Bills in the 2015 Regular Session, Senate.
Tim Knopp
Sponsored
Became law5
Directs Land Conservation and Development Commission to adopt or amend rules relating to transportation improvements.
Provides that peace officer may enter motor vehicle and impound animal when peace officer is authorized by law and has probable cause to believe animal is being subjected to certain criminal offenses.
Expands duties of Central Oregon Health Council.
Conditionally exempts from regulation under certain air pollution laws carbon dioxide emissions from combustion or decomposition of biomass.
Establishes child sexual abuse prevention instructional program for public schools.
Out of committee2
Establishes half-priced resident uniformed services appreciation hunting license for persons who are resident members of uniformed services.
Instructs Bureau of Labor and Industries to increase investigatory staff devoted to investigating complaints of pay equity and gender discrimination by one full-time position.
In committee43
Authorizes entity that Oregon Health Authority identifies as presenting risk of harm to individuals who have severe allergic response to allergens to acquire epinephrine and necessary paraphernalia for administration.
Eliminates authority of superintendent of education service district to take action involving student not taught in public school if student receives low test score.
Modifies process for determining need for buildable land to meet estimated need for housing.
Modifies provisions related to inclusion of needed housing within urban growth boundaries.
Modifies provisions authorizing expedited land divisions.
Modifies review process for post-acknowledgment land use decisions.
Expands crime of trafficking in persons to increase age limit of persons trafficked for purpose of engaging in commercial sex act and to include advertising for trafficking activities.
Requires public body to have warrant to obtain, from provider of electronic communication service or remote computing service, contents of communication stored or transmitted by provider or any information pertaining to subscriber or customer of provider.
Requires Housing and Community Services Department to dedicate and use portion of moneys deposited in certain housing accounts from County Assessment and Taxation Fund for benefit of county from which fees deposited into fund were charged and collected.
Requires health care facility to provide to patient or resident, in writing and within 12 hours of admission, facility's policy, if any, concerning provision of life-sustaining procedures that are not likely to benefit patient's or resident's medical condition.
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 Department of Education for State School Fund.
Establishes Oregon Universal Savings Account Board to create and maintain Oregon Universal Savings Account Program.
Establishes personal income tax credit of $250 per dependent child.
Creates income tax credit for certain employers that provide paid family leave, with restrictions.
Increases amount of working family child care credit by doubling applicable percentage of taxpayer's child care expenses allowed as credit.
Establishes personal income tax credit for contributions to charitable organizations.
Requires human fetuses in infectious waste stream to be incinerated, cremated or buried.
Establishes that decisions related to immunizations are personal health care decisions and that immunizations may not be mandated as condition of employment unless required by federal law.
Requires agencies to estimate costs borne by businesses and industrial sectors to comply with proposed rules.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Human Services for domestic violence prevention, awareness and support programs.
Allows local governments planning for employment sites required by statewide land use goals to waive requirements of goals to establish and maintain five-year supply of shovel-ready employment sites.
Modifies provisions relating to public employee retirement.
Modifies calculation of final average salary for purposes of calculating retirement benefits of certain members of Public Employees Retirement System who were members of Legislative Assembly and earned larger salaries in public employment after service in Legislative Assembly.
Directs Public Employees Retirement Board to exclude amounts exceeding $100,000 of salary paid or earned in any year in computing final average salary for purposes of retirement benefits.
Establishes Fair Retirement Plan for persons hired on or after July 1, 2016, who have not established membership in Public Employees Retirement System before July 1, 2016.
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.
Revises provisions relating to liability arising out of skiing.
Requires state agencies to use federal E-Verify employment verification program to verify employment eligibility of job applicants.
Directs Department of Land Conservation and Development, in cooperation with City of Bend, to report status of current, or most recent, legislative review of urban growth boundary of City of Bend.
Requires all information provided as part of candidate's statement for voters' pamphlet to be true.
Requires that statements made by certain witnesses to committee of Legislative Assembly be made under oath and therefore subject to crime of false swearing.
Includes false statements made to legislative committee by certain persons in crime of unsworn falsification.
Clarifies that governing body of public body is required to indemnify school district board members for tort claims arising out of performance of duty.
Requires Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services, by contract with vendor or service provider or otherwise, to develop system by means of which representative may register personal information of protected consumer with consumer reporting agency that meets certain qualifications.
Modifies types of green energy technology for which at least 1.5 percent of total contract price of certain public improvement contracts for construction of public building, or certain reconstruction or major renovation of public building, must be spent.
Requires school districts to be reimbursed for number of staff hours required to prepare state-required report.
Prohibits Department of Human Services, Oregon Health Authority or Oregon Youth Authority from contracting with behavior rehabilitation services providers that permit, or authorizing behavior rehabilitation services providers to allow, children or youth who are not sex offenders or who do not have inappropriate sexual behaviors to reside in same home or residential facility as children or youth who are sex offenders or who have inappropriate sexual behaviors.
Eliminates statute of limitations for first-degree sex crimes.
Carried from the House
Became law6
Establishes Fund to End Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children.
Directs State Board of Education to adopt specified standards related to student education records.
