Bills in the 2015 Regular Session, House.
Julie Parrish
Sponsored
Became law3
Authorizes peace officer to apply for and circuit court to enter ex parte emergency protective order when court finds probable cause that person was victim of domestic disturbance or abuse and protective order is necessary to prevent abuse.
Directs Health Licensing Office to issue license to practice music therapy to qualified applicant.
Requires Clackamas County to develop pilot program for forestry products grown on nonforest land in county to be commercially produced and marketed through forestry product cooperative.
Out of committee3
Directs Department of Veterans' Affairs and county veterans' service officers to provide aid and assistance to Korean Vietnam War veteran to obtain health care coverage and services and, upon determination that veteran is not eligible for health care coverage and services under federal and state laws, to implement program to provide such coverage and services.
Authorizes counties to establish programs for forestry products grown on nonforest lands in counties to be commercially produced and marketed through forestry product cooperatives.
Creates subtraction from federal taxable income for benefits paid to surviving spouse or dependent child of service member.
In committee62
Creates position of State School Nursing Consultant in Oregon Health Authority and specifies duties.
Clarifies definition of "independent practice" for purpose of insurance reimbursement for services provided by licensed physician assistant or certified nurse practitioner.
Changes name of State Housing Council to Housing Commission.
Provides that language-based computer coding may satisfy any world language requirements in public schools and second language requirements in community colleges and post-secondary institutions of education.
Provides that student whose legal residency is not in school district is considered resident of school district if student completed highest grade offered by public charter school located in school district.
Creates subtraction from taxable income for payment of interest on principal of loans used to attend institution of higher education in Oregon to obtain degree.
Creates tax credit for educational expenses paid for special needs student attending private school or public school charging tuition.
Establishes Oregon Empowerment Scholarship Program for purpose of providing options in education to students.
Requires sponsor of public charter school to pay school amount per ADMw that is equal to amount received by sponsoring school district or by school district where public charter school is located.
Provides that certain grants and distributions of moneys must be awarded directly to public charter school, or must be transferred to public charter school in amount equal to general purpose grant distribution percentage or based on other agreement.
Provides that any right to sue or to appeal or other judicial review related to public charter schools or provided by other law may not be waived by contract.
Allows person without administrative license to be superintendent, or assistant superintendent, of public school, public charter school or virtual public charter school.
Allows person to teach certain courses in schools without being licensed by or registered with Teacher Standards and Practices Commission if certain requirements are met.
Requires Department of Education and Department of Human Services, in consultation with Early Learning Division and Office of Child Care, to implement and administer program that requires all persons with regular presence at child care facility to take drug test at intervals prescribed by rule, at expense of owner or operator of child care facility.
Requires Department of Human Services to operate pilot project, subject to approval by United States Department of Agriculture, to prohibit purchase of foods of minimal nutritional value, as defined by United States Department of Agriculture, using Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.
Requires Department of Human Services to operate pilot project, subject to approval by United States Department of Agriculture, to select recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits to participate in shopping and nutrition education program.
Provides that escrow agent or other person that engages in real estate closing escrow may not accept funds, property or documents if principal to real estate closing escrow is 65 years of age or older and selling price of property is more than 20 percent below appraised or assessed value and if escrow agent or other person reasonably believes that principal does not understand nature or terms of transaction.
Prohibits Office of Child Care from certifying, registering, recording or providing state funds to child care facility when person with regular presence at facility possesses medical marijuana card.
Exempts claims based on conduct that constitutes child abuse, or conduct that constitutes knowingly allowing, permitting or encouraging child abuse, from notice requirement of Oregon Tort Claims Act.
Provides that employee of public employer is liable to employer for wages paid to employee during period of administrative leave if employee was placed on leave as result of allegation that employee engaged in criminal conduct and if employee is thereafter convicted of crime by reason of conduct.
Requires director and managers of Department of Consumer and Business Services, executive director and managers of Oregon Health Insurance Exchange Corporation, and statewide elected officials who elect to obtain health insurance provided by state, to select health benefit plan offered through health insurance exchange.
