Bills in the 2011 Regular Session, House.
Dennis Richardson
Sponsored
In committee15
Requires state employees who participate in health benefit plans offered by Public Employees' Benefit Board to contribute greater of $50 or five percent of monthly salary or wages to health benefit plan premium costs.
Eliminates employer pick-up of six percent employee contribution required of members of individual account program of Public Employees Retirement System.
Eliminates employer pick-up of six percent employee contribution required of members of Public Employees Retirement System.
Eliminates Oregon Public Service Retirement Plan and substitutes Tier 3 level of benefits under Public Employees Retirement System.
Provides that person appointed or elected as member of Legislative Assembly may not become member of Public Employees Retirement System.
Provides that person appointed or elected as member of Legislative Assembly may not become member of Public Employees Retirement System or participate in state deferred compensation plan as legislator member.
Provides that person appointed or elected as member of Legislative Assembly may not become member of Public Employees Retirement System or participate in state deferred compensation plan as legislator member.
Establishes Fair Retirement Plan for persons hired on or after July 1, 2011, who have not established membership in Public Employees Retirement System before July 1, 2011.
Prohibits Public Employees Retirement Board from paying increased benefit by reason of state income taxation of payments made by board if person receiving payments does not pay Oregon income tax on retirement benefits.
Removes all restrictions on use of hydroelectric power to qualify for renewable portfolio standard.
Creates exception to prohibition on obtaining conversations by means of device, contrivance, machine or apparatus for person who records public official or law enforcement officer acting in official capacity.
Prohibits operation of marijuana grow site within 2,500 feet of school or place of worship.
Requires Employment Department to adopt rules requiring drug testing of applicants for and recipients of unemployment insurance benefits.
Requires Public Employees' Benefit Board to contract for consumer-directed health benefit plan that provides access to high-deductible health plan and health savings accounts for eligible employees.
Requires public employers to withhold from wages and salaries of public employees percentage of employer contribution to benefit plan for which no employee contribution is required.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services and Governor to submit outcomes-based budget.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 1
Establishes higher education scholarship program to reward foreign language proficiency and encourage continued improvement in foreign language proficiency.
Passed the House · 1
Directs Department of Transportation to issue Keep Kids Safe registration plates.
In committee · 10
Requires public school to offer students instruction in Mandarin Chinese if school offers students instruction in two or more second languages.
Requires counties to assume responsibility for felony offenders already in custody who, at time sentence is imposed, have 12 months or less of term of incarceration to serve.
Creates exemption from food establishment license requirements for person that slaughters not more than 1,000 poultry per year and meets other conditions.
Establishes five regional land use planning commissions.
Establishes uniform corporate minimum tax of $150 and removes provisions basing amount of tax on amount of Oregon sales.
Requires State Forestry Department and other state agencies to support expeditious harvesting of downed trees as part of state forest recovery and restoration plans and policies.
Authorizes Department of Corrections to enter into contracts or arrangements with private entities for confinement and detention in Oregon of persons sentenced to legal and physical custody of department.
Prohibits abortion unless physician has first determined probable post-fertilization age of unborn child, except in case of medical emergency.
Provides that if public body agrees to pay or provide benefit to retired employees other than payments required or provided for in statutes, public body must create separate account for funding of those benefits and make annual contributions to account in amounts necessary to amortize liability for benefits in 25 years or less.
Requires mass transit district to obtain elector approval for issuance of revenue bonds secured by moneys from specified sources, including payroll taxes and federal flexible funds.