Bills in the 2011 Regular Session, House.
Tobias Read
Sponsored
Became law2
Allows taxpayer to make direct deposit contribution of income tax refund into Oregon 529 College Savings Network account.
Authorizes Oregon Innovation Council to make grants and loans from Oregon Innovation Fund to Oregon growth businesses that further innovation-based economic development in this state.
Passed the House1
Requires student to complete and submit application for apprenticeship program or post-secondary education institution or for enlistment in branch of Armed Forces or National Guard, or to attend orientation related to apprenticeship or training opportunity, in order to receive high school diploma.
Out of committee5
Creates income and corporate excise tax credit for new and retrofitted energy conservation projects located in Oregon.
Establishes Oregon Fund for Energy, Jobs and Innovation.
Creates subtraction from taxable income for net capital gain that is invested in certain businesses.
Directs State Registrar of Center for Health Statistics to send data file containing parents' names and mother's address to State Treasurer for each child born in Oregon to residents of this state.
Reduces rate of tax on capital gains of personal income and corporate income and excise taxpayers if, after effective date of Act, amount equal to gain is invested as seed capital in emerging growth business during tax year.
In committee12
Establishes corporate income and excise tax credit for certain facility costs of business firms that construct facilities and engage in business operations in which average annual gross payroll and increase in number of employees meet specified requirements.
Reduces rate of tax on certain capital gains of personal income taxpayers.
Revises corporate minimum tax for C corporations by imposing tax based on combination of taxpayer's fixed assets, Oregon sales and payroll for tax year.
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.
Establishes credit against personal income tax for amounts paid by eligible taxpayer who paid for and received instruction leading to degree or recognized certificate from post-secondary institution.
Requires Oregon Business Development Department to designate targeted employment areas for purposes of federal immigrant investor program.
Authorizes county service district to provide development review and code enforcement services that implement plans adopted by same district.
Directs Office of Emergency Management and State Parks and Recreation Department jointly to develop State Emergency Preparedness Parks System.
Establishes exemption from property taxation for buildings and fixtures that meet specified criteria relating to energy efficiency.
Reduces rate of tax on capital gains of personal income and corporate income and excise taxpayers if amount equal to gain is invested in emerging growth business during tax year.
Creates income tax credit for investment of realized capital gains in emerging growth business.
Designates any elective county or city office as nonpartisan.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Requires Oregon Business Development Department to administer Oregon Business Retention and Expansion Program to lend incremental Oregon Business Retention and Expansion Program tax revenues to certified employers.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 21
Provides that Adjutant General may not place or retain person in unit designated for active federal service outside state if person is sibling of person killed while serving on active duty with Armed Forces of United States.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to report to Joint Committee on Ways and Means ratio of public employees to supervisory employees, ratio of public employees to managerial employees and number of positions for managerial employees who do not act in supervisory capacity.
Expands definition of term "uniformed service" for purpose of employment protections for members of uniformed service to match federal definition.
Authorizes public body to send notice by electronic mail if person enters into agreement with public body to receive notice by electronic mail and certain other conditions are met.
Directs Director of Veterans' Affairs to establish third Oregon Veterans' Home in Roseburg.
Allows person that proposes removal or fill activity for construction or maintenance of linear facility to apply for removal or fill permit.
Eliminates reliance on spiritual treatment as defense to certain crimes in which victim is under 18 years of age.
Modifies definitions of "cigar bar" and "smoke shop" for purposes of Oregon Indoor Clean Air Act and directs Oregon Health Authority to establish certification system for smoke shops.
Directs Department of Education to award grants to school districts for reimbursement of costs incurred in purchasing Oregon food products that meet certain criteria and for funding food-based, agriculture-based and garden-based educational activities.
Authorizes Oregon Business Development Department to make grants to small businesses from Building Opportunities for Oregon Small Business Today Account if business hires veteran as new full-time employee.
Increases, under specified circumstances, penalty for crime of strangulation to maximum of five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both.
Directs State Department of Energy to establish clean energy deployment program to provide grants and loans to support energy efficiency or clean energy projects, including projects to weatherize, upgrade or retrofit public schools.
Requires executive summaries of reports and notices of proposed rulemaking that must be filed with members of Legislative Assembly to be sent electronically.
Requires Business Registration Information Center to establish, maintain and update "One Stop Shop for Oregon Business" Internet portal.
Provides that U.S. Highway 30 between St. Helens and Rainier shall be known as Police Chief Ralph Painter Memorial Highway.
Allows sponsor and public charter school to enter into cooperative agreement with other school districts for purpose of forming partnership to provide educational services.
Modifies provisions for development and maintenance of telephone service that provides referral information regarding services after emergency and health and human services.
