Bills in the 2011 Regular Session, House.
Sal Esquivel
Sponsored
Became law5
Authorizes county clerk to record instruments presented as electronic image or by electronic means, including recordings made before effective date of Act.
Requires district school board to adopt attendance notification policy.
Requires public employer to interview each veteran who applies for civil service position or eligibility list and who has obtained through military education or experience skills that substantially relate to civil service position.
Establishes Task Force on Military Families.
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.
Passed the House1
Requires State Fish and Wildlife Commission and State Department of Fish and Wildlife to advise, consult and cooperate with other state agencies, political subdivisions, other states, the federal government and private landowners regarding fish and wildlife management.
Out of committee2
Creates Oregon Veterans' Business Enterprise Program.
Increases tax credit for health care providers who provide services under TRICARE contract.
In committee18
Requires that medical assistance be provided to individuals who qualify for Social Security disability benefits but do not receive Medicare coverage due to five-month waiting period for Social Security disability benefits or 24-month waiting period for Medicare.
Requires that single appropriation or expenditure limitation in excess of $5 million be contained in separate bill and voted upon separately from other appropriations or limitations exceeding $5 million in committee and on floor of each house of Legislative Assembly.
Modifies provisions of Oregon Medical Marijuana Act.
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.
Requires sergeants employed by Oregon State Police to be paid overtime in accordance with overtime provisions of federal Fair Labor Standards Act.
Requires Department of Human Services to file petition to terminate parental rights when court has placed child in substitute care on three or more previous occasions.
Authorizes counties and cities to adopt premium service program for development review permits.
Directs counties to recover costs of property assessment and tax collection from taxing districts.
Creates income tax credit for private school tuition payments.
Exempts from application of insurance code sale of policies or certificates of health insurance in this state by insurers licensed to transact insurance in another state.
Requires Department of Human Services or contractor of department to take specified steps if department or contractor has substantial cause to believe that pregnant recipient of medical assistance is consuming methamphetamines.
Creates income or corporate excise tax credit for taxpayer that creates or maintains employment positions.
Specifies that State of Oregon asserts title to, and claims possession of, all lands in this state possessed and managed by federal government pursuant to Oregon and California Revestment Act of June 9, 1916, and Oregon and California Lands Act of August 28, 1937.
Establishes State Police Patrol Fund, separate and distinct from General Fund.
Permits corporations operating emerging businesses to defer corporate excise and income taxes.
Requires Oregon Health Authority, Department of Human Services and Public Employees' Benefit Board to develop goals, benchmarks and plans to address diabetes, diabetes care and complications from diabetes and to report to Legislative Assembly in each odd-numbered year specified information regarding data, programs, outcomes and proposed next steps.
Establishes Task Force on Unemployment Insurance to review unemployment insurance program.
Requires district school board to procure and cause to be displayed United States flag in classrooms and to provide time for students to salute United States flag once daily during school hours.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 22
Provides that Adjutant General may not place or retain person in unit designated for active federal service outside state if person is sibling of person killed while serving on active duty with Armed Forces of United States.
Creates offense of making a false report of child abuse.
Designates bridge across Euchre Creek on U.S. Highway 101 near milepost 317 as Wilbur C. Moore Bridge.
Expands green jobs growth initiative to include analysis of growth factors and employment projections for green jobs in forest products industries.
Specifies that public lands currently accessible for hunting must remain accessible for hunting unless state agency restricts access for reason of public safety or wildlife management.
Changes name of Task Force on Stage Two Business Development and Economic Gardening to Grow Oregon Council.
Directs Department of Transportation to erect and maintain roadside memorial sign under certain circumstances for police officer killed in line of duty.
Authorizes forfeiting agency to use forfeiture proceeds to fund drug treatment.
Removes exception for person operating motor vehicle in scope of person's employment from offense of operating motor vehicle while using mobile communication device.
Allows for development of two additional Oregon Veterans' Homes under certain circumstances.
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.
Modifies application of farm income standard adopted by Land Conservation and Development Commission for establishing primary and accessory dwellings customarily provided in conjunction with farm use in areas zoned for exclusive farm use.
Allows State Department of Agriculture to waive routine inspection of certain food establishments.
