Bills in the 2015 Regular Session, Senate.
Chuck Thomsen
Sponsored
Became law1
Exempts from certain regulations legal access provider that charges fee to customer for purpose of providing customer with access to legal consultations and other legal services and that pays administration fee to attorney.
In committee3
Increases amount distributed to school districts from State School Fund for each student enrolled in English as a second language program.
Requires Environmental Quality Commission to prepare certain revisions to Oregon's State Implementation Plan under federal Clean Air Act.
Enacts Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 14
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.
Directs Oregon State University Extension Service to assist school districts and education service districts in providing outdoor school programs.
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.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to establish training program and specifies elements that program must include.
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 Oregon Department of Administrative Services to transfer ownership of certain real property to City of Pendleton.
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 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.
Requires schools and children's facilities to make available certain information related to immunizations.
Adds physician assistant to Oregon Medical Board membership.
Directs Department of Transportation to make efforts to complete installation of median barriers between opposing lanes of travel on interstate highways in certain circumstances.
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 · 2
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.
Allows operators of motorcycles or mopeds to travel between adjacent lanes of traffic traveling in same direction under certain circumstances.
Out of committee · 11
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Health Authority to establish parity in funding formula for school-based health centers, for planning and administration to develop new school-based health centers and for technical assistance contracts with nonprofit organization with expertise in school-based health centers.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Health Authority to establish 11 new school-based health centers.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Military Department for Oregon Military Museum.
Requires medical marijuana facilities and marijuana retailers to post at facility or on premises of retail location notice of potential harmful effects of marijuana on pregnant women, fetuses and breastfeeding infants .
Requires Department of Human Services to identify applicants for and recipients of assistance under temporary assistance for needy families program who are victims of sexual assault or at risk for being victims of sexual assault.
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.
Directs Department of Corrections to enter into contracts with nonprofit entities to create program to assist children of incarcerated parents.
In committee · 25
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Health Authority for planning and administration necessary to accommodate new school-based health centers.
Requires name of member or committee of Legislative Assembly requesting set of proposed amendments to legislative measure to be identified on proposed amendments.
Prohibits law enforcement agencies and officers from profiling based on specified personal characteristics or circumstances of individuals, except when characteristics or circumstances are tied to specific suspect description or credible information related to criminal incident or activity.
Modifies definition of "physical injury" for purposes of criminal code.
Creates credit against income taxes for amounts paid as interest on qualified education loans.
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.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Education for State School Fund.
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.
Establishes personal income tax credit of $250 per dependent child.
Creates income tax credit for certain employers that provide paid sick leave, with restrictions.
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.
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.
Authorizes Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington Counties each to designate one large-lot industrial reserve of 150 to 500 acres.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Human Services for deposit in Oregon Project Independence Fund.
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.
Exempts prior converted croplands from definition of "waters of this state" for purposes of removal fill program.
Revises provisions relating to liability arising out of skiing.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to public universities.
Changes method by which surplus "kicker" refunds are made to personal income taxpayers from tax credit to refund payment.