Bills in the 2009 Regular Session, House.
Judy Stiegler
Sponsored
Became law4
Extends landowner immunity for public's recreational use of land to gardening.
Makes discrimination against employee who reports violation of state or federal laws, rules or regulations unlawful employment practice.
Increases penalty for crime of harassment, under certain circumstances, to maximum of one year's imprisonment, $6,250 fine, or both.
Increases processing fee chargeable to employee by employer for garnishments of employee's wages.
In committee3
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.
Provides maximum allowable amount of credit for fuel cell system, other than homebuilder-installed renewable energy system, of 50 percent of total certified cost.
Authorizes issuance of lottery bonds for grants to agencies in executive department and certain private companies to acquire fuel cell systems.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 40
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.
Requires, as soon as practicable after end of each biennium, lottery ending balance to be transferred to school capital matching subaccount of Education Stability Fund.
Establishes Oregon School Facilities Task Force.
Includes removal of noxious weeds as part of Oregon Adopt-a-Highway Program.
Provides that confession alone is sufficient to warrant conviction of defendant if certain conditions are met.
Establishes Quality Care Fund.
Redefines "representative of client" for purposes relating to lawyer-client privilege.
Modifies crime of, and cause of action for, invasion of personal privacy.
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.
Requires health plans to cover services of professional counselors and marriage and family therapists if certain other services are covered by plan.
Exempts from definition of "gift," for purposes of ethics laws, specified program material, specified expenses for attendance at conference and reasonable expenses paid to public school employee for accompanying students on educational trip.
Creates Charitable Prescription Drug Program in State Board of Pharmacy for purpose of distributing donated prescription drugs to needy or uninsured individuals.
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.
Allows Department of Education to award grants for school library programs.
Authorizes Department of Environmental Quality to board and inspect certain vessels and to collect ballast water samples.
Imposes additional fine of $500 on person convicted of crime of interfering with law enforcement animal.
Modifies definition of online communication for purposes of online sexual corruption of child.
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.
Designates May 8 of each year as Military Family Appreciation Day.
Permits contracting agency that uses public funds to procure goods for public use to give preference to agricultural products produced and transported entirely within state if certain conditions are met.
Modifies membership of Board on Public Safety Standards and Training .
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.
Increases hours of day during which children under 16 years of age may work.
Extends statute of limitations for action based on conduct that constitutes child abuse or conduct knowingly allowing, permitting or encouraging child abuse.
Requires child care providers exempt from certification or registration who receive funds from Department of Human Services to attend orientation.
Prohibits deputy district attorneys from striking.
Creates category of school-age recorded programs subject to regulation by Child Care Division of Employment Department.
Allows Department of Education to establish pilot project for purpose of assisting federal Head Start program providers located in Oregon with adopting and implementing health literacy program.
Allows amendment of local ordinance regulating manufactured dwelling park closures or partial closures until January 1, 2010, if amendment does not reduce statutory rights of manufactured dwelling park tenants.
Extends period of time during which eligible individual may receive work benefits under shared work plan.
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.
Extends statutes of limitations for certain sex crimes if defendant is identified on basis of DNA sample comparisons.
Allows local governments that are unable to meet funding requirements of transportation planning rule adopted by Land Conservation and Development Commission to apply for extensions, submit alternative plans for funding or apply to adjust various traffic performance measures.
Requires Department of Human Services to report to appropriate interim committees of Legislative Assembly on feasibility of implementation of system for reimbursement for health care delivered through primary care homes in Medicaid program.
Directs school districts that include public high school to adopt plans to encourage students to register to vote and to vote in elections.
Authorizes Oregon Military Department to make payments to members of Oregon National Guard who develop cancer as result of exposure to hexavalent chromium while serving in Iraq in 2003.
Classifies crime of assault in second degree as assault in first degree if defendant knows victim is pregnant.
Passed the House · 7
Transfers administration of Rural Health Services Program from Oregon Student Assistance Commission to Office of Rural Health.
Removes prohibition against local government imposition of taxes on cigarettes and tobacco products.
Directs specified interim legislative committees to review operations of specified financial institutions that receive funds from Troubled Asset Relief Program to ensure institutions meet goals and obligations of program.
Establishes Voluntary Central Background Registry in Child Care Division of Employment Department for individuals employed or volunteering to provide services to children.
Requires school district to submit written plan of instruction for talented and gifted children to Superintendent of Public Instruction.
Prohibits provision of declaration or bylaws of planned community or condominium from prohibiting installation or use of renewable energy device.
Directs Department of Transportation to issue Keep Kids Safe registration plates.
Out of committee · 11
Establishes Aging and Disability Resource Center program in Department of Human Services.
