Bills in the 2015 Regular Session, House.
Tobias Read
Sponsored
Became law6
Authorizes court, as part of settlement or judgment in class action, to approve process for payment of damages.
Directs Department of Transportation to establish Portland Trail Blazers license plate program for issuance of special registration plate.
Authorizes local government to create by ordinance or resolution Land Bank Authority as municipal corporation.
Creates Oregon Retirement Savings Board in office of State Treasurer.
Limits biennial expenditures by Oregon Business Development Department from lottery moneys for funding of cooperative efforts of National Policy Consensus Center of Portland State University and community organizations related to western juniper harvesting and related manufacturing.
Requires Oregon Business Development Department to provide economic development assistance to persons engaged in business of western juniper harvesting or of manufacturing products from western juniper, provide technical business assistance to western juniper harvesting and related manufacturing businesses and provide or fund workforce training assistance for potential western juniper harvesting and related manufacturing business workers.
Out of committee6
Expands allowable purposes for establishing individual development account.
Authorizes holder of off-premises sales license or direct shipper permit to deliver malt beverages for delivery to consumer or to ship malt beverages for delivery to consumer.
Establishes Task Force on Vision Zero: Achieving Zero Traffic Crashes, Injuries and Fatalities.
Increases limitation on subtraction for contribution to college savings network account to amount per designated beneficiary.
Increases membership of Public Infrastructure Commission to 13 by requiring both architect and engineer to be appointed.
Increases maximum amount of corporate excise tax credit allowed for qualified research activities.
In committee25
Makes failure of employer to grant employee unpaid parental leave to attend certain school-related activities unlawful employment practice.
Establishes Task Force on Exports.
Requires electric companies to reduce allocation of electricity from coal-derived generating resources to zero on or before January 1, 2025, to customers of electric company that are located in this state.
Enacts uniform sales and use tax administration provisions.
Establishes Oregon Investment Department as public investment agency to be supervised by director appointed by Oregon Investment Council.
Directs Oregon Business Development Department to submit report to interim legislative committees regarding innovation in economic development no later than July 1, 2016.
Modifies limit on issuance of infrastructure lottery bonds.
Directs Oregon Business Development Department to submit report to interim legislative committees regarding economic development no later than July 1, 2016.
Directs Oregon Business Development Department to submit report to interim legislative committees regarding economic development no later than July 1, 2016.
Changes name of Multimodal Transportation Fund to Connect Oregon Fund.
Modifies definition of "regionally significant industrial site" for purposes of inventory to determine availability of competitive supply of market-ready industrial sites.
Modifies definition of "regionally significant industrial site" for purposes of inventory to determine availability of competitive supply of market-ready industrial sites.
Establishes Task Force on Executive Compensation Among State Contractors.
Establishes task force to conduct study and recommend actions state government may reasonably undertake to promote commercial utilization of western juniper in Oregon.
Changes allowed cumulative nameplate capacity of qualifying solar photovoltaic energy systems enrolled in certain pilot programs established by Public Utility Commission.
Establishes Oregon Real Rate of Return Task Force.
Requires Department of Revenue to estimate projected amount of revenue, attributable to net capital gain, to be received by department for current tax year and to estimate amount received for previous tax year.
Requires student to complete and submit application for apprenticeship program or post-secondary institution of education, to complete and submit enlistment application in Armed Forces or National Guard, or to attend orientation related to apprenticeship or training opportunity, in order to receive high school diploma.
Reduces rate of tax on capital gains of personal income and corporate income and excise taxpayers if amount equal to gain is invested in Oregon business during tax year.
Directs Oregon Business Development Department to implement program in which tax revenues generated by persons hired by innovation activity employers are directed to Oregon Innovation Fund.
Provides that funds held in trust by mass transit district for purpose of paying post-employment benefits other than pensions are not surplus funds and may be invested in accordance with standard of judgment and care for investment of investment funds set forth in ORS 293.726.
Extends sunset for tax credit for qualified equity investment.
Establishes Trust Lands Transfer Commission.
Increases amount of estimate of revenues that will be received from General Fund revenue sources other than corporate income and excise taxes for biennium beginning July 1, 2013.
Directs State Parks and Recreation Department to remove official State of Mississippi flag from Walk of Flags display at State Capitol State Park and replace with Mississippi Magnolia Flag.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Decreases compulsory school age from seven to six years of age.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 21
Authorizes individuals acting under authority of broadcasters to enter geographic area subject to declaration of emergency to maintain essential broadcast equipment.
Requires school district to provide lunch free of charge to students who are eligible for reduced price lunches.