Authorizes public universities and Oregon University System to withdraw from Public Employees' Benefit Board health benefit plan and establish or participate in alternative employee health insurance plans.
Permits certain candidates, in lieu of paying fee required for inclusion in written voters' pamphlet, to pay Secretary of State fee of $25 for electronic display and distribution of voters' pamphlet statement or portrait.
Establishes Task Force on Voter Inactivation and Voter Registration Maintenance.
Directs court to award certain damages of $10,000 for each violation in action involving false statement of material fact relating to candidate, political committee or measure.
Requires all information provided as part of candidate's statement for voters' pamphlet to be true.
Requires that statements made by certain witnesses to committee of Legislative Assembly be made under oath and therefore subject to crime of false swearing.
Includes false statements made to legislative committee by certain persons in crime of unsworn falsification.
Allows elector with inactive registration to activate registration by signing and providing mailing address on initiative or referendum petition.
Prohibits person that is not authorized reseller from selling admission ticket to entertainment event if operator of entertainment event has not released admission tickets for sale.
Modifies definitions of Class I, Class II and Class IV all-terrain vehicles.
Requires Oregon Business Development Department, in cooperation with Oregon State University Extension Service, to develop program to increase harvesting of Western Juniper and manufacture and distribution of products made from Western Juniper.
Requires certain persons employed by school district or public charter school to have valid certification in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Exempts certain electric vehicles from requirement to have two registration plates.
Allows public charter school to change sponsorship if charter is terminated.
Removes sunset on provisions that allow students whose legal residence is not within school district to attend school in district as resident if student receives written consent.
Removes sunset on authority of institution of higher education to sponsor public charter school.
Requires school district policy on harassment, intimidation, bullying and cyberbullying to provide that notice will be given to Teacher Standards and Practices Commission if person found to have committed act of harassment, intimidation, bullying or cyberbullying is coach who is licensed or registered by commission.
Provides funding for instruction of talented and gifted children based on amount per student.
Allows parents to submit petition to school district board to transform school that is in bottom 20 percent of schools of state.
Allows student to choose to satisfy one or more high school diploma credits by successful completion of one online course.
Sets limit on taxes due on homesteads of seniors with federal adjusted gross income not exceeding 150 percent of federal poverty level equal to total amount of taxes due for property tax year preceding first property tax year for which relief allowed.
Requires Legislative Assembly or Secretary of State to hold public hearings throughout state prior to adopting congressional or legislative reapportionment plan.
Requires Legislative Assembly or Secretary of State to provide any data purchased or used to create congressional or legislative reapportionment plan.
Provides that upon being sworn into office, or for other stated reasons, Governor shall file declaration with Oregon Government Ethics Commission declaring identity of First Spouse and identifying official policy-making or agenda-setting duties of First Spouse, if any.
Prohibits public employer from agreeing to pay or provide retirement benefit to member of Public Employees Retirement System other than payments required or provided for in statutes governing retirement benefits of members of system.
Eliminates $100 transaction limit before details of expenditures or contributions must be reported and made public.
Allows certain students who have not received high school diploma to attend community college and to use moneys that would have paid for public school to be paid for books, tuition and fees.
Permits person in custody of Department of Corrections to enroll or participate in work release program for attendance at community college or private or public post-secondary institution of education, internships and apprenticeship programs.
Directs Department of Transportation to create program by which certain persons may apply for reduction or waiver of moneys owed to department.
Directs Department of Transportation to remove high occupancy vehicle lane restrictions on Interstate 5 in Portland.
Prohibits Legislative Assembly from appropriating, allocating or otherwise authorizing expenditure of General Fund moneys, or moneys collected or received by Department of Transportation, for highway maintenance or sidewalk development within incorporated cities.
Directs Department of Education to reimburse school districts for costs incurred in providing certain vision screenings.
Creates income tax credit for physician providing clinical training to medical students during tax year.
