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4	HB 3425 Establishes, if State of Oregon adopts cap and trade program, credit available to certain households for purpose of mitigating carbon price indirectly paid by households through purchase of motor vehicle fuel to propel motor vehicles on public highways.	o	04-15	backdoor method of defeating purpose of carbon tax
5	SB 750 Establishes procedure for aggrieved person, whistleblower or representative organization to bring action in name of state to recover civil penalties for violations of certain laws related to labor and employment.	s	04-09
6	SB 8 CARRIED OVER FROM THE 4-1-2019 AGENDA: Requires petitioners to pay costs and attorney fees, including on appeal, to prevailing intervening developers of affordable developments that were approved by local government.	o	04-08	we opposed on February 25 and now oppose the amendments
7	SB 928 Establishes Oregon Climate Authority.	s	04-08	oppose -1 amendment that reduces funding by 70%
8	HB 2494 CARRIED OVER FROM THE 04-02-2019 AGENDA: Extends operation of public purpose charges until January 1, 2036.	s	04-04
9	HB 3094 Establishes Home Weatherization, Retrofit and Affordability Program for Housing and Community Services Department to provide incentive payments to construction contractors undertaking energy improvement projects on residential structures.	s	04-02
10	HB 2322 Requires Land Conservation and Development Commission to amend statewide land use planning goals related to energy to incorporate development of renewable energy facilities and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and to match state energy policies.	s	04-02
11	HB 2618 Requires State Department of Energy to adopt by rule program for providing rebates for purchase, construction or installation of residential and commercial solar electric systems and paired solar and storage systems.	s	04-02
12	SB 810 Modifies definition of "vulnerable user of a public way" to include persons operating or riding on moped or motorcycle.	s	03-29	Existing law penalizes drivers for causing serious injury or death to "vulnerable users," currently defined as pedestrials, bicyclists, people riding animals, and a few others. This adds riders of mopeds and motorcycles to the list. We need to make drivers more aware of small vechicles, including mopeds and motorcycles, as they will be necessary to combat global warming.
13	HB 2855 Modifies general powers of Public Utility Commission.	s	03-28
14	HB 2659 Repeals special assessments and property tax exemptions for forestlands covered by timber plantations and nonforested land.	s	03-26
15	HB 3138 Provides that exemption from transient lodging taxation for dwelling unit used by members of general public for temporary human occupancy for fewer than 30 days per year does not apply to dwelling unit rented out as transient lodging using platform of any kind provided in any manner by transient lodging intermediary.		03-26
16	HB 3136 Requires Oregon Tourism Commission to transfer moneys to Department of Revenue for department's use in collecting local transient lodging taxes on local, rather than regional, level on behalf of units of local government.		03-26
17	HB 3134 Expands definition of "tourism promotion" for purposes of transient lodging taxation.		03-26
18	HB 3044 Requires business or individual carrying out application of soil treatment or pesticide by aircraft to record information regarding application conditions.		03-26
19	HB 3274 Requires eight percent of electricity sold in this state by each electric company that makes sales to 25,000 or more retail electricity consumers to be generated by small-scale renewable energy facilities or certain biomass facilities.
20	HB 2857 Requires eight percent of electricity sold in this state by each electric company that makes sales to 25,000 or more retail electricity consumers to be generated by small-scale renewable energy facilities or certain biomass facilities.
21	HB 3325 CARRIED OVER FROM THE 03-21-2019 AGENDA: Requires public utility to meet certain requirements for processing applications from nonresidential customer-generators to interconnect to electric distribution system net metering facility that has generating capacity of more than 25 kilowatts but less than two megawatts.	s	03-26
22	SB 952 Increases criminal and civil penalties for subsequent and intentional violations of specified election laws.	?	03-26	very draconian penalties
23	SB 853 Prohibits sale, purchase or use of pesticide chlorpyrifos.	s	03-26
24	HB 2915 Directs Department of Transportation to establish Oregon Yellow Dot Program.	s	03-25
25	HB 2431 Requires each state agency to report to Attorney General, Public Records Advocate and public records subcommittee of Legislative Counsel Committee on number of public records requests received during preceding year, and number of those requests still outstanding after specified periods of time.	s	03-25
26	HB 2353 Authorizes Attorney General, district attorney or court to award penalty to public records requester, plus reasonable attorney fees, if public body responds to request with undue delay or fails to be responsive to request.	s	03-25
27	HB 3335 Removes entering or remaining unlawfully in or on public transit vehicle or public transit station as manner of committing crime of interfering with public transportation.	s	03-25	This vague charge carries a potential 1-year jail term.
28	HB 3169 Provides that banking institutions and credit unions may organize as limited charter cannabis financial institutions.	s	03-25	Complicated, but intended to provide some sort of banking service to pot growers and dealers.
