Bills in the 2015 Regular Session, Senate.
Chip Shields
Sponsored
Became law4
Requires person providing restoration work on residential or small commercial structure following man-made or natural disaster to have appropriate license endorsement issued by Construction Contractors Board.
Prohibits law enforcement agency from obtaining by forensic imaging information from portable electronic device without warrant except when authorized by consent.
Removes requirement that arrested person with disability provide proof of inability to obtain qualified interpreter in order for public employer of arresting officer to pay for interpreter.
Directs Department of Human Services to adopt administrative rules for home studies and placement reports in adoption proceedings that require that equal consideration be given to relatives and current caretakers as prospective adoptive parents, and that greater consideration be given to relatives and current caretakers as compared to other persons who are not relatives or current caretakers.
Out of committee7
Directs Department of Corrections to determine last-known address of inmates in custody of department, if address is readily known or available to inmate, and submit information to Secretary of State.
Repeals state preemption of charter and statutory authority of local governments to set minimum wage requirements.
Increases Oregon minimum wage rate in graduated steps to $15 per hour by 2018.
Directs Department of Human Services to establish two pilot programs in rural and urban regions of this state to improve quality and effectiveness of foster care for children and wards placed in legal custody of department for care, placement and supervision.
Restricts use of motor vehicle registration plate surveillance cameras.
Requires deadly physical force policy of law enforcement agency to have requirement that investigation into use of deadly physical force by agency's police officers be led by person who is not employed by agency.
Directs Department of Corrections to enter into contracts with nonprofit entities to create program to assist children of incarcerated parents.
In committee20
Requires court to inform jury of certain mandatory minimum sentences prior to deliberation.
Creates Oregon Intellectual Property Protection Corporation.
Removes antitrust exemption for coordinated care organizations.
Establishes joint and several liability for person that aids or abets employer, contractor or subcontractor in violating certain wage rate statutes.
Requires insurer offering health benefit plans to provide annual notice to policyholders of specified information about Department of Consumer and Business Services' rate review process.
Requires nonprofit hospital to adopt formula meeting specified criteria for executive compensation.
Requires police officer to inform person stopped for traffic violation or upon suspicion of criminal activity that person has right to refuse request to search.
Establishes Oregon Right to Rest Act.
Expands Oregon Criminal Justice Commission requirement to create racial and ethnic impact statement to include proposed legislation relating to education policy.
Prohibits public body from obtaining location information of electronic device without warrant except in certain circumstances.
Directs Department of Transportation to create Livable Roadway Program for purpose of allowing volunteer groups to plant trees and shrubs along roadside.
Requires trial judge to inform jury of power to acquit even if guilt of defendant proven beyond reasonable doubt.
Establishes Task Force on Insurance Fraud for purpose of studying causes of and methods employed in insurance fraud, examining methods for preventing and punishing insurance fraud and evaluating costs and consequences of insurance fraud.
Directs Department of Human Services to submit report to interim legislative committees regarding status of juvenile mental health treatment in Oregon no later than July 1, 2016.
Requires home inspector conducting inspection of single-family dwelling in high-risk location for seismic activity and constructed before 1994 to provide potential purchaser of dwelling with certain information concerning seismic hazards and seismic retrofitting of dwellings.
Provides that criminal defendants do not lose right to vote as result of incarceration.
Establishes standards of care for Department of Corrections inmates with serious mental illness.
Requires State Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision to hold hearing when inmate who was under 18 years of age at time of offense completes 26 years of prison sentence.
Establishes Joint Legislative Committee on Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight.
Directs Department of Revenue to study issue of allowing certain homesteads of senior citizens that have appreciated by more than 50 percent to enter homestead property tax deferral program.
Carried from the House
Became law1
Allows district school board to enter into transactions that are expected to reduce cost to district for school facilities.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 13
Repeals sunset on provisions related to low carbon fuel standards.
Requires insurer to pay claims up to maximum coverage under policy of uninsured motorist coverage based on insured's total damages for personal injuries.
Directs Housing and Community Services Department to submit report related to housing stabilization programs to interim legislative committees no later than July 1, 2016.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to establish training program and specifies elements that program must include.
Establishes certain workplace protections for domestic workers.
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.
Creates Palliative Care and Quality of Life Interdisciplinary Advisory Council in Oregon Health Authority.
Requires Oregon Department of Administrative Services to transfer ownership of certain real property to City of Pendleton.
Directs Environmental Quality Commission to adopt rules requiring accredited inspector to perform asbestos survey for purpose of determining whether asbestos-containing materials are present at residence or residential building before demolition.
Modifies requirements for health plan coverage of prescription drugs dispensed in accordance with synchronization policy.
Requires schools and children's facilities to make available certain information related to immunizations.
Adds physician assistant to Oregon Medical Board membership.
Prohibits counties and districts from imposing vehicle registration fee on vehicles registered to employment address when registered owner's residence address is not in same county as employment address.
Out of committee · 4
Requires premises where person makes retail sales of tobacco products and inhalant delivery systems to be licensed by Oregon Liquor Control Commission.
Directs Department of Human Services to convene work group to develop common client confidentiality release form to be used by public bodies and community organizations to enable and facilitate appropriate sharing of confidential information.
Appropriates moneys to Department of Education to be expended for purpose of awarding grants under Career and Technical Education Revitalization Grant Program.
Establishes Task Force on Measures of Economic and Social Success.
In committee · 8
Requires name of member or committee of Legislative Assembly requesting set of proposed amendments to legislative measure to be identified on proposed amendments.
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.
Requires Department of Corrections to adopt rules that prohibit department's correctional facilities from having contract with provider of telephone services under which department or facility receives payment for telephone services provided to inmates of facility.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to convene learning collaborative to develop payment method to support provision of care through patient centered primary care homes.
Establishes Health Care for All Oregon Board to develop, implement and have oversight of Health Care for All Oregon Plan to be administered by Oregon Health Authority.
Enacts Interstate Compact for Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote.
Requires health insurance policies or certificates that include prescription drug benefits, health benefit plans and the state medical assistance program to cover costs of specified women's health care drugs and services.
Requires Environmental Quality Commission to adopt greenhouse gas cap-and-dividend program to reduce statewide greenhouse gas emissions to meet certain benchmarks adopted by commission.