property tax deferral program.
Provides that Oregon estate tax is not due unless value of Oregon taxable estate equals or exceeds $5 million.
Reduces required age for concealed handgun license applicant to 18 years of age if applicant is servicemember.
Increases ceiling amount of total assessed value of taxable personal property for purposes of exemption from property taxation.
Authorizes county governing bodies to appoint county volunteer veterans' ombudsmen to provide support services and assistance to veterans and their spouses, dependents and survivors that are not provided by county veterans' service officers.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Higher Education Coordinating Commission for Community College Support Fund for distribution to community colleges and community college service districts.
Requires that candidate for state Senate or state Representative receive majority of votes cast in general election to be elected.
Requires human fetuses in infectious waste stream to be incinerated, cremated or buried.
Enacts Interstate Compact for Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote.
Exempts prior converted croplands from definition of "waters of this state" for purposes of removal fill program.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to public universities.
Allows court to award attorney fees to prevailing party in action to acquire fee simple title to real property by adverse possession in which adverse possessor is not prevailing party.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to operate 24-hour nurse advice hotline for Oregon residents beginning January 1, 2016.
Changes method by which surplus "kicker" refunds are made to personal income taxpayers from tax credit to refund payment.
Establishes Task Force on Rural Air Ambulance Services.
Provides definition for determining undeveloped portion of water right for municipal use.