Bills in the 2009 Regular Session, House.
Mitch Greenlick
Sponsored
Became law9
Directs Department of Transportation to make report regarding capacity, availability and efficiency of rail transportation in Oregon.
Broadens category of health care professionals who may use certain titles.
Creates Work Group on Prescriptive Authority for Licensed Psychologists for purposes related to psychologists prescribing medications.
Establishes way of necessity for private sewer lines.
Permits certain health professional regulatory boards to adopt rules that permit practitioners to prescribe or dispense antibiotic drugs to partners of patient without examining partner for treatment of sexually transmitted diseases.
Annexes territory within urban growth boundary to metropolitan service district by operation of law.
Requires public institutions of higher education to interview qualified minority candidate when hiring head coach or athletic director unless institution was unable to identify qualified minority candidate willing to interview for position.
Changes calculation of capitation rates for fully capitated health plans that do not have contract with hospital to provide inpatient or outpatient hospital services under specified statutory provisions.
Requires public electric utility that supplies customer with outdoor lighting fixtures to provide customer option of using shielded outdoor lighting fixtures.
Passed the House3
Exempts employee areas from standards for food and beverages sold in schools.
Directs Governor to appoint to Oregon Health and Science University Board of Directors member who has experience in representing interests of employees.
Requires covered entities to report annually on system safeguards for protecting confidentiality of individually identifiable health information.
Out of committee5
Requires drug manufacturers to file with State Board of Pharmacy annual report listing compensation given or paid to physicians and nurse practitioners.
Requires state funding for graduate medical education to be used for training primary care medical residents.
Establishes medical education loan program for new primary care physicians in Oregon.
Establishes Commission on Health Care Infrastructure in Department of Human Services.
Revises certificate of need process.
In committee21
Authorizes election of board of directors from within district for service district formed to serve unincorporated community or unincorporated area.
Requires Land Conservation and Development Commission to review and consider Forest Park for possible designation as area of critical state concern.
Requires Personnel Division of Oregon Department of Administrative Services to adopt rules prohibiting smoking on state property and in places of employment operated by state.
Directs Governor to appoint Drug Policy Coordinator.
Allows Department of Human Services to provide grants to nonprofit organizations for treatment of persons with alcoholism and drug dependence.
Requires curricula in kindergarten through grade 12 related to health or performing arts to include instruction about noise and effects of noise on hearing, health and learning.
Increases fuel tax and motor carrier taxes.
Creates Drug Take Back Program in State Board of Pharmacy.
Decreases transit system fee for elderly persons or persons with disabilities if transit district receives moneys from Elderly and Disabled Special Transportation Fund.
Creates Task Force on Coordination of Behavioral Science Research.
Establishes Portland State University as public corporation under control of Portland Metropolitan Universities Board of Directors.
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.
Clarifies responsibility of Department of Human Services relating to drinking water.
Establishes program to certify persons as school social workers.
Creates task force to study transportation of hazardous material by rail.
Requires Department of Consumer and Business Services to establish protocols for post-sale monitoring of products by manufacturers for purpose of identifying defects and dangers associated with products.
Authorizes counties to regulate, license and inspect health clubs.
Requires Department of Human Services to use Oregon Prescription Drug Program to purchase drugs for medical assistance recipients if cost-effective.
Establishes greenhouse gas emissions reductions for cars and light trucks.
Requires five percent reduction in amount of allowable income tax subtractions and credits that are not required under federal law or Oregon Constitution.
Creates Task Force on One Local Government to study consolidation of local government entities.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 26
Requires state institutions of higher education and community colleges to waive tuition for any course audited by Oregon residents 65 years of age or older in specified circumstances.
Requires Oregon Medical Board, on or before January 1, 2010, to implement expedited physician licensing process for purpose of issuing licenses by endorsement to qualified physicians.
Exempts from definition of "gift," for purposes of ethics laws, specified program material, specified expenses for attendance at conference and reasonable expenses paid to public school employee for accompanying students on educational trip.
Creates Charitable Prescription Drug Program in State Board of Pharmacy for purpose of distributing donated prescription drugs to needy or uninsured individuals.
Allows certain veterans with honorable discharges to pay tuition and fees at discounted rates.
Requires tower who tows vehicle at request of owner of parking facility to take and maintain photograph of vehicle.
Allows Department of Education to award grants for school library programs.
Requires health benefit plans to provide coverage for hearing aids for enrollees under 18 years of age and enrollees eligible as dependents who are enrolled in accredited educational institution.