29	HB 3031 Creates family and medical leave insurance program to provide employee who is eligible for coverage with portion of wages while employee is on family and medical leave or military family leave.	?	03-25
30	SB 838 Lowers voting age from 18 years old to 16 years old.	?	03-25	Good or bad idea?
31	SJR 22 Proposes amendment to Oregon Constitution lowering voting age from 18 years old to 16 years old.	?	03-25	Good or bad idea?
32	SB 200 Extends sunset of income tax credit for political contributions.	s	03-25	Should remove the sunset entirely. Periodic renewals are waste of time.
33	HB 2007 Directs Environmental Quality Commission to adopt by rule diesel engine emission standards for medium-duty trucks and heavy-duty trucks.	s	03-19	Bill needs amendments. Directs all funds into buying somewhat newer diesel engines, which will only perpetuate the pollution problem. Funds should be used to subsidize cargo e-trikes, which are 30 times more energy efficiency than diesel delivery trucks.
34	HB 3379 Permits local government to license and regulate vehicle-for-hire services and hired drivers.	s	03-18	Allows local governments to regulation Uber, Lyft, etc.
35	HB 3023 Requires transportation network company that operates in this state to obtain license from Department of Transportation.	o	03-18	This bill preempts all local regulation of Uber, Lyft, etc.
36	SB 755 Establishes Citizens' Initiative Review Commission Endowment Fund and Operating Subaccount.	s	03-18	Seems like a way to fund the Citizens' Initiative Review Commission, which has worked out pretty well.
37	SB 1014 Establishes Small Donor Elections Program to enable candidates for office of state Representative and state Senator to receive 6-to-1 match on small dollar donations.	s	03-20	This is the public funding of campaigns bill.
38	SJR 18 Proposes amendment to Oregon Constitution specifying that Legislative Assembly, or people through initiative process, may enact laws limiting or prohibiting certain contributions made to candidates for public office.	s	03-20	We already testified on this on March 13.
39	SB 861 Requires state to pay for ballot return envelopes that can be returned by business reply mail for each election held in this state.	s	03-11	We have testified for this in 2009, 2016, and 2017 before.
40	HB 3349 Disallows, for purposes of personal income taxation, mortgage interest deduction for residence other than taxpayer's principal residence.	s	03-11
41	SB 331 Requires local governments conducting buildable lands review within urban growth boundary to consider impacts on various income levels, to analyze housing price ranges and to consider gentrification.		03-11
42	SB 334 Requires city to expand its urban growth boundary to include land designated as urban reserve that supports workforce housing and commercial development supportive of workforce housing if urban services are or can be made available.		03-11	I did not prepare testimony on this one.
43	SB 508 Specifies that electricity generated by hydroelectric facility or other equipment that generates electricity through use of hydroelectric energy may be used to comply with renewable portfolio standard.	o	03-07	This will substantially reduce the amount of new renewable resources that existing law requires be developed in Oregon. It will also perpetuate hydroelectic facilities that kill lots of fish.
44	SB 621 Prohibits local governments from restricting use of lawful dwellings for vacation occupancy.	o	03-05	Preempts all local regulation of use of residences as vacation rentals, except to collect a transient lodging tax. Should localities be forced to accept having a large portion of housing transformed into vacation rentals (think AirBNB)? Should that be a local decision?	This is big issue in coastal communities, like AStoria which is trying to deal with question being enacting regulations to put stop on vacation rentals. Plus is violates a central tenet of democratic practice, that decision making should be local as much as possible. DD
45	SB 300 Repeals exemption from universal service fund charge for radio communications services, radio paging services, commercial mobile radio services, personal communications services and cellular communications services.	s	03-05	Landline providers have to pay specified amounts into a Universal Service Fund to subsidize phone service for the low income. Cell service is exempt from this fee, thus giving them an unfair advantage over landline providers. Also, landline providers are getting smaller, so the fee collection is getting smaller, because of cell service.
46	HB 2085 Regulates construction and removal of dams.	s	03-05
47	SB 256 Repeals sunset on moratorium on oil, gas and sulfur leasing in territorial sea.	s	03-05
48	HB 2014 Restricts limitation on award of noneconomic damages to claims in actions for wrongful death.	s	03-05	This restricts the current $500,000 limit on non-economic damages in all cases to only apply in wrongful death cases. We should advocate eliminating it entirely.	Yes. There should be no restriction on the value of a human lilfe. The value of a human life should be determined by a jury.
