Bills in the 2011 Regular Session, House.
Andy Olson
Sponsored
Became law4
Provides that judge or clerk may defer jury service for person more than once only for good cause.
Directs Department of Transportation to erect and maintain roadside memorial sign under certain circumstances for police officer killed in line of duty.
Provides that charging or payment of tuition or fee for food or beverage career program class, or for workshop or seminar concerning food or beverage industry training, that is offered by education provider and includes consumption of alcoholic beverages is not sale or purchase of alcoholic beverages.
Allows person whose driving privileges have been suspended for certain reasons to terminate suspension by surrendering driving privileges.
Out of committee1
Transfers authority over Juvenile Crime Prevention Advisory Committee, subcommittees and subgroups from State Commission on Children and Families to Oregon Criminal Justice Commission.
In committee19
Directs moneys received from sale of customized registration plates to State Police Account.
Provides that statute may not be construed to create statutory cause of action for person who suffers injury, death or damage by reason of statute's violation unless Legislative Assembly has by law specifically authorized civil action.
Expands authority of court and violations bureau to reduce fines for violations.
Authorizes enterprise zone sponsor to suspend employment requirements for exemption from property taxation for qualified business firm under certain economic conditions.
Modifies provisions relating to release of information from Oregon Medical Marijuana Program to Oregon Health Authority and law enforcement.
Creates rebuttable presumption that person convicted of violating controlled substance laws is unfit to receive or hold industrial hemp license or agricultural hemp production permit.
Creates crime of unlawful delivery of Salvia divinorum.
Modifies provisions relating to registry identification card for medical use of marijuana.
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.
Requires certain health care employers to report annually, to Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services, data concerning assaults of health care staff members.
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.
Allows county clerk to establish inspection boards to inspect and prepare ballots for counting and to count ballots.
Provides procedures to store and account for unused ballots after election.
Requires each counting board conducting recount to allow certain individuals to watch recount.
Requires county clerk to ensure that authorized persons can clearly observe signature verification process for ballots.
Prohibits commencement of civil action against health care provider until after submission of health care claim to medical legal panel.
Clarifies language concerning persons employed on farms who are exempt from payment of overtime wages.
Modifies provisions of Oregon Medical Marijuana Act.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 18
Modifies crime of failure to report child pornography.
Creates Citizens' Initiative Review Commission to oversee review of state initiative measures by citizen panels.
Requires home health agency or in-home care agency to complete criminal background check on individual agency hires or contracts with, or allows to volunteer, to provide certain home health or in-home care services.
Disqualifies person from serving as fiduciary, health care representative, attorney-in-fact or surrogate if prior court order terminated parental rights of person or determined it unsafe for protected person, principal, child, youth or youth offender, while ward of court, to return to person's home.
Expands green jobs growth initiative to include analysis of growth factors and employment projections for green jobs in forest products industries.
Prohibits person from knowingly performing pelvic examination on anesthetized or unconscious woman unless woman, or person authorized to make health care decisions for woman, has given informed consent to examination, court orders performance of examination for collection of evidence or examination is necessary for diagnostic purposes.
Increases, under specified circumstances, penalty for crime of strangulation to maximum of five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both.
Exempts certain individuals providing volunteer golf course marshal services from minimum wage standards .
Specifies that services provided to seniors through Oregon Project Independence include support for community caregivers, health promotion services, options counseling and transportation services.
Authorizes district attorney to file petition in criminal case, on behalf of county or animal care agency, seeking forfeiture of animals alleged to have been abused.
Authorizes forfeiting agency to use forfeiture proceeds to fund drug treatment.
Creates work group in Department of Transportation for purposes of evaluating system of mandatory reporting of persons with persistent, episodic or other cognitive or functional impairments that prevent those persons from driving safely.
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.
Authorizes court to enter order setting aside conviction for Class B felony under certain circumstances.
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.
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 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.
