Bills in the 2009 Regular Session, House.
Chris Harker
Sponsored
Became law2
Creates income tax return checkoff program through which full-year individual income taxpayers may elect to make contribution to major or minor political party.
Modifies requirements transferor of motor vehicle must meet for liability protection.
In committee1
Requires public schools to meet high environmental standards for design and construction of buildings or renovations to buildings.
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
Requires health benefit plan to provide coverage of routine costs of care in qualifying clinical trials subject to copayment and other cost sharing requirements.
Requires Department of Education to grant waiver that allows school district to contract with entity that administers nationally normed assessments if entity meets specified requirements.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 21
Requires state institutions of higher education and community colleges to waive tuition for any course audited by Oregon residents 65 years of age or older in specified circumstances.
Directs Department of Transportation to make report regarding capacity, availability and efficiency of rail transportation in Oregon.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to develop and make available Oregon transparency website for purpose of allowing people to view information that is public record and not exempt from disclosure.
Exempts from definition of "gift," for purposes of ethics laws, specified program material, specified expenses for attendance at conference and reasonable expenses paid to public school employee for accompanying students on educational trip.
Establishes Oregon Environmental Literacy Task Force.
Allows certain veterans with honorable discharges to pay tuition and fees at discounted rates.
Requires tower who tows vehicle at request of owner of parking facility to take and maintain photograph of vehicle.
Broadens category of health care professionals who may use certain titles.
Requires health benefit plans to provide coverage of human papillomavirus vaccine for female beneficiaries who are at least 11 years of age but no older than 26 years of age.
Requires all school buses with diesel engines to be retrofitted with certain engines and technology by 2017 or replaced by recently manufactured school buses by 2025.
Establishes Interagency Compliance Network.
Directs Secretary of State to designate organizations to establish citizen panels to review and create statements on specified number of initiated state measures.
Creates Task Force on Effective and Cost-Efficient Service Provision.
Reduces size of identifying hydrologic unit to be used when reporting pesticide use.
Changes sunset date on conditional exemption from disclosure of public records that set forth name, home address or professional location of person engaged in, or providing goods and services for, medical research at Oregon Health and Science University that is conducted on animals other than rodents.
Directs Department of Human Services to adopt rules to allow emergency medical technician applicant to substitute experience and certification by national registry of emergency medical technicians for certain requirements imposed by department.
Extends period of time during which eligible individual may receive work benefits under shared work plan.
Transfers, credits or allocates certain moneys from specified funds and accounts to other specified funds, accounts or agencies to be used for specified purposes.
Modifies qualifications for dental hygienists authorized to practice dental hygiene without license .
Changes calculation of capitation rates for fully capitated health plans that do not have contract with hospital to provide inpatient or outpatient hospital services under specified statutory provisions.
Modifies definition of "child care facility" and creates definitions for "preschool recorded program" and "record" for purposes related to regulation of child care facilities.
Passed the House · 5
Enacts Interstate Compact for Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote.
Requires covered entities to report annually on system safeguards for protecting confidentiality of individually identifiable health information.
Directs specified interim legislative committees to review operations of specified financial institutions that receive funds from Troubled Asset Relief Program to ensure institutions meet goals and obligations of program.
Prohibits provision of declaration or bylaws of planned community or condominium from prohibiting installation or use of renewable energy device.
Directs Department of Transportation to issue Keep Kids Safe registration plates.
Out of committee · 8
Requires drug manufacturers to file with State Board of Pharmacy annual report listing compensation given or paid to physicians and nurse practitioners.
Allocates moneys from Administrative Services Economic Development Fund to Oregon Innovation Council for deposit in Oregon Innovation Fund for specified purposes.
Establishes Next Generation Fund.
Directs Department of Education to provide reimbursements to school districts that serve Oregon food products as part of United States Department of Agriculture's National School Lunch Program or School Breakfast Program.
Requires state funding for graduate medical education to be used for training primary care medical residents.
Establishes medical education loan program for new primary care physicians in Oregon.
Establishes Commission on Health Care Infrastructure in Department of Human Services.
Revises certificate of need process.
In committee · 19
Specifies amount of income from Common School Fund that Department of State Lands must transfer each calendar year to Superintendent of Public Instruction for apportionment among counties and school districts.
Denies public assistance to fleeing felons, Class A or B misdemeanants or probation, parole or post-prison supervision violators who are actively sought by law enforcement authorities.
Authorizes moneys available for access and habitat programs to be expended on programs that promote access to public and private lands through acquisition of lands or through acquisition of easements.
Requires Personnel Division of Oregon Department of Administrative Services to adopt rules prohibiting smoking on state property and in places of employment operated by state.
Prohibits use, sale, transfer or exchange for value, for commercial purposes, of prescription drug information that identifies prescriber or subject of prescription drug order.
Establishes Initiative Petition Review Committee as joint committee of Legislative Assembly.
Directs State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation to develop recommended state medical malpractice insurance program to be administered by corporation.
Requires health care facilities and health care providers to use interoperable electronic health information system by December 15, 2015.
Adds state and federal tax identification numbers to personal information subject to provisions of Oregon Consumer Identity Theft Protection Act.
Creates Legislative Research Office.
Grants recipient of unemployment insurance benefits $25 weekly allowance for each dependent child living in household.
Requires Department of Revenue, in consultation with Legislative Revenue Officer, to prepare and submit reports on tax incidence to legislative committee on revenue.
Increases registration fees for certain vehicles.
Creates Family Leave Benefits Insurance Program to provide benefits to employees taking family leave.
Directs Department of Revenue to prepare and mail to taxpayers "Oregon Annual Review," describing how state has spent tax revenues in preceding calendar year.
Requires Department of Human Services to use Oregon Prescription Drug Program to purchase drugs for medical assistance recipients if cost-effective.
Increases personal income tax rate on individual taxpayers with taxable income above $250,000, or above $500,000 if married filing jointly.
Directs Department of Human Services to establish and operate marijuana production facility and distribute marijuana to pharmacies for dispensing to medical marijuana cardholders and designated primary caregivers.
Directs Department of Consumer and Business Services to adopt rules allowing and encouraging health insurers to use financial incentives or penalties to reinforce positive behaviors and discourage negative behaviors.