Bills in the 2009 Regular Session, House.
Dave Hunt
Sponsored
Became law11
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.
Requires, as soon as practicable after end of each biennium, lottery ending balance to be transferred to school capital matching subaccount of Education Stability Fund.
Establishes Oregon School Facilities Task Force.
Requires specified entities or officials, including state agencies and certain state officials, to collect construction taxes imposed by school district.
Limits access to certain public records of State Accident Insurance Fund Corporation.
Modifies antitrust laws so that person with indirect dealings with adverse party may sue and recover treble damages.
Modifies membership of Board on Public Safety Standards and Training .
Sets initial maximum indebtedness for specified urban renewal plans.
Allows public employer participating in Public Employees Retirement System to request that excess amounts in side account established for lump sum payment be applied to offset contributions to individual account program if Public Employees Retirement Board determines that amounts in account exceed amounts necessary to fund employer's actuarial liabilities unless board determines that applying excess amounts would cause system or Public Employees Retirement Fund to lose qualification as qualified
Requires Department of Human Services to work with United States Department of State to implement requirements of Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption for purposes relating to adoption of foreign children.
Suspends certain provision of Ballot Measure 57 (2008) from February 15, 2010, until January 1, 2012.
Out of committee3
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Human Services for nutrition programs for low-income seniors and for eligible individuals through Women, Infants and Children Program.
Provides emergency unemployment insurance benefits to individuals who have exhausted regular benefits.
Gives certain districts extension of exemption from requirements regarding health benefit plans offered by Oregon Educators Benefit Board.
In committee2
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.
Permits person to operate low-speed vehicle on highway with speed limit of 45 miles per hour or less.
Carried from the Senate
Became law3
Requires Department of Human Services to establish rules, policies and procedures to implement Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption in Oregon.
Requires executive summary of written report to Legislative Assembly to include explanation of how to obtain copy of report, including, if report is available on Internet, online location of report.
Requires employer to provide reasonable accommodation to religious observance or practices of employee unless providing accommodation would impose undue hardship on employer.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 12
Directs interim House and Senate committees related to transportation and Oregon Transportation Commission to conduct study.
Creates income tax return checkoff program through which full-year individual income taxpayers may elect to make contribution to major or minor political party.
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.
Directs Director of State Department of Energy to administer energy efficiency and sustainable technology loan program for purpose of encouraging investments in energy efficiency, renewable energy and energy conservation.
Increases rate of tax on distribution of moist snuff.
Establishes Interagency Compliance Network.
Redefines "environmentally sensitive logging equipment" as logging equipment originally manufactured after 1992.
Extends statutes of limitations for certain sex crimes if defendant is identified on basis of DNA sample comparisons.
Increases processing fee chargeable to employee by employer for garnishments of employee's wages.
Modifies definition of "child care facility" and creates definitions for "preschool recorded program" and "record" for purposes related to regulation of child care facilities.
Classifies crime of assault in second degree as assault in first degree if defendant knows victim is pregnant.
Passed the House · 3
Expands purpose of Major League Stadium Grant Fund to include entering into agreements that grant incremental soccer tax revenues for purpose of financing, developing, constructing and furnishing major league stadium designed for use by Major League Soccer team located in Portland.
Directs Governor to appoint to Oregon Health and Science University Board of Directors member who has experience in representing interests of employees.
Enacts Interstate Compact for Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote.
Out of committee · 1
Establishes Aging and Disability Resource Center program in Department of Human Services.
In committee · 4
Requires that, in election proposing annexation, votes from city and territory to be annexed be counted separately to determine separate majorities if acreage to be annexed is 20 acres or more.
Increases personal income tax rate on individual taxpayers with taxable income above $250,000, or above $500,000 if married filing jointly.
Establishes Election Day as legal holiday in Oregon.
Requires applicant seeking to construct liquefied natural gas terminal or pipeline directly related to terminal to enter into certain written agreement with state.