Bills in the 2011 Regular Session, House.
Patrick Sheehan
Sponsored
Passed the House1
Establishes process through which person may obtain reservation through city or county to conduct funeral service on public property.
In committee11
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.
Allows personal income taxpayers to subtract amounts paid as interest on qualified education loans from taxable income.
Creates offense of unlawfully transferring an object on a highway.
Eliminates authority for metropolitan service district to establish urban growth boundary.
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.
Directs Department of Corrections to seek to negotiate with Multnomah County to operate Wapato Jail as minimum security correctional institution for inmates who are ill, elderly or physically incapacitated.
Prohibits health insurers from denying coverage on basis that individual is taken into custody of law enforcement or is incarcerated.
Requires Department of Human Services or Oregon Health Authority to implement biometric fingerprint identification system for medical assistance recipients.
Prohibits check-cashing business from commencing action as holder in due course against maker of payment instrument if maker is consumer and payee is business entity or person that has registered assumed business name.
Requires health benefit plans and health benefit coverage provided by public employers to include certain minimum deductibles.
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.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 14
Allows taxpayer to make direct deposit contribution of income tax refund into Oregon 529 College Savings Network account.
Changes name of Task Force on Stage Two Business Development and Economic Gardening to Grow Oregon Council.
Directs Department of Transportation to erect and maintain roadside memorial sign under certain circumstances for police officer killed in line of duty.
Requires counties to deposit moneys received from State Lottery Fund for purpose of furthering economic development in dedicated fund .
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.
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.
Allows commercial production and sale of bread, rolls and buns made only with whole grain flours.
Allows sponsor and public charter school to enter into cooperative agreement with other school districts for purpose of forming partnership to provide educational services.
Allows court to renew Family Abuse Prevention Act order upon petition of child who has reached 18 years of age if child was protected by previous order and reasonably fears further acts of abuse by respondent.
Creates Task Force on McKenzie River Subbasin.
Changes method by which surplus "kicker" refunds are made to personal income taxpayers from payment to credit.
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.
Expands types of entities that may sponsor public charter school.
Directs Adjutant General to form commission to develop and name medal to honor fallen military members from Oregon.
Passed the House · 1
Directs Department of Transportation to issue Keep Kids Safe registration plates.
Out of committee · 4
Provides credit against income taxes for fees paid by member of Oregon National Guard or military reservist for Internet service provided outside United States.
Designates Oregon Board of Accountancy Account, Department of Agriculture Service Fund, state agency real property or facilities accounts, Forest Research and Experiment Account, Oregon Forest Land Protection Fund, Oregon Forest Smoke Management Account, certain moneys in State Forestry Department Account, Forest Resource Trust Fund and Oregon Forest Resources Institute Fund as trust accounts or funds exclusively for purposes described by law.
Raises threshold for requiring cost analysis for procurement from $250,000 to $2 million.
Authorizes Oregon Medical Board to issue certificates of prescriptive authority to certain licensed psychologists who meet specified requirements.
In committee · 35
Provides that Environmental Quality Commission may not adopt by rule low carbon fuel standards.
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.
Designates Governor as Superintendent of Public Instruction.
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.
Establishes uniform corporate minimum tax of $150 and removes provisions basing amount of tax on amount of Oregon sales.
Reduces amount of employee contribution to individual account program of Public Employees Retirement System that public employer may agree to pay from six percent to three percent.
Permits taxpayer to defer recognition of long-term capital gain if taxpayer invests in business entity in Oregon during tax year.
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.
Requires Department of Human Services to operate pilot program, subject to approval by United States Department of Agriculture, to prohibit purchase of foods of minimal nutritional value using Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.
Creates crime of unlawfully residing within 1,000 feet of school and makes crime applicable to sex offenders.
Authorizes law enforcement agency to enforce federal immigration law pursuant to agreement with federal government.
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.
Establishes Work and Family Life Task Force.
Requires State Parks and Recreation Department to establish pilot program under which department contracts with one or more private contractors to administer, operate and maintain certain state parks.
Authorizes school and education service districts that have access to or enforceable proposals for benefit plans that provide health, dental and vision benefits and are comparable to and have premiums equal to or less than premiums for comparable benefit plans offered by Oregon Educators Benefit Board to provide benefit plans for employees that are not provided and administered by board.
Requires county sheriff to waive age requirement for obtaining concealed handgun license for military veterans and persons currently serving in military.
Extends sunset of enterprise zone program to June 30, 2023.
Prohibits abortion unless physician has first determined probable post-fertilization age of unborn child, except in case of medical emergency.
Provides for establishment of percentage by which district school board shall annually increase total amount of moneys used to pay for salary and benefits of employees under collective bargaining agreement.
Prohibits public employer from agreeing to pay or provide retirement benefit to member of Public Employees Retirement System other than payments required or provided for in statutes governing retirement benefits of members of system.
Prohibits pharmacist from dispensing drug that is not therapeutically equivalent to drug ordered or prescribed unless prescriber and patient have consented in writing.
Requires Director of Human Services to convene task force to make policy recommendations to Legislative Assembly on strategies to reduce migration of residents of other states into Oregon to obtain medical assistance.
Requires collective bargaining agreement between certain local public employers and employees of public employer to provide for suspension of implementation of certain increases in employee compensation during period of fiscal emergency.
Permits certain individuals to use warning lights on vehicle.
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.
Allows entity that is classified by Construction Contractors Board as exempt commercial contractor to provide board with proof of personal health insurance coverage for proprietor or each partner, corporate officer or member of limited liability company as alternative to procuring and maintaining workers' compensation coverage.
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.
Requires law enforcement unit to train public safety officers in veterans' issues.
Removes requirement for State Department of Agriculture to monitor ethanol fuel production and issue notice when ethanol production reaches specified level.
Expands definition of "farm use" to include facilities for training dogs in canine skills on land zoned for exclusive farm use.
Expands immunity from liability for health care provider who provides services for charitable organization without compensation.
Modifies composition of and scope of review to be performed by Task Force on Educator Health Benefits.
Encourages Oregon Investment Council and State Treasurer to divest investment funds invested in certain companies engaged in mineral-extraction or oil-related activities related to Iran.
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.