Establishes unlawful employment practice of subjecting employee or intern to, or permitting employee or intern to be subjected to, harassment, intimidation or bullying in workplace.
Limits independent medical examinations in litigation to body part or parts or specific condition in controversy.
Designates certain land in Clackamas County as acknowledged urban reserve.
Modifies distributions of State School Fund moneys to school districts for student enrolled in English as second language program.
Directs Clackamas County and Metro to review adequacy of lands in Hamlet of Stafford that are designated as urban reserves and rural reserves and to report finding to Legislative Assembly.
Requires public bodies to establish public records retention schedules that require minimum three-year retention of public records.
Requires every state agency, county and district to make available to Secretary of State information required for voter registration contained in any database in possession of agency, county or district.
Modifies funding mechanism for public employees' health care benefit to avoid excise tax under Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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Directs Department of Education to develop and implement statewide education plan for early childhood through post-secondary education students who are black or African-American or not covered by existing statewide education plan and have experienced disproportionate educational results.
Requires school district to provide lunch free of charge to students who are eligible for reduced price lunches.
Requires law enforcement agency to establish policies and procedures for use and retention of recordings from cameras worn upon police officer's person to record officer's interactions with members of public.
Creates exemption to prohibition on recording conversations for person who openly and in plain view records law enforcement officer while officer is performing official duties and person is in place where person may lawfully be.
Establishes Task Force on Incarcerated Veterans to research, study and make recommendations regarding outreach to and assistance for incarcerated veterans.
Requires that National League of Families' POW/MIA flag be displayed with Oregon State flag on public buildings in this state.
Prescribes salary calculation for substitute teachers in school district that has class schedule based on four-day week.
Requires public school students seven years of age or younger who are beginning educational program to have dental screening.
Requires Legislative Assembly to hold 10 public hearings throughout state prior to proposing congressional or legislative reapportionment plan, with at least one hearing held in each congressional district of state and at least one hearing held in areas that experienced largest population shift since previous reapportionment.
Limits biennial expenditures by Oregon Business Development Department from lottery moneys for funding of cooperative efforts of National Policy Consensus Center of Portland State University and community organizations related to western juniper harvesting and related manufacturing.
Requires Oregon Business Development Department to provide economic development assistance to persons engaged in business of western juniper harvesting or of manufacturing products from western juniper, provide technical business assistance to western juniper harvesting and related manufacturing businesses and provide or fund workforce training assistance for potential western juniper harvesting and related manufacturing business workers.
Establishes Oregon Hatchery Research Center Fund.
Allows establishment of wildlife food plots on small forestland subject to reforestation requirements .
Changes definition of "grandparent" in laws pertaining to notice to grandparents of juvenile dependency hearings regarding grandchildren, and that authorize grandparents to request visitation or other contact or communication with grandchildren when grandchildren are in legal custody of Department of Human Services.
Appropriates moneys to Higher Education Coordinating Commission to be expended for grant program that distributes moneys to community colleges, or any foundations of community colleges, to increase number of underserved, low-income and first-generation college-bound students who enroll in community college and make progress toward degree or certificate.
Allows applicant for licensing as landscape construction professional, or for issuance of limited or specialty license, to take practical skills test and attend class on landscape contracting business practices as alternative to taking written examination.
Establishes pollinator health outreach and education plan.
Authorizes Attorney General to file action on behalf of Department of Human Services employee for stalking citation or stalking protective order upon request that has been approved in writing by Director of Human Services or designee and sets forth sufficient facts and evidence, and that in opinion of Attorney General is likely to succeed.
Increases speed limit for certain vehicles on specified portions of certain highways.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to adopt rules prescribing time frames within which pregnant medical assistance recipient receives dental services.
Creates position of Oregon Women Veterans Coordinator in Department of Veterans' Affairs and specifies responsibilities.
Directs Department of Education to convene advisory group related to budgets and spending for English language learner programs.
Requires state, when selling or disposing of real property, to grant right of first refusal to developers of affordable housing.
