Bills in the 2011 Regular Session, House.
Mark Johnson
Sponsored
Out of committee1
Establishes For-Profit Independent Colleges Student Assistance Fund .
In committee4
Prohibits public employer that participates in Public Employees Retirement System from reemploying retired member of system for period of one year after retirement.
Authorizes school and education service districts that have access to or enforceable proposals for benefit plans that provide health, dental and vision benefits and are comparable to and have premiums equal to or less than premiums for comparable benefit plans offered by Oregon Educators Benefit Board to provide benefit plans for employees that are not provided and administered by board.
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.
Modifies composition of and scope of review to be performed by Task Force on Educator Health Benefits.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 15
Allows taxpayer to make direct deposit contribution of income tax refund into Oregon 529 College Savings Network account.
Expands green jobs growth initiative to include analysis of growth factors and employment projections for green jobs in forest products industries.
Allows county court or board of commissioners to examine financial affairs of county at regular business meeting twice during year at any time, rather than in January and July.
Directs Department of Transportation to erect and maintain roadside memorial sign under certain circumstances for police officer killed in line of duty.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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 · 4
Establishes process through which person may obtain reservation through city or county to conduct funeral service on public property.
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.
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 · 4
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.
Authorizes Oregon Medical Board to issue certificates of prescriptive authority to certain licensed psychologists who meet specified requirements.
Directs Joint Boards of Education to prepare report on strategies for reducing higher education textbook costs.
In committee · 51
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 patient seeking prescription for medication to end patient's life to undergo counseling.
Designates Governor as Superintendent of Public Instruction.
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.
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 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.
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.
Includes funds of Native American or Indian tribe in Oregon in definition of "public funds" for which financial institution may pledge security interest in institution's assets as guarantee for deposits.
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.
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.
Creates crime of unlawfully residing within 1,000 feet of school and makes crime applicable to sex offenders.
Creates Task Force on Nuclear Power.
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.
Directs State Department of Fish and Wildlife to create pilot program that allows persons hunting or pursuing cougars to use dogs.
Requires Oregon Department of Administrative Services to adopt rules regarding use of wood in buildings constructed by public body using state funding.
Authorizes Department of Corrections to enter into contracts or arrangements with private entities for confinement and detention in Oregon of persons sentenced to legal and physical custody of department.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to establish program to certify persons to service, maintain and perform in-line repairs of backflow assemblies.
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 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.
Prohibits abortion unless physician has first determined probable post-fertilization age of unborn child, except in case of medical emergency.
Prohibits commencement of civil action against health care provider until after submission of health care claim to medical legal panel.
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 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.
Prohibits pharmacist from dispensing drug that is not therapeutically equivalent to drug ordered or prescribed unless prescriber and patient have consented in writing.
Requires Director of Human Services to convene task force to make policy recommendations to Legislative Assembly on strategies to reduce migration of residents of other states into Oregon to obtain medical assistance.
Requires collective bargaining agreement between certain local public employers and employees of public employer to provide for suspension of implementation of certain increases in employee compensation during period of fiscal emergency.
Provides credit against personal income taxes for costs associated with growing produce.
Requires Department of Human Services to operate demonstration project, subject to approval by United States Department of Agriculture, to require recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits to participate in shopping and nutrition education program.
Permits contracting agency that procures goods for public use to give preference to food produced within this state if cost of food is not more than 10 percent more than food that is not produced within this state.
Establishes retirement benefits payable under Oregon Public Service Retirement Plan to persons who establish membership in Public Employees Retirement System on or after effective date of Act.
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.
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 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 provisions of Oregon Medical Marijuana Act.
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.
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.