Allows commercial production and sale of bread, rolls and buns made only with whole grain flours.
Requires state institutions of higher learning to allow military recruitment on campus on equal footing with other employment recruitment.
Requires State Department of Agriculture to establish program for issuing grants to counties for noxious weed control.
Allows sponsor and public charter school to enter into cooperative agreement with other school districts for purpose of forming partnership to provide educational services.
Establishes World War II Memorial Task Force to solicit private funding and arrange for development, design and construction of memorial to honor Oregon's World War II veterans.
Directs Oregon Military Department to report to legislative committee on existing military cultural barriers that discourage service members from identifying barriers to reintegration into civilian life.
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 that each application for issuance of license, tag or permit by State Fish and Wildlife Commission include separate section under which applicant may make voluntary contribution for predatory animal control in county or counties in which license, tag or permit allows person to hunt.
Directs Adjutant General to form commission to develop and name medal to honor fallen military members from Oregon.
Passed the House · 5
Directs State Board of Higher Education to report to legislature in 2012 on civic literacy at state institutions of higher education.
Establishes process through which person may obtain reservation through city or county to conduct funeral service on public property.
Directs Department of Transportation to issue Keep Kids Safe registration plates.
Provides that person may take gray wolf in certain situations.
Requires Commissioner of Bureau of Labor and Industries to inform Director of Veterans' Affairs of receipt of written information from or filing of complaint by member or veteran of uniformed service under certain circumstances.
Out of committee · 6
Directs Adjutant General to form commission to create Oregon Medal of Honor to be awarded to next of kin of Oregon servicemembers killed in action or who died as result of wounds received in war in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Changes name of Tuition Protection Fund to Tuition Protection Trust Fund.
Authorizes State Parks and Recreation Commission to establish reductions in, waivers of or exemptions from fees and charges imposed on users of areas established and maintained by State Parks and Recreation Department for Oregon armed services members returning from overseas combat zone deployment or honorably discharged from active overseas combat zone deployment.
Requires state agency to report to Director of Oregon Department of Administrative Services when any budgeted position is vacant for six months.
Authorizes Oregon Medical Board to issue certificates of prescriptive authority to certain licensed psychologists who meet specified requirements.
Allows Jackson, Josephine and Douglas Counties to petition Land Conservation and Development Commission to establish regional definitions for "agricultural land" and "forestland" for purposes of statewide land use planning.
In committee · 61
Requires state agency that owns real property or operates facilities to establish dedicated account to pay expenses of maintaining, repairing and replacing state agency's real property or facilities.
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.
Requires counties to assume responsibility for felony offenders already in custody who, at time sentence is imposed, have 12 months or less of term of incarceration to serve.
Modifies attorney fees provision related to review of decision of local government before Land Use Board of Appeals.
Modifies basis for petitioning Land Use Board of Appeals for review of land use decisions or limited land use decisions.
Prohibits certain persons from simultaneously holding more than three permits issued pursuant to restricted vessel permit system.
Creates exemption from food establishment license requirements for person that slaughters not more than 1,000 poultry per year and meets other conditions.
Establishes policy direction for management of state forestlands, including management for timber harvesting.
Requires State Forester to control forest management expenses and establish minimum acceptable bids for forest products to ensure that revenues equal or exceed target percentage of expenses.
Eliminates requirement for Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services to adopt rules specifying training requirements for physicians conducting independent medical examinations in workers' compensation claims.
Requires Joint Boards of Education to adopt comprehensive articulation and transfer system for students of community colleges and state institutions of higher education.
Designates Governor as Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Establishes five regional land use planning commissions.
Provides that school district is not required to comply with requirement imposed by state unless funding is specifically provided to facilitate compliance with requirement.
Authorizes law enforcement agencies to establish sobriety checkpoints.
Requires only persons under 21 years of age to wear motorcycle helmet while riding on or operating motorcycle.
Permits contracting agency that uses public funds to procure goods or services under Public Contracting Code to give preference to bidder or proposer that is headquartered or owned locally, will obtain equipment, material and supplies locally or will employ workers locally.
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.
