Bills in the 2013 Regular Session, Senate.
Alan Olsen
Sponsored
Became law2
Establishes requirements for 9-1-1 calls placed from multiline telephone system.
Provides Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services or local building official with authority to determine whether structure plans and specifications, or structure as constructed, meets fire and life safety standards and other state building code standards.
Passed the Senate1
Adds raccoon to list of potentially habituated wildlife.
Out of committee3
Requires moneys in Emergency Communications Account, including Enhanced 9-1-1 Subaccount, to be used for purposes of 9-1-1 emergency communications unless statutory exception is made during state of fiscal emergency.
Allows higher property tax exemption on property of veterans with service-connected disabilities of 100 percent.
Allows nonresident veterans discharged under honorable conditions to pay tuition and fees at Oregon resident rates.
In committee10
Removes restrictions on hydroelectric electricity, including restriction that hydroelectric electricity be generated by facility that became operational on or after January 1, 1995, for purpose of qualifying for renewable portfolio standard.
Makes consumption of controlled substance on school property or at school function by person under 21 years of age unlawful.
Reduces rate of tax on capital gains of personal income and corporate income and excise taxpayers.
Allows accelerated depreciation of capital assets for income tax purposes.
Decreases corporate minimum tax imposed on certain C corporations by establishing corporate minimum tax of $150 for all corporations.
Requires name of member or committee of Legislative Assembly requesting set of proposed amendments to legislative measure to be identified on proposed amendments.
Prohibits handling of voted ballot of elector unless person is elections official, employee of United States Postal Service or relative of elector.
Provides that member of Legislative Assembly has standing to intervene and participate in proceeding in which constitutionality of Oregon statute is challenged.
Requires nongovernmental entity, as condition of receiving public purpose charge moneys, to be assessed by independent third party.
Allows governing body of local government to withdraw all or part of territory under its jurisdiction from boundaries of Tri-Met.
Carried from the House
Became law1
Designates August 9 of each year as Boring and Dull Day.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 15
Requires employer to provide paid or unpaid time off for Veterans Day to employees who are veterans.
Allows commodity commission to choose calendar year as fiscal year.
Creates primary care provider loan repayment program and establishes Primary Care Provider Loan Repayment Fund.
Provides that Interstate 84 in Oregon shall be known as Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway.
Establishes requirements that must be met before applicant for land use approval to establish or modify certain disposal sites for composting may submit application.
Appropriates moneys to Department of Education to be expended for purpose of awarding grants under Career and Technical Education Revitalization Grant Program.
Allows Secretary of State, State Treasurer, judicial department and legislative department to obtain copyrights and patents on data processing materials and to sell, lease or otherwise make available the materials to local, state and federal governmental bodies.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to adopt uniform documentation requirements for credentialing providers of telemedicine services.
Requires Appraiser Certification and Licensure Board , before disciplining person, to establish subcommittee for purpose of advising board on whether objective basis exists to believe that alleged violation of provisions governing real estate appraisers has occurred .
Creates exception to requirement that wages due to seasonal farmworker must be paid immediately after termination of employment.
Extends exclusive remedy protections of workers' compensation statutes to partners, limited liability company members, general partners, limited liability partners and limited partners.
Changes basis and permissible scope of assessments by Oregon Sheep Commission.
Directs Department of Education to consult with specified entities when developing academic content standards for Oregon Studies and preparing materials to support teacher training and classroom instruction in Oregon Studies.
Increases penalty for crime of initiating false report to maximum of one year's imprisonment, $6,250 fine, or both.
Creates Work Group on Corrections Health Care Costs.
Passed the Senate · 1
Requires Oregon Health Authority to request specified information from potential contractors and, if certain conditions are met, to request proposals to establish and operate systems and technologies designed to detect and prevent improper payments in state medical assistance program.
Out of committee · 1
Permits small woodland owner to register vehicle as farm vehicle if woodland and vehicle meet certain requirements.
In committee · 31
Requires Environmental Quality Commission to prepare certain revisions to Oregon's State Implementation Plan under federal Clean Air Act.
Temporarily suspends minimum ethanol content requirement for gasoline.
Creates subtraction from taxable income for contribution of crop to charitable organization.
Prohibits employee who separates from contracting agency, for two years after date of employee's separation, from becoming, or seeking employment with, contractor with which contracting agency enters or has entered into public contract.
Specifies that new or increased fees adopted by state agency do not become effective unless approved by Legislative Assembly by law.
Requires personal verification of tax return and amount of proposed refund by at least two Department of Revenue employees, including supervisory employee, in case of refund in excess of $___.
Authorizes certain hunters to use certain mechanical and fixed blade broadheads on arrows.
Authorizes school and educational service districts to offer benefit plans that are not provided by and administered by Oregon Educators Benefit Board if district determines that premiums for benefit plans offered are less than comparable benefit plans offered by board.
Allows Department of Transportation to issue group registration plate for group that promotes prevention of wildfires.
Imposes certain requirements on disciplinary hearings conducted by Appraiser Certification and Licensure Board.
Authorizes employers to pay employees under 20 years of age hourly wage consistent with federal minimum wage for period of 90 days from date employee begins work.
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.
Increases ceiling amount of total assessed value of taxable personal property for purposes of exemption from property taxation.
States that Oregon estate tax is not due unless value of Oregon taxable estate exceeds $5 million.
Eliminates sunset date of homestead property tax deferral program.
Requires coordinated care organization to screen combat veterans and members of Armed Forces for mental health and traumatic brain injury.
Modifies authority of State Forester relating to Tillamook State Forest.
Requires harvesting in areas of Tillamook State Forest and Clatsop State Forest exhibiting moderate to extreme occurrence of Swiss needle cast disease.
Allows local government, in county whose population is not growing and that has population of less than 50,000, to alter comprehensive plan map designations notwithstanding statewide land use planning goals relating to agricultural land and forestland.
Defines "vernal pool." Excludes vernal pools from definition of "waters of this state." Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Requires Director of Department of State Lands to promote use of public land for compensatory mitigation.
Requires that at least 30 days before agencies give notice of intended action to adopt, amend or repeal rules pertaining to recreational or small scale mining, agencies shall perform certain consultation.
Allows Director of Department of State Lands to approve, on case-by-case basis, off-site compensatory mitigation in certain watersheds in adjacent states.
Classifies certain waters of Columbia River to be used for specific purposes.
Modifies provisions relating to public employee retirement.
Directs Morrow County and Umatilla County to develop industrial and commercial land uses on land formerly known as Umatilla Chemical Depot.
Establishes Fair Retirement Plan for persons hired on or after July 1, 2013, who have not established membership in Public Employees Retirement System before July 1, 2013.
Revises definition of "ambulatory surgical center" to include facility operated substantially for purpose of performing abortions.
Removes minimum requirements for cost and employment terms for qualifying investment contract.
Provides that mining activities do not give rise to cause of action for nuisance or trespass in certain circumstances.
Modifies crime of invasion of personal privacy by prohibiting observation by device or electronic means regardless of whether recording is made.