Bills in the 2011 Regular Session, House.
Gene Whisnant
Sponsored
Became law8
Repeals sunset of provisions permitting sales of diesel fuel containing additives.
Allows for development of two additional Oregon Veterans' Homes under certain circumstances.
Includes clustered mailboxes in definition of "related facilities" for purpose of ensuring access by persons with disabilities.
Requires Public Utility Commission to account for actual and expected changes in energy usage over collection period and for actual and expected changes in interest rates on collected funds when setting rate for surcharges imposed under Klamath River dam agreement.
Specifies that new or increased state agency fees adopted following adjournment sine die of regular legislative session are rescinded unless approved by Legislative Assembly at next regular legislative session.
Clarifies responsibility of counties to provide workers' compensation coverage to qualified search and rescue volunteers.
Postpones requirement that Water Resources Commission repeal certain rules regarding ground water mitigation in Deschutes Basin ground water study area.
Directs Department of Transportation to issue Keep Kids Safe registration plates.
Passed the House1
Directs State Board of Higher Education to report to legislature in 2012 on civic literacy at state institutions of higher education.
Out of committee2
Requires state agency to report to Director of Oregon Department of Administrative Services when any budgeted position is vacant for six months.
Modifies requirements for siting of destination resorts and for facilities or amenities that may be included in destination resorts.
In committee18
Requires Joint Boards of Education to adopt comprehensive articulation and transfer system for students of community colleges and state institutions of higher education.
Eliminates requirement that Water Resources Commission repeal certain rules regarding ground water mitigation in Deschutes Basin ground water study area.
Allows local government required to have urban growth boundary to establish process by which local government self-certifies amendments to urban growth boundary for compliance with applicable requirements of statewide land use planning goals, statutes and rules.
Requires self-insurance programs established by multiple public bodies to make independently audited financial statement available to Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services.
Creates subtraction for net capital gain for purposes of personal income and corporate income and excise taxation.
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.
Directs Department of State Police to coordinate establishment and implementation of Oregon Officer Down Advisory Plan pursuant to which alert must be issued in certain circumstances when law enforcement officer is killed or seriously injured by suspect in course of officer's duty.
Repeals prohibition against selling or offering for sale gasoline unless it contains 10 percent ethanol by volume.
Authorizes Pine Forest Development, LLC, to develop approximately 617-acre resort.
Requires person licensed and endorsed as residential general contractor, residential specialty contractor or residential limited contractor to have responsible managing individual with construction experience.
Authorizes Cyrus family to develop approximately 1,500-acre resort.
Requires Public Utility Commission to ensure that taxes included in public utility rates are based on taxes that public utility expects to pay to state or federal government by reason of revenues generated in state.
Requires use of headlights when windshield wipers are on.
Creates Economic Forum and Technical Committee appointed by Governor.
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.
Requires local government that requires pawnbroker to record transaction that involves selling or purchasing used consumer goods and to deliver record to local police agency to apply requirement to all merchants and businesses within local government's jurisdiction that conduct transactions that involve selling or purchasing used consumer goods.
Expands immunity from liability for health care provider who provides services for charitable organization without compensation.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 29
Requires registered nurse to report certain injuries to appropriate law enforcement agency.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to report to Joint Committee on Ways and Means ratio of public employees to supervisory employees, ratio of public employees to managerial employees and number of positions for managerial employees who do not act in supervisory capacity.
Requires school district to submit written plan of instruction for talented and gifted children to Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Expands green jobs growth initiative to include analysis of growth factors and employment projections for green jobs in forest products industries.
Requires Oregon Department of Administrative Services, in cooperation with other state agencies and certain public agencies, to establish policies, methods and means by which department, other state agencies and public agencies can acquire, share, maintain, use, repair and dispose of motor pool resources cost-effectively and efficiently.
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.
Authorizes voting by electronic mail for long term absent electors.
Requires executive summaries of reports and notices of proposed rulemaking that must be filed with members of Legislative Assembly to be sent electronically.
Authorizes forfeiting agency to use forfeiture proceeds to fund drug treatment.
Expands definition of "bakery product" for purposes of laws regulating bakeries.
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.
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 provision under which Department of Environmental Quality may enter into agreement with prospective purchaser of land under which purchaser is released from potential liability for certain releases, threatened releases or spills of hazardous substances or oil.
Requires state institutions of higher learning to allow military recruitment on campus on equal footing with other employment recruitment.
Provides that U.S. Highway 30 between St. Helens and Rainier shall be known as Police Chief Ralph Painter Memorial Highway.
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.
