Oregon Progressive Party Bills to Support or Oppose (more)
Dan Meek
Please reply to this email. In the reply, indicate in the left column your agreement (Y) or disagreement (N) with my recommendation for each bill.
Please reply by May 17.
If you have comments, please add them below mine in the last column.
If you can think of a better way for OPP to take positions on bills, please let me know.
Bills May (third edition)
| Support? |
Bill |
Committee |
Dan's Comment |
| Oppose? |
Bill |
Committee |
Dan's Comments |
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HB
3445 Establishes
Task Force on Nuclear Power.
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House Energy |
Has Oregon Legislature appoint a Task Force
on
Nuclear Power with all members from the nuclear and/or
electric power
industries, plus someone from OSU (which is trying to
develop
reactors). It requires the PUC and Oregon Department of
Energy to
provide staffing for it, with no limit on the time and money
that will
be wasted. Ridiculous. |
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SB
521 Permits
coach to allow member of school athletic team and
nonschool athletic team to participate in athletic event
or training at any time after athletic trainer
determines that member has not suffered concussion.
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House Health Care |
Very misleading summary. It actually
provides
civil and criminal immunity for any coach of any school who
allows a
player to play, after having been diagnosed with a
concussion, as long
as a "athletic trainer" says there was no concussion. Such
a "trainer"
is not required to have any medical education or experience
whatever.
All that is required is a batchelor's degree with "course
work in
athletic training, health, physical education or exercise
science." This is just a way to shield coaches and schools
from liability for hasty decisions to put injured students
back on the field. |
Liz Trojan
Liz
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David Delk
David e. Delk | 503.232.5495 | Alliance for Democracy | Move to Amend Portland | Oregon Progressive Party |
Dan Meek
If you have comments, please add them below mine in the last column.
If you can think of a better way for OPP to take positions on bills, please let me know.
| Support? |
Bill |
Committee |
Dan's Comment |
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SB
415 A Prohibits
distributing, selling or allowing to be sold flavored
tobacco products in this state.
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Senate Finance |
Tobacco should taste bad, not good. |
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HB
2638 Permits
medical assistance recipients and coordinated care
organizations to use Oregon Prescription Drug Program.
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Senate Health Care |
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HB
2704 A Creates
exemption to prohibition on recording conversations for
person openly recording law enforcement officer while
officer is performing official duties in public place.
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Senate Judiciary |
People should be allowed to audio and video
record the police while they are on duty in public places,
at the very least. |
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SB
580 A Allows
State Landscape Contractors Board to assess arbitration
or contested case proceeding costs to person requesting
that claim filed against board licensee be resolved
through arbitration or contested case proceeding.
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House Business & Labor |
Again. This denies due process to those
accused of violations by the agency. |
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HB
3551 Requires
vehicle repair shop to display sign that advises
customer of certain rights.
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House Consumer Protection |
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign. Blocking out the scenery, breaking my mind. Well, this is a good sign. |
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David Delk
Please reply to this email by May 24. In the reply, indicate in the left column your agreement (Y) or disagreement (N) with my recommendation for each bill.
If you have comments, please add them below mine in the last column.
You can add bills of your own in the blank rows.
If you can think of a better way for OPP to take positions on bills, please let me know.
Bills May (4th edition)
| Support? | Bill | Committee | Dan's Comment |
| Y |
SB 415 A Prohibits distributing, selling or allowing to be sold flavored tobacco products in this state. | Senate Finance | Tobacco should taste bad, not good. |
| Y |
HB 2638 Permits medical assistance recipients and coordinated care organizations to use Oregon Prescription Drug Program. | Senate Health Care |
| Y |
HB 2704 A Creates exemption to prohibition on recording conversations for person openly recording law enforcement officer while officer is performing official duties in public place. | Senate Judiciary |
People should be allowed to audio and video record the police while they are on duty in public places, at the very least. |
DD - would that then prohibit recording police in non-public places or would it just leave that question unanswered? |
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SB 580 A Allows State Landscape Contractors Board to assess arbitration or contested case proceeding costs to person requesting that claim filed against board licensee be resolved through arbitration or contested case proceeding. | House Business & Labor |
Again. This denies due process to those accused of violations by the agency. |
DD - sounds like you should have put this in the Oppose group, not the support group. |
| Y |
HB 3551 Requires vehicle repair shop to display sign that advises customer of certain rights. | House Consumer Protection |
| Sign, sign, everywhere a sign. Blocking out the scenery, breaking my mind. Well, this is a good sign. |
DD - I would support. | |||
| Oppose? | Bill | Committee | Dan's Comments |
David e. Delk | 503.232.5495 | Alliance for Democracy | Move to Amend Portland | Oregon Progressive Party |
Lloyd K. Marbet
Here are bills coming up for hearings in next week or so.
