Bills in the 2015 Regular Session, Senate.
Betsy Johnson
Sponsored
Became law6
Permits Oregon Infrastructure Finance Authority to provide financial assistance for levee projects that contribute to improvement, expansion or repair of infrastructure systems and are essential for use or development of farm, industrial or commercial land.
Requires continuing care retirement communities to have written grievance procedure and procedure for resident to request to be assisted in activities of daily living by staff person of particular sex.
Designates March 22 of each year as Tom McCall Day to commemorate Governor McCall and encourage school districts to educate children about Governor McCall's legacy.
Increases maximum number of Pacific Wonderland registration plates that may be issued.
Authorizes county to sell or donate real property to certain federally recognized Indian tribes.
Provides that person who falsely reports hazardous substance, fire, explosion, catastrophe or other emergency in court facility or public building commits crime of disorderly conduct in the first degree.
Passed the Senate1
Prohibits contractor or subcontractor, or contractor's or subcontractor's agent, from intentionally failing to pay prevailing rate of wage, reducing rate of wage for work that is not subject to prevailing wage in order to recoup prevailing wages that contractor, subcontractor or agent paid, withholding, deducting or diverting employee's wages other than as provided by law, entering into agreement under terms of which employee receives less than prevailing rate of wage for work that is subject to
In committee15
Exempts from lease requirements privately owned structures on state-owned submerged and submersible lands that were constructed prior to January 1, 1916.
Provides that court may not issue warrant or impose sanction of confinement for contempt that results from defendant's failure to comply with judgment debtor examination or written interrogatories.
Repeals statute authorizing payment of support for child attending school.
Caps energy resource supplier assessment at ___ percent of supplier's gross operating revenue derived within this state in preceding calendar year.
Creates alternative to study, thesis or report requirement for person to be considered qualified archaeologist.
Directs each minor political party to ensure by rule that at least 10 percent of party members participate in party's nominating process.
Provides that person who falsely reports hazardous substance, fire, explosion, catastrophe or other emergency in court facility commits crime of disorderly conduct in the first degree.
Abolishes Oregon Infrastructure Finance Authority Board and Oregon Infrastructure Finance Authority.
Clarifies that court must consider costs of sale of assets, taxes and costs in determination of fair market value of property in just and proper division of property in marital dissolution, separation or annulment proceeding.
Eliminates limitation on liability for damages resulting from certain fish and wildlife habitat improvement projects and watershed or stream restoration or enhancement programs.
Exempts timber from city-owned lands of limited acreage from prohibition against export of unprocessed timber.
Allows owners of land in Portland that was disqualified from western Oregon forestland special assessment for property tax year beginning on July 1, 2011, to request directly from State Fish and Wildlife Commission designation of land as eligible for wildlife habitat special assessment.
Requires county and metropolitan service district, when considering land for designation as urban reserve, to give highest priority to land containing sewer line that is located pursuant to goal exception and that serves land within urban growth boundary.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to establish procedures to validate network capacity of coordinated care organizations.
Requires that creation, restoration or enhancement of wetlands in any area zoned for exclusive farm use be subject to certain standards of approval by local governing body.
Carried from the House
Became law2
Designates April 14 of each year as Honorary Artists of Oregon Day.
Requires person that engages in surface mining activities at levels below thresholds for applicability of operating permit and reclamation requirements to obtain exclusion certificate from State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries and to pay fee.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 25
Creates crime of endangering person protected by Family Abuse Prevention Act restraining order.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to exercise procurement authority under Public Contracting Code and under supervision of Oregon Department of Administrative Services, for specified purposes.
Directs Secretary of State to conduct performance audit of state agency public records retention and disclosure practices, including analysis and recommendations on specified criteria.
Includes base pay of certain telecommunicators as comparable factor to be considered by arbitrator in establishing pay for telecommunicators employed by Department of State Police.
Directs Department of Revenue to make shared services distributions out of unreceipted revenue.
Requires proprietary authorization from Department of State Lands to construct or operate ocean renewable energy facility in Oregon's territorial sea.
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 Higher Education Coordinating Commission to convene work group to identify methods for improving success rate of, and educational outcomes for, students receiving state-administered waiver of tuition, or state-administered grant for amount of tuition, for courses taken at community college.
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.
Permits coach to allow member of school athletic team and nonschool athletic team to participate in athletic event or training at any time after athletic trainer determines that member has not suffered concussion.
Authorizes city and airport to enter into agreement pursuant to which city provides sewer and water services to airport without requiring annexation, or consent to eventual annexation, to city of territory on which airport is situated.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to develop plan for communication among local mental health authorities and systems to improve notifications and information-sharing when death suspected to be suicide involves individual 24 years of age or younger.
Extends dental pilot project by seven years.
Creates Palliative Care and Quality of Life Interdisciplinary Advisory Council in Oregon Health Authority.
Requires Oregon Department of Administrative Services to transfer ownership of certain real property to City of Pendleton.
Directs Department of Human Services to adopt administrative rules for home studies and placement reports in adoption proceedings that require that equal consideration be given to relatives and current caretakers as prospective adoptive parents, and that greater consideration be given to relatives and current caretakers as compared to other persons who are not relatives or current caretakers.
Requires public universities, community colleges and Oregon-based private universities and colleges to adopt written protocol for victims of sexual assault.
Directs Oregon 529 Savings Board to establish by rule qualified state ABLE Act program as described in federal Stephen Beck, Jr., Achieving a Better Life Experience Act of 2014.
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.
For purposes of natural resource credit against estate tax, modifies definition of "natural resource property" to mean property in state.
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 Oregon Health Authority to be responsible for posting to its website health care price data for inpatient and outpatient hospital services.
Makes limitation on state liability for nonproperty claims applicable to State Fair Council.
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
Revises procedures for preparation of Governor's budget.
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 · 10
Expands crime of assault in third degree to include physical injury to health care provider in hospital.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Military Department for Oregon Military Museum.
Requires court to appoint legal counsel for respondent or protected person in protective proceeding under certain circumstances.
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.
Changes water management and conservation plan approval condition for extension of time to develop permit for municipal use of water.
Establishes Biomass Heat for Rural Schools Fund.
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.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to State Department of Fish and Wildlife for activities related to certain spring chinook salmon hatchery programs.
Establishes task force to study essential indigenous anadromous salmonid habitat and its relationship to ditches and other man-made water conveyance channels.
In committee · 8
Requires State Department of Fish and Wildlife to adopt policy for coordinating management of species that prey on endangered species.
Requires name of member or committee of Legislative Assembly requesting set of proposed amendments to legislative measure to be identified on proposed amendments.
Provides that public body has no responsibility to post warnings related to dangers of ocean.
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.
Authorizes Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington Counties each to designate one large-lot industrial reserve of 150 to 500 acres.
Creates crime of patronizing a trafficked child.
Exempts prior converted croplands from definition of "waters of this state" for purposes of removal fill program.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to operate 24-hour nurse advice hotline for Oregon residents beginning January 1, 2016.