Bills in the 2015 Regular Session, Senate.
Chris Edwards
Sponsored
Became law5
Requires Oregon Health Authority to establish and maintain list of designated high priority chemicals of concern for children's health used in children's products and to periodically review and revise list.
Authorizes Oregon Business Development Department to appoint Pacific Northwest Manufacturing Partnership Advisory Committee to advise department regarding Pacific Northwest Manufacturing Partnership and manufacturing economic development in geographic regions located within Willamette Valley and Columbia River corridor.
Permits bicyclist or motorcyclist to proceed at stop light under certain conditions.
Directs Higher Education Coordinating Commission to solicit applications and select two public universities to design and develop career advising and mentorship pilot program.
Establishes state preemption of local governmental authority to mandate work schedule requirements until adjournment of 2017 regular session of Legislative Assembly.
Passed the Senate1
Establishes uniform standards for hand dryers installed in public restrooms, including standards that impose limit on decibel level of operating hand dryer.
Out of committee1
Establishes Task Force on Healthy Food for Low-Income Families.
In committee14
Exempts local government from requirement to obtain aquatic invasive species prevention permit for certain boats.
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.
Creates Task Force on Clinical Research of Cannabis and directs task force to study and report on development of medical cannabis industry that provides patients with medical products that meet individual patient needs.
Establishes as semi-independent state agency Clinical Research of Cannabis Board.
Requires Legislative Administrator to establish and maintain database to catalog issues reported by constituents to members of Legislative Assembly, state agencies or other public bodies.
Removes requirement of Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to charge additional fee when applicant fails to make timely application for renewal of license or registration.
Directs Department of Education to conduct evaluation on methods to improve civics education.
Prohibits public body from publishing on Internet amount of tax court judgment if amount of judgment is less than $50,000.
Prohibits law enforcement agencies and officers from profiling based on specified personal characteristics or circumstances of individuals, except when characteristics or circumstances are tied to specific suspect description or credible information related to criminal incident or activity.
Directs school district to forward documentation relating to charges resulting in teacher's termination for failure to meet performance standards or goals to Teacher Standards and Practices Commission for disclosure to potential educational employers.
Prohibits use of Oregon Trail Card to purchase junk food.
Requires annexation of territory within urban growth boundary by city or, if within Metro, by city designated by Metro, upon receipt of petition proposing annexation that is submitted by all owners of land within territory to be annexed. .
Prohibits city from submitting question of annexation of territory to electors of city when owners of land in territory and at least 50 percent of electors in territory consent to annexation in writing and additional criteria are met.
Directs court to consider electronic location information that shows stolen bicycle is located in place to be searched as probable cause when issuing search warrant.
Carried from the House
Became law2
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.
Allows on-premises consumption of food and nonalcoholic beverages at certified smoke shops.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 5
Repeals sunset on provisions related to low carbon fuel standards.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to establish training program and specifies elements that program must include.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to develop plan for communication among local mental health authorities and systems to improve notifications and information-sharing when death suspected to be suicide involves individual 24 years of age or younger.
Conditionally exempts from regulation under certain air pollution laws carbon dioxide emissions from combustion or decomposition of biomass.
Requires State Board of Education to adopt rules under which school personnel may administer medications that treat adrenal insufficiency to students experiencing adrenal crisis.
Out of committee · 4
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Military Department for Oregon Military Museum.
Requires medical marijuana facilities and marijuana retailers to post at facility or on premises of retail location notice of potential harmful effects of marijuana on pregnant women, fetuses and breastfeeding infants .
Appropriates moneys to Department of Education to be expended for purpose of awarding grants under Career and Technical Education Revitalization Grant Program.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Department of Administrative Services for Oregon Healthcare Workforce Institute and Oregon Center for Nursing for analysis of effectiveness of state programs designed to encourage practice of healthcare providers with underserved populations or in rural areas.
In committee · 3
Permits employee of contracting agency that conducts cost analysis or determines feasibility of procurement, or exclusive representative of employee's bargaining unit, to seek judicial review of cost analysis or determination.
Authorizes Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington Counties each to designate one large-lot industrial reserve of 150 to 500 acres.
Provides definition for determining undeveloped portion of water right for municipal use.