Passed the House · 3
Directs Department of Transportation to issue Keep Kids Safe registration plates.
Requires wholesale dealers of gasoline to offer for sale gasoline containing 10 percent ethanol and gasoline with octane rating of 91 or above that is not blended with ethanol.
Requires Secretary of State to adopt rule related to upcoming election expeditiously.
Out of committee · 5
Prohibits Public Employees' Benefit Board from adopting rules that allow state employees to elect benefit plan coverage for family member who is state employee.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Housing and Community Services Department to fund food programs partnering with Oregon Food Bank.
Designates Oregon Board of Accountancy Account, Department of Agriculture Service Fund, state agency real property or facilities accounts, Forest Research and Experiment Account, Oregon Forest Land Protection Fund, Oregon Forest Smoke Management Account, certain moneys in State Forestry Department Account, Forest Resource Trust Fund and Oregon Forest Resources Institute Fund as trust accounts or funds exclusively for purposes described by law.
Raises threshold for requiring cost analysis for procurement from $250,000 to $2 million.
Directs Joint Boards of Education to prepare report on strategies for reducing higher education textbook costs.
In committee · 45
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.
Directs State Board of Pharmacy to classify certain synthetic cannabinoid compounds as Schedule I controlled substances.
Creates subtraction from federal taxable income for health insurance premium payments made during tax year by individual taxpayer for health benefit coverage of taxpayer, taxpayer's spouse or dependents.
Allows person holding concealed handgun license to operate all-terrain vehicle while carrying loaded handgun.
Shortens time period during which Department of Transportation must report to Legislative Assembly regarding requirement to provide proof of legal presence in United States and Social Security number prior to issuance, renewal or replacement of driver license, driver permit or identification card.
Defines "hatchery produced" for purposes of provisions related to salmon and trout enhancement program.
Designates Governor as Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Requires that health benefit plan must reimburse enrollee for tobacco use cessation program only after enrollee has completed program and ceased use of tobacco products for 12 months.
Authorizes local jurisdiction to use official website to make public information about sex offender present in local jurisdiction.
Provides affirmative defense to crime of unlawful possession of firearm for state and federal corrections officers.
Creates subtraction for net capital gain for purposes of personal income and corporate income and excise taxation.
Adds murder of certified reserve officer and murder of reserve officer to definition of aggravated murder.
Authorizes court, as part of settlement or judgment in class action, to approve process for payment of damages.
Establishes uniform corporate minimum tax of $150 and removes provisions basing amount of tax on amount of Oregon sales.
Reduces amount of employee contribution to individual account program of Public Employees Retirement System that public employer may agree to pay from six percent to three percent.
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.
Declares that data used to diagnose, maintain or repair motor vehicles that is created, collected or contained in motor vehicle is exclusively owned by motor vehicle owner.
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.
Removes requirement for State Department of Agriculture to monitor ethanol fuel production and issue notice when ethanol production reaches specified level.
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.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to appoint advisory committee to make recommendations for plan to administer statewide gambling addiction programs and services.
Modifies method for determining amount of lottery proceeds to be allocated to Problem Gambling Treatment Fund in fiscal quarter.
Creates income tax credit for private school tuition payments.
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.
Directs State Department of Fish and Wildlife to create pilot program that allows persons hunting or pursuing cougars to use dogs.
Requires state trial court administrator to provide to victim of crime, upon request, status of state efforts to enforce certain criminal judgments.
Requires, under certain circumstances, that notice and opportunity to be heard be provided to person with privacy interest in certain records subject to criminal subpoena and motion for early production.
Directs Legislative Fiscal Officer to prepare fiscal impact statement on legislative measures reported out of committee that would have financial effect on small businesses in this state.
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.
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.
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 criteria for siting winery in exclusive farm use zone.
Expands immunity from liability for health care provider who provides services for charitable organization without compensation.
Modifies composition of and scope of review to be performed by Task Force on Educator Health Benefits.
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.
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.