Bills in the 2009 Regular Session, House.
Suzanne VanOrman
Sponsored
Became law2
Requires child care providers exempt from certification or registration who receive funds from Department of Human Services to attend orientation.
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.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 20
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.
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.
Establishes Oregon Environmental Literacy Task Force.
Allows certain veterans with honorable discharges to pay tuition and fees at discounted rates.
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.
Creates Task Force on Women Veterans' Health Care.
Directs Secretary of State to designate organizations to establish citizen panels to review and create statements on specified number of initiated state measures.
Creates category of school-age recorded programs subject to regulation by Child Care Division of Employment Department.
Directs Department of Human Services to adopt rules to allow emergency medical technician applicant to substitute experience and certification by national registry of emergency medical technicians for certain requirements imposed by department.
Extends period of time during which eligible individual may receive work benefits under shared work plan.
Transfers, credits or allocates certain moneys from specified funds and accounts to other specified funds, accounts or agencies to be used for specified purposes.
Increases penalty for crime of harassment, under certain circumstances, to maximum of one year's imprisonment, $6,250 fine, or both.
Requires Department of State Police to create medical health database to aid law enforcement agencies in assisting persons with mental illness in obtaining services.
Increases processing fee chargeable to employee by employer for garnishments of employee's wages.
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 · 6
Directs Governor to appoint to Oregon Health and Science University Board of Directors member who has experience in representing interests of employees.
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.
Directs Department of Transportation to issue Keep Kids Safe registration plates.
Out of committee · 6
Establishes Aging and Disability Resource Center program in Department of Human Services.
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.
Creates income tax credit for qualified investments in machinery and equipment.
Provides emergency unemployment insurance benefits to individuals who have exhausted regular benefits.
Modifies theft in first degree to include theft of agricultural property under certain circumstances.
In committee · 19
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.
Denies public assistance to fleeing felons, Class A or B misdemeanants or probation, parole or post-prison supervision violators who are actively sought by law enforcement authorities.
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.
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.
Allows Department of Transportation to issue group registration plate for group that promotes prevention of wildfires.
Requires policy or certificate of health insurance to cover 90-day supply of prescription drugs covered by policy or certificate if prescribed by health care provider.
Requires counties to appoint service officers.
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.
Creates Family Leave Benefits Insurance Program to provide benefits to employees taking family leave.
Authorizes payments by Department of Human Services to adult foster home care provider who is related to resident by blood, marriage or adoption if resident is individual with developmental disabilities.
Prohibits discrimination for medical services based on individual's eligibility for Medicare if individual has existing relationship with service provider.
Requires State Department of Agriculture to study need, feasibility and costs of providing state meat inspection service for deliveries of not more than 50 livestock animals.
Permits private security professional to use warning lights on vehicle when responding to alarm or emergency call and private security professional has contacted police officer.
Modifies provisions related to training, licensure and certification of private security professionals.
Establishes Election Day as legal holiday in Oregon.