Bills in the 2011 Regular Session, House.
Bill Garrard
Sponsored
Became law1
Permits certified peace officers from states adjoining Oregon to provide or attempt to provide law enforcement services within Oregon under certain conditions.
Out of committee1
Allows Jackson, Josephine and Douglas Counties to petition Land Conservation and Development Commission to establish regional definitions for "agricultural land" and "forestland" for purposes of statewide land use planning.
In committee4
Establishes different filing fees for participation in quasi-judicial review of local government decisions affecting land use for persons that are adversely affected by decisions and other persons that are eligible to intervene or petition for review.
Establishes five regional land use planning commissions.
Provides that public notices required by law to be published by public body may be published in newspaper, broadcast by radio or television station or posted on website maintained by statewide association of stations or broadcasters.
Directs Department of Veterans' Affairs to contract with Lane Community College to study skilled nursing needs of veterans.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 12
Directs Department of Transportation to erect and maintain roadside memorial sign under certain circumstances for police officer killed in line of duty.
Requires district school board to adopt attendance notification policy.
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.
Allows State Department of Agriculture to waive routine inspection of certain food establishments.
Requires state institutions of higher learning to allow military recruitment on campus on equal footing with other employment recruitment.
Allows sponsor and public charter school to enter into cooperative agreement with other school districts for purpose of forming partnership to provide educational services.
Authorizes State Department of Fish and Wildlife, State Marine Board and State Department of Agriculture to require person to stop and submit recreational or commercial watercraft to inspection for aquatic invasive species.
Authorizes installation and use of solar photovoltaic energy system on residential or commercial structure in zones in which residential or commercial structures are authorized.
Directs State Department of Agriculture to establish and implement wolf depredation compensation and financial assistance grant program for purposes of compensating persons who suffer loss or injury to livestock or working dogs due to wolf depredation and providing financial assistance to persons who implement livestock management techniques or nonlethal wolf deterrence techniques designed to discourage wolf depredation of livestock.
Assigns ownership of certain renewable energy certificates to owner of facility generating renewable energy resulting in certificate.
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.
Directs Adjutant General to form commission to develop and name medal to honor fallen military members from Oregon.
Passed the House · 4
Directs Department of Transportation to issue Keep Kids Safe registration plates.
Requires wholesale dealers of gasoline to offer for sale gasoline containing 10 percent ethanol and gasoline with octane rating of 91 or above that is not blended with ethanol.
Provides that person may take gray wolf in certain situations.
Provides that State Department of Agriculture water quality management plans and supporting rules and programs of department are exclusive public body means to protect and improve water quality through agricultural activity regulations regarding nonpoint sources of pollution on lands located outside urban growth boundary.
Out of committee · 3
Authorizes State Parks and Recreation Commission to establish reductions in, waivers of or exemptions from fees and charges imposed on users of areas established and maintained by State Parks and Recreation Department for Oregon armed services members returning from overseas combat zone deployment or honorably discharged from active overseas combat zone deployment.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Health Authority for purposes of operating mobile training unit for emergency medical technicians.
Directs Joint Boards of Education to prepare report on strategies for reducing higher education textbook costs.
In committee · 44
Requires state agency that owns real property or operates facilities to establish dedicated account to pay expenses of maintaining, repairing and replacing state agency's real property or facilities.
Provides that school district is not required to comply with requirement imposed by state unless funding is specifically provided to facilitate compliance with requirement.
Provides affirmative defense to crime of unlawful possession of firearm for state and federal corrections officers.
Requires that certain agreements for acquisition of real property by condemner contain provision relating to repurchase of property in event property is not used for public purpose.
Modifies provisions of Oregon Medical Marijuana Act.
Establishes uniform corporate minimum tax of $150 and removes provisions basing amount of tax on amount of Oregon sales.
Prohibits public body from requiring persons to participate in health care systems or prohibiting persons from paying health care providers directly for health care services.
Allows state officer or employee who authorizes payment of moneys to labor organization through payroll deduction to designate political party to which moneys from deduction expended by organization for political purposes may be donated.
Modifies requirement for establishing winery on land zoned for exclusive farm use.
