Bills in the 2011 Regular Session, House.
Sherrie Sprenger
Sponsored
In committee17
Prohibits school districts and education service districts from expending moneys on membership dues paid to professional organizations that represent education service district boards, school district boards or school administrators under certain conditions.
Establishes Task Force on Classroom Spending.
Requires Superintendent of Public Instruction to specify number of school days missed by students and teachers when superintendent prepares school performance reports.
Modifies method by which length of service of probationary teachers is calculated.
Allows person to teach courses in career and technical education without being licensed by or registered with Teacher Standards and Practices Commission if certain requirements are met.
Requires evaluation of teacher to determine effectiveness of teacher based on progress of individual students.
Modifies requirement for establishing winery on land zoned for exclusive farm use.
Requires Department of Education to grant waiver to allow school districts to contract with entity that meets specified criteria for purpose of administering nationally normed assessments.
Allows certain districts to offer benefit plans other than benefit plans provided by Oregon Educators Benefit Board.
Requires that person seeking to appeal land use decision or limited land use decision to Land Use Board of Appeals must be adversely affected by decision.
Removes requirement for State Department of Agriculture to monitor ethanol fuel production and issue notice when ethanol production reaches specified level.
Requires applicant for marijuana grow site registration to notify Oregon Health Authority if premises of marijuana grow site are rented or leased and provide name and address of owner.
Excludes certain subjects from mandatory collective bargaining between state and certified or recognized representative of employees.
Directs State Department of Fish and Wildlife to create pilot program that allows persons hunting or pursuing cougars to use dogs.
Requires Oregon Department of Administrative Services to adopt rules regarding use of wood in buildings constructed by public body using state funding.
Expands application of laws regarding estray animals to include all bovines.
Removes requirement for State Department of Agriculture to monitor ethanol fuel production and issue notice when ethanol production reaches specified level.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Designates June 25 of every year as Korean War Veterans Honor Day.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 12
Expands green jobs growth initiative to include analysis of growth factors and employment projections for green jobs in forest products industries.
Increases, under specified circumstances, penalty for crime of strangulation to maximum of five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both.
Directs Department of Transportation to erect and maintain roadside memorial sign under certain circumstances for police officer killed in line of duty.
Authorizes district attorney to file petition in criminal case, on behalf of county or animal care agency, seeking forfeiture of animals alleged to have been abused.
Provides that charging or payment of tuition or fee for food or beverage career program class, or for workshop or seminar concerning food or beverage industry training, that is offered by education provider and includes consumption of alcoholic beverages is not sale or purchase of alcoholic beverages.
Requires executive summaries of reports and notices of proposed rulemaking that must be filed with members of Legislative Assembly to be sent electronically.
Allows person whose driving privileges have been suspended for certain reasons to terminate suspension by surrendering driving privileges.
Allows household member to continue to use confidential address on records maintained by Department of Transportation for up to four years after eligible employee or corrections officer is killed in line of duty.
Provides that U.S. Highway 30 between St. Helens and Rainier shall be known as Police Chief Ralph Painter Memorial Highway.
Extends sunset on allowance of certain foreign exchange students to be considered residents of school district.
Allows court to renew Family Abuse Prevention Act order upon petition of child who has reached 18 years of age if child was protected by previous order and reasonably fears further acts of abuse by respondent.
Authorizes Oregon Department of Administrative Services to consult with Oregon Progress Board regarding specified plans and entities and requires department to submit related report to interim committee of Legislative Assembly with subject matter jurisdiction over board on or before July 2, 2012.
Passed the House · 4
Prohibits Department of Land Conservation and Development from requiring area within urban growth boundary with population of 10,000 or less to have transportation financing program.
Directs State Board of Higher Education to report to legislature in 2012 on civic literacy at state institutions of higher education.
Directs Department of Transportation to issue Keep Kids Safe registration plates.
Requires State Fish and Wildlife Commission and State Department of Fish and Wildlife to advise, consult and cooperate with other state agencies, political subdivisions, other states, the federal government and private landowners regarding fish and wildlife management.
Out of committee · 10
Defines statutory term regarding management of acquired lands designated as state forests, common school forest lands and Elliott State Forest Lands.
Prohibits Public Employees' Benefit Board from adopting rules that allow state employees to elect benefit plan coverage for family member who is state employee.
Establishes tax credit for transportation of woody biomass from forest management operations to biofuel producer.
Authorizes issuance of protective order for certain persons who are victims of conduct constituting sex crime or unwanted sexual contact.
Changes name of Tuition Protection Fund to Tuition Protection Trust Fund.
Authorizes Oregon Medical Board to issue certificates of prescriptive authority to certain licensed psychologists who meet specified requirements.
Changes number of members appointed to State Commission on Children and Families by Governor.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services and Governor to submit continuous improvement level state budget based on performance management and performance measurement techniques.
Directs Joint Boards of Education to prepare report on strategies for reducing higher education textbook costs.