Please reply to this email by May 24. In the reply, indicate in the left column your agreement (Y) or disagreement (N) with my recommendation for each bill.
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Bills May (4th edition)
Support?
Bill
Committee
Dan's Comment
yes
Senate Finance
Tobacco should taste bad, not good.
yes
Senate Health Care
yes
Senate Judiciary
People should be allowed to audio and video record the police while they are on duty in public places, at the very least.
no
House Business & Labor
Again. This denies due process to those accused of violations by the agency.
yes
House Consumer Protection
Sign, sign, everywhere a sign.
Blocking out the scenery, breaking my mind. Well, this is a good sign.
Oppose?
Bill
Committee
Dan's Comments
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FROM THE HEART: You
must find the things that you will not accept,
that will outrage you. And these things, you must
be able to fight against nonviolently, peacefully,
Cautious,
careful people, always casting about to preserve
their reputation and social standing, never can
bring about reform. Those who are really in
earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing
in the world's estimation, and publicly and
privately, in season and out, avow their sympathy
with despised and persecuted ideas and their
advocates, and bear the consequences. Hope
has a cost. Hope is not comfortable or easy. Hope
requires personal risk. Hope does not come with
the right attitude. Hope is not about peace of
mind. Hope is an action. Hope is doing something.
The more futile, the more useless, the more
irrelevant and incomprehensible an act of
rebellion is, the vaster and the more potent hope
becomes. Hope never makes sense. Hope is weak,
unorganized and absurd. Hope, which is always
nonviolent, exposes in its powerlessness the lies,
fraud and coercion employed by the state. Hope
does not believe in force. Hope knows that an
injustice visited on our neighbor is an injustice
visited on us all. Hope posits that people are
drawn to the good by the good. This is the secret
of hope's power and it is why it can never finally
be defeated. Hope demands for others what we
demand for ourselves. Hope does not separate us
from them. Hope sees in our enemy our own face. The
truth depends on a general respect for the meaning
of words. A word is like a seed, an evolutionary
artifact, containing in its DNA the fossil memory
of precise meaning. Our words today have the same
validity that a kernel of corn does after Monsanto
has worked its magic. Our words are like pumpkins
the day after Halloween — hollowed out,
candle-less, the eyes and mouth shrunken, the
inside charred. The reason for this is because it
always takes courage for people to insist that
words maintain their meaning. Words with meaning
prohibit the desecration of the irreplaceable. Trees
are poems that the earth writes upon the sky. We
fell them down and turn them into paper that we
may record our emptiness. If
only there were evil people somewhere insidiously
committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only
to separate them from the rest of us and destroy
them! But the line dividing good and evil cuts
through the heart of every human being. And who is
willing to destroy a piece of his own heart? True compassion, is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. Power
at its best is love implementing the demands of
justice. Justice at its best is love correcting
everything that stands against love. Terrorism
is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism
of the rich. To
want in one's heart to do a thing, for its own
sake; to enjoy doing it; to concentrate all one's
energies upon it -- that is not only the surest
guarantee of success. It is also being true to
oneself." Inspiration
is not garnered from litanies of what is flawed;
it resides in humanity’s willingness to restore,
redress, reform, recover, reimagine, and
reconsider. Healing the wounds of the Earth and
its people does not require saintliness or a
political party. It is not a liberal or
conservative activity. It is a sacred act |
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Dan Meek
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On 5/22/2015 7:36 AM, David Delk wrote:
Here are bills coming up for hearings in next week or so.
Please reply to this email by May 24. In the reply, indicate in the left column your agreement (Y) or disagreement (N) with my recommendation for each bill.
If you have comments, please add them below mine in the last column.
You can add bills of your own in the blank rows.
If you can think of a better way for OPP to take positions on bills, please let me know.
Bills May (4th edition)
Support?
Bill
Committee
Dan's Comment
Dan Meek
Please reply to this email by June 10 at noon. AIl of the new bills are up for hearing on June 10 at 3 p.m.
Things go fast in last month of the session.
In the reply, indicate in the left column your agreement (Y) or disagreement (N) with my recommendation for
If you have comments, please add them below mine in the last column.
You can add bills of your own in the blank rows.
