Oregon Rep. Peter Buckley (D)

OR - Ways and Means

Title:

Co-chair

OR - HB4147 Requires Governor to appoint to Higher Education Coordinating Commission as voting members one student from community college, one student from Eastern Oregon University, Oregon Institute of Technology, Southern Oregon University or Western Oregon University and one student from University of Oregon, Oregon State University or Portland State University.

OR - HB4150 Revises assessment and grading system standards for school districts.

OR - HB4050 Removes prohibition against insurer's issuing or delivering to small employer policy of insurance against risk of economic loss under less than fully insured employee health benefit plan.

OR - HB4073 Defines "vapor product." Amends laws related to consumption of tobacco products by minors to include references to consumption of vapor products by minors, including crime of endangering welfare of minor and other criminal offenses and civil penalties related to use or acquisition of tobacco by minor.

OR - HB4100 Makes legislative findings and declarations regarding genetically engineered food.

OR - HB4101 Imposes severance tax on harvest of timber from forestlands in Oregon at rate of $15 per thousand feet, board measure, to fund income tax credit for milling of logs in Oregon and for distribution to counties.

OR - HB4116 Directs Department of Community Colleges and Workforce Development and Higher Education Coordinating Commission to jointly establish grant program for purpose of distributing moneys to community colleges to increase number of underserved, low-income and first-generation college-bound students who enroll in community college and make progress toward degree or certificate.

OR - HB4117 Directs Department of Education to make grants to improve student achievement in certain schools that are high poverty and low performing.

OR - HB4120 Expands scholarships for children of public safety officers killed or injured in line of duty to include children of reserve officers and volunteer firefighters killed or disabled in line of duty.

OR - HB4127 Requires that majority of members of Oregon Education Investment Board be public educational professionals who work, or have worked, on regular basis in public educational setting.

OR - HB4142 Amends definition of "rural area" to mean area outside urban growth boundary of city of 40,000 or more, as boundary is acknowledged on date on which application is submitted for strategic investment program.

OR - HB4154 Requires Oregon Health Insurance Exchange Corporation to request federal agency to allow individuals and businesses to qualify for premium tax credits, cost-sharing reductions and business tax relief if individuals and businesses enrolled in qualified health plans directly with insurers.

OR - SB1519 Requires dentist to test, at least once per week, autoclave or other heat sterilization device.

OR - SB1528 Alters method by which moneys are distributed to school districts for purpose of paying for costs of education of students in eligible day treatment programs and eligible residential treatment programs.

OR - SB1540 Prohibits person or person's affiliate from communicating demand to recipient if in demand person or affiliate alleges, asserts or claims in bad faith that recipient has infringed or contributed to infringing patent or rights that patentee, assignee or licensee has under patent.

OR - SB1542 Establishes program administered by Home Care Commission to allow private payers to purchase home care services from commission through registry maintained by commission.

OR - SB1544 Changes membership and meeting requirements of Citizens' Initiative Review Commission.

OR - SB1546 Resolves terminology conflict to reflect that offense of endangering welfare of minor through distributing, selling or causing sale of tobacco to minor is Class A violation.

OR - SB1556 Declares that person 21 years of age or older legally should be able to possess, transfer or produce marijuana.

OR - SB1581 Directs public universities and community colleges to increase voter registration access and information.

OR - SCR203 In memoriam: Thomas Vaughan, 1924-2013.

OR - SCR205 Honors visionary Oregon musician Curtis Salgado.