Requires Department of Education to grant waiver to allow school districts to contract with entity that meets specified criteria for purpose of administering nationally normed assessments.
Allows certain districts to offer benefit plans other than benefit plans provided by Oregon Educators Benefit Board.
Requires that person seeking to appeal land use decision or limited land use decision to Land Use Board of Appeals must be adversely affected by decision.
Repeals prohibition against selling or offering for sale gasoline unless it contains 10 percent ethanol by volume.
Requires sergeants employed by Oregon State Police to be paid overtime in accordance with overtime provisions of federal Fair Labor Standards Act.
Authorizes counties and cities to adopt premium service program for development review permits.
Directs counties to recover costs of property assessment and tax collection from taxing districts.
Suspends for 2011-2013 biennium requirements placed on school districts related to self-evaluations, local district continuous improvement plans, alternative placements for students, alcohol and drug abuse prevention programs, instructional materials, substitute teacher salaries, guidance and counseling programs, media programs and class sizes.
Removes requirement for State Department of Agriculture to monitor ethanol fuel production and issue notice when ethanol production reaches specified level.
Allows use of dog to hunt cougars during final three months of general cougar hunting season if State Fish and Wildlife Commission determines that harvest quota for particular hunt zone might not be met.
Creates Task Force on Nuclear Power.
Establishes State Police Patrol Fund, separate and distinct from General Fund.
Requires state agency to report to Director of Oregon Department of Administrative Services when full-time equivalent budgeted position is vacant for three months.
Requires applicant for marijuana grow site registration to notify Oregon Health Authority if premises of marijuana grow site are rented or leased and provide name and address of owner.
Excludes certain subjects from mandatory collective bargaining between state and certified or recognized representative of employees.
Directs State Department of Fish and Wildlife to create pilot program that allows persons hunting or pursuing cougars to use dogs.
Requires Oregon Department of Administrative Services to adopt rules regarding use of wood in buildings constructed by public body using state funding.
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.
Permits corporations operating emerging businesses to defer corporate excise and income taxes.
Extends sunset of enterprise zone program to June 30, 2023.
Declares certain withdrawals of Columbia River water for use by critical ground water storage projects within Umatilla Basin to be authorized use under Water Resources Commission programs for carrying out basin plan and to be beneficial use not impairing or detrimental to public interest.
Prohibits abortion unless physician has first determined probable post-fertilization age of unborn child, except in case of medical emergency.
Requires Oregon Health Authority, Department of Human Services and Public Employees' Benefit Board to develop goals, benchmarks and plans to address diabetes, diabetes care and complications from diabetes and to report to Legislative Assembly in each odd-numbered year specified information regarding data, programs, outcomes and proposed next steps.
Prohibits pharmacist from dispensing drug that is not therapeutically equivalent to drug ordered or prescribed unless prescriber and patient have consented in writing.
Directs State Fish and Wildlife Commission to update Oregon Wolf Conservation and Management Plan to establish population objective of four breeding pairs of gray wolves for state.
Allows person to take gray wolf in certain situations without cause and without permit from State Fish and Wildlife Commission.
Establishes Task Force on Unemployment Insurance to review unemployment insurance program.
Requires district school board to procure and cause to be displayed United States flag in classrooms and to provide time for students to salute United States flag once daily during school hours.
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.
Prohibits city or district from requiring landowner to consent to eventual annexation in exchange for continuation of extraterritorial service originally provided to landowner or predecessor in interest of landowner without requiring consent to annexation.
Directs Department of Human Services to establish licensing system for persons who refer residents to certain care facilities in exchange for compensation.
Requires Department of Human Services and Oregon Health Authority to collaborate to develop and administer resident satisfaction survey for adult foster homes.
Removes requirement for State Department of Agriculture to monitor ethanol fuel production and issue notice when ethanol production reaches specified level.
Requires Oregon Health Authority, Department of Human Services and Department of Consumer and Business Services to report to Legislative Assembly on steps taken to streamline regulatory requirements in specified areas and reduce administrative burdens on persons contracting with or regulated by authority and departments.
Extends time during which certain less restrictive qualifications apply to counties in which businesses seek development income tax exemption.