Bills in the 2014 Regular Session, House.
Peter Buckley
Sponsored
Became law1
Revises assessment and grading system standards for school districts.
In committee1
Requires Governor to appoint to Higher Education Coordinating Commission as voting members one student from community college, one student from Eastern Oregon University, Oregon Institute of Technology, Southern Oregon University or Western Oregon University and one student from University of Oregon, Oregon State University or Portland State University.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 5
Removes prohibition against insurer's issuing or delivering to small employer policy of insurance against risk of economic loss under less than fully insured employee health benefit plan.
Directs Department of Community Colleges and Workforce Development and Higher Education Coordinating Commission to jointly establish grant program for purpose of distributing moneys to community colleges to increase number of underserved, low-income and first-generation college-bound students who enroll in community college and make progress toward degree or certificate.
Directs Department of Education to make grants to improve student achievement in certain schools that are high poverty and low performing.
Expands scholarships for children of public safety officers killed or injured in line of duty to include children of reserve officers and volunteer firefighters killed or disabled in line of duty.
Requires Oregon Health Insurance Exchange Corporation to request federal agency to allow individuals and businesses to qualify for premium tax credits, cost-sharing reductions and business tax relief if individuals and businesses enrolled in qualified health plans directly with insurers.
Passed the House · 2
Requires that majority of members of Oregon Education Investment Board be public educational professionals who work, or have worked, on regular basis in public educational setting.
Amends definition of "rural area" to mean area outside urban growth boundary of city of 40,000 or more, as boundary is acknowledged on date on which application is submitted for strategic investment program.
In committee · 3
Defines "vapor product." Amends laws related to consumption of tobacco products by minors to include references to consumption of vapor products by minors, including crime of endangering welfare of minor and other criminal offenses and civil penalties related to use or acquisition of tobacco by minor.
Makes legislative findings and declarations regarding genetically engineered food.
Imposes severance tax on harvest of timber from forestlands in Oregon at rate of $15 per thousand feet, board measure, to fund income tax credit for milling of logs in Oregon and for distribution to counties.