Bills in the 2014 Regular Session, Senate.
Richard Devlin
Sponsored
Became law1
Directs Oregon Business Development Department, in coordination with local workforce investment boards, to contract with private or public entities to develop Dislocated Worker Training Program as pilot program to enable unemployed and underemployed engineers and industry professionals in bioscience and manufacturing traded sector industries to be reemployed in Oregon.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 9
Modifies definition of "supervisory employee" for purposes of public employee collective bargaining law.
Prohibits person or person's affiliate from communicating demand to recipient if in demand person or affiliate alleges, asserts or claims in bad faith that recipient has infringed or contributed to infringing patent or rights that patentee, assignee or licensee has under patent.
Extends sunset for tax credit for crop donation.
Establishes program administered by Home Care Commission to allow private payers to purchase home care services from commission through registry maintained by commission.
Changes membership and meeting requirements of Citizens' Initiative Review Commission.
Resolves terminology conflict to reflect that offense of endangering welfare of minor through distributing, selling or causing sale of tobacco to minor is Class A violation.
Directs Long Term Care Ombudsman, in consultation with Residential Facilities Advisory Committee, to appoint Oregon Public Guardian and Conservator in office of Long Term Care Ombudsman to provide public guardian and conservator services for persons claiming to be without relatives or friends willing or able to serve as guardians or conservators and claiming to lack financial resources to obtain private guardian or conservator.
Authorizes Oregon Business Development Department to undertake entrepreneurial development activities for traded sector industries and in rural communities.
Requires Department of State Police and all sheriffs and municipal police departments to adopt written policies relating to missing vulnerable adults on or before January 1, 2015.
Passed the Senate · 1
Directs public universities and community colleges to increase voter registration access and information.
Out of committee · 1
Alters method by which moneys are distributed to school districts for purpose of paying for costs of education of students in eligible day treatment programs and eligible residential treatment programs.
In committee · 1
For purposes of transfer to Shared Services Fund, requires Oregon Department of Administrative Services to state separately personal income tax revenue attributable to new jobs and retained jobs.