Bills in the 2007 Regular Session, House.
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Became law4
Increases length of time ignition interlock device must be installed and used by person convicted of driving under influence.
Extends from one year to four years authority of disadvantaged, minority, women or emerging small business enterprise to elect not to obtain public works bond.
Requires insurer providing workers' compensation coverage to provide notice of termination of coverage 45 days prior to effective date of termination.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Department of Administrative Services to be disbursed to Independent Development Enterprise Alliance.
Passed the House1
Establishes state policy that state-funded research benefiting private enterprise must encourage economic development and job creation in Oregon.
In committee15
Limits number of medium and high risk offenders that may be supervised by parole and probation officers who engage in case supervision.
Removes one-year limitation on authority of disadvantaged, minority, women or emerging small business enterprise to elect not to obtain public works bond.
Removes one-year limitation on authority of disadvantaged, minority, women or emerging small business enterprise to elect not to obtain public works bond.
Requires that minimum continuing legal education requirements of Oregon State Bar include cultural competency training designed to educate members on providing unbiased and effective representation of clients.
Allows Department of Transportation to waive issuance, renewal or replacement fee of identification card for indigent person.
Places land in urban growth boundary of metropolitan service district if, on effective date of Act, land is within incorporated boundary of city wholly or partly within district and land is not subject to statewide land use planning goal relating to agriculture or forestry.
Requires preparation of racial and ethnic impact statements that assess impact of prison-related legislation and certain prison-related rulemaking on racial and ethnic profile of prison population.
Requires all counties and certain cities to create civilian police review boards.
Permits public contracting agencies to enter into indefinite quantity contracts for architectural, engineering, land surveying and related services.
Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to study effects of transferring persons from prison to county jail for last six months of sentence.
Expands training that Board on Public Safety Standards and Training is required to provide police officers and certified reserve officers.
Requires Board on Public Safety Standards and Training to ensure police, reserve and corrections officers are trained to interact with persons with disabilities and persons showing indicators of substance abuse.
Appropriates moneys to Housing and Community Services Department for work of Oregon Volunteers Commission for Voluntary Action and Service.
Requires Oregon Department of Administrative Services to conduct disparity studies to assess any discrimination and any resulting disparity between availability and use of disadvantaged, minority or women business enterprises in state public contracting.
Modifies definitions related to use of medical marijuana.
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Became law · 27
Changes definition of "small employer" by increasing maximum number of eligible employees from 25 to 50.
Creates Medically Involved Home-Care Program in Department of Human Services.
Authorizes placement of video lottery game terminals in establishments holding brewery-public house license issued by Oregon Liquor Control Commission.
Provides statute of limitations for injury or death resulting from use of medication that is intended to inhibit enzyme known as cyclooxygenase-2.
Extends exemption from Construction Contractors Board licensing to owner who contracts with one or more licensed contractors to perform work on not more than three existing residential structures of owner within same calendar year.
Modifies definition of Class II all-terrain vehicle.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Allows Oregon Student Assistance Commission to establish programs to provide mentoring and resources that help students access education and training beyond high school.
Provides that taxpayer is not disqualified from claiming working family child care income tax credit solely because taxpayer's spouse has disability, if disability is such that it prevents taxpayer's spouse from providing child care, being gainfully employed, seeking employment and attending school.
Requires training in mental illness recognition prior to obtaining certification as police officer.
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.
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.
Requires health benefit plan to cover treatment of child under 18 years of age who has been diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorder subject to same conditions as treatment of physical illness.
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.
Expands required contents for notice of condominium conversion.
Provides that public high school student journalists have right to exercise freedom of speech and press in school-sponsored media.
Requires Home Care Commission to elect workers' compensation coverage for certain home care workers.
Requires county or counties to publish annual summary of changes made in response to recommendations made by local public safety coordinating council.
Creates crime of online sexual corruption of child in second degree.
Passed the House · 10
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.
Directs Director of Veterans' Affairs to assist veterans of military service in obtaining screening tests and treatment services for exposure to depleted uranium.
Requires state agency authorized to finance construction, purchase or renovation of structures used by state to reduce by June 30, 2015, amount of energy agency uses in facility by 20 percent from amount agency used in 2000.
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.
Requires motor vehicle telematics service provider to furnish information about location of motor vehicle to law enforcement agency upon request.
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.