Requires transient lodging facilities with 175 or more units to provide lift system for persons with disabilities to access bed, toilet and shower or bath.
Authorizes Department of Corrections to grant 60-day reduction in term of incarceration to inmates who successfully complete educational program.
Authorizes Department of Environmental Quality to board and inspect certain vessels and to collect ballast water samples.
Creates work group on maternal mental health disorders within Department of Human Services.
Prohibits person from intentionally selling or using software to circumvent, thwart, interfere with or evade any control or measure that ensures equitable distribution, sale or resale of admission tickets for entertainment event.
Requires chain restaurant to make certain nutritional information regarding menu items offered by restaurant available to customers.
Requires Department of Consumer and Business Services to conduct study of options available for utilizing reinsurance and other mechanisms for spreading risk in individual and small employer group health insurance markets and submit report to Legislative Assembly by December 1, 2010.
Requires health benefit plans to provide coverage of human papillomavirus vaccine for female beneficiaries who are at least 11 years of age but no older than 26 years of age.
Establishes Interagency Compliance Network.
Directs Secretary of State to designate organizations to establish citizen panels to review and create statements on specified number of initiated state measures.
Reduces size of identifying hydrologic unit to be used when reporting pesticide use.
Allows Department of Education to establish pilot project for purpose of assisting federal Head Start program providers located in Oregon with adopting and implementing health literacy program.
Changes sunset date on conditional exemption from disclosure of public records that set forth name, home address or professional location of person engaged in, or providing goods and services for, medical research at Oregon Health and Science University that is conducted on animals other than rodents.
Extends period of time during which eligible individual may receive work benefits under shared work plan.
Transfers, credits or allocates certain moneys from specified funds and accounts to other specified funds, accounts or agencies to be used for specified purposes.
Requires clinical laboratory to release results of test to patient upon receiving authorization from doctor, dentist or person who requested test.
Requires Department of Human Services to report to appropriate interim committees of Legislative Assembly on feasibility of implementation of system for reimbursement for health care delivered through primary care homes in Medicaid program.
Modifies definition of "child care facility" and creates definitions for "preschool recorded program" and "record" for purposes related to regulation of child care facilities.
Passed the House · 6
Requires certain manufacturers of pharmaceuticals and other medical products to report annually to Department of Justice any payment or other transfer of value that manufacturer provides to certain recipients of those pharmaceuticals and products.
Creates offense of smoking in motor vehicle while person under age of 17 is in motor vehicle.
Prohibits use, exploding or causing explosion of firework items within limits of city having population of 300,000 or more except during specified yearly period.
Removes prohibition against local government imposition of taxes on cigarettes and tobacco products.
Creates offense of unlawful disposition of tobacco product.
Prohibits covered employer from requiring eligible employee to use accrued vacation leave when taking family leave.
Out of committee · 9
Establishes Oregon traumatic brain injury strategic partnership advisory council and specifies duties.
Creates Human Stem Cell Research Committee in Department of Human Services.
Defines "economically distressed worker training" and "eligible economically distressed workers" for purposes of unemployment insurance benefits.
Allocates moneys from Administrative Services Economic Development Fund to Oregon Innovation Council for deposit in Oregon Innovation Fund for specified purposes.
Establishes Next Generation Fund.
Directs Department of Education to provide reimbursements to school districts that serve Oregon food products as part of United States Department of Agriculture's National School Lunch Program or School Breakfast Program.
Requires insurer offering health insurance to give 45 days' advance written notice of increase in rates or of nonrenewal.
Requires health insurers and state medical assistance program to reimburse for diagnosis and treatment of autism spectrum disorder.
Approves recommendation of Land Conservation and Development Commission by designating area identified by commission recommendation as area of critical state concern.
In committee · 52
Specifies amount of income from Common School Fund that Department of State Lands must transfer each calendar year to Superintendent of Public Instruction for apportionment among counties and school districts.
Establishes certain requirements before applicant seeking to construct liquefied natural gas terminal or related pipeline may be issued specified permits and authorizations.
Requires health benefit plan to cover drug containing pseudoephedrine for allergy symptoms if plan covers prescription drugs for allergy symptoms.
Directs Department of Human Services to take steps to maximize enrollment of children in state medical assistance program.
Requires scrap metal business to create and maintain certain records of purchase or receipt of metal property or other transactions related to metal property.
Creates Task Force on Public Guardianships for Vulnerable Adults.
Prohibits person of any age from operating motor vehicle while using mobile communication device for purpose of receiving or transmitting text communication.
