Bills in the 2014 Regular Session, House.
Joe Gallegos
Sponsored
Became law2
Authorizes court to appoint protected person special advocate in protective proceeding at any time after appointment of fiduciary that is not financial institution or trust company.
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.
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
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.
Establishes program administered by Home Care Commission to allow private payers to purchase home care services from commission through registry maintained by commission.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 8
Amends 40-40-20 education goals to include apprenticeship programs registered with State Apprenticeship and Training Council.
Requires notice of trustee's sale in connection with foreclosure of residential property to include language that warns prospective purchasers that residential property may have been used in manufacturing methamphetamines.
Allows Department of Education to award grants to encourage participation in summer meals programs.
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 state contracting agency or public corporation that implements information technology initiative to obtain quality management services from qualified contractor if value of information technology initiative exceeds $5 million or meets criteria or standards that State Chief Information Officer or Director of Oregon Department of Administrative Services specifies by rule or policy.
Revises assessment and grading system standards for school districts.
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 · 1
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.
Out of committee · 1
Establishes Oregon Task Force on Career and Technical Education Teaching for purpose of increasing availability and quality of teachers of career and technical education courses.
In committee · 2
Creates subtraction from taxable income for payment of interest on principal of loans used to attend institution of higher education in Oregon to obtain degree.
Defines "vapor product" and "vape." 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.