Bills in the 2007 Regular Session, House.
Mitch Greenlick
Sponsored
Became law5
Declares legislative findings regarding outdoor lighting fixtures.
Establishes process by which county or city may validate and owner may record established unit of land if unit was unlawfully created by previous owner on or before January 1, 2007.
Modifies definition of "dental hygiene." Modifies educational requirements for obtaining permit as limited access permit dental hygienist.
Directs county clerk to conduct hand count of sample of ballots counted by each vote tally system in county at each general election.
Requires Administrator of Office for Oregon Health Policy and Research to establish community benefit reporting system for hospitals operating in Oregon, produce report of data received and provide report to Governor and members of Legislative Assembly.
Passed the House3
Creates Task Force on Extending Washington County Commuter Rail to Salem.
Requires covered entities to report annually on system safeguards for protecting confidentiality of individually identifiable health information.
Creates Task Force on Coordination of Behavioral Science Research.
Out of committee7
Allows person who is retired under Public Employees Retirement System to be employed full-time by public employer as nurse or nurse instructor without loss of retirement benefits.
Prohibits pharmaceutical manufacturing companies from providing certain gifts in conjunction with marketing of prescription drugs.
Increases fuel tax and motor carrier taxes.
Requires Land Conservation and Development Commission to review and consider Forest Park for possible designation as area of critical state concern.
Establishes Portland State University as public corporation under control of Portland Metropolitan Universities Board of Directors.
Requires inspection by Department of Human Services of ambulatory surgical centers.
Creates Health Insurance Exchange Corporation for purpose of providing greater choice of, greater access to, greater portability of and better quality health insurance products.
In committee11
Requires funding request by Oregon Health and Science University to include information on cost of educating students at university and percentage of cost provided by state.
Adds additional public facilities and assets to list of capital improvements for which local government unit may assess and collect system development charges.
Directs Governor to appoint Drug Policy Coordinator.
Modifies requirements and procedure for city to annex territory surrounded by city.
Allows Department of Human Services to provide grants to nonprofit organizations for alcohol and drug abuse prevention and treatment.
Establishes task force to study feasibility of State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation providing medical malpractice insurance in Oregon.
Decreases transit system fee for persons over 65 years of age.
Authorizes Director of Human Services, in consultation with Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services, to provide grants of up to $500,000 to nonprofit organizations to improve access to health care by low-income persons.
Deletes requirement that signatures on statement of sponsorship accompanying initiative prospective petition and on state initiative and referendum petitions be verified by county clerks.
Allocates lottery funds to Department of Transportation for biennium beginning July 1, 2007, for specified purposes.
Requires representation of federally qualified health centers on Medicaid Advisory Committee and Oregon Health Policy Commission.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Creates Oregon Healthy Kids Program, which includes private health option to provide affordable, accessible health care to children.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 22
Creates Medically Involved Home-Care Program in Department of Human Services.
Expands purposes for which employee taking family leave may use paid sick leave.
Extends exemption from Construction Contractors Board licensing to owner who contracts with one or more licensed contractors to perform work on not more than three existing residential structures of owner within same calendar year.
Prohibits person from selling gift card that expires or has face value that declines over time or with lack of use.
Establishes Oregon Health Care Acquired Infection Reporting Program.
Increases number of directors appointed to State Board of Higher Education.
Allows eligible employee to take family leave from work to care for grandparent or grandchild.
Specifies minimum standards for food and beverages sold in public schools.
Requires employer to pay over, in accordance with law or agreement requiring or authorizing deductions from wages, amounts deducted from employee's wages.
Requires prescription drug benefit program, or prescription drug benefit offered under health benefit plan or under student health insurance policy, to include coverage of contraception.
Directs Governor to assign state agency responsibility for developing plan to ensure that written documents produced by executive department agencies conform to plain language standards.
Allows Oregon Student Assistance Commission to establish programs to provide mentoring and resources that help students access education and training beyond high school.
