Bills in the 2011 Regular Session, House.
Ben Cannon
Sponsored
Became law6
Requires executive summaries of reports and notices of proposed rulemaking that must be filed with members of Legislative Assembly to be sent electronically.
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.
Adjusts signature requirements related to materials to be included in voters' pamphlet.
Establishes standards for personal vehicle sharing programs.
Authorizes road authority to lower statutory speed limit for highway under jurisdiction of road authority by five miles per hour.
Authorizes installation and use of solar photovoltaic energy system on residential or commercial structure in zones in which residential or commercial structures are authorized.
In committee16
Prohibits inclusion, in instrument conveying or contracting to convey real property or in declaration or bylaws of community governed by declaration, of provisions prohibiting use of clothesline.
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.
Limits use of personality tests when education employer is making employment decisions related to person who will provide educational services.
Allows physician or dentist who treats patients who are receiving medical assistance under state's medical assistance program to elect to participate as independent contractor in state deferred compensation plan.
Creates crime of failing to summon assistance.
Prohibits operation of motor vehicle with bumper clearance exceeding original manufactured bumper clearance by more than three inches.
Permits contracting agency that uses public funds to procure goods or services under Public Contracting Code to give preference to bidder or proposer that is headquartered or owned locally, will obtain equipment, material and supplies locally or will employ workers locally.
Creates Budget 2020 Task Force.
Decreases minimum percentage of net revenue from new or increased local transient lodging tax that must be used to fund tourism promotion or tourism-related facilities to 50 percent.
Reduces amount of general purpose grant for school district that does not maximize rate of allowable taxes dedicated to funding public schools.
Prohibits sale of certain flavored smokeless tobacco products that resemble or are marketed as candy.
Limits provisions of employment agreement that require employee to assign or offer to assign rights in invention to employer.
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.
Carried from the Senate
Passed the Senate1
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.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 16
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.
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 Citizens' Initiative Review Commission to oversee review of state initiative measures by citizen panels.
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.
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.
Authorizes contracting agency, when procuring goods or services for public use, to give preference to goods that are fabricated or processed, or services that are performed, entirely within Oregon if cost of goods or services is not more than specified amount.
Directs Department of Transportation to erect and maintain roadside memorial sign under certain circumstances for police officer killed in line of duty.
Changes definition of "beverage" and "beverage container." Specifies application of laws regulating redemption of beverage containers.
Removes exception for person operating motor vehicle in scope of person's employment from offense of operating motor vehicle while using mobile communication device.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to explore ways to use doulas to improve birth outcomes for women who face disproportionately greater risk of poor birth outcomes and to report to legislative committees in February 2012.
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.
Modifies provisions for development and maintenance of telephone service that provides referral information regarding services after emergency and health and human services.
Creates Task Force on McKenzie River Subbasin.
Requires Energy Facility Siting Council to establish global warming potential of certain greenhouse gases for purposes of determining net carbon dioxide emissions.
Changes time frame within which owner of Metolius resort site may apply to county to develop small-scale recreation community.
Defines "mastectomy" for purposes of statute requiring health benefit plan coverage of mastectomy and services related to mastectomy.
Passed the House · 1
Directs Department of Transportation to issue Keep Kids Safe registration plates.
Out of committee · 1
Modifies crime of theft in first degree to include theft of agricultural property under certain circumstances.
In committee · 24
Prohibits health care facility from allowing person to practice surgical technology unless person has certain qualifications.
Sets limits on amounts that may be contributed to candidates and political committees.
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.
Includes siblings as family members for purposes of family leave.
Creates Rail Advisory Council for purpose of advising Department of Transportation and Oregon Transportation Commission on matters related to state rail system.
Designates Governor as Superintendent of Public Instruction.
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.
Allows city to order cessation of alcoholic beverage sales or other operations at premises licensed for full or limited on-premises sales or as brewery-public house upon reasonable belief that continued sales or operation are immediate threat to public safety.
Makes foods that contain or are produced using genetically engineered material subject to labeling requirements.
Establishes Work and Family Life Task Force.
Enacts Interstate Compact for Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote.
Requires State Department of Energy to adopt energy performance rating system.
Limits amount that individual may contribute to candidate for public office.
Requires Department of Human Services to operate demonstration project, subject to approval by United States Department of Agriculture, to require recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits to participate in shopping and nutrition education program.
Permits contracting agency that procures goods for public use to give preference to food produced within this state if cost of food is not more than 10 percent more than food that is not produced within this state.
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 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.
Expands definition of "farm use" to include facilities for training dogs in canine skills on land zoned for exclusive farm use.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to establish standards and to certify, for insurance reimbursement purposes, outpatient mental health treatment providers that do not contract or subcontract with authority.
Implements House Joint Resolution 47 (2011).
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.