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| Support? |
Bill |
Committee |
Dan's Comment |
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SJR
4 A Proposes
amendment to Oregon Constitution to remove provisions
fixing age for mandatory retirement of judges and
provisions allowing Legislative Assembly or people to
fix age for mandatory retirement of judges.
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House Rules |
Currently the Oregon Constitution makes
judges retire at age 75. 75 is the new 50. |
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SB
294 A Grants
Oregon Government Ethics Commission administrative
rulemaking authority to assist in commission's
enforcement of executive session provisions of public
meeting laws.
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House Rules |
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HB
2058 Removes
sunset on lobbyist exemption from reporting to Oregon
Government Ethics Commission moneys spent on lobbying
other registered lobbyists.
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House Rules |
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David Delk
| Support? | Bill | Committee | Dan's Comment |
| Y |
SJR 4 A Proposes amendment to Oregon Constitution to remove provisions fixing age for mandatory retirement of judges and provisions allowing Legislative Assembly or people to fix age for mandatory retirement of judges. | House Rules | Currently the Oregon Constitution makes judges retire at age 75. 75 is the new 50. |
SB 294 A Grants Oregon Government Ethics Commission administrative rulemaking authority to assist in commission's enforcement of executive session provisions of public meeting laws. |
David Delk comment: while I am not sure what the above means, it is only half of the bill summary. The rest says, "Prohibits commission from using rulemaking authority to establish what entities are
considered representatives of news media that are entitled to attend executive sessions. And the specific addition to the existing law in part reads: (10) Notwithstanding ORS 244.290, the Oregon Government Ethics Commission may not
adopt rules that establish what entities are considered representatives of the news media
that are entitled to attend executive sessions under subsection (4) of this section I interpert that to mean that the commission can that decide who is the media. Sounds good t me. | House Rules | |
HB 2058 Removes sunset on lobbyist exemption from reporting to Oregon Government Ethics Commission moneys spent on lobbying other registered lobbyists. |
David Delk comment: I need an explanation of this. It seems that the above description does not really describe what the bill does. The law would be amended to say "Statement required by this section need not include:...... (b) Amounts expended by the lobbyist on lobbying another lobbyist who is registered with
the commission or required to register with the commission, or on lobbying any person on
whose behalf a lobbyist is registered or required to register. This paragraph does not apply
if the person lobbied is a legislative official, an executive official or a member of a state
board or commission." So I assume that this has been included before and needed to be reported. Enactment of this bill would mean that such report would not be required. Why is that a good thing? | House Rules | ||
David e. Delk | 503.232.5495 | Alliance for Democracy | Move to Amend Portland | Oregon Progressive Party |
Dan Meek
Support?
Bill
Committee
Dan's Comment Y House Rules
Currently the Oregon Constitution makes judges retire at age 75. 75 is the new 50.
David Delk comment: while I am not sure what the above means, it is only half of the bill summary. The rest says, "Prohibits commission from using rulemaking authority to establish what entities are considered representatives of news media that are entitled to attend executive sessions. And the specific addition to the existing law in part reads: (10) Notwithstanding ORS 244.290, the Oregon Government Ethics Commission may not adopt rules that establish what entities are considered representatives of the news media that are entitled to attend executive sessions under subsection (4) of this sectionI interpert that to mean that the commission can that decide who is the media. Sounds good t me.House Rules
Today OGEC has no authority to adopt rules pertaining to executive sessions of public bodies. This bill grants that authority, except (under the adopted -2 amendment) does not grant authority for OGEC to define who is a representative of the news media entitled to attend executive sessions. I think it would be better for OGEC to define that than have each public body define that, because each public body will have incentive to define it very restrictively in order to protect their precious secrets. So I now recommend that we testify in favor of the bill, but only if the -2 amendment is removed from it.
David Delk comment: I need an explanation of this. It seems that the above description does not really describe what the bill does. The law would be amended to say "Statement required by this section need not include:...... (b) Amounts expended by the lobbyist on lobbying another lobbyist who is registered with the commission or required to register with the commission, or on lobbying any person on whose behalf a lobbyist is registered or required to register. This paragraph does not apply if the person lobbied is a legislative official, an executive official or a member of a state board or commission."
So I assume that this has been included before and needed to be reported. Enactment of this bill would mean that such report would not be required. Why is that a good thing?House Rules
I change my recommendation to "no." See http://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/opinion/editorials/2015/03/16/make-oregon-lobbyists-report-lobbying/24814131/
David Delk
David e. Delk | 503.232.5495 | Alliance for Democracy | Move to Amend Portland | Oregon Progressive Party |