Directs each county sheriff's department and chief of police of city police department to adopt policy addressing whether peace officers may appear in uniform while off-duty.
Directs State Fish and Wildlife Commission to name Fall Creek hatchery research center Lindsay Ball Research Hatchery.
Out of committee · 19
Directs Secretary of State to conduct performance and program audits on tax expenditures.
Expands definition of categorically needy persons eligible for medical assistance to include children with disabilities .
Expands prohibition of smoking in public places and places of employment.
Prohibits pharmaceutical manufacturing companies from providing certain gifts in conjunction with marketing of prescription drugs.
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.
Directs Department of Education to award grants to remote and necessary school districts.
Requires State Forestry Department to establish and maintain fuel breaks between contiguous state and federal forestlands.
Directs Department of Transportation to erect and maintain roadside memorial sign for pedestrian or bicyclist killed in motor vehicle accident, upon application by immediate family member.
Directs general or special election ballots to list name of candidate for partisan office for each nomination candidate receives, with name of each political party that nominated candidate printed opposite one of listings of candidate's name.
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.
Repeals prohibition on city, county or metropolitan service district imposing requirement that effectively establishes sales price for housing unit or residential lot or parcel or limits availability of housing unit or residential lot or parcel to class or group of purchasers.
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.
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.
In committee · 42
Establishes bill of rights for telecommunications consumers.
Authorizes school district to establish impact fee on creation of new residential dwelling.
Expands crimes of coercion and theft by extortion to include threatening to report person's immigration status.
Increases percentage of federal earned income tax credit allowable as credit against Oregon personal income tax.
Requires Department of Veterans' Affairs to provide information about depleted uranium and depleted uranium compounds and to assist veterans exposed to depleted uranium and depleted uranium compounds in obtaining health screening.
Requires pharmaceutical manufacturing companies to annually disclose to Department of Justice certain economic benefits provided in conjunction with marketing of prescription drugs.
Adds schools and classrooms providing kindergarten through grade 12 education to definition of "capital improvements" for which system development charges may be imposed.
Prohibits members of Legislative Assembly, members-elect, statewide officials and statewide officials-elect from soliciting or receiving political contributions during period beginning on date of general election and ending on first day of next following regular session of Legislative Assembly.
Creates crime of unauthorized trading in telephone records.
Adds additional public facilities and assets to list of capital improvements for which local government unit may assess and collect system development charges.
Directs Governor to appoint Drug Policy Coordinator.
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.
Creates offense of distracted driving.
Allows Department of Human Services to provide grants to nonprofit organizations for alcohol and drug abuse prevention and treatment.
Prohibits telecommunications utility from charging customer for telecommunications service after service is canceled.
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.
Makes legislative findings on effects of international outsourcing of jobs.
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.
Directs Department of Transportation to design and issue registration plate that grants parking privileges to qualifying person with disability.
Requires contractors submitting bids or proposals on state public contracts to certify where services would be performed.
Allows circuit courts to establish mental health court departments.
Sets limits on amounts that may be contributed to political candidates and political committees.
Requires addition to taxable income for Oregon tax purposes of certain income otherwise excluded from federal taxable income.
Permits corporations operating emerging businesses to defer corporate excise and income taxes.
Reduces fee charged by Water Resources Department for examining certain new applications for in-stream water right lease.
Authorizes Oregon State Police to operate photo radar on state or interstate highway.
Creates charitable donation program for donation of tax refunds to American Red Cross.
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.
Changes allowable number of digits payment system for credit or debit cards may display on customer receipt from five to four.
Directs person who makes independent expenditures in amount exceeding $2,000 to prominently disclose in any communication names, addresses and amounts contributed by five largest contributors to person.
Requires vacancies in election or office of state Senator or state Representative occurring within one year after general election at which person was elected to be filled at special election.
Requires insurer to offer policy of group health insurance to chamber of commerce that satisfies requirements of association.
Creates Welcome to Oregon Task Force to study strategies to create welcoming environment for visitors entering state on Interstate Highway 5 from Vancouver, Washington.
Establishes acuity-based patient classification system for certain health care facilities.
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.
Changes title of "precinct committeeperson" to "precinct representative.".
Requires mortgage or trust deed lender to prorate prepayment privilege penalty for prepayments made after first year of loan agreement.
Creates Task Force on Civics Education.
Allows dogs accompanied by their owners into restaurants and bars.