Bills in the 2011 Regular Session, House.
Carolyn Tomei
Sponsored
Became law9
Specifies that ordinances by county with population of 350,000 or more may impose, until July 1, 2013, registration fees only for purposes related to funding bridge that crosses Willamette River.
Requires school district to submit written plan of instruction for talented and gifted children to Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Provides that certain charitable corporations are not liable for damages arising out of providing, without charge, previously owned eyeglasses or hearing aids under certain circumstances.
Modifies crime of prostitution.
Eliminates reliance on spiritual treatment as defense to certain crimes in which victim is under 18 years of age.
Modifies definitions of "cigar bar" and "smoke shop" for purposes of Oregon Indoor Clean Air Act and directs Oregon Health Authority to establish certification system for smoke shops.
Removes sunset on Alcohol and Drug Policy Commission.
Modifies provisions for development and maintenance of telephone service that provides referral information regarding services after emergency and health and human services.
Requires certain employers to allow eligible employees to take unpaid leave to address issues arising from harassment .
In committee12
Directs State Parks and Recreation Commission to allow free use of state parks, campsites and day use fee areas to surviving spouses of veterans who had service-connected disabilities.
Requires State Board of Education to adopt rules establishing testing process under which public schools for kindergarten through grade 12 are tested once each calendar year to determine if lead dust from deteriorating paint poses significant health concern.
Allows city or county to adopt limits on number or density of premises within city or county, or within specific areas of city or county, that Oregon Liquor Control Commission may license for full or limited on-premises sales or off-premises sales of alcoholic beverages or as brewery-public house.
Expands membership of Oregon Liquor Control Commission.
Imposes fee for Oregon Liquor Control Commission's processing of application for initial license.
Establishes Community Mental Health Housing Trust Account Fund administered by Community Mental Health Housing Trust Account Fund Board.
Directs Oregon State Lottery Commission to survey sample of video lottery game retailers and to study compensation rates for video lottery game retailers.
Prohibits person from using device that produces sound at certain decibel levels while on boat.
Prohibits holder of off-premises sales license from selling alcoholic beverages by means that avoid or allow avoidance of cashier participation in transaction.
Creates offense of animal endangerment.
Creates General Assistance Program in Department of Human Services to help support Oregon residents who have disabilities and are pursuing Supplemental Security Income and Social Security disability benefits by providing monthly cash assistance, medical assistance and case management services.
Includes electronic cigarettes in application of certain statutes regulating cigarettes and smoking.
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
Designates May of each year Lupus Awareness Month and makes May 10, 2011, Oregon Lupus Day.
Expands eligibility for medical assistance for low-income and uninsured women diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 18
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to report to Joint Committee on Ways and Means ratio of public employees to supervisory employees, ratio of public employees to managerial employees and number of positions for managerial employees who do not act in supervisory capacity.
Provides that punitive damages may not be awarded against licensed professional counselor or licensed marriage and family therapist if counselor or therapist was acting within scope of practice.
Requires Employment Department to encourage volunteering and post links for volunteering opportunities on specified department webpages.
Creates Oregon Elder Abuse Work Group for purpose of studying and making legislative recommendations related to elder abuse.
Disqualifies person from serving as fiduciary, health care representative, attorney-in-fact or surrogate if prior court order terminated parental rights of person or determined it unsafe for protected person, principal, child, youth or youth offender, while ward of court, to return to person's home.
Prohibits use of mechanical restraint, chemical restraint or prone restraint on student in public education program.
Increases, under specified circumstances, penalty for crime of strangulation to maximum of five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both.
Directs State Department of Energy to establish clean energy deployment program to provide grants and loans to support energy efficiency or clean energy projects, including projects to weatherize, upgrade or retrofit public schools.
Specifies that services provided to seniors through Oregon Project Independence include support for community caregivers, health promotion services, options counseling and transportation services.
Directs Department of Transportation to erect and maintain roadside memorial sign under certain circumstances for police officer killed in line of duty.
Removes exception for person operating motor vehicle in scope of person's employment from offense of operating motor vehicle while using mobile communication device.
Allows household member to continue to use confidential address on records maintained by Department of Transportation for up to four years after eligible employee or corrections officer is killed in line of duty.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to explore ways to use doulas to improve birth outcomes for women who face disproportionately greater risk of poor birth outcomes and to report to legislative committees in February 2012.
