Bills in the 2009 Regular Session, House.
Jefferson Smith
Sponsored
Became law2
Creates Oregon Broadband Advisory Council within Economic and Community Development Department for purposes relating to broadband communication and technology.
Transfers, credits or allocates certain moneys from specified funds and accounts to other specified funds, accounts or agencies to be used for specified purposes.
Out of committee2
Establishes Next Generation Fund.
Modifies theft in first degree to include theft of agricultural property under certain circumstances.
In committee17
Establishes Patriot Dollars Fund.
Sets limits on amounts that may be contributed to political candidates and political committees.
Requires operator of light rail system to provide stickers and lanyards for visible ticketing.
Authorizes urban renewal agencies to award grants to assist persons relocating within and outside urban renewal area.
Directs Department of Transportation and designated voter registration agency to provide Secretary of State each month with list of individuals who have changed address.
Sunsets all income or corporate excise tax credits and all income or corporate excise tax deductions, subtractions or exemptions created by state law.
Directs Department of Revenue to prepare and mail to taxpayers "Oregon Annual Review," describing how state has spent tax revenues in preceding calendar year.
Authorizes Office for Oregon Health Policy and Research to require reporting of health care information from health insurers, third party administrators and other specified entities.
Reduces percentage of certified cost of renewable energy resources facility, renewable energy resource equipment manufacturing facility or high-efficiency combined heat and power facility that is recoverable as tax credit.
Establishes Insurance Surcharge Public Safety Fund.
Creates "First Citizen" program, allowing personal income taxpayers to make voluntary contribution to state revenues by paying income tax at rate that is one percent above rate otherwise applicable.
Creates Task Force on Driving Under the Influence of Marijuana.
Authorizes local governments to establish local improvement district within which owners of qualifying residential and commercial property may receive loan financing of energy efficiency and renewable energy improvements to property.
Requires that traffic signal modules be replaced with energy efficient modules prior to January 1, 2017.
Requires contracting agency to evaluate bids or proposals for software procurements using certain criteria.
Creates Oregon Redistricting Advisory Commission.
Authorizes Oregon Progress Board to enter into agreement with state agency, public institution of higher education or nongovernmental entity to provide administrative or operational support for board.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 24
Creates income tax return checkoff program through which full-year individual income taxpayers may elect to make contribution to major or minor political party.
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.
Directs Secretary of State to adopt electronic voter registration system.
Includes removal of noxious weeds as part of Oregon Adopt-a-Highway Program.
Redefines "representative of client" for purposes relating to lawyer-client privilege.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to develop and make available Oregon transparency website for purpose of allowing people to view information that is public record and not exempt from disclosure.
Allows certain veterans with honorable discharges to pay tuition and fees at discounted rates.
Requires tower who tows vehicle at request of owner of parking facility to take and maintain photograph of vehicle.
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.
Prohibits person from intentionally selling or using software to circumvent, thwart, interfere with or evade any control or measure that ensures equitable distribution, sale or resale of admission tickets for entertainment event.
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.
Establishes Interagency Compliance Network.
Directs Secretary of State to designate organizations to establish citizen panels to review and create statements on specified number of initiated state measures.
Creates Task Force on Effective and Cost-Efficient Service Provision.
Reduces size of identifying hydrologic unit to be used when reporting pesticide use.
Requires community college seeking approval from State Board of Education to offer new career pathways certificate of completion program to give notice to Department of Community Colleges and Workforce Development of intent to offer program.
Extends statutes of limitations for certain sex crimes if defendant is identified on basis of DNA sample comparisons.
Increases penalty for crime of harassment, under certain circumstances, to maximum of one year's imprisonment, $6,250 fine, or both.
Approves recommendation of Land Conservation and Development Commission to designate Metolius Area of Critical State Concern as area of critical state concern.
Instructs State Workforce Investment Board to develop plan for initiative to promote growth of green jobs.
Creates process by which Water Resources Department may loan or grant moneys to enable construction of water development projects located in Columbia River Basin.
Increases processing fee chargeable to employee by employer for garnishments of employee's wages.
Classifies crime of assault in second degree as assault in first degree if defendant knows victim is pregnant.
Passed the House · 6
Enacts Interstate Compact for Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote.
Removes prohibition against local government imposition of taxes on cigarettes and tobacco products.
