Bills in the 2007 Regular Session, Senate.
Brad Avakian
Sponsored
Became law7
Expands prohibition of smoking in public places and places of employment.
Creates Shipping Transport of Aquatic Invasive Species Task Force.
Requires dentist to have amalgam separator installed in wastewater drain if materials containing mercury pass through drain.
Gives family child care providers right to collectively bargain with State of Oregon.
Modifies laws governing people's utility districts.
Establishes renewable portfolio standard for electric utilities and electricity service suppliers.
Directs community colleges and state institutions of higher education to adopt plans to encourage students to register to vote and to vote in elections.
Passed the Senate3
Prohibits public body from approving development along route of Oregon Trail.
Requires lenders involved in residential property nontraditional mortgage products to ensure loan terms and underwriting standards for products and consider borrower's repayment capacity and risk mitigation factors.
Adds loans made to finance construction, development or acquisition of manufactured dwelling parks to loans eligible for affordable housing tax credit.
Out of committee4
Establishes payment obligation for manufactured dwelling park landlord closing manufactured dwelling park or portion of park.
Increases percentage of teaching and administrative staff at public charter school that must be licensed by Teacher Standards and Practices Commission.
Requires Department of Environmental Quality to provide full-time equivalent employee to work on ballast water reporting and regulation matters.
Reduces size of identifying hydrologic unit to be used when reporting pesticide use.
In committee14
Requires State Department of Energy to create renewable portfolio standard under which electric utilities must derive 25 percent of annual retail electricity sales from renewable energy resources by calendar year 2025.
Requires State Department of Energy to develop plan related to climate change.
Requires Department of Education to provide full-time equivalent employee to administer talented and gifted program.
Adds additional public facilities and assets to list of capital improvements for which local government unit may assess and collect system development charges.
Prohibits state and local educational agencies from participating in federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 if adequate federal funding is not received.
Extends public purchase charge collected from retail electricity consumers to January 1, 2026.
Requires landlord who terminates rental agreements in order to close manufactured dwelling park to make payments to tenants and to city or county where park is located.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Housing and Community Services Department for purposes of Mobile Home Parks Purchase Account.
Repeals examination requirements that apply to children who are taught by private teacher, parent or legal guardian.
Authorizes State Board of Psychologist Examiners to grant prescriptive authority to certain licensed psychologists.
Provides for constitutional convention in 2009.
Deletes references to double majority voter participation requirement for tax measures.
Requires authorized state agencies to meet LEED Green Building Rating System standards and energy reduction mandates set forth in State Department of Energy rules for renovations to state facilities.
Modifies crimes of harassment and identity theft.
Carried from the House
Became law2
Sets maximum finance charge or interest rate at charge or rate not to exceed 36 percent per annum or 30 percentage points in excess of discount rate on 90-day commercial paper in effect at Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, established annually by Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services, for all consumer finance, payday and title loans of $50,000 or less.
Establishes greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 15
Creates Oregon Healthy Kids Program, which includes private health option to provide affordable, accessible health care to children.
Declares nursing workforce and nursing faculty shortage.
Expands list of individuals and entities that may participate in Oregon Prescription Drug Program.
Directs Department of State Lands to investigate feasibility of establishing certification program for professional wetland scientists and to submit report and recommendations for legislation to interim legislative committees on environment and natural resources.
Eliminates restriction on issuance of sturgeon propagation permits.
Creates crime of subjecting another to involuntary servitude in first degree.
Requires optometrist treating patient for glaucoma to consult with ophthalmologist under certain conditions.
Modifies definition of "beverage" for purposes of beverage container refunds to include water and flavored water.
Prohibits discrimination against disabled person and discrimination due to race, color, sex, marital status, source of income, familial status, religion or national origin by multiple listing service, real estate brokers' organization or other service, organization or facility relating to business of selling or renting dwellings.
Directs State Board of Education to adopt by rule process that school district must follow to resolve complaints.
Requires Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon to commission independent study to make findings and recommendations regarding pedestrian crossing safety.
Gives adult foster care home providers right to collectively bargain with State of Oregon.
Requires certain employers to allow eligible employees to take unpaid leave to obtain services or treatment relating to domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking.
Exempts patron's electronic mail address in library records from public disclosure.
Requires business firms receiving property tax relief under strategic investment program to report average employment and wages to Economic and Community Development Department on annual basis.
Vetoed · 1
Establishes Committee on Performance Excellence.
Passed the Senate · 1
Prohibits hunting exotic mammal or game mammal held or obtained by person.
Out of committee · 5
Directs Water Resources Department to conduct statewide water supply and conservation opportunities assessment.
Requires Department of Education to provide full-time equivalent employee to administer talented and gifted program.
Directs Department of Human Services to create pilot project to train mental health professionals in serving mental health needs of older adults.
Establishes congenital defect and birth abnormality registry system.
Authorizes issuance of lottery bonds for grants to fund feasibility studies regarding development necessary to construct cellulosic ethanol demonstration plants.
In committee · 11
Establishes statewide system administered by Department of Environmental Quality for collection, transportation and recycling of certain electronic devices.
Makes otherwise valid noncompetition agreement between employer and employee void and unenforceable if employee is laid off by employer.
Requires Department of Human Services to collect data and study "alternative-to-abortion organizations" in Oregon and report findings to Legislative Assembly by December 31, 2008.
Requires that operator of or individual in charge of certain mass transit equipment or facilities owned or operated by Tri-Met contact 9-1-1 emergency reporting system before contacting mass transit system dispatch operator when emergency arises.
Requires financial institution and employee or agent of financial institution to report suspected abuse of elderly person.
Requires Institute for Natural Resources to study global warming.
Allows exemption from requirement that children must attend public schools for children who are taught by foster parents.
Requires insurers, self-insured employers, claims administrators and third party administrators to provide certain injured workers inventory of workers' compensation claims records in their possession.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to forecast statewide allowable growth factor of general operating revenue per community college student.
Requires assured water supply permit in certain cases.
Creates crime of vehicular homicide.