Defines "inhalant delivery system." Amends laws concerning sale of tobacco products to, and use of tobacco products by, minors so those laws equally apply to inhalant delivery systems.
Requires covered entities to report annually on system safeguards for protecting confidentiality of personally identifiable and protected health information.
Allows direct purchase and sale of bulk distilled liquor between distillery licensees for blending and manufacturing purposes.
Provides that person who records another person's intimate areas commits crime of invasion of personal privacy.
Authorizes designation of enterprise zone and zone and city for electronic commerce, addition of zone cosponsor and change of enterprise zone boundary without application process, subject to determination by Oregon Business Development Department that certain statutory requirements met.
Requires public universities to establish priority enrollment system for qualified students who are active members of Armed Forces of the United States, who are qualified veterans or who receive veterans' educational benefits as federally qualified dependents of active members or qualified veterans.
Establishes Oregon Talent Council.
Directs governing entity of public or private post-secondary institution of education that contracts with third party financial firm for student financial aid services to consider federal policies for contracting.
Permits financial institution to conduct savings promotion raffle, subject to specified conditions.
Directs Department of Education to administer process for providing funding for activities related to annual conference dedicated to Oregon civics and held on Oregon Civics Day for Teachers.
Requires Clackamas County to develop pilot program for forestry products grown on nonforest land in county to be commercially produced and marketed through forestry product cooperative.
Appropriates moneys to Higher Education Coordinating Commission to be expended for grant program that distributes moneys to community colleges, or any foundations of 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.
Requires insurers that cover prescription contraceptives to cover refills at specified frequency.
Requires hospital to adopt written discharge policies.
Provides that release decision for defendant charged with sex crime or crime constituting domestic violence must include order prohibiting attempted contact with victim and third-party contact with victim while defendant is in custody.
Establishes privilege in civil, criminal, administrative and school proceedings for certain communications between persons seeking services related to domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking and victim services programs and advocates.
Authorizes county to enter into agreement, for period not to exceed 20 years, with owner or person in possession or control of solar project pursuant to which property constituting solar project is exempt from property taxation and owner pays fee in lieu of taxes.
Requires each school obtaining approval from Higher Education Coordinating Commission to offer academic degree to annually obtain bond or letter of credit demonstrating school is financially sound and capable of fulfilling commitments to students.
Establishes Oregon Main Street Revitalization Grant Program within State Parks and Recreation Department for purpose of awarding grants to acquire, rehabilitate and construct buildings in designated downtown areas statewide and to facilitate community revitalization.
Passed the House · 4
Prohibits inclusion, in instrument conveying or contracting to convey real property or in declaration or bylaws of planned community or condominium, of provisions prohibiting installation and use of solar panels for obtaining solar access.
Authorizes city to designate any urbanized area of city as urban agriculture incentive zone.
Grants exemption to certain improvements located in most populous city of county with population of 650,000 or more that increase energy efficiency of property or reduce greenhouse gas emissions from property built before 2008.
Enacts Interstate Compact for Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote.
Out of committee · 6
Establishes Oregon Spirits Board.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to establish program to incentivize generation of electricity derived from solar energy.
Authorizes counties to establish programs for forestry products grown on nonforest lands in counties to be commercially produced and marketed through forestry product cooperatives.
Establishes Oregon Center of Cyber-Excellence.
Allows personal income taxpayers to subtract certain amounts paid as interest on qualified education loans from taxable income, subject to same income limitations applicable to federal education loan interest deduction.
Requires State Department of Agriculture to develop and establish program to create marketing plan for value-added Oregon agricultural products.
In committee · 7
Increases cigarette tax.
Establishes Certified Oregon Program in Oregon Business Development Department to certify for-profit and nonprofit businesses to use term "Certified Oregon" on products and labels, in advertising and media and for other purposes specified by rule.
Authorizes court, as part of settlement or judgment in class action, to approve process for payment of damages.
Directs Legislative Assembly to appropriate amount equal to one percent of total amount of General Fund appropriations and lottery allocations for next biennium to both Oregon Rainy Day Fund and Education Stability Fund if state unemployment rate for previous year is six percent or less at time of last economic and revenue forecast of biennium.
Modifies definition of "terminal disease" in Oregon Death With Dignity Act.
Directs Department of Transportation to establish Portland Trail Blazers license plate program for issuance of special registration plate.
Directs Department of Revenue, in collaboration with Department of Human Services, to establish pilot program for disbursement of installment payments to personal income taxpayers of amounts equal to personal income tax dependent care credits.