Modifies requirements and procedure for city to annex territory surrounded by city.
Requires training in mental illness recognition prior to obtaining certification as police officer.
Allows state institution of higher education to award honorary post-secondary degree to person ordered to internment camp if certain qualifications are met.
Creates crime of furnishing sexually explicit material to child.
Requires Employment Relations Board, unless petition for representation election is filed, to certify labor organization as exclusive representative of employees if board finds that majority of employees in unit appropriate for bargaining have signed authorizations designating labor organization specified in petition as employees' bargaining representative and that no other labor organization is currently certified or recognized as exclusive representative of employees in unit.
Abolishes Environmental Quality Information Account and transfers funds in account to Passenger Rail Transportation Account to be used for passenger rail programs.
Promotes informed choice in delivery of in-home care services.
Prohibits city or district from commencing annexation proceedings for part of area included within boundaries of area proposed for incorporation in petition for incorporation.
Modifies conditions under which individual may be eligible for unemployment insurance benefits when individual is unemployed due to lockout resulting from labor dispute.
Directs Department of Human Services to develop plan to start to slow rate of diabetes by 2010.
Passed the House · 8
Requires individual or group climbing above 10,000 feet on Mount Hood during five-month period to carry two-way, electronic communication device and electronic locator device.
Prohibits former member of Legislative Assembly from being compensated lobbyist during period beginning on date person ceases being member and ending on date of adjournment sine die of next regular legislative session.
Establishes state policy that state-funded research benefiting private enterprise must encourage economic development and job creation in Oregon.
Prohibits use of state funds to assist, promote or deter union organizing.
Prohibits employer from requiring employee to attend meeting or participate in communication concerning employer's opinion about religious or political matters.
Establishes Task Force on Anatomical Gift Donation.
Requires Department of Human Services to prepare and submit to Legislative Assembly annual report containing list of employers with employees receiving public assistance, including food stamp benefits.
Directs State Fish and Wildlife Commission to name Fall Creek hatchery research center Lindsay Ball Research Hatchery.
Out of committee · 13
Expands definition of categorically needy persons eligible for medical assistance to include children with disabilities .
Imposes malt beverage cost recovery fee on malt beverages.
Expands prohibition of smoking in public places and places of employment.
Authorizes State Board of Psychologist Examiners to issue certificate of prescriptive authority to certain licensed psychologists.
Establishes Human Stem Cell Research Committee in Department of Human Services.
Requires Department of Human Services and local public health authorities to compile Kids' Network List of medical providers available in each county to provide primary care services to children.
Directs Department of Transportation to erect and maintain roadside memorial sign for pedestrian or bicyclist killed in motor vehicle accident, upon application by immediate family member.
Authorizes issuance of lottery bonds to finance public parking facility in downtown area of City of Hillsboro.
Instructs Department of Transportation to provide applicant for driver license or identification card with information about state policy and benefits of anatomical gifts.
Establishes Task Force on Mental Retardation in Capital Cases.
Allows retired member who is employed by Legislative Assembly or Oregon State Police for purpose of service during regular or special session of Legislative Assembly to be employed for all or any part of session without affecting status of person as retired member.
Directs Oregon Liquor Control Commission to transfer amount equal to five percent of gross revenues derived from sales of distilled liquor by bottle to Oregon Criminal Justice Commission Account.
Creates Oregon Healthy Kids Program, which includes private health option to provide health care coverage to children.
In committee · 43
Permits all individuals who are residents of state and all public and private entities to participate in Oregon Prescription Drug Program.
Authorizes school district to establish impact fee on creation of new residential dwelling.
Requires pharmaceutical manufacturing companies to annually disclose to Department of Justice certain economic benefits provided in conjunction with marketing of prescription drugs.
Adds schools and classrooms providing kindergarten through grade 12 education to definition of "capital improvements" for which system development charges may be imposed.
Extends period for which long term care facility assessment is imposed.
