Bills in the 2007 Regular Session, House.
Diane Rosenbaum
Sponsored
Became law3
Expands purposes for which employee taking family leave may use paid sick leave.
Requires prescription drug benefit program, or prescription drug benefit offered under health benefit plan or under student health insurance policy, to include coverage of contraception.
Modifies provisions relating to coverage and membership of association health plans.
Passed the House3
Creates Family Leave Benefits Insurance program to provide benefits to employees taking family leave.
Prohibits former member of Legislative Assembly from being compensated lobbyist during period beginning on date person ceases being member and ending on date of adjournment sine die of next regular legislative session.
Requires Department of Human Services to prepare and submit to Legislative Assembly annual report containing list of employers with employees receiving public assistance, including food stamp benefits.
Out of committee1
Expands prohibition of smoking in public places and places of employment.
In committee9
Expands crimes of coercion and theft by extortion to include threatening to report person's immigration status.
Removes limit on number of hours retired member may work and still qualify for retirement under Public Employees Retirement System if retired member is employed by school district or education service district as other than teacher or management employee, or by community college as other than faculty member or management employee.
Removes individuals who are performing services in other than instructional, research or principal administrative capacity at certain educational institutions from disqualification for receipt of unemployment insurance benefits during certain periods.
Requires person working at call center and making or receiving telephone communications to disclose location of call center and, upon request, name of person who has contracted to use services of call center.
Increases corporate minimum tax that applies to C corporations.
Changes percentage of federal earned income credit allowable as credit against Oregon personal income tax.
Requires Department of Human Services to contract with nongovernmental entity to produce report of employers with employees who receive public assistance.
Provides that Administrator of the Oregon Advocacy Commissions Office be appointed by board consisting of chairpersons of commissions served by office and Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries.
Requires health benefit plans to provide coverage of human papillomavirus vaccine for female beneficiaries who are 11 years of age and older.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Expands prohibition of smoking in public places and places of employment.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 26
Changes definition of "small employer" by increasing maximum number of eligible employees from 25 to 50.
Requires employers of 25 or more employees to provide unpaid rest periods to employees to express milk if providing rest periods does not cause undue hardship on operation of employer's business.
Creates Medically Involved Home-Care Program in Department of Human Services.
Provides statute of limitations for injury or death resulting from use of medication that is intended to inhibit enzyme known as cyclooxygenase-2.
Redefines "family leave" to exclude leave taken by employee who is unable to work because of disabling compensable injury under Workers' Compensation Law.
Prohibits person from selling gift card that expires or has face value that declines over time or with lack of use.
Establishes Oregon Health Care Acquired Infection Reporting Program.
Provides that data on motor vehicle event data recorder is exclusively owned by owner of motor vehicle.
Increases number of directors appointed to State Board of Higher Education.
Creates Task Force on Civics and Financial Education to study and make recommendations about how to increase and improve civics and financial education in kindergarten through grade 12 public schools.
Establishes statewide system administered by Department of Environmental Quality for collection, transportation and recycling of certain electronic devices.
Specifies minimum standards for food and beverages sold in public schools.
Requires employer to pay over, in accordance with law or agreement requiring or authorizing deductions from wages, amounts deducted from employee's wages.
Directs Governor to assign state agency responsibility for developing plan to ensure that written documents produced by executive department agencies conform to plain language standards.
Sets maximum finance charge or interest rate at charge or rate not to exceed 36 percent per annum or 30 percentage points in excess of discount rate on 90-day commercial paper in effect at Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, established annually by Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services, for all consumer finance, payday and title loans of $50,000 or less.
Creates offense of operating motor vehicle while using mobile communication device.
Requires Employment Relations Board, unless petition for representation election is filed, to certify labor organization as exclusive representative of employees if board finds that majority of employees in unit appropriate for bargaining have signed authorizations designating labor organization specified in petition as employees' bargaining representative and that no other labor organization is currently certified or recognized as exclusive representative of employees in unit.
Imposes $10 fee for filing of petitions for marital annulment, dissolution or separation, and for filing of responses to petitions for marital annulment, dissolution or separation.
Abolishes Environmental Quality Information Account and transfers funds in account to Passenger Rail Transportation Account to be used for passenger rail programs.
Amends duties of Department of Human Services and law enforcement agencies with respect to investigations of allegations of child abuse at child care facilities.
Provides that public high school student journalists have right to exercise freedom of speech and press in school-sponsored media.
Requires city to allow electors, if any, in surrounded territory proposed to be annexed to vote if city charter, ordinance or resolution requires city to hold election in city.
Modifies conditions under which individual may be eligible for unemployment insurance benefits when individual is unemployed due to lockout resulting from labor dispute.
Adds fees for requests for preliminary certification of reforestation projects by State Forester to costs included in project costs for purposes of income tax credit for reforestation projects.
Requires county or counties to publish annual summary of changes made in response to recommendations made by local public safety coordinating council.
Authorizes creation of affordable housing covenant restricting price, rental rate or occupancy to ensure adequate supply of rental and owner-occupied affordable housing for low or moderate income households.
Passed the House · 5
Establishes state policy that state-funded research benefiting private enterprise must encourage economic development and job creation in Oregon.
Prohibits use of state funds to assist, promote or deter union organizing.
Prohibits employer from requiring employee to attend meeting or participate in communication concerning employer's opinion about religious or political matters.
Creates Task Force on Establishing Mental Health Database to identify issues, explore solutions and make recommendations to Seventy-fifth Legislative Assembly regarding establishment and implementation of database to aid law enforcement officers in assisting mentally ill individuals to obtain medical, mental health and social services.