Prohibits use of results of statewide summative assessment developed by multistate consortium to establish summative ratings of schools or to make summative evaluations of teachers or administrators.
Prohibits school district employee or volunteer from posting, publishing or making publicly available personally identifiable information in relation to results of performance-based assessment.
Establishes Affordable Baccalaureate Degree Act.
Requires hospital to adopt written discharge policies.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 17
Directs Department of Revenue to make shared services distributions out of unreceipted revenue.
Establishes grant program to provide matching fund grants to school districts for capital costs of school districts.
Makes changes to laws governing hospital nursing staff, including laws setting forth composition of hospital nurse staffing committees and laws governing content of written hospital-wide staffing plans.
Authorizes Oregon Business Development Department to appoint Pacific Northwest Manufacturing Partnership Advisory Committee to advise department regarding Pacific Northwest Manufacturing Partnership and manufacturing economic development in geographic regions located within Willamette Valley and Columbia River corridor.
Authorizes use of accrued sick leave or personal business leave by certain employees who are victims of domestic violence, harassment, sexual assault or stalking.
Requires insurer to provide specified notifications to health care providers regarding coverage under qualified health plan offered by insurer through health insurance exchange.
Permits bicyclist or motorcyclist to proceed at stop light under certain conditions.
Establishes certain workplace protections for domestic workers.
Creates Palliative Care and Quality of Life Interdisciplinary Advisory Council in Oregon Health Authority.
Directs Department of Education to designate dyslexia specialist and develop list of training opportunities related to dyslexia.
Prohibits law enforcement agency from obtaining by forensic imaging information from portable electronic device without warrant except when authorized by consent.
Authorizes scrap metal business to make payment by electronic funds transfer, stored value card or stored value device.
Requires public universities, community colleges and Oregon-based private universities and colleges to adopt written protocol for victims of sexual assault.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to prescribe by rule standards for integrating behavioral health services and physical health services in patient centered primary care homes and behavioral health homes.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to be responsible for posting to its website health care price data for inpatient and outpatient hospital services.
Adds physician assistant to Oregon Medical Board membership.
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
Authorizes county to exempt first $250,000 of assessed value of homestead of surviving spouse of fire service professional or police officer killed in line of duty from property taxes imposed by all taxing jurisdictions.
Out of committee · 8
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Military Department for Oregon Military Museum.
Restricts use of motor vehicle registration plate surveillance cameras.
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.
Increases, for purposes of tax credit allowed for crop donation, percentage of wholesale price allowed as amount of credit.
Establishes task force to study essential indigenous anadromous salmonid habitat and its relationship to ditches and other man-made water conveyance channels.
Authorizes county to exempt first $250,000 of assessed value of homestead of surviving spouse of fire service professional or police officer killed in line of duty from property taxes .
In committee · 33
Increases statute of limitations for certain sex crimes to within 20 years after commission of crime.
Directs Oregon Business Development Department, in consultation with Department of Consumer and Business Services, to conduct study regarding state regulation of businesses and persons engaged in occupations.
Creates Joint Legislative Committee to Review Agency Regulation of Oregon Businesses.
Directs Department of Veterans' Affairs to submit report to interim legislative committees, no later than July 1, 2016, regarding implementation of veterans' and servicemembers' specialty treatment courts.
Removes minimum requirements for cost and employment terms for qualifying investment contract.
Requires name of member or committee of Legislative Assembly requesting set of proposed amendments to legislative measure to be identified on proposed amendments.
Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to conduct study of efficacy of short-term transitional leave program.
Modifies definition of "physical injury" for purposes of criminal code.
Creates credit against income taxes for amounts paid as interest on qualified education loans.
Establishes Oregon Empowerment Scholarship Program for purpose of providing options in education to students of this state.
Prohibits public body from obtaining location information of electronic device without warrant except in certain circumstances.
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.
Creates income tax credit for certain employers that provide paid sick leave, with restrictions.
Requires that offer of just compensation for condemned property may not be less than real market value of property as determined by county assessor or Department of Revenue.
Discontinues provisions requiring taxpayers, for Oregon tax purposes, to add to federal taxable income amount equal to federal deduction for qualified production activities income.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to establish procedures to validate network capacity of coordinated care organizations.
Limits independent medical examinations in litigation to body part or parts or specific condition in controversy.
Authorizes State Treasurer to issue Article XI-M bonds in amount to produce $300 million in net proceeds for seismic rehabilitation of school facilities.
Creates crime of patronizing a trafficked child.
Directs Department of Transportation to open field offices to public on Saturdays.
Requires coordinated care organization to employ or contract with clinical mental health professionals to provide mental health care and treatment to members of organization.
Requires State Forester to carry out appraisal and sale of forest products on state-owned forestland damaged by wildfire.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to State Department of Fish and Wildlife for biennial expenses.
Increases threshold under which school district may receive additional State School Fund moneys for student eligible for special education.
Limits additional distributions of State School Fund moneys to school districts for students enrolled in English as a second language program to no more than seven school years for each student.
Establishes Joint Legislative Committee on Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight.
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.