Bills in the 2011 Regular Session, House.
Jefferson Smith
Sponsored
Became law4
Changes name of Task Force on Stage Two Business Development and Economic Gardening to Grow Oregon Council.
Establishes National Voter Registration State Compliance Council for purposes of complying with federal National Voter Registration Act of 1993 and improving voter registration in this state.
Allows commercial production and sale of bread, rolls and buns made only with whole grain flours.
Authorizes Oregon Department of Administrative Services to consult with Oregon Progress Board regarding specified plans and entities and requires department to submit related report to interim committee of Legislative Assembly with subject matter jurisdiction over board on or before July 2, 2012.
Out of committee2
Modifies crime of theft in first degree to include theft of agricultural property under certain circumstances.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services and Governor to submit continuous improvement level state budget based on performance management and performance measurement techniques.
In committee26
Authorizes local government that imposes fines or penalties for violation of nuisance ordinances to certify delinquent nuisance fines or penalties to county assessor to be collected in same manner as ad valorem property taxes on property to which delinquent nuisance fines or penalties relate.
Prohibits sale of graffiti materials unless graffiti materials are kept in secure location, identification is provided showing prospective purchaser's identity and form is signed by purchaser and initialed by person selling graffiti materials.
Requires operator of light rail system to provide stickers and lanyards for visible ticketing.
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.
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.
Directs Department of Transportation and designated voter registration agency to provide Secretary of State each month with list of individuals who have changed address.
Repeals certain outdated tax provisions.
Directs State Department of Energy, in consultation with Superintendent of Public Instruction, to establish and administer program to provide matching grants or loans to public schools for energy efficient and sustainable construction, remodeling and renovation.
Directs Department of Revenue to prepare and mail to taxpayers "Oregon Annual Review," describing how state has spent tax revenues in preceding calendar year.
Directs Department of Revenue to prepare "Oregon Annual Review," describing how state has spent tax revenues in preceding calendar year.
Requires Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon to sponsor and support establishment of community-based initiative to provide volunteer transit foot patrols.
Requires Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon to identify light rail stations that are, or are located in, high-crime areas and to broadcast classical music audible throughout light rail station.
Sunsets all income or corporate excise tax credits and all income or corporate excise tax deductions, subtractions or exemptions created by state law.
Reduces state tax expenditures in tax year by same percentage that Oregon Department of Administrative Services and Governor reduce allotments to state agencies for same tax year.
Directs President of Senate and Speaker of House of Representatives to refer bills containing tax expenditures to Joint Committee on Ways and Means.
Establishes Next Generation Fund.
Includes Oregon Liquor Control Commission in Interagency Compliance Network.
Directs Secretary of State to divide state into 36 contiguous regions of equal population for purpose of statewide distribution to local governments of federal funds and other funds directed to State of Oregon to alleviate economic distress.
Requires Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to determine cost of each grid block classification within sentencing guidelines grid established by rules of commission.
Establishes Patriot Dollars Fund.
Repeals provision that prevents local governments from imposing conditions on approved permits that effectively establish sales price for residential development or limit purchase to class or group of purchasers.
Requires school districts to undertake and complete certain energy efficiency retrofit and upgrade projects that have payback time of 20 years or less.
Requires contracting agency to use alternative contracting method to award energy savings performance contract.
Directs district school board to provide notice of school closure to boards of adjacent school districts and to give priority of use and permission of use of school building to adjacent school district.
Establishes Task Force on Oversight of Large Public Improvement Projects and specifies membership.
Exempts energy savings performance contracts, under certain circumstances, from requirement to use competitive bidding process to award public improvement contracts.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Prohibits sale of gift card that cannot be redeemed for cash when face value declines to amount less than $5 and card has been used for at least one purchase.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 21
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to report to Joint Committee on Ways and Means ratio of public employees to supervisory employees, ratio of public employees to managerial employees and number of positions for managerial employees who do not act in supervisory capacity.
Requires Employment Department to encourage volunteering and post links for volunteering opportunities on specified department webpages.
Authorizes public body to send notice by electronic mail if person enters into agreement with public body to receive notice by electronic mail and certain other conditions are met.
Creates Oregon Elder Abuse Work Group for purpose of studying and making legislative recommendations related to elder abuse.
Allows county with population of 400,000 or less to offer law library services in lieu of acquiring, maintaining or operating law library.
Requires political subdivision to give Department of Transportation at least 30 days' notice of intent to sell or transfer real property near rail infrastructure.
Modifies crime of prostitution.