Modifies provisions for development and maintenance of telephone service that provides referral information regarding services after emergency and health and human 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.
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.
Requires certain employers to allow eligible employees to take unpaid leave to address issues arising from harassment .
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.
Requires Joint Boards of Education to develop standards by which students may apply credits earned at community college toward baccalaureate degrees awarded by state institutions of higher education.
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.
Assigns ownership of certain renewable energy certificates to owner of facility generating renewable energy resulting in certificate.
Changes time frame within which owner of Metolius resort site may apply to county to develop small-scale recreation community.
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.
Passed the House · 5
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.
Directs Department of Transportation to issue Keep Kids Safe registration plates.
Provides that person may take gray wolf in certain situations.
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 committee · 9
Creates Oregon Veterans' Business Enterprise Program.
Increases tax credit for health care providers who provide services under TRICARE contract.
Raises threshold for requiring cost analysis for procurement from $250,000 to $2 million.
Authorizes Oregon Medical Board to issue certificates of prescriptive authority to certain licensed psychologists who meet specified requirements.
Modifies crime of theft in first degree to include theft of agricultural property under certain circumstances.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Health Authority for purposes of operating mobile training unit for emergency medical technicians.
Authorizes local government to conditionally approve siting of solar energy generation facilities when siting is within jurisdiction of local government and on farmland that is not high-value farmland but is within area zoned for exclusive farm use.
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.
Directs Joint Boards of Education to prepare report on strategies for reducing higher education textbook costs.
In committee · 57
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 public school to offer students instruction in Mandarin Chinese if school offers students instruction in two or more second languages.
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 contracting agency to set aside amount equal to 1.5 percent of amount contracting agency budgeted for public improvement contracts and dedicate amount toward including appropriate solar energy technology in construction, reconstruction or major renovation of public buildings.
Establishes right of persons to be free from compulsion to participate in health care system.
Expands immunity from liability for health care providers who volunteer for charitable organizations.
Allows public school to create innovation plan or group of public schools to create group innovation plan.
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.
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.
Adds murder of certified reserve officer and murder of reserve officer to definition of aggravated murder.
Establishes uniform corporate minimum tax of $150 and removes provisions basing amount of tax on amount of Oregon sales.
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.
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.
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.
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 state agency to report to Director of Oregon Department of Administrative Services when full-time equivalent budgeted position is vacant for three months.
Excludes certain subjects from mandatory collective bargaining between state and certified or recognized representative of employees.
Requires Oregon Department of Administrative Services to adopt rules regarding use of wood in buildings constructed by public body using state funding.
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.
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.
Establishes Council on Efficient Government.
Creates Task Force on Privatization.
Modifies provisions relating to inclusion of names or titles of persons or organizations in argument or statement in voters' pamphlet.
Requires county sheriff to waive age requirement for obtaining concealed handgun license for military veterans and persons currently serving in military.
Extends sunset of enterprise zone program to June 30, 2023.
Decreases income tax and corporate excise tax rates for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2011.
Requires Department of Transportation to establish pilot program under which department contracts with private contractor to perform vehicle registration functions department now performs.
Requires all increases in state employee compensation provided for by collective bargaining agreement between state and exclusive representative of state employees in bargaining unit covered by agreement to be based on performance of employee for which increase is proposed.
Prohibits abortion unless physician has first determined probable post-fertilization age of unborn child, except in case of medical emergency.
Prescribes treatments that must be covered by health benefit plans for traumatic brain injuries.
Requires certain health care providers to complete continuing education about traumatic brain injury.
Prohibits pharmacist from dispensing drug that is not therapeutically equivalent to drug ordered or prescribed unless prescriber and patient have consented in writing.
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.
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.
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.
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 city or district from requiring landowner to consent to eventual annexation in exchange for continuation of extraterritorial service originally provided to landowner or predecessor in interest of landowner without requiring consent to annexation.
Requires mass transit district to obtain elector approval for issuance of revenue bonds secured by moneys from specified sources, including payroll taxes and federal flexible funds.
Authorizes State Treasurer to issue lottery bonds to assist in financing acquisition or construction of graduate studies facility for Oregon State University Cascades Campus.
Requires law enforcement unit to train public safety officers in veterans' issues.
Expands definition of "farm use" to include facilities for training dogs in canine skills on land zoned for exclusive farm use.
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.
Exempts energy savings performance contracts, under certain circumstances, from requirement to use competitive bidding process to award public improvement contracts.
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.
Establishes University of Oregon as independent public university, governed by University of Oregon Board of Directors.
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.