Bills in the 2015 Regular Session, House.
Jodi Hack
Sponsored
Became law2
Allows increased use of flashing lights in certain school zones.
Revises voting requirements for certain actions related to benefit company formation or conversion.
Out of committee1
Grants income tax credit to firefighters who provide volunteer services to rural fire protection districts or fire departments.
In committee3
Exempts estates below current federal estate tax exclusion amount from imposition of Oregon estate tax and Oregon estate tax filing requirement.
Directs Legislative Revenue Officer to report to Legislative Assembly on taxpayer use of deduction allowed for expensing of depreciable business assets and to make recommendations for improving benefit to state.
Authorizes county to grant exemption from property taxes imposed on homesteads of volunteer firefighters.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 21
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 Director of Oregon Health Authority to notify Director of Veterans' Affairs upon receipt of certain written information from member or veteran of uniformed service, if authorized to do so by member or veteran.
Requires Oregon Health Authority and insurers offering health benefit plans that reimburse costs of physician services to reimburse community assessment center for child abuse medical assessment and related services.
Provides that person who records another person's intimate areas commits crime of invasion of personal privacy.
Disallows all filing fees, service fees and hearing fees in action for court's protective stalking order, even if stalking order is not only relief sought in action.
Prohibits use of results of statewide summative assessment developed by multistate consortium to establish summative ratings of schools or to make summative evaluations of teachers or administrators.
Directs Department of Transportation to establish Portland Trail Blazers license plate program for issuance of special registration plate.
Requires that National League of Families' POW/MIA flag be displayed with Oregon State flag on public buildings in this state.
Allows on-premises consumption of food and nonalcoholic beverages at certified smoke shops.
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.
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.
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.
Requires insurers that cover prescription contraceptives to cover refills at specified frequency.
Directs Early Learning Division to administer preschool program.
Increases speed limit for certain vehicles on specified portions of certain highways.
Provides that release decision for defendant charged with sex crime or crime constituting domestic violence must include order prohibiting attempted contact with victim and third-party contact with victim while defendant is in custody.
Increases penalty for crime of strangulation when committed knowing victim was pregnant.
Establishes privilege in civil, criminal, administrative and school proceedings for certain communications between persons seeking services related to domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking and victim services programs and advocates.
Directs Department of Corrections to establish Family Sentencing Alternative Pilot Program in partnership with circuit courts, county community corrections agencies and Department of Human Services.
Modifies temporary assistance for needy families program.
Passed the House · 2
Directs Oregon Law Commission to study and make recommendations for changes to law relating to hearsay in criminal actions involving sex trafficking.
Modifies crime of displaying obscene materials to minors.
Out of committee · 6
Directs Oregon Health Authority to develop and implement pilot program through which authority and Department of Education provide services related to oral health education, use of fluoride varnish and daily brushing and flossing for children.
Increases amount of reimbursement from Oregon Production Investment Fund that is available to local filmmaker or media production services company.
Authorizes counties to establish programs for forestry products grown on nonforest lands in counties to be commercially produced and marketed through forestry product cooperatives.
Establishes Greenhouse Gas Reduction Evaluation Framework Task Force.
Requires Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board to spend $1 million per year out of Watershed Conservation Grant Fund on implementation of strategies to protect and restore sage grouse habitat.
Repeals sunset of tax credit for compensation for loss of livestock due to wolf depredation.
In committee · 22
Requires employer to verify legal status of employee to be employed in United States through federal E-Verify program prior to deducting expenses related to worker's employment from Oregon taxable income.
Establishes Task Force on Voter Inactivation and Voter Registration Maintenance.
Provides funding for instruction of talented and gifted children based on amount per student.
Prohibits Department of Education from requiring school districts to align instruction or assessments with common core state standards and from penalizing school districts for failure to align instruction or assessments with common core state standards.
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.
Creates exemption from pet restriction in food establishments for assistance animal with assistance animal tag issued by local jurisdiction.
Creates crime of online impersonation.
Increases speed limit to 75 miles per hour for certain vehicles on interstate highways.
Requires State Department of Geology and Mineral Industries to conduct study of mineral resource potential in Oregon and present report to Legislative Assembly by February 1 of each odd-numbered year.
Allows landlord to charge pet security deposit to tenant with disability for service animal or companion animal if landlord requests, and tenant does not provide, documentation that physician has recommended use of service animal or companion animal to mitigate symptoms or effects of disability.
Allows for blood to be taken to determine presence of controlled substances for purpose of Motorist Implied Consent Law.
Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission to determine if any public universities have interest and ability to effectively conduct research and development on carbon reduction technologies.
Directs Department of Transportation to establish breast cancer awareness registration plate program for issuance of special registration plate.
Directs Department of Transportation to establish Portland Trail Blazers license 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.
Directs Department of Human Services to establish up to three community homes to implement community home model for children and wards in legal custody of department for care, placement and supervision.
Requires United States to extinguish title to public lands and transfer title to public lands to state on or before December 13, 2018.
Prohibits State Fish and Wildlife Commission from including gray wolf on list of threatened or endangered species.
Establishes Task Force on Lysosomal Storage Disorder Screenings to study feasibility of and barriers to pilot project using certain screening technologies.
Prohibits receiving compensation for collecting and returning ballots and assisting electors if compensation is based on number of ballots collected and returned or number of electors assisted.