Bills in the 2014 Regular Session, House.
Barbara Smith Warner
Co-sponsored
Became law · 9
Amends 40-40-20 education goals to include apprenticeship programs registered with State Apprenticeship and Training Council.
Allows Department of Education to award grants to encourage participation in summer meals programs.
Extends Alternative Fuel Vehicle Revolving Fund loan program to certain private entities.
Directs Department of Community Colleges and Workforce Development and Higher Education Coordinating Commission to jointly establish grant program for purpose of distributing moneys to community colleges to increase number of underserved, low-income and first-generation college-bound students who enroll in community college and make progress toward degree or certificate.
Directs Department of Education to make grants to improve student achievement in certain schools that are high poverty and low performing.
Expands scholarships for children of public safety officers killed or injured in line of duty to include children of reserve officers and volunteer firefighters killed or disabled in line of duty.
Requires state contracting agency or public corporation that implements information technology initiative to obtain quality management services from qualified contractor if value of information technology initiative exceeds $5 million or meets criteria or standards that State Chief Information Officer or Director of Oregon Department of Administrative Services specifies by rule or policy.
Changes interest rate accruing on deferred taxes under homestead property tax deferral program from six percent compounded annually to six percent per annum.
Requires Oregon Health Insurance Exchange Corporation to request federal agency to allow individuals and businesses to qualify for premium tax credits, cost-sharing reductions and business tax relief if individuals and businesses enrolled in qualified health plans directly with insurers.
Passed the House · 2
Requires that majority of members of Oregon Education Investment Board be public educational professionals who work, or have worked, on regular basis in public educational setting.
Authorizes court, as part of settlement or judgment in class action, to approve process for payment of damages.
Out of committee · 1
Directs Department of Community Colleges and Workforce Development to administer grant program for purpose of distributing funds to community colleges to make child care services available to community college students.
In committee · 2
Prohibits public bodies from adopting rules, enacting ordinances or instituting policies that require health care practitioners to provide medically inaccurate information or medical services inconsistent with appropriate and evidence-based standards or that prohibit health care practitioners from providing medical services consistent with appropriate and evidence-based standards.
Defines "vapor product" and "vape." Amends laws related to consumption of tobacco products by minors to include references to consumption 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 by minor.