Modifies temporary assistance for needy families program.
Passed the House · 2
Modifies crime of displaying obscene materials to minors.
Requires legislative measures to contain brief and impartial statement of problem measure is intended to solve.
Out of committee · 9
Directs Department of Education to administer pilot program to increase students' exposure and access to career and technical education.
Directs Department of Education and Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to advance career and technical education opportunities by fulfilling specified requirements.
Requires Department of State Lands, for purpose of identifying land that could be planned and zoned for residential use, to inventory department land, determine whether land is essential, useful or excessive in relation to plans of department, and report results to Legislative Assembly.
Directs Department of Veterans' Affairs to develop program under which department, pursuant to contracts with financial institutions, provides loan guarantees or credit guarantees for qualified veterans for purpose of refinancing existing purchase-money mortgages or similar mortgages of homes used primarily as principal residence by veterans.
Establishes Oregon Center of Cyber-Excellence.
Grants income tax credit to firefighters who provide volunteer services to rural fire protection districts or fire departments.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Higher Education Coordinating Commission for Oregon State University for bee health diagnostic facility at Honey Bee Lab.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Higher Education Coordinating Commission for Oregon State University Extension Service activities relating to pollinator health.
Appropriates moneys to State Department of Agriculture for biennium beginning July 1, 2015, to carry out department program for pesticide regulation.
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Requires Department of Human Services to prescribe income limits for temporary assistance to needy families program that are equal to 66 percent of federal poverty guidelines.
Requires Housing and Community Services Department to include in state housing plan summary and assessment of actions taken by cities and counties to ensure that adequate supply of affordable housing is available.
Requires Department of Transportation, for purpose of identifying land that could be planned and zoned for residential use, to inventory department land, determine whether land is essential, useful or excessive in relation to transportation plans and report results to Legislative Assembly.
Increases maximum total amount of tax credits allowed to affordable housing lenders for fiscal year.
Removes certain testing requirements that apply to children who are taught by private teacher, parent or legal guardian.
Allocates lottery moneys to further economic development by assisting veterans to apply for federal and state veterans' benefits and aid.
Provides parents with alternative educational choices if student fails to achieve reading proficiency by end of third grade.
Requires that referrals to dental specialists, of medical assistance recipients who are pregnant, occur within 60 days.
Directs Department of Transportation to establish Mt.
Creates income tax credit for member of military organization that contributes financial resources to Veterans' Educational Aid Account prior to dissolution.
Directs Department of Transportation to establish breast cancer awareness registration plate program for issuance of special registration plate.
Reduces corporate excise tax rates for taxpayer that increases average monthly employment for tax year from immediately preceding tax year.
Exempts unprofitable corporation from corporate minimum tax.
Creates special certification requirements for pesticide applicators and public applicators who spray or otherwise apply pesticides by aircraft.
Requires governing board of Pesticide Analytical and Response Center to adopt rules establishing standardized operating procedures for state agencies represented on governing board to receive and investigate complaints regarding use of pesticides.
Requires State Department of Agriculture to establish telephone line for persons concerned about misuse or alleged misuse of pesticides.
Limits ability of Legislative Assembly to prepare ballot title for measures to measures Legislative Assembly refers to people.
Directs Department of Revenue, in collaboration with Department of Human Services, to establish pilot program for disbursement of installment payments to personal income taxpayers of amounts equal to personal income tax dependent care credits.
Finds and declares that Baker, Crook, Harney, Lake and Malheur Counties are qualitatively different and unique sage grouse habitat, making counties separate and distinct class for purposes of levying state tax assessment.
Directs Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to require applicant for first-time license or registration as teacher, or applicant for renewal of license or registration as teacher, to provide evidence of current certification in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Directs Secretary of State to develop statewide document retention schedule.
Decreases certain biennial appropriations made from General Fund to specified state agencies.
Directs State Parks and Recreation Department to remove official State of Mississippi flag from Walk of Flags display at State Capitol State Park and replace with Mississippi Magnolia Flag.