49	HB 2218 Requires financial institution, when unilaterally closing account, to notify account holder of reason for closure.	s	03-04
50	SB 90 Prohibits restaurant from providing single-use plastic straw to consumer unless consumer requests	n	02-28	Really?	We should support this. It is little action but coupled with ban on plastic bags makes an environmental difference.
51	SB 218 Authorizes Oregon Liquor Control Commission to refuse to issue marijuana production licenses based on market demand and other relevant factors.	o	02-28	This would allow the Liquor Control Commission to stifle competition in the market for marijuana production, allowing only existing producers to produce it.
52	SB 99 Directs Environmental Quality Commission to adopt rules applying certain oil spill prevention and emergency response planning requirements to high hazard train routes in this state.	s	02-28	Needed.
53	SB 90 Prohibits restaurant from providing single-use plastic straw to consumer unless consumer requests	s	02-28
54	SB 478 Prohibits campaign moneys and public moneys from being used to make payments in connection with nondisclosure agreement relating to harassment in workplace.	s	02-28	Prohibits using campaign funds or public money to pay porn stars not to disclose affairs with candidates or public officials.
55	HB 2618 Requires State Department of Energy to adopt by rule program for providing rebates for purchase, construction or installation of residential and commercial solar electric systems and paired solar and storage systems.	s	02-28
56	HB 2623 Prohibits use of hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas exploration and production.	s	02-28
57	HB 2595 Alters period during which former member of Legislative Assembly is prohibited from being paid lobbyist from sine die of next regular session that begins after person ceases to be member to one year after person ceases to be member.	s	02-28	A slight improvement in Oregon ethics laws.xxx
58	HB 2097 Permits Oregon Government Ethics Commission to issue commission advisory opinions, staff advisory opinions and written or oral advice on interpretation of lobbying laws.	s	02-27	But it immunizes anyone who takes "any good faith action in reliance on an advisory opinion." Should be changed to immunize only any action that was expressly validated by the advisory opinion. "Good faith" is a subjective test. Should instead have an objective test. Should keep the existing language: "action or transaction carried out in accordance with an advisory interpre- tation."
59	SB 487 Prohibits insurers from using credit history or insurance score to decline coverage of, rerate or otherwise determine eligibility for motor vehicle insurance.	s	02-26	A person should not be deprived of the opportunity to drive on the basis of credit score. People need to drive to get to their jobs, and Oregon requires that all drivers have insurance.
60	SB 438 Allows person issued disabled parking permit to park in parking space otherwise reserved for residents.	s	02-26
61	SB 684 Specifies requirements for covered entities that own, license, maintain, store, manage, collect, process, acquire or otherwise possess personal information, and for vendors that provide services to covered entities, to notify consumers of breach of security.	s	02-26	Yes, but current law and this bill both have a massive loophole: (8) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section, a [person] covered entity does not need to notify consumers of a breach of security if, after an appropriate investigation or after consultation with relevant federal, state or local law enforcement agencies, the [person] covered entity reasonably determines that the consumers whose personal information was subject to the breach of security are unlikely to suffer harm. The [person] covered entity must document the determination in writing and maintain the documentation for at least five years.
62	SB 203 Extends sunset for earned income tax credit.	s	02-26	Extends it from 2020 to 2026. No brainer.
63	SB 758 Increases percentage of federal earned income credit allowable as credit against Oregon personal income tax.	s	02-26	Helps low-income working people.
64	SB 805 Provides definition of "major political party" for determining whether specific actions are contributions or expenditures.	n	02-25	This is a work session. This bill never had a hearing; thus, work session is not allowed. This is the anti-Starnes bill to make sure that candidate debates do not have to include minor party candidates.
65	SB 8 Requires petitioners to pay costs and attorney fees, including on appeal, to prevailing intervening developers of affordable developments that were approved by local government.	o	02-25	This will massively discourage public interest litigation regarding housing developments. Already have laws providing for attorney fees against those who bring frivolous lawsuits. This law would require the petitioner to pay the developer's attorney fees at LUBA and on appeal, regardless of the soundness of the petitioner's case.
66	SB 595 Adjusts allocation percentages of net revenue from new or increased local transient lodging tax to allow up to 30 percent of such revenue to be used to fund affordable workforce housing.	s	02-25	This will allow local governments that have a transient lodging tax (TLT) to re-allocate 40% of those taxes to provide workforce housing. Currently, local TLT’s may only be spent on general fund (30%) or tourism (70%).
67	HB 2614 CARRIED OVER FROM 2/21/2019 AGENDA: Repeals driving privilege suspension and eliminates imposition of driving privilege restrictions for failure to pay fine.	s
68			02-25		Please add HB 2659, in support. https://olis.leg.state.or.us/liz/2019R1/Measures/Overview/HB2659, Please credit 350 PDX SW, Harriet Cooke
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