Allows court to renew Family Abuse Prevention Act order upon petition of child who has reached 18 years of age if child was protected by previous order and reasonably fears further acts of abuse by respondent.
Requires Joint Boards of Education to develop standards by which students may apply credits earned at community college toward baccalaureate degrees awarded by state institutions of higher education.
Authorizes Oregon Department of Administrative Services to consult with Oregon Progress Board regarding specified plans and entities and requires department to submit related report to interim committee of Legislative Assembly with subject matter jurisdiction over board on or before July 2, 2012.
Requires person who submits death certificate after decedent's death was caused by suicide to make reasonable efforts to ascertain and to notify Center for Health Statistics whether decedent was veteran, whether decedent served in combat and where decedent served if decedent served in combat.
Vetoed · 1
Prohibits floral order facilitator from charging or receiving consideration for individual orders.
Passed the House · 2
Authorizes prosecution for failure to report as sex offender in county where defendant is apprehended or last registered, if county where offense was committed cannot be determined.
Establishes process through which person may obtain reservation through city or county to conduct funeral service on public property.
Out of committee · 4
Prohibits Governor and Oregon Department of Administrative Services from reducing allotments to Department of Revenue when Oregon Department of Administrative Services declares projected deficit in biennium.
Prohibits sending of unsolicited facsimiles .
Creates State Agency Innovation Fund.
Creates Certified Capital Company Act.
In committee · 30
Requires state agency that borrows moneys for capital construction project to set aside ___ percent of net proceeds of bonds issued in separate account if authorization for borrowing allows financing of repairs or maintenance.
Allows Attorney General or Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries to file civil action in relation to discrimination against person for service in uniformed service.
Requires State Parks and Recreation Commission to make reasonable efforts to arrive at agreement with Portland Parks and Recreation to acquire Forest Park.
Requires that state agency making documents available in electronic form make documents available in formats used by two most commonly used proprietary operating systems and most commonly used nonproprietary operating system.
Directs school district board to adopt policy related to teen dating violence.
Creates crime of trafficking in bicycles with a destroyed or altered serial number.
Requires biodiesel, or other renewable diesel, contained in diesel fuel sold in this state to contain at least 50 percent qualifying feedstock.
Expands breaches of security for which notification is required under Oregon Consumer Identity Theft Protection Act to include written data that contains personal information.
Abolishes State Department of Energy.
Designates Governor as Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Requires that public bodies develop and implement policies for securely removing personal information from digital data storage devices and other electronic data storage devices before selling, donating, recycling or otherwise disposing of device.
Provides credit against income taxes for taxpayer creating jobs for certain removal and remedial actions.
Allows Director of the Department of Environmental Quality to enter into certain agreements related to releases of hazardous substances.
Prohibits Public Employees Retirement Board from paying increased benefit by reason of state income taxation of payments made by board if person receiving payments does not pay Oregon income tax on retirement benefits.
Allows Oregon Growth Account to be used to make loans to or invest in small businesses that operate in traded sector markets.
Prescribes treatments that must be covered by health benefit plans for traumatic brain injuries.
Enacts Interstate Compact for Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote.
Prohibits pharmacist from dispensing drug that is not therapeutically equivalent to drug ordered or prescribed unless prescriber and patient have consented in writing.
Prohibits retail store that sells tobacco from operating powered machine that rolls cigarettes or allowing customer to operate powered machine that rolls cigarettes.
Prohibits city or district from requiring landowner to consent to eventual annexation in exchange for continuation of extraterritorial service originally provided to landowner or predecessor in interest of landowner without requiring consent to annexation.
Requires Director of the State Department of Energy to promote use of compressed natural gas.
Prohibits owner of foreclosed residential real property from neglecting real property during periods of vacancy.
Requires facilitators of income tax refund anticipation loans and refund anticipation payment instruments to obtain license from State Board of Tax Practitioners.
Establishes 2011-2012 School Year Subaccount within State School Fund.
Appropriates moneys from Oregon Rainy Day Fund to Department of Human Services, Oregon Youth Authority and Department of State Police for specified purposes.
Directs each school district board to adopt policy regarding teen dating violence.
Expands definition of "farm use" to include facilities for training dogs in canine skills on land zoned for exclusive farm use.
Implements House Joint Resolution 47 (2011).
Creates unlawful practice of manufacturing, distributing, selling or offering for sale child's beverage container or reusable bottle made or lined with bisphenol A or replacement material that is carcinogenic or is reproductive toxicant.
Establishes alternative methods for telecommunications provider to satisfy requirement to collect and remit tax on customer access to 9-1-1 emergency reporting system from prepaid telecommunications service customers.