Bills in the 2009 Regular Session, House.
Jean Cowan
Sponsored
Became law7
Increases fees collectible by sheriff for serving legal documents and performing other civil duties.
Provides that if witness is under 14 years of age, subpoena may be served by delivering copy to witness or to witness's parent, guardian or guardian ad litem.
Requires law enforcement agency that lawfully seizes motor vehicle to disable hidden compartment in vehicle unless vehicle is forfeited and agency either retains vehicle for use or determines that cost of disabling compartment exceeds value of vehicle.
Provides that disabled or abandoned vehicle taken into custody by public body be sold or disposed of by person engaged to tow vehicle.
Creates Public Guardian and Conservator Task Force.
Requires Emergency Medical Services and Trauma Systems Program within Department of Human Services to maintain Oregon Trauma Registry.
Defines "veteran" for purposes of section 3, Article XI-A of Oregon Constitution.
Out of committee2
Establishes Aging and Disability Resource Center program in Department of Human Services.
Eliminates requirement that certain agency warrants be issued to sheriff.
In committee9
Exempts geographic fisheries information submitted to public body from disclosure under public records law.
Creates Federal Ocean Energy Fund for deposit of moneys received by state from federal government under federal Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act.
Requires Department of Human Services to use savings from nursing home allocations to provide home and community-based care to seniors and persons with physical disabilities.
Eliminates limit of $10 on public land corner preservation fee.
Requires Department of Human Services to study impact on senior citizens and persons with disabilities of reductions in funding of health care services and to report to Emergency Board and to Seventy-sixth Legislative Assembly with recommendations for funding of services.
Requires Department of Human Services to determine and submit to Oregon Department of Administrative Services budget level for type B area agencies calculated at 95 percent of costs to Department of Human Services if clients were served by Department of Human Services.
Requires Department of Human Services to provide, through area agencies, emergency services to senior citizens and persons with disabilities who lose home- and community-based services due to reductions in funding.
Exempts community colleges from provisions allowing persons who are blind to operate vending facilities in public buildings or on public property.
Requires special districts to mail required notices of public hearings to post office box number upon request.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 19
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.
Includes removal of noxious weeds as part of Oregon Adopt-a-Highway Program.
Establishes Quality Care Fund.
Prohibits possessing, controlling or having charge of more than 50 sexually intact dogs that are two years of age or older for primary purpose of reproduction.
Modifies crime of, and cause of action for, invasion of personal privacy.
Allows certain veterans with honorable discharges to pay tuition and fees at discounted rates.
Authorizes Department of Environmental Quality to board and inspect certain vessels and to collect ballast water samples.
Modifies definition of online communication for purposes of online sexual corruption of child.
Adds pharmacists to list of public or private officials required to report child abuse.
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.
Permits certain health professional regulatory boards to adopt rules that permit practitioners to prescribe or dispense antibiotic drugs to partners of patient without examining partner for treatment of sexually transmitted diseases.
Authorizes Department of Human Services to provide noncash benefits instead of cash payments in Oregon Supplemental Income Program.
Creates Task Force on Nearshore Research for purpose of making recommendations to ensure protection and utilization of Oregon's nearshore resources.
Extends period of time during which eligible individual may receive work benefits under shared work plan.
Extends statutes of limitations for certain sex crimes if defendant is identified on basis of DNA sample comparisons.
Limits State Department of Agriculture responsibilities regarding estray livestock to cattle and equines.
Allows Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services to establish temporary programs to train and certify specialized building inspectors to enforce portions of specialty codes.
Requires Department of State Police to create medical health database to aid law enforcement agencies in assisting persons with mental illness in obtaining services.
Classifies crime of assault in second degree as assault in first degree if defendant knows victim is pregnant.
Passed the House · 2
Transfers administration of Rural Health Services Program from Oregon Student Assistance Commission to Office of Rural Health.
Removes prohibition against local government imposition of taxes on cigarettes and tobacco products.
Out of committee · 2
Requires drug manufacturers to file with State Board of Pharmacy annual report listing compensation given or paid to physicians and nurse practitioners.
Creates Human Stem Cell Research Committee in Department of Human Services.
In committee · 5
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.
Requires person operating as scrap metal business to obtain certificate from Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services.
Increases minimum age for tobacco possession from 18 years to 21 years.
Creates Oregon Commission on Autism Spectrum Disorder and requires commission to provide strategic plan to legislature.
Adds exception to requirements regarding ballast water discharge.