Permits former prisoners of war, recipients of Congressional Medal of Honor, persons awarded Purple Heart medal and gold star family members to register vehicle by paying one-time vehicle registration fee.
Provides civil immunity for person providing medical, dental or outreach services to homeless individuals if person has registered as volunteer with nonprofit corporation and services are provided without compensation.
Modifies requirement for establishing winery on land zoned for exclusive farm use.
Requires Department of Education to grant waiver to allow school districts to contract with entity that meets specified criteria for purpose of administering nationally normed assessments.
Directs Department of Education, Department of Community Colleges and Workforce Development and Bureau of Labor and Industries to collaborate on issues related to career and technical education.
Allows sponsor and public charter school to enter into cooperative agreement with other school districts for purpose of forming partnership to provide educational services.
Allows certain districts to offer benefit plans other than benefit plans provided by Oregon Educators Benefit Board.
Requires that person seeking to appeal land use decision or limited land use decision to Land Use Board of Appeals must be adversely affected by decision.
Allows city to order cessation of alcoholic beverage sales or other operations at premises licensed for full or limited on-premises sales or as brewery-public house upon reasonable belief that continued sales or operation are immediate threat to public safety.
Repeals prohibition against selling or offering for sale gasoline unless it contains 10 percent ethanol by volume.
Suspends for 2011-2013 biennium requirements placed on school districts related to self-evaluations, local district continuous improvement plans, alternative placements for students, alcohol and drug abuse prevention programs, instructional materials, substitute teacher salaries, guidance and counseling programs, media programs and class sizes.
Removes requirement for State Department of Agriculture to monitor ethanol fuel production and issue notice when ethanol production reaches specified level.
Allows use of dog to hunt cougars during final three months of general cougar hunting season if State Fish and Wildlife Commission determines that harvest quota for particular hunt zone might not be met.
Requires licensed health care facilities and long term care facilities to require licensed or certified health care professional interacting with patients or family members of patients in facilities to wear identification tags displaying name and scope of practice or medical specialty of professional.
Directs Oregon Investment Council and State Treasurer to try to ensure that investment funds are not invested in company doing business in or with Iran or owned or controlled by government of Iran.
Authorizes state Medicaid agency to participate in Oregon Prescription Drug Program.
Creates crime of unlawfully residing within 1,000 feet of school and makes crime applicable to sex offenders.
Authorizes law enforcement agency to enforce federal immigration law pursuant to agreement with federal government.
Creates Task Force on Nuclear Power.
Designates Trust for Cultural Development Account as trust account exclusively for arts and culture purposes.
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.
Excludes certain subjects from mandatory collective bargaining between state and certified or recognized representative of employees.
Directs State Department of Fish and Wildlife to create pilot program that allows persons hunting or pursuing cougars to use dogs.
Expands application of laws regarding estray animals to include all bovines.
Requires State Parks and Recreation Department to establish pilot program under which department contracts with one or more private contractors to administer, operate and maintain certain state parks.
Establishes Council on Efficient Government.
Extends sunset of enterprise zone program to June 30, 2023.
Modifies and repeals laws relating to elections conducted by mail.
Prohibits abortion unless physician has first determined probable post-fertilization age of unborn child, except in case of medical emergency.
Provides for establishment of percentage by which district school board shall annually increase total amount of moneys used to pay for salary and benefits of employees under collective bargaining agreement.
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.
Permits certain individuals to use warning lights on vehicle.
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.
Allows entity that is classified by Construction Contractors Board as exempt commercial contractor to provide board with proof of personal health insurance coverage for proprietor or each partner, corporate officer or member of limited liability company as alternative to procuring and maintaining workers' compensation coverage.
Requires law enforcement unit to train public safety officers in veterans' issues.
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.
Expands immunity from liability for health care provider who provides services for charitable organization without compensation.
Encourages Oregon Investment Council and State Treasurer to divest investment funds invested in certain companies engaged in mineral-extraction or oil-related activities related to Iran.
Directs State Board of Education to determine whether one or more education service districts shall be joined together based on specified criteria, including resulting fiscal efficiencies, and to enter order joining districts if criteria are met.
Extends time during which certain less restrictive qualifications apply to counties in which businesses seek development income tax exemption.