Bills in the 2015 Regular Session, Senate.
Richard Devlin
Sponsored
Became law9
Includes base pay of certain telecommunicators as comparable factor to be considered by arbitrator in establishing pay for telecommunicators employed by Department of State Police.
Directs Department of Revenue to make shared services distributions out of unreceipted revenue.
Establishes Task Force on the Willamette Falls Navigation Canal and Locks.
Allows Department of Consumer and Business Services to make system for electronic access to building code information available for other purposes.
Directs Department of Education to pay for costs of education of students in eligible day treatment programs and eligible residential treatment programs by making grants in aid to school districts where programs are located.
Establishes grant program to provide matching fund grants to school districts for capital costs of school districts.
Includes certain compensable workers' compensation claims as qualifying criteria for eligibility for benefits from Public Safety Memorial Fund.
Permits Oregon Medical Board to issue limited license to practice medicine to physician licensed in another state or country who holds full-time professor appointment at school of medicine in this state.
Establishes Task Force on Reserve Funds to study performance of Education Stability Fund and Oregon Rainy Day Fund and make recommendations to next odd-numbered year regular session of Legislative Assembly.
Passed the Senate2
Revises procedures for preparation of Governor's budget.
Repeals sunset of law authorizing only school districts to impose construction taxes.
Out of committee3
Expands crime of assault in third degree to include physical injury to health care provider in hospital.
Increases $500,000 limit on noneconomic damages recoverable in wrongful death actions and other statutorily created causes of action to $1,500,000.
Provides for annual adjustment of judges' salaries based on Consumer Price Index.
In committee2
Establishes Oregon Investment Department as public investment agency to be supervised by director appointed by Oregon Investment Council.
Requires cochairs of Joint Committee on Ways and Means to serve as cochairs of Joint Legislative Audit Committee.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 18
Creates crime of endangering person protected by Family Abuse Prevention Act restraining order.
Directs Secretary of State to conduct performance audit of state agency public records retention and disclosure practices, including analysis and recommendations on specified criteria.
Directs Land Conservation and Development Commission to adopt or amend rules relating to transportation improvements.
Decreases compulsory school age from seven to six years of age.
Designates March 22 of each year as Tom McCall Day to commemorate Governor McCall and encourage school districts to educate children about Governor McCall's legacy.
Makes changes to laws governing hospital nursing staff, including laws setting forth composition of hospital nurse staffing committees and laws governing content of written hospital-wide staffing plans.
Authorizes Oregon Business Development Department to appoint Pacific Northwest Manufacturing Partnership Advisory Committee to advise department regarding Pacific Northwest Manufacturing Partnership and manufacturing economic development in geographic regions located within Willamette Valley and Columbia River corridor.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to establish training program and specifies elements that program must include.
Authorizes use of accrued sick leave or personal business leave by certain employees who are victims of domestic violence, harassment, sexual assault or stalking.
Requires provision of method for users to offer suggestions on form and content of Oregon transparency website.
Prohibits possession of firearm or ammunition by person who is subject to certain court order protecting intimate partner or child of person or intimate partner, or who has been convicted of certain misdemeanor crimes committed against family member.
Imposes limits on instances when student in fifth grade or lower may be subjected to out-of-school suspension or expulsion from school.
Prohibits use of expulsion to address truancy.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to develop plan for communication among local mental health authorities and systems to improve notifications and information-sharing when death suspected to be suicide involves individual 24 years of age or younger.
Requires Secretary of State to conduct investigation of Community Housing Trust Account, within Developmental Disabilities Community Housing Fund.
Extends sunset related to grants distributed to small school districts with one or more small high schools.
Requires public universities, community colleges and Oregon-based private universities and colleges to adopt written protocol for victims of sexual assault.
Directs Department of Transportation to make efforts to complete installation of median barriers between opposing lanes of travel on interstate highways in certain circumstances.
Passed the Senate · 1
Authorizes county to exempt first $250,000 of assessed value of homestead of surviving spouse of fire service professional or police officer killed in line of duty from property taxes imposed by all taxing jurisdictions.
Out of committee · 4
Requires medical marijuana facilities and marijuana retailers to post at facility or on premises of retail location notice of potential harmful effects of marijuana on pregnant women, fetuses and breastfeeding infants .
Directs Department of Human Services to convene work group to develop common client confidentiality release form to be used by public bodies and community organizations to enable and facilitate appropriate sharing of confidential information.
Appropriates moneys to Department of Education to be expended for purpose of awarding grants under Career and Technical Education Revitalization Grant Program.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Health Authority for Senior Farm Direct Nutrition Program and Women, Infants and Children Farm Direct Nutrition Program.
In committee · 3
Creates position of State School Nursing Consultant in Oregon Health Authority and specifies duties.
Modifies definition of "physical injury" for purposes of criminal code.
Requires health insurance policies or certificates that include prescription drug benefits, health benefit plans and the state medical assistance program to cover costs of specified women's health care drugs and services.