Establishes For-Profit Independent Colleges Student Assistance Fund .
In committee · 41
Requires state employees who participate in health benefit plans offered by Public Employees' Benefit Board to contribute greater of $50 or five percent of monthly salary or wages to health benefit plan premium costs.
Directs school district board to adopt policy related to teen dating violence.
Directs moneys received from sale of customized registration plates to State Police Account.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services and Governor to submit budget report to Legislative Assembly that contains zero-based budget for state agencies with cumulative total of expenditures of at least 25 percent of General Fund budget.
Creates subtraction from federal taxable income for health insurance premium payments made during tax year by individual taxpayer for health benefit coverage of taxpayer, taxpayer's spouse or dependents.
Allows person holding concealed handgun license to operate all-terrain vehicle while carrying loaded handgun.
Permits person to use mobile communication device while operating motor vehicle in frontier counties.
Shortens time period during which Department of Transportation must report to Legislative Assembly regarding requirement to provide proof of legal presence in United States and Social Security number prior to issuance, renewal or replacement of driver license, driver permit or identification card.
Specifies employee compensation information required for Oregon Report Card.
Removes enrollment limitation for public charter schools that offer online courses.
Establishes policy direction for management of state forestlands, including management for timber harvesting.
Creates defense to prostitution under certain circumstances for person under 18 years of age.
Provides that person appointed or elected as member of Legislative Assembly may not become member of Public Employees Retirement System or participate in state deferred compensation plan as legislator member.
Expands authority of court and violations bureau to reduce fines for violations.
Authorizes enterprise zone sponsor to suspend employment requirements for exemption from property taxation for qualified business firm under certain economic conditions.
Modifies provisions relating to release of information from Oregon Medical Marijuana Program to Oregon Health Authority and law enforcement.
Creates rebuttable presumption that person convicted of violating controlled substance laws is unfit to receive or hold industrial hemp license or agricultural hemp production permit.
Creates crime of unlawful delivery of Salvia divinorum.
Modifies provisions relating to registry identification card for medical use of marijuana.
Authorizes law enforcement agencies to establish sobriety checkpoints.
Requires only persons under 21 years of age to wear motorcycle helmet while riding on or operating motorcycle.
Provides affirmative defense to crime of unlawful possession of firearm for state and federal corrections officers.
Modifies provisions of Oregon Medical Marijuana Act.
Adds murder of certified reserve officer and murder of reserve officer to definition of aggravated murder.
Reduces amount of employee contribution to individual account program of Public Employees Retirement System that public employer may agree to pay from six percent to three percent.
Allows state officer or employee who authorizes payment of moneys to labor organization through payroll deduction to designate political party to which moneys from deduction expended by organization for political purposes may be donated.
Declares that data used to diagnose, maintain or repair motor vehicles that is created, collected or contained in motor vehicle is exclusively owned by motor vehicle owner.
Suspends for 2011-2013 biennium requirements placed on school districts related to self-evaluations, local district continuous improvement plans, alternative placements for students, alcohol and drug abuse prevention programs, instructional materials, substitute teacher salaries, guidance and counseling programs, media programs and class sizes.
Requires school districts to pay to public charter school amount per public charter school's ADMw that is at least equal to 95 percent of amount of school district's General Purpose Grant per ADMw and at least 95 percent of amounts received by school district from certain federal and state sources.
Prohibits abortion unless physician has first determined probable post-fertilization age of unborn child, except in case of medical emergency.
Prohibits commencement of civil action against health care provider until after submission of health care claim to medical legal panel.
Provides for establishment of percentage by which district school board shall annually increase total amount of moneys used to pay for salary and benefits of employees under collective bargaining agreement.
Prohibits pharmacist from dispensing drug that is not therapeutically equivalent to drug ordered or prescribed unless prescriber and patient have consented in writing.
Requires district school board to procure and cause to be displayed United States flag in classrooms and to provide time for students to salute United States flag once daily during school hours.
Provides that if public body agrees to pay or provide benefit to retired employees other than payments required or provided for in statutes, public body must create separate account for funding of those benefits and make annual contributions to account in amounts necessary to amortize liability for benefits in 25 years or less.
Allows entity that is classified by Construction Contractors Board as exempt commercial contractor to provide board with proof of personal health insurance coverage for proprietor or each partner, corporate officer or member of limited liability company as alternative to procuring and maintaining workers' compensation coverage.
Requires mass transit district to obtain elector approval for issuance of revenue bonds secured by moneys from specified sources, including payroll taxes and federal flexible funds.
Expands definition of "farm use" to include facilities for training dogs in canine skills on land zoned for exclusive farm use.
Expands immunity from liability for health care provider who provides services for charitable organization without compensation.
Modifies provisions of Oregon Medical Marijuana Act.
Exempts energy savings performance contracts, under certain circumstances, from requirement to use competitive bidding process to award public improvement contracts.