Exempts records and information that identify person as holder of or applicant for concealed handgun license from disclosure.
Increases amusement device tax to fund Oregon Youth Conservation Corps.
Requires interim committee on judiciary to study and recommend changes in occupational licensing laws to encourage employment of persons with criminal convictions while protecting public.
Directs Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon to implement pilot project using volunteer greeters on light rail system vehicles to greet light rail system users and report problems and concerns.
Out of committee · 7
Establishes Aging and Disability Resource Center program in Department of Human Services.
Creates Human Stem Cell Research Committee in Department of Human Services.
Directs Department of Education to provide reimbursements to school districts that serve Oregon food products as part of United States Department of Agriculture's National School Lunch Program or School Breakfast Program.
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.
Requires insurer offering health insurance to give 45 days' advance written notice of increase in rates or of nonrenewal.
Approves recommendation of Land Conservation and Development Commission by designating area identified by commission recommendation as area of critical state concern.
Establishes tax credit for plug-in electric drive motor vehicles.
In committee · 31
Allows governing body of county to adopt ordinance to allow county to pay all or part of expense of postage for return identification envelopes for ballots sent to electors registered in county.
Prohibits certain persons from serving as chief petitioner of initiative, referendum or recall petition or as official associated with entity paying persons to circulate petitions or on whose behalf petitions are being circulated.
Establishes Critical Need Foreign Language Study Abroad Scholarship Program within Department of Education to enable students to learn critically needed foreign languages.
Allows school district or public charter school to award high school diploma to certain students who do not meet graduation requirements but who completed school year in study abroad program.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Education for purposes of developing, establishing and administering five Mandarin immersion programs.
Provides for constitutional convention in 2011.
Requires Legislative Administrator to present plan to Legislative Assembly for State Capitol to achieve zero carbon footprint by December 31, 2015.
Requires Department of State Police to destroy records obtained during criminal records check within 24 hours of approval for qualified firearms purchases.
Prohibits use, sale, transfer or exchange for value, for commercial purposes, of prescription drug information that identifies prescriber or subject of prescription drug order.
Permits person operating bicycle to enter intersection with specified traffic control device without stopping, provided that person operating bicycle slows to safe speed and yields right of way to traffic or pedestrians.
Considers student attending approved study abroad program to be resident pupil for purpose of State School Fund calculations.
Requires addition to taxable income for Oregon tax purposes of amounts attributable to controlled foreign corporations and excluded from federal taxable income because of operation of certain federal law.
Establishes Initiative Petition Review Committee as joint committee of Legislative Assembly.
Adds state and federal tax identification numbers to personal information subject to provisions of Oregon Consumer Identity Theft Protection Act.
Creates low-profit limited liability company as type of limited liability company with specified business purpose.
Allows public utility full cost recovery for hydrogen power station investments.
Requires Oregon Department of Administrative Services to determine source and establish price agreement for state agencies to procure power management software.
Directs Department of Corrections to determine residency status of inmates in custody of department for purposes of legislative and congressional redistricting.
Transfers responsibility for reviewing ballot titles from Supreme Court to Review Panel composed of retired judges.
Creates Legislative Research Office.
Increases allocation of State Highway Fund moneys for footpaths and bicycle trails.
Requires deposit of five percent of security amount, but not less than $5, in cases of security release.
Requires Department of Revenue, in consultation with Legislative Revenue Officer, to prepare and submit reports on tax incidence to legislative committee on revenue.
Directs State Department of Fish and Wildlife to develop plan for reforming hatchery operations and reconstructing hatchery facilities.
Directs landlords of four or more dwelling units or of facility to supply new tenants with voter registration cards with written rental agreement or, for oral agreement, on first day of occupancy.
Creates Family Leave Benefits Insurance Program to provide benefits to employees taking family leave.
Creates crimes of drug-induced homicide and drug-induced assault.
Allocates portion of Criminal Fine and Assessment Account to Emergency Medical Services Enhancement Account.
Reserves ___ percent of federal workforce investment funds allocated to state for training activities that support clean technology and prepare workers for employment in green jobs.
Creates task force to study potential economic impact of developing high speed railway between Eugene and Portland.
Authorizes prosecution for failure to report as sex offender in county where defendant is apprehended or last registered, if county where offense was committed cannot be determined.