Prohibits use of person's facsimile machine without person's actual or implied consent if use causes person expense related to use or loss of use of facsimile machine, except under certain circumstances.
Specifies percentage of undergraduate courses to be taught by full-time tenured and tenure-track faculty at public institutions of higher education.
Limits television advertising by Oregon State Lottery to promoting introduction of new games.
Allows tax credit to individual who owns and occupies manufactured dwelling as primary residence and who ends tenancy in manufactured dwelling park as result of closing of park or portion of park.
Directs State Board of Education to establish system to assess financial management practices of school districts and education service districts.
Prohibits telecommunications utility from charging customer for telecommunications service after service is canceled.
Allows Commissioner of Bureau of Labor and Industries to adopt rules permitting overtime pay for work after eight hours in one day or, when employer has adopted alternative workweek schedule that authorizes employee to work 10 hours per day within 40-hour workweek, after 10 hours in one day.
Requires Department of Education to advise school guidance counselors on techniques and tools for informing high school students of educational opportunities.
Considers certain students to be residents for purpose of determining tuition and fees at state institutions of higher education.
Removes individuals who are performing services in other than instructional, research or principal administrative capacity at certain educational institutions from disqualification for receipt of unemployment insurance benefits during certain periods.
Increases tax on malt beverages, wines and cider.
Adds sheriff services to types of services that can be provided by county service districts.
Directs State Parks and Recreation Commission to authorize use of day use fee areas without charge by persons 65 years of age or older who have resided in state for not less than 50 years.
Makes legislative findings on effects of international outsourcing of jobs.
Requires person working at call center and making or receiving telephone communications to disclose location of call center and, upon request, name of person who has contracted to use services of call center.
Directs Department of Transportation to design and issue registration plate that grants parking privileges to qualifying person with disability.
Directs State Parks and Recreation Commission to allow free use of day use fee areas by persons 60 years of age or older and persons with disabilities.
Requires long term care facilities to serve meals that address nutritional needs of residents.
Modifies required findings for Territorial Sea Plan or amendments to Territorial Sea Plan or Oregon Ocean Resources Management Plan.
Requires contractors submitting bids or proposals on state public contracts to certify where services would be performed.
Allows Department of Transportation to waive issuance, renewal or replacement fee of identification card for indigent person.
Authorizes Department of Land Conservation and Development and Economic and Community Development Department to provide assistance, including grants, loans, model ordinances and technical assistance, to persons planning and preparing for possible incorporation or consolidation of area into new city.
Provides that urban renewal agencies may include affordable housing projects in urban renewal plans.
Requires vacancies in election or office of state Senator or state Representative occurring within one year after general election at which person was elected to be filled at special election.
Requires corporate income and excise taxpayers that receive certain tax-deferred financing income from foreign corporations for federal tax purposes to add that amount of income back to federal taxable income for Oregon tax purposes.
Limits newly erected, constructed or installed pollution control facilities that qualify for tax credit to those facilities that meet certain standards above those required by law or are entirely voluntary and not otherwise required by law.
Establishes requirements for telephone directories.
Establishes acuity-based patient classification system for certain health care facilities.
Increases tax on malt beverages over five-year period.
Allows taxpayer to elect to defer payment of increased property taxes attributable to annexation of property by city.
Eliminates tax deductions, subtractions or credits that may be claimed against taxes by corporations that decrease employment in Oregon and increase employment in countries outside of United States.
Changes title of "precinct committeeperson" to "precinct representative.".
Allows school districts to aggregate districts' energy requirements for purchase and delivery of utility services as one entity to qualify for lower industrial rates.
Requires that warranty for materials used in residential construction include coverage for reasonable cost of labor to replace defective materials.
Creates Task Force on Civics Education.
Establishes Real Health Care for Kids Act.
Sets procedure for statewide special election on House Bill 3558 (2007).
Clarifies language authorizing city or district to require consent to eventual annexation in exchange for providing extraterritorial service to landowner.