Bills in the 2019 Regular Session, Senate.
Chuck Thomsen
Sponsored
Out of committee3
Allows personal income and corporate excise taxpayers to subtract from taxable income amounts paid as principal of or interest on qualified education loans.
Extends sunset for tax credit for crop donation.
Establishes voluntary Oregon outdoor recreation search and rescue card program within Office of Emergency Management.
In committee11
Requires Environmental Quality Commission to prepare certain revisions to Oregon's State Implementation Plan under federal Clean Air Act.
Requires Department of Revenue to conduct study of communication methods department has in place to answer questions from taxpayers or resolve issues that taxpayers have with Oregon tax laws.
Allows minor supplier of malt beverages to unconditionally terminate wholesale distribution agreement upon 90 days' notice.
Allows county with no population growth, and city within county with no population growth, to adopt exception to any statewide land use planning goal for certain purposes, with exceptions.
Appropriates to Department of Education for deposit in High School Graduation and College and Career Readiness Fund amount prescribed to be deposited under High School Graduation and College and Career Readiness Act (Ballot Measure 98 (2016)).
Requires person applying for renewal of driver license or driver permit to pass knowledge test of traffic laws.
Establishes TriMet Crash Advisory Committee.
Directs Department of Transportation, in conjunction with Oregon Health Authority, to provide to applicant for driver license written material regarding becoming bone marrow donor.
Directs Board on Public Safety Standards and Training to ensure that all police officers and certified reserve officers are trained in treatment of allergic responses.
Provides that, for purposes of determining eligibility of municipalities in counties with population of 50,000 or less for financial or other assistance for public works projects, Oregon Business Development Department may waive or modify application of any rule of department relating to job creation and retention, hiring or employment.
Provides that registered owner may request that registration card issued for vehicle include information that owner, or person operating vehicle, may be deaf or hard of hearing.
Carried from the House
Became law1
Expands Telecommunication Devices Access Program to include provision of communication facilitators.
Passed the House1
Removes ability of parent to decline required immunizations against restrictable diseases on behalf of child for reason other than child's indicated medical diagnosis.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 6
Permits community colleges to offer applied baccalaureate degree programs under specified conditions and upon receiving approval from Higher Education Coordinating Commission.
Extends sunset for property tax exemption for multiple-unit housing.
Requires prospective contractor to state in bid or proposal for public contract whether and extent to which prospective contractor will use conflict minerals in performing public contract and whether prospective contractor's disclosures, policies, practices and procedures with respect to procuring conflict minerals comply with Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas.
Directs certifying agencies to certify to United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, within specified time, victim helpfulness in detecting, investigating or prosecuting qualifying criminal activity.
Modifies allowed and prohibited uses of restraint of students by public education programs.
Establishes TriMet Crash Advisory Committee.
Passed the Senate · 1
Grants higher property tax exemption for property of veterans with service-connected disabilities.
Out of committee · 3
Creates income tax credit for operation costs of housing for agricultural workers.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Higher Education Coordinating Commission for agricultural experiment station and branch stations, Oregon State University Extension Service and Forest Research Laboratory programs of Oregon State University.
Requires Department of Human Services to contract with nonprofit organization to implement and administer program to assist recipients of supplemental nutrition assistance in purchasing locally grown fruits and vegetables from farmers' markets, farm share sites and retail outlets that participate in program.
In committee · 12
Permits merger of community college and public university.
Exempts transferee who is certified participant in Address Confidentiality Program from private firearm transfer criminal background check requirement.
Requires Interstate 5 Rose Quarter Project and Interstate 205 Abernethy Bridge Project to include new additional travel lanes along specified portion of highway.
Provides for payment of program expenses of study abroad program for eligible students in foster care.
Changes qualification process for building officials and inspectors.
Provides protections for person who refuses to participate in procedure related to abortion or physician-assisted suicide if refusal is based on person's ethical, moral or religious convictions.
Creates crime of patronizing a trafficked child.
Establishes Oregon Empowerment Scholarship Program for purpose of providing options in education to students of this state.
Allows public body to disclose to federal immigration authority information about person convicted of violent crime.
Requires school district to make information about functions and programs of school district available at school district's office and on school district's website.
Requires party to nominate between three and five qualified persons to fill vacancy when vacancy occurs in partisan elective statewide office and individual last elected to office was affiliated with major political party.
Requires health care practitioner to exercise proper degree of care to preserve health and life of child born alive after abortion or attempted abortion.