Bills in the 2009 Regular Session, Senate.
Joanne Verger
Sponsored
Became law5
Changes timing of issuance and distribution of second and third installments of lottery bonds to pay costs of Coos Bay channel deepening project.
Directs Department of Human Services, Oregon Department of Administrative Services, Department of Consumer and Business Services and Office of Private Health Partnerships to pay biennial costs of administration and enforcement of duties, functions and powers transferred from departments and office to Oregon Health Authority.
Requires applicant for renewal of disabled person parking permit to submit certificate from medical professional stating that applicant is person with disability.
Requires University of Oregon to implement Oregon Climate Corps through University of Oregon Institute for Sustainable Environment Climate Masters program to extent funds are available.
Requires government agency that hires employee who voluntarily leaves employment of original employing governmental agency to reimburse original employing governmental agency for certain costs incurred by training employee.
Out of committee1
Directs Office of Emergency Management to develop and operate statewide first responder building mapping information system.
In committee8
Authorizes issuance of lottery bonds to finance acquisition of railways by Oregon International Port of Coos Bay.
Establishes income tax credit for qualified elderly taxpayer whose residential property tax equals or exceeds specified percentage of household income.
Requires instruction in Oregon Studies in middle school.
Creates Government Ethics Savings Fund.
Requires Public Employees' Benefit Board to establish health insurance option for employees of Department of Corrections with access to health care at correctional facility.
Requires Department of Corrections to study and make recommendations to Legislative Assembly about recovery of training costs for certain employees who voluntarily leave employment with department.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon International Port of Coos Bay for repair, restoration and improvement of railways and acquisition of rail cars.
Increases allocation of State Highway Fund moneys for footpaths and bicycle trails.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 11
Establishes Oregon Civics Day for Teachers on first Friday in December.
Modifies crime of animal abandonment to include abandonment of equines.
Provides that U.S. Highway 97 in Oregon shall be known as World War II Veterans Historic Highway.
Requires scrap metal business to create and maintain certain records of purchase or receipt of metal property or other transactions related to metal property.
Repeals five-year time limit for exemption from taxation of Indian tribal land.
Establishes February 9 of each year as Ewing Young Day.
Creates Task Force on Disproportionality in Child Welfare Foster Care.
Authorizes certain Indian tribes to request Economic and Community Development Department to designate reservation enterprise zones.
Requires Administrator of Office for Oregon Health Policy and Research to adopt rules for approval of community-based health care initiative and of community-based health care improvement program operated by initiative.
Requires Department of Human Services to determine whether immunosuppressant drug used in connection with organ transplants is narrow therapeutic index drug within 180 days of expiration of United States patent on drug.
Removes requirement that proposals for purchase of real property from state be accompanied by certified check or by sufficient bond furnished by surety company in sum not less than 10 percent of total amount of value of proposal.
Out of committee · 3
Directs Department of Human Services, when department secures sufficient funding, to establish registry and advisory committee related to birth anomalies and adverse pregnancy outcomes.
Expands eligibility for medical assistance for low income and uninsured women diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer.
Requires Department of Human Services to provide screening for breast and cervical cancer to persons who meet eligibility requirements for Oregon Breast and Cervical Cancer Program.
In committee · 6
Creates prepaid tuition contracts for Oregon residents under Oregon 529 College Savings Network.
Allocates portion of Criminal Fine and Assessment Account to Emergency Medical Services Enhancement Account.
Creates process for forestland owners or cooperative associations of log haulers to petition State Forester to determine rate of compensation for log haulers.
Requires harvesting in areas of Tillamook State Forest and Clatsop State Forest exhibiting moderate to extreme occurrence of Swiss needle cast disease.
Requires that minimum continuing legal education requirements of Oregon State Bar include cultural competency training designed to educate members on providing unbiased and effective representation of clients.
Requires Department of Human Services to adopt rules for face-to-face interviews with specified persons within 72 hours of receiving child abuse report.