Bills in the 2011 Regular Session, House.
Cliff Bentz
Sponsored
Passed the House1
Provides that State Department of Agriculture water quality management plans and supporting rules and programs of department are exclusive public body means to protect and improve water quality through agricultural activity regulations regarding nonpoint sources of pollution on lands located outside urban growth boundary.
In committee5
Directs Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to develop criteria and process for identifying and expediting major civil actions.
Requires state agencies that own motor vehicles to acquire only motor vehicles that use natural gas as fuel and to convert state-owned motor vehicles to motor vehicles that use natural gas as fuel.
Requires court to declare administrative rule invalid if rule is arbitrary, capricious or abuse of discretion by agency.
Requires that condemner seeking part of lot or parcel for purpose of electrical transmission line, or seeking easement for purpose of electrical transmission line, must offer owner of land, in lieu of lump sum payment, option of 30-year lease of condemned property with title to vest in condemner at end of lease period.
Requires Director of the State Department of Energy to promote use of compressed natural gas.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Designates February 24 of each year as Edward Dickinson Baker Day in Oregon.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 10
Allows county with population of 400,000 or less to offer law library services in lieu of acquiring, maintaining or operating law library.
Directs State Department of Energy to establish clean energy deployment program to provide grants and loans to support energy efficiency or clean energy projects, including projects to weatherize, upgrade or retrofit public schools.
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.
Directs State Department of Agriculture to establish and implement wolf depredation compensation and financial assistance grant program for purposes of compensating persons who suffer loss or injury to livestock or working dogs due to wolf depredation and providing financial assistance to persons who implement livestock management techniques or nonlethal wolf deterrence techniques designed to discourage wolf depredation of livestock.
Requires Department of Environmental Quality to consult with applicant regarding Federal Water Pollution Control Act variances in order to seek to minimize negative economic impacts of variances.
Requires person who submits death certificate after decedent's death was caused by suicide to make reasonable efforts to ascertain and to notify Center for Health Statistics whether decedent was veteran, whether decedent served in combat and where decedent served if decedent served in combat.
Directs Adjutant General to form commission to develop and name medal to honor fallen military members from Oregon.
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.
Establishes process through which person may obtain reservation through city or county to conduct funeral service on public property.
Provides that person may take gray wolf in certain situations.
Removes ambulance services from list of fee schedules used to calculate provider charges for personal injury protection benefits.
Out of committee · 1
Authorizes Oregon Medical Board to issue certificates of prescriptive authority to certain licensed psychologists who meet specified requirements.
In committee · 28
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.
Permits person to use mobile communication device while operating motor vehicle in frontier counties.
Eliminates requirement that Water Resources Commission repeal certain rules regarding ground water mitigation in Deschutes Basin ground water study area.
Modifies unallocated reserve account requirements for self-insurance program established by three or more public bodies.
Provides affirmative defense to crime of unlawful possession of firearm for state and federal corrections officers.
Requires that certain agreements for acquisition of real property by condemner contain provision relating to repurchase of property in event property is not used for public purpose.
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.
Modifies requirement for establishing winery on land zoned for exclusive farm use.
Allows certain districts to offer benefit plans other than benefit plans provided by Oregon Educators Benefit Board.
Directs Office of Emergency Management and State Parks and Recreation Department jointly to develop State Emergency Preparedness Parks System.
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.
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.
Authorizes Department of Corrections to enter into contracts or arrangements with private entities for confinement and detention in Oregon of persons sentenced to legal and physical custody of department.
Prohibits abortion unless physician has first determined probable post-fertilization age of unborn child, except in case of medical emergency.
Prohibits pharmacist from dispensing drug that is not therapeutically equivalent to drug ordered or prescribed unless prescriber and patient have consented in writing.
Directs State Fish and Wildlife Commission to update Oregon Wolf Conservation and Management Plan to establish population objective of four breeding pairs of gray wolves for state.
Allows person to take gray wolf in certain situations without cause and without permit from State Fish and Wildlife Commission.
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.
Prohibits retail store that sells tobacco from operating powered machine that rolls cigarettes or allowing customer to operate powered machine that rolls cigarettes.
Removes requirement for State Department of Agriculture to monitor ethanol fuel production and issue notice when ethanol production reaches specified level.
Expands definition of "farm use" to include facilities for training dogs in canine skills on land zoned for exclusive farm use.
Modifies provisions of Oregon Medical Marijuana Act.
Requires Oregon Health Authority, Department of Human Services and Department of Consumer and Business Services to report to Legislative Assembly on steps taken to streamline regulatory requirements in specified areas and reduce administrative burdens on persons contracting with or regulated by authority and departments.
Establishes alternative methods for telecommunications provider to satisfy requirement to collect and remit tax on customer access to 9-1-1 emergency reporting system from prepaid telecommunications service customers.
Extends time during which certain less restrictive qualifications apply to counties in which businesses seek development income tax exemption.