Directs State Fish and Wildlife Commission to name Fall Creek hatchery research center Lindsay Ball Research Hatchery.
Out of committee · 17
Expands definition of categorically needy persons eligible for medical assistance to include children with disabilities .
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Housing and Community Services Department and Department of Human Services for Senior Corps programs.
Establishes Human Stem Cell Research Committee in Department of Human Services.
Requires Department of State Police to establish base pay for troopers.
Appropriates moneys from ___ to Economic and Community Development Department for purpose of assisting development of targeted small businesses and microenterprises.
Gives family child care providers right to collectively bargain with State of Oregon.
Requires Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to administer collaboration grants for local public safety coordinating councils.
Makes findings concerning use of Oregon workers to perform services contracted for by state agencies.
Directs State Department of Agriculture to consult with Department of Education for purpose of helping Department of Education develop Farm-to-School program.
Allows members of Oregon National Guard to enroll in specified classes at state institution of higher education or community college at no cost.
Creates SWAT (Schools Will Attract Talent) Team for Oregon's Future Task Force.
Allows Department of Education to establish program to provide mentoring and resources that help students access education and training beyond high school.
Establishes Task Force on Mental Retardation in Capital Cases.
Allows retired member who is employed by Legislative Assembly or Oregon State Police for purpose of service during regular or special session of Legislative Assembly to be employed for all or any part of session without affecting status of person as retired member.
Requires Oregon Department of Administrative Services to maintain records about state contracts for consulting services and report information about those contracts to Governor and Legislative Assembly.
Directs Oregon Liquor Control Commission to transfer amount equal to five percent of gross revenues derived from sales of distilled liquor by bottle to Oregon Criminal Justice Commission Account.
Directs Department of Education to establish farm-to-school program.
In committee · 39
Establishes bill of rights for telecommunications consumers.
Requires pharmaceutical manufacturing companies to annually disclose to Department of Justice certain economic benefits provided in conjunction with marketing of prescription drugs.
Creates crime of unauthorized trading in telephone records.
Limits television advertising by Oregon State Lottery to promoting introduction of new games.
Allows tax credit to individual who owns and occupies manufactured dwelling as primary residence and who ends tenancy in manufactured dwelling park as result of closing of park or portion of park.
Allows Department of Human Services to provide grants to nonprofit organizations for alcohol and drug abuse prevention and treatment.
Allows Commissioner of Bureau of Labor and Industries to adopt rules permitting overtime pay for work after eight hours in one day or, when employer has adopted alternative workweek schedule that authorizes employee to work 10 hours per day within 40-hour workweek, after 10 hours in one day.
Requires Department of Education to advise school guidance counselors on techniques and tools for informing high school students of educational opportunities.
Directs Department of Education to prepare financial education program.
Requires school districts to provide instruction in financial education in secondary schools.
Provides that violation of certain skiing prohibitions and requirements is Class A violation, punishable by maximum fine of $720.
Creates offense of smoking in motor vehicle while person under age of 17 is in motor vehicle.
Creates crime of unlawful disposition of tobacco product.
Makes legislative findings on effects of international outsourcing of jobs.
Directs Department of Transportation to design and issue registration plate that grants parking privileges to qualifying person with disability.
Permits coastal counties to apply for designation of wave energy enterprise zones for development of wave energy facilities.
Modifies penalties for providing alcoholic beverages to person under 21 years of age or to another person with knowledge that other person will provide alcoholic beverages to person under 21 years of age.
Requires contractors submitting bids or proposals on state public contracts to certify where services would be performed.
Repeals certain limit on penalty wages due employee because of employer's failure to pay final wages upon termination.
Requires Public Employees Retirement Board to allow retired members and beneficiaries to make voluntary monthly contributions to labor organizations.
Creates personal and business tax credits for water conservation devices and systems.
Gives tenants' association, facility purchase association or tenants' association supported nonprofit organization 14-day right of first refusal for offer or agreement by landlord to sell facility.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Housing and Community Services Department for biennial expenses related to financing of manufactured dwelling park purchases by or on behalf of tenants with low incomes.
Establishes payment obligation for facility landlord closing manufactured dwelling park or portion of park.
Provides that urban renewal agencies may include affordable housing projects in urban renewal plans.
Changes allowable number of digits payment system for credit or debit cards may display on customer receipt from five to four.
Requires insurer to offer policy of group health insurance to chamber of commerce that satisfies requirements of association.
Establishes acuity-based patient classification system for certain health care facilities.
Increases tax on malt beverages over five-year period.
Expands Oregon Prescription Drug Program to include individuals with private prescription drug benefit program that does not cover one or more necessary drugs taken by individual.
Eliminates tax deductions, subtractions or credits that may be claimed against taxes by corporations that decrease employment in Oregon and increase employment in countries outside of United States.
Changes title of "precinct committeeperson" to "precinct representative.".
Allows school districts to aggregate districts' energy requirements for purchase and delivery of utility services as one entity to qualify for lower industrial rates.
Requires mortgage or trust deed lender to prorate prepayment privilege penalty for prepayments made after first year of loan agreement.
Requires that warranty for materials used in residential construction include coverage for reasonable cost of labor to replace defective materials.
Creates Task Force on Civics Education.
Creates sunset provision for personal income or corporate excise or income tax expenditures that are not required under federal law or Oregon Constitution, or to avoid double taxation.
Allows dogs accompanied by their owners into restaurants and bars.
Imposes tax on distribution of malt beverages at rate of $16.50 per barrel of 31 gallons.