Bills in the 2009 Regular Session, House.
Tobias Read
Sponsored
Became law2
Directs Director of State Department of Energy to administer energy efficiency and sustainable technology loan program for purpose of encouraging investments in energy efficiency, renewable energy and energy conservation.
Authorizes Department of Revenue, in conjunction with state agencies, boards and commissions that issue occupational or professional licenses, to develop and implement pilot project that requires licensees to demonstrate and maintain tax compliance as condition of issuance or renewal of license.
Passed the House1
Expands purpose of Major League Stadium Grant Fund to include entering into agreements that grant incremental soccer tax revenues for purpose of financing, developing, constructing and furnishing major league stadium designed for use by Major League Soccer team located in Portland.
Out of committee1
Allocates moneys from Administrative Services Economic Development Fund to Oregon Innovation Council for deposit in Oregon Innovation Fund for specified purposes.
In committee9
Suspends operation of income tax credit for political contributions for two years.
Authorizes director of corporation to consider certain interests in determining what director believes to be in corporation's best interests.
Increases amount of funds collected for low-income electric bill payment assistance from $15 million to $19 million starting in 2010.
Creates Task Force on Transfer of Technology.
Authorizes counties to designate educational development zones in which graduates of Oregon post-secondary institutions may defer payment of property taxes on newly purchased homes.
Requires first-time applicant for driver license to certify that applicant has certain number of hours of driving experience with certified driving instructor.
Designates any elective county or city office as nonpartisan.
Creates crime of vehicular homicide.
Requires applicant seeking to construct liquefied natural gas terminal or pipeline directly related to terminal to enter into certain written agreement with state.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Directs Department of Transportation to administer program to encourage removal of outdoor advertising signs from particularly scenic areas of scenic byways.
Passed the Senate1
Requires applicants seeking to construct certain energy facilities to enter into written agreement with state in which applicant agrees to compensate state for costs associated with state agency review and evaluation of certain permits, authorizations and certifications before applicant may be granted permit, authorization or certification.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 28
Requires state institutions of higher education and community colleges to waive tuition for any course audited by Oregon residents 65 years of age or older in specified circumstances.
Requires, as soon as practicable after end of each biennium, lottery ending balance to be transferred to school capital matching subaccount of Education Stability Fund.
Establishes Oregon School Facilities Task Force.
Directs Department of Transportation to make report regarding capacity, availability and efficiency of rail transportation in Oregon.
Allows issuance of special events license to brewery-public house licensee.
Establishes Oregon Environmental Literacy Task Force.
Allows certain veterans with honorable discharges to pay tuition and fees at discounted rates.
Requires Legislative Counsel to solicit bids for printing of Oregon Revised Statutes each biennium.
Prohibits person from intentionally selling or using software to circumvent, thwart, interfere with or evade any control or measure that ensures equitable distribution, sale or resale of admission tickets for entertainment event.
Designates May 8 of each year as Military Family Appreciation Day.
Permits contracting agency that uses public funds to procure goods for public use to give preference to agricultural products produced and transported entirely within state if certain conditions are met.
Requires health benefit plans to provide coverage of human papillomavirus vaccine for female beneficiaries who are at least 11 years of age but no older than 26 years of age.
Requires all school buses with diesel engines to be retrofitted with certain engines and technology by 2017 or replaced by recently manufactured school buses by 2025.
Establishes Interagency Compliance Network.
Establishes way of necessity for private sewer lines.
Directs Attorney General to provide identical draft ballot title for state measure to be submitted if Attorney General determines two or more state measures are substantially similar.
Directs Director of Housing and Community Services Department to convene interdepartmental work group within Interagency Council on Hunger and Homelessness for purpose of identifying and implementing methods to expand number of eligible taxpayers who claim specified earned income tax credits.
Reduces size of identifying hydrologic unit to be used when reporting pesticide use.
Authorizes Department of Human Services to provide noncash benefits instead of cash payments in Oregon Supplemental Income Program.
Requires public institutions of higher education to interview qualified minority candidate when hiring head coach or athletic director unless institution was unable to identify qualified minority candidate willing to interview for position.
Extends period of time during which eligible individual may receive work benefits under shared work plan.
Transfers, credits or allocates certain moneys from specified funds and accounts to other specified funds, accounts or agencies to be used for specified purposes.
Prohibits county, city, special district or 9-1-1 jurisdiction from punishing or penalizing public or private safety agency for failure to meet contractually mandated response times during declared state of emergency for which agency has provided resources for emergency response outside normal jurisdiction.
Approves recommendation of Land Conservation and Development Commission to designate Metolius Area of Critical State Concern as area of critical state concern.