Requires agencies of executive department to take certain actions to protect environment.
Requires use of headlights when windshield wipers are on.
Denies public assistance to fleeing felons, Class A or B misdemeanants or probation, parole or post-prison supervision violators who are actively sought by law enforcement authorities.
Requires Department of Human Services, in determining income available for costs of care for applicant for or recipient of Oregon Supplemental Income Program medical assistance, to disregard income paid by applicant or recipient for child or spousal support.
Limits service of Oregon National Guard to State of Oregon under certain circumstances.
Establishes Oregon Scholars Program.
Provides for constitutional convention in 2011.
Authorizes moneys available for access and habitat programs to be expended on programs that promote access to public and private lands through acquisition of lands or through acquisition of easements.
Allows tenant to place political signs anywhere on space owned or leased by tenant.
Authorizes governing body of county to establish moratorium on tree cutting in residential or commercial areas while governing body considers proposed ordinance limiting or prohibiting tree cutting in area.
Reduces sentences of persons committed to custody of Department of Corrections by one percent.
Prohibits use, sale, transfer or exchange for value, for commercial purposes, of prescription drug information that identifies prescriber or subject of prescription drug order.
Changes percentage of federal earned income credit allowable as credit against Oregon personal income tax.
Directs Department of Transportation to design and issue registration plate that grants parking privileges to qualifying person with disability.
Requires addition to taxable income for Oregon tax purposes of amounts attributable to controlled foreign corporations and excluded from federal taxable income because of operation of certain federal law.
Clarifies language authorizing city or district to require consent to eventual annexation in exchange for providing extraterritorial service to landowner.
Establishes Initiative Petition Review Committee as joint committee of Legislative Assembly.
Directs State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation to develop recommended state medical malpractice insurance program to be administered by corporation.
Adds state and federal tax identification numbers to personal information subject to provisions of Oregon Consumer Identity Theft Protection Act.
Allows taxpayer to elect to defer payment of increased property taxes attributable to annexation of property by city.
Allows Department of Transportation to issue group registration plate for group that promotes prevention of wildfires.
Directs Department of Corrections to determine residency status of inmates in custody of department for purposes of legislative and congressional redistricting.
Establishes foster parents as public employees for purposes of labor organization activities.
Creates Health Coverage Purchasing Program in Office of Private Health Partnerships.
Requires Department of Environmental Quality to develop and implement procedures to analyze water samples collected and submitted to the department for presence of cyanotoxins.
Increases minimum age for tobacco possession from 18 years to 21 years.
Requires Department of Human Services to prepare and submit to Legislative Assembly annual report containing list of employers with employees receiving public assistance, including supplemental nutrition assistance program benefits.
Requires cities to provide urban services to territories approved for annexation within three years of date of proclamation.
Creates Oregon Commission on Autism Spectrum Disorder and requires commission to provide strategic plan to legislature.
Directs State Parks and Recreation Commission to allow free use of day use fee areas by persons with disabilities.
Directs Department of Human Services and Department of Education to develop strategic plan to improve transition from high school to adult living for persons with autism spectrum disorder.
Grants recipient of unemployment insurance benefits $25 weekly allowance for each dependent child living in household.
Establishes Insurance Rate Review Board in Department of Consumer and Business Services.
Increases registration fees for certain vehicles.
Creates Family Leave Benefits Insurance Program to provide benefits to employees taking family leave.
Requires addition to taxable income for Oregon tax purposes of amounts excluded from federal taxable income as fringe benefit available for users of qualified parking but not to users of commuter highway vehicle or transit passes, because of operation of certain federal law.
Directs Department of Revenue to prepare and mail to taxpayers "Oregon Annual Review," describing how state has spent tax revenues in preceding calendar year.
Authorizes Office for Oregon Health Policy and Research to require reporting of health care information from health insurers, third party administrators and other specified entities.
Requires use of safe food practice point system for determining sanitation score of restaurant or bed and breakfast facility.
Increases personal income tax rate on individual taxpayers with taxable income above $250,000, or above $500,000 if married filing jointly.
Directs Department of Human Services to establish and operate marijuana production facility and distribute marijuana to pharmacies for dispensing to medical marijuana cardholders and designated primary caregivers.
Prohibits commencement of civil action against health care provider until after submission of health care claim to medical legal panel.
Authorizes board of elections officials to enhance or duplicate ballot for purposes of counting ballot by vote tally machine.
Initiates Oregon Community Power activation to acquire Portland General Electric Company.
Establishes Election Day as legal holiday in Oregon.