Modifies application of provision under which Department of Environmental Quality may enter into agreement with prospective purchaser of land under which purchaser is released from potential liability for certain releases, threatened releases or spills of hazardous substances or oil.
Directs Department of Human Services and Oregon Health Authority to suspend, instead of terminate, medical assistance of medical assistance recipient who becomes inmate of local correctional facility for expected term of no more than 12 months.
Requires Energy Facility Siting Council to establish global warming potential of certain greenhouse gases for purposes of determining net carbon dioxide emissions.
Requires person who submits death certificate after decedent's death was caused by suicide to make reasonable efforts to ascertain and to notify Center for Health Statistics whether decedent was veteran, whether decedent served in combat and where decedent served if decedent served in combat.
Defines "mastectomy" for purposes of statute requiring health benefit plan coverage of mastectomy and services related to mastectomy.
Passed the House · 3
Establishes process through which person may obtain reservation through city or county to conduct funeral service on public property.
Directs Department of Transportation to issue Keep Kids Safe registration plates.
Removes ambulance services from list of fee schedules used to calculate provider charges for personal injury protection benefits.
Out of committee · 2
Prohibits sending of unsolicited facsimiles .
Authorizes issuance of protective order for certain persons who are victims of conduct constituting sex crime or unwanted sexual contact.
In committee · 31
Adds employee or volunteer of organization providing child-related services or activities with temporary care and control of child to list of public and private officials required to report child abuse.
Directs State Board of Pharmacy to classify certain synthetic cannabinoid compounds as Schedule I controlled substances.
Expands definition of categorically needy persons eligible for medical assistance to include individuals with disabilities who are under 19 years of age.
Modifies scope of justifiable use of physical force for purposes of criminal prosecution.
Prohibits sale of certain consumer goods by self-checkout device.
Includes siblings as family members for purposes of family leave.
Requires clear and convincing evidence of finding that judgment awarding custody to party with disability is not in best interests and welfare of child.
Requires use of headlights at all times.
Authorizes common school district, union high school district or education service district that is self-insured or that has independent health insurance trust to provide or contract for employee benefit plan other than plan provided by Oregon Educators Benefit Board.
Increases minimum age for tobacco possession from 18 years of age to 21 years of age.
Authorizes court, as part of settlement or judgment in class action, to approve process for payment of damages.
Allows city to order cessation of alcoholic beverage sales or other operations at premises licensed for full or limited on-premises sales or as brewery-public house upon reasonable belief that continued sales or operation are immediate threat to public safety.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to appoint advisory committee to make recommendations for plan to administer statewide gambling addiction programs and services.
Modifies method for determining amount of lottery proceeds to be allocated to Problem Gambling Treatment Fund in fiscal quarter.
Authorizes civil forfeiture of motor vehicle if person is convicted of offense relating to driving while suspended or revoked.
Establishes Affordable Health Care for All Oregon Plan, operated by Oregon Health Authority according to policies established by Affordable Health Care for All Oregon Board.
Prescribes treatments that must be covered by health benefit plans for traumatic brain injuries.
Requires certain health care providers to complete continuing education about traumatic brain injury.
Enacts Interstate Compact for Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote.
Limits amount that individual may contribute to candidate for public office.
Prohibits sale of certain flavored smokeless tobacco products that resemble or are marketed as candy.
Prohibits retail store that sells tobacco from operating powered machine that rolls cigarettes or allowing customer to operate powered machine that rolls cigarettes.
Prohibits owner of foreclosed residential real property from neglecting real property during periods of vacancy.
Establishes 2011-2012 School Year Subaccount within State School Fund.
Appropriates moneys from Oregon Rainy Day Fund to Department of Human Services, Oregon Youth Authority and Department of State Police for specified purposes.
Directs each school district board to adopt policy regarding teen dating violence.
Expands definition of "place of public accommodation" to include places owned or maintained by public body and services provided by public body.
Extends certain employee protections to persons performing work for educational purposes.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to establish standards and to certify, for insurance reimbursement purposes, outpatient mental health treatment providers that do not contract or subcontract with authority.
Implements House Joint Resolution 47 (2011).
Creates unlawful practice of manufacturing, distributing, selling or offering for sale child's beverage container or reusable bottle made or lined with bisphenol A or replacement material that is carcinogenic or is reproductive toxicant.