Directs Department of Education to award grants to school districts for reimbursement of costs incurred in purchasing Oregon food products that meet certain criteria and for funding food-based, agriculture-based and garden-based educational activities.
Creates State and Local Government Efficiency Task Force.
Authorizes Oregon Business Development Department to make grants to small businesses from Building Opportunities for Oregon Small Business Today Account if business hires veteran as new full-time employee.
Authorizes Secretary of State to audit use of fund transfers from state to counties.
Directs State Department of Energy to establish clean energy deployment program to provide grants and loans to support energy efficiency or clean energy projects, including projects to weatherize, upgrade or retrofit public schools.
Requires school district to give priority for participation in Expanded Options Program to at-risk students who are eligible students if school district has met credit hour cap.
Authorizes forfeiting agency to use forfeiture proceeds to fund drug treatment.
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 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.
Assigns ownership of certain renewable energy certificates to owner of facility generating renewable energy resulting in certificate.
Requires Department of Environmental Quality to consult with applicant regarding Federal Water Pollution Control Act variances in order to seek to minimize negative economic impacts of variances.
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.
Passed the House · 1
Directs Department of Transportation to issue Keep Kids Safe registration plates.
Out of committee · 1
Prohibits sending of unsolicited facsimiles .
In committee · 34
Creates exemption from food establishment license requirements for person that slaughters not more than 1,000 poultry per year and meets other conditions.
Sets limits on amounts that may be contributed to candidates and political committees.
Creates January 1, 2014, sunset, for purposes of income and corporate excise taxation, for subtractions from federal taxable income based upon connection to Internal Revenue Code provision.
Creates Constitutional Commission to make recommendations to Seventy-seventh Legislative Assembly in 2013 on revisions to Oregon Constitution.
Requires that state agency making documents available in electronic form make documents available in formats used by two most commonly used proprietary operating systems and most commonly used nonproprietary operating system.
Creates Oregon Data Advisory Board.
Directs school district board to adopt policy related to teen dating violence.
Directs Governor and Legislative Assembly to use process identifying priorities of government to develop biennial state budget.
Establishes relief nursery pilot program in Lane County.
Sets limits on amounts that may be contributed to political candidates by certain political committees.
Creates defense to prostitution under certain circumstances for person under 18 years of age.
Authorizes Oregon Health Authority to operate Farm Direct Nutrition Program to enable participants in Women, Infants and Children Program to purchase fresh produce at farmers' markets or roadside stands.
Requires county clerk to send replacement ballot to forwardable address of elector in certain circumstance.
Provides for automatic voter registration of person who applies for issuance or renewal of driver license, state identification card or change of address, unless person declines to register to vote.
Provides for automatic voter registration of person who applies for issuance or renewal of driver license, state identification card or change of address, unless person declines to register to vote.
Allows qualified person who does not have Oregon driver license, Oregon driver permit or state identification card to electronically update voter registration.
Creates Budget 2020 Task Force.
Declares that data used to diagnose, maintain or repair motor vehicles that is created, collected or contained in motor vehicle is exclusively owned by motor vehicle owner.
Establishes Task Force on Investment Account Protection for Senior Citizens and prescribes powers and duties of task force.
Requires state agency to report to Director of Oregon Department of Administrative Services when full-time equivalent budgeted position is vacant for three months.
Expands application of laws regarding estray animals to include all bovines.
Establishes Governor's Office of Information Technology and specifies powers, responsibilities and duties of office.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to conduct assessment of state's information technology environment.
Establishes Task Force on Information Technology Procurement and specifies membership.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to conduct assessment of state's desktop computers and mobile workstations.
Requires Oregon Department of Administrative Services to establish project management process and certain standards for managing information technology projects for state government.
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.
Prohibits owner of foreclosed residential real property from neglecting real property during periods of vacancy.
Requires facilitators of income tax refund anticipation loans and refund anticipation payment instruments to obtain license from State Board of Tax Practitioners.
Establishes 2011-2012 School Year Subaccount within State School Fund.
Appropriates moneys from Oregon Rainy Day Fund to Department of Human Services, Oregon Youth Authority and Department of State Police for specified purposes.
Directs each school district board to adopt policy regarding teen dating violence.
Expands definition of "farm use" to include facilities for training dogs in canine skills on land zoned for exclusive farm use.
Creates unlawful practice of manufacturing, distributing, selling or offering for sale child's beverage container or reusable bottle made or lined with bisphenol A or replacement material that is carcinogenic or is reproductive toxicant.