Bills in the 2007 Regular Session, House.
Phil Barnhart
Sponsored
Out of committee3
Modifies priority of lands to be included within urban growth boundaries.
Creates Oregon Military Family Relief Program in Oregon Military Department.
Authorizes State Board of Psychologist Examiners to issue certificate of prescriptive authority to certain licensed psychologists.
In committee13
Gives preference in state contracts for procurement of aggregate, sand, gravel or rocks obtained from land that is not in floodplain or composed of soils in Class I to IV. .
Establishes bill of rights for telecommunications consumers.
Converts State Board of Psychologist Examiners to semi-independent state agency.
Requires county board, or local boundary commission, to approve petition of electors for all or substantial portion of incorporated area of City of Creswell to withdraw from district that provides fire protection.
Establishes Genetically Modified Organisms Advisory Committee within State Department of Agriculture.
Allows member of Legislative Assembly to solemnize marriage.
Requires Board of Medical Examiners for State of Oregon to publish and provide to Legislative Assembly annual report of professional negligence claims made against licensees of board.
Prohibits smoking within 75 feet of air intake to public place or place of employment.
Makes parent's ability to maintain smoke-free environment factor for determining custody of minor child.
Increases limit on fees imposed by local government for implementing local community right to know regulatory program.
Excludes chiropractic from practice of physical therapy.
Prohibits smoking in certain places where children are present.
Modifies definition of 9-1-1 jurisdiction.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Abolishes local government boundary commission having jurisdiction in Lane County and Lane County Local Government Boundary Commission Fund.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 20
Changes definition of "small employer" by increasing maximum number of eligible employees from 25 to 50.
Creates Medically Involved Home-Care Program in Department of Human Services.
Provides statute of limitations for injury or death resulting from use of medication that is intended to inhibit enzyme known as cyclooxygenase-2.
Establishes Oregon Health Care Acquired Infection Reporting Program.
Increases number of directors appointed to State Board of Higher Education.
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.
Increases length of time ignition interlock device must be installed and used by person convicted of driving under influence.
Imposes $10 fee for filing of petitions for marital annulment, dissolution or separation, and for filing of responses to petitions for marital annulment, dissolution or separation.
Abolishes Environmental Quality Information Account and transfers funds in account to Passenger Rail Transportation Account to be used for passenger rail programs.
Directs county clerk to conduct hand count of sample of ballots counted by each vote tally system in county at each general election.
Modifies procedures involved in child abuse investigations.
Modifies conditions under which individual may be eligible for unemployment insurance benefits when individual is unemployed due to lockout resulting from labor dispute.
Adds fees for requests for preliminary certification of reforestation projects by State Forester to costs included in project costs for purposes of income tax credit for reforestation projects.
Provides that manufacturer of roll-your-own tobacco must make escrow payments in same manner as manufacturers of cigarettes for purpose of providing source for payment of certain judgments and settlements on claims against manufacturer.
Removes prohibition against imposing assessments on annuities to pay expenses of Department of Consumer and Business Services in administering Insurance Code.
Authorizes creation of affordable housing covenant restricting price, rental rate or occupancy to ensure adequate supply of rental and owner-occupied affordable housing for low or moderate income households.
Creates crime of online sexual corruption of child in second degree.
Passed the House · 8
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.
Creates Task Force on School Computers.
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.
Creates Task Force on Coordination of Behavioral Science Research.
Defines "veteran" for purposes of statutes relating to Department of Veterans' Affairs.
Creates Task Force on Oregon's Hybrid Poplar Industry.
Directs State Fish and Wildlife Commission to name Fall Creek hatchery research center Lindsay Ball Research Hatchery.
Out of committee · 18
Directs Secretary of State to conduct performance and program audits on tax expenditures.
Expands definition of categorically needy persons eligible for medical assistance to include children with disabilities .
Expands prohibition of smoking in public places and places of employment.
Prohibits public agencies from entering into public works contracts for which contract price exceeds $750,000 unless public agency verifies that every employer under contract is approved apprenticeship training agent unless local joint committee or apprenticeship training program for apprenticeable occupations used by employer does not exist in state.
Prohibits pharmaceutical manufacturing companies from providing certain gifts in conjunction with marketing of prescription drugs.
Establishes Human Stem Cell Research Committee in Department of Human Services.
Prohibits open field burning, stack burning, pile burning and propane flaming.
Appropriates moneys from ___ to Economic and Community Development Department for purpose of assisting development of targeted small businesses and microenterprises.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to City of Eugene for security costs of 2008 Olympic Track and Field Trials.
Directs State Parks and Recreation Department to enhance Eugene-Springfield Willamette River corridor in preparation for 2008 Olympic Track and Field Trials.
Establishes principal residence property tax exemption from local option property taxes for dwelling units of senior citizens and persons with disabilities.
Makes findings concerning use of Oregon workers to perform services contracted for by state agencies.
Directs State Department of Agriculture to consult with Department of Education for purpose of helping Department of Education develop Farm-to-School program.
Allows members of Oregon National Guard to enroll in specified classes at state institution of higher education or community college at no cost.
Allows Department of Education to establish program to provide mentoring and resources that help students access education and training beyond high school.
Establishes Task Force on Mental Retardation in Capital Cases.
Limits authority of city to condemn property outside urban growth boundary of city.
Directs Department of Education to establish farm-to-school program.
In committee · 34
Permits all individuals who are residents of state and all public and private entities to participate in Oregon Prescription Drug Program.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Education for Oregon prekindergarten program.
Creates Task Force on Open Source Adoption.
Requires pharmaceutical manufacturing companies to annually disclose to Department of Justice certain economic benefits provided in conjunction with marketing of prescription drugs.
Extends period for which long term care facility assessment is imposed.
Creates crime of unauthorized trading in telephone records.
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.
Creates Oregon Workforce Innovation Council.
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.
Provides patient freedom of choice of health care physician and primary care physician from among at least 50 percent of all health care physicians in each geographic service area providing medical, dental, foot or vision care.
Requires contractors submitting bids or proposals on state public contracts to certify where services would be performed.
Modifies requirements for employer safety committees.
Requires Public Employees Retirement Board to allow retired members and beneficiaries to make voluntary monthly contributions to labor organizations.
Gives tenants' association, facility purchase association or tenants' association supported nonprofit organization 14-day right of first refusal for offer or agreement by landlord to sell facility.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Housing and Community Services Department for biennial expenses related to financing of manufactured dwelling park purchases by or on behalf of tenants with low incomes.
Establishes payment obligation for facility landlord closing manufactured dwelling park or portion of park.
Requires health benefit plans to provide coverage of human papillomavirus vaccine for female beneficiaries who are 11 years of age and older.
Provides that urban renewal agencies may include affordable housing projects in urban renewal plans.
Allocates lottery funds to Department of Transportation for biennium beginning July 1, 2007, for specified purposes.
Requires insurer to offer policy of group health insurance to chamber of commerce that satisfies requirements of association.
Directs elected officials and state agencies who provide electronic information to public to provide notice of any electronic tracking feature embedded in electronic communication.
Establishes Board of Trustees of Oregon State School for the Deaf.
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.
Extends time for tenants' association or facility purchase association to respond to notice that facility owner is offering or considering sale of facility.
Requires certain conditions for approval of reclamation plan for surface mining operation.
Restricts amount of alluvial rock mined in Oregon that Department of Transportation may select for use in construction, maintenance and operation of state highways.
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 mortgage or trust deed lender to prorate prepayment privilege penalty for prepayments made after first year of loan agreement.
Creates Task Force on Civics Education.