Bills in the 2015 Regular Session, Senate.
Chuck Riley
Sponsored
In committee4
Makes offense of smoking in motor vehicle primary offense.
Requires use of headlights when windshield wipers are on.
Directs State Board of Education to include textbooks and other instructional materials on explicit phonics on statewide list of textbooks and other instructional materials.
Modifies method by which taxpayers may donate surplus revenue refunds to funding of education.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 8
Repeals sunset on provisions related to low carbon fuel standards.
Requires all employers to implement sick time for employees.
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.
Prohibits possession of firearm or ammunition by person who is subject to certain court order protecting intimate partner or child of person or intimate partner, or who has been convicted of certain misdemeanor crimes committed against family member.
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.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to disseminate information to health care professionals and public related to adrenal insufficiency.
Requires private person to complete transfer of firearm by appearing with transferee before gun dealer to request criminal background check or shipping or delivering firearm to gun dealer in certain circumstances.
Out of committee · 3
Increases Oregon minimum wage rate in graduated steps to $15 per hour by 2018.
Directs Department of Human Services to establish two pilot programs in rural and urban regions of this state to improve quality and effectiveness of foster care for children and wards placed in legal custody of department for care, placement and supervision.
Appropriates moneys to Department of Education to be expended for purpose of awarding grants under Career and Technical Education Revitalization Grant Program.
In committee · 5
Requires use of headlights when windshield wipers are on.
Establishes Health Care for All Oregon Board to develop, implement and have oversight of Health Care for All Oregon Plan to be administered by Oregon Health Authority.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to operate 24-hour nurse advice hotline for Oregon residents beginning January 1, 2016.
Exempts from property subject to tower's lien contents of towed motor vehicle for which owner or other person with interest in towed vehicle submits to tower affidavit stating that motor vehicle is being used as primary nighttime residence.
Requires Environmental Quality Commission to adopt greenhouse gas cap-and-dividend program to reduce statewide greenhouse gas emissions to meet certain benchmarks adopted by commission.