Bills in the 2015 Regular Session, Senate.
Alan Olsen
Sponsored
Became law2
Specifies form of notice that cooperative must provide to directors, members, shareholders and other persons and when notice is effective.
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.
Out of committee2
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.
Grants higher property tax exemption for property of veterans with service-connected disabilities of 100 percent or more.
In committee15
Reduces public purpose expenditure standard.
Reduces rate of tax on capital gains of personal income and corporate income and excise taxpayers.
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 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 accounts for funding of those benefits and make annual contributions to accounts in amounts necessary to amortize liability for benefits in 25 years or less.
Allows governing body of local government to withdraw all or part of territory under its jurisdiction from boundaries of Tri-Met.
Allows taxpayer to expense certain business assets for income or corporate excise tax purposes.
Requires nongovernmental entity, as condition of receiving public purpose charge moneys, to be assessed by independent third party.
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.
Exempts certain transferors of firearms from requesting criminal history record check if purchaser or recipient has concealed handgun license.
Provides persons licensed to carry concealed handgun in another state with protections provided to persons with Oregon concealed handgun license if other state has no less stringent requirements for obtaining license than Oregon.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Education for purpose of awarding grants under Career and Technical Education Revitalization Grant Program.
Provides that person commits crime of arson in the second degree or arson in the first degree if person manufactures controlled substance and causes fire or explosion that damages property.
Requires public universities to offer at least one bachelor's degree in fields of science, technology, engineering or mathematics at cost of $15,000 or less.
Creates income tax credit for adopting dogs and cats from animal rescue entities.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to public universities.
Carried from the House
Became law4
Changes process by which person may receive Fallen Hero roadside memorial sign.
Permits Department of Transportation to issue veterans' recognition registration plate to Gold Star Family member who is sibling of person who was killed in action in armed conflict while serving in Armed Forces of United States.
Authorizes Department of Consumer and Business Services to enter into interagency agreements for Construction Contractors Board to perform duties on behalf of department related to state building code.
Requires that National League of Families' POW/MIA flag be displayed with Oregon State flag on public buildings in this state.
Passed the House1
Directs Department of Transportation to erect and maintain Fallen Hero roadside memorial sign for Specialist Mabry James Anders.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 9
Establishes Task Force on the Willamette Falls Navigation Canal and Locks.
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.
Requires person providing restoration work on residential or small commercial structure following man-made or natural disaster to have appropriate license endorsement issued by Construction Contractors Board.
Authorizes scrap metal business to make payment by electronic funds transfer, stored value card or stored value device.
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.
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.
Permits Department of Transportation to issue vehicle registration plates from regular series for use on county-owned vehicle rather than plates from specially designed government series.
Passed the Senate · 1
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 · 6
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Military Department for Oregon Military Museum.
Appropriates moneys to Department of Education to be expended for purpose of awarding grants under Career and Technical Education Revitalization Grant Program.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Health Authority for Senior Farm Direct Nutrition Program and Women, Infants and Children Farm Direct Nutrition Program.
Modifies percentage of amounts school districts must pay from State School Fund to public charter schools that are not virtual public charter schools.
Establishes task force to study essential indigenous anadromous salmonid habitat and its relationship to ditches and other man-made water conveyance channels.
Directs Department of Corrections to enter into contracts with nonprofit entities to create program to assist children of incarcerated parents.
In committee · 19
Requires law enforcement agency to establish policies and procedures for retaining recordings from cameras worn upon police officer's person to record officer's interactions with members of public.
Eliminates sunset date of homestead property tax deferral program.
Provides that Oregon estate tax is not due unless value of Oregon taxable estate equals or exceeds $5 million.
Reduces required age for concealed handgun license applicant to 18 years of age if applicant is servicemember.
Increases ceiling amount of total assessed value of taxable personal property for purposes of exemption from property taxation.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Education for State School Fund.
Requires that candidate for state Senate or state Representative receive majority of votes cast in general election to be elected.
Creates income tax credit for certain employers that provide paid sick leave, with restrictions.
Creates income tax credit for certain employers that provide paid family leave, with restrictions.
Increases amount of working family child care credit by doubling applicable percentage of taxpayer's child care expenses allowed as credit.
Requires human fetuses in infectious waste stream to be incinerated, cremated or buried.
Authorizes Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington Counties each to designate one large-lot industrial reserve of 150 to 500 acres.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Human Services for deposit in Oregon Project Independence Fund.
Creates Oregon highway expansion project.
Directs Department of Transportation to open field offices to public on Saturdays.
Exempts prior converted croplands from definition of "waters of this state" for purposes of removal fill program.
Allows court to award attorney fees to prevailing party in action to acquire fee simple title to real property by adverse possession in which adverse possessor is not prevailing party.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to operate 24-hour nurse advice hotline for Oregon residents beginning January 1, 2016.
Changes method by which surplus "kicker" refunds are made to personal income taxpayers from tax credit to refund payment.