Establishes tax credit of not more than $5,000 for physician, physician assistant or nurse practitioner who conducts child abuse medical assessments.
Requires drug manufacturers to file with State Board of Pharmacy annual report listing compensation given or paid to physicians and nurse practitioners.
Creates Human Stem Cell Research Committee in Department of Human Services.
Defines "economically distressed worker training" and "eligible economically distressed workers" for purposes of unemployment insurance benefits.
Allocates moneys from Administrative Services Economic Development Fund to Oregon Innovation Council for deposit in Oregon Innovation Fund for specified purposes.
Establishes Next Generation Fund.
Creates income tax credit for qualified investments in machinery and equipment.
Provides emergency unemployment insurance benefits to individuals who have exhausted regular benefits.
Establishes tax credit for plug-in electric drive motor vehicles.
Modifies theft in first degree to include theft of agricultural property under certain circumstances.
In committee · 43
Specifies amount of income from Common School Fund that Department of State Lands must transfer each calendar year to Superintendent of Public Instruction for apportionment among counties and school districts.
Requires person operating as scrap metal business to obtain certificate from Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services.
Requires scrap metal business to create and maintain certain records of purchase or receipt of metal property or other transactions related to metal property.
Reinstates income tax credit for qualified adoption expenses with certain income limitations and eligibility requirements.
Permits road authority to allow golf carts or substantially similar vehicles to operate on highways under jurisdiction of road authority.
Prohibits person of any age from operating motor vehicle while using mobile communication device for purpose of receiving or transmitting text communication.
Increases standard penalty for animal abuse in first degree to maximum of five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both.
Authorizes moneys available for access and habitat programs to be expended on programs that promote access to public and private lands through acquisition of lands or through acquisition of easements.
Allows tenant to place political signs anywhere on space owned or leased by tenant.
Prohibits use, sale, transfer or exchange for value, for commercial purposes, of prescription drug information that identifies prescriber or subject of prescription drug order.
Authorizes Department of Transportation to issue duplicate disabled parking permit placards for each vehicle registered by applicant in this state.
Prohibits cities that use photo red light cameras from providing compensation to manufacturers and vendors of photo red light cameras based on number of citations issued or percentage of moneys collected from payment of fines.
Gives court appointed special advocate authority to copy and inspect records of individual or institution that seeks to become caregiver, custodian, guardian or adoptive parent of child or ward.
Prescribes salary calculation for substitute teachers in school district with four-day week class schedule.
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.
Clarifies language authorizing city or district to require consent to eventual annexation in exchange for providing extraterritorial service to landowner.
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 Department of Transportation to issue group registration plate for group that promotes prevention of wildfires.
Establishes tax credit for installation, replacement or retrofitting of septic tank.
Increases minimum age for tobacco possession from 18 years to 21 years.
Creates personal and business tax credits for water conservation devices and systems.
Creates Oregon Commission on Autism Spectrum Disorder and requires commission to provide strategic plan to legislature.
Directs Department of Human Services and Department of Education to develop strategic plan to improve transition from high school to adult living for persons with autism spectrum disorder.
Specifies that public lands used for wildlife management purposes must be accessible for hunting.
Requires deposit of five percent of security amount, but not less than $5, in cases of security release.
Grants recipient of unemployment insurance benefits $25 weekly allowance for each dependent child living in household.
Directs State Department of Fish and Wildlife to develop plan for reforming hatchery operations and reconstructing hatchery facilities.
Creates defense to prostitution under certain circumstances for person under 18 years of age.
Directs school districts to encourage and assist children with disabilities to participate in athletic activities that are available to children who do not have disabilities.
Provides credit against income taxes for repairs to vehicle engines due to damage caused by ethanol.
Creates Construction Diversity Oversight Board and prescribes powers and duties of board.
Directs Department of Transportation to establish Contractor and Workforce Diversity Pilot Program to aid in increasing diversity among contractors to which department awards public improvement contracts and among subcontractors and workers employed in connection with public improvement contracts.
Requires governing body of consumer-owned utility to adopt resolution to establish local conservation and energy efficiency plan or annual conservation, energy efficiency and carbon reduction or avoidance program.
Requires proposer submitting proposal for public contract for services to submit personnel deployment disclosure.
Creates Family Leave Benefits Insurance Program to provide benefits to employees taking family leave.
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.
Modifies provisions related to training, licensure and certification of private security professionals.
Directs district attorney to consider servicemember's traumatic brain injury or mental disorder as factor in determining eligibility for diversion.
Prohibits commencement of civil action against health care provider until after submission of health care claim to medical legal panel.
Requires contracting agency to evaluate bids or proposals for software procurements using certain criteria.
Establishes Election Day as legal holiday in Oregon.
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.