Instructs State Workforce Investment Board to develop plan for initiative to promote growth of green jobs.
Modifies definition of "child care facility" and creates definitions for "preschool recorded program" and "record" for purposes related to regulation of child care facilities.
Provides that mandate to sell gasoline blended with ethanol does not apply to gasoline with octane rating of 91 or above.
Classifies crime of assault in second degree as assault in first degree if defendant knows victim is pregnant.
Passed the House · 6
Exempts employee areas from standards for food and beverages sold in schools.
Enacts Interstate Compact for Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote.
Requires covered entities to report annually on system safeguards for protecting confidentiality of individually identifiable health information.
Removes prohibition against local government imposition of taxes on cigarettes and tobacco products.
Creates offense of unlawful disposition of tobacco product.
Prohibits provision of declaration or bylaws of planned community or condominium from prohibiting installation or use of renewable energy device.
Out of committee · 9
Establishes Aging and Disability Resource Center program in Department of Human Services.
Creates Human Stem Cell Research Committee in Department of Human Services.
Permits corporations operating emerging businesses to defer corporate excise and income taxes.
Establishes Next Generation Fund.
Creates income tax credit for qualified investments in machinery and equipment.
Directs Department of Education to provide reimbursements to school districts that serve Oregon food products as part of United States Department of Agriculture's National School Lunch Program or School Breakfast Program.
Provides emergency unemployment insurance benefits to individuals who have exhausted regular benefits.
Approves recommendation of Land Conservation and Development Commission by designating area identified by commission recommendation as area of critical state concern.
Modifies theft in first degree to include theft of agricultural property under certain circumstances.
In committee · 32
Specifies amount of income from Common School Fund that Department of State Lands must transfer each calendar year to Superintendent of Public Instruction for apportionment among counties and school districts.
Requires person operating as scrap metal business to obtain certificate from Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services.
Creates offense of endangering child safety.
Prohibits person of any age from operating motor vehicle while using mobile communication device for purpose of receiving or transmitting text communication.
Adds green, yellow and red bicycle signals to list of traffic control devices.
Prohibits cities that use photo red light cameras from providing compensation to manufacturers and vendors of photo red light cameras based on number of citations issued or percentage of moneys collected from payment of fines.
Changes percentage of federal earned income credit allowable as credit against Oregon personal income tax.
Adds state and federal tax identification numbers to personal information subject to provisions of Oregon Consumer Identity Theft Protection Act.
Creates low-profit limited liability company as type of limited liability company with specified business purpose.
Allows public utility full cost recovery for hydrogen power station investments.
Authorizes issuance of lottery bonds for transportation projects for nonmotorized vehicles and pedestrians.
Requires counties to appoint service officers.
Transfers responsibility for reviewing ballot titles from Supreme Court to Review Panel composed of retired judges.
Creates Legislative Research Office.
Requires Department of Environmental Quality to develop and implement procedures to analyze water samples collected and submitted to the department for presence of cyanotoxins.
Creates personal and business tax credits for water conservation devices and systems.
Requires cities to provide urban services to territories approved for annexation within three years of date of proclamation.
Creates Oregon Commission on Autism Spectrum Disorder and requires commission to provide strategic plan to legislature.
Directs State Parks and Recreation Commission to allow free use of day use fee areas by persons with disabilities.
Directs Department of Human Services and Department of Education to develop strategic plan to improve transition from high school to adult living for persons with autism spectrum disorder.
Establishes Portland State University as public corporation under control of Portland Metropolitan Universities Board of Directors.
Requires Department of Environmental Quality to study climate change issues facing Oregon.
Grants recipient of unemployment insurance benefits $25 weekly allowance for each dependent child living in household.
Clarifies responsibility of Department of Human Services relating to drinking water.
Creates Family Leave Benefits Insurance Program to provide benefits to employees taking family leave.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to establish Construction Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Economic Development Pilot Program.
Directs Department of Revenue to prepare and mail to taxpayers "Oregon Annual Review," describing how state has spent tax revenues in preceding calendar year.
Reserves ___ percent of federal workforce investment funds allocated to state for training activities that support clean technology and prepare workers for employment in green jobs.
Creates limited license for physicians licensed in Idaho, California, Washington or Nevada who intend to work in certain rural Oregon settings.
Requires public schools to meet high environmental standards for design and construction of buildings or renovations to buildings.
Provides maximum allowable amount of credit for fuel cell system, other than homebuilder-installed renewable energy system, of 50 percent of total certified cost.
Authorizes issuance of lottery bonds for grants to agencies in executive department and certain private companies to acquire fuel cell systems.