Oregon Progressive Party Bills to Support or Oppose

[Dan Meek]

Here are bills coming up for hearings in next 2 weeks.

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 April 4.

If you have comments, please add them below mine in the last column.

I have added blank lines to the tables, so you can add other bills, if you want.

If you can think of a better way for OPP to take positions on bills, please let me know.


Bills April

Support?	Bill	Committee	Dan's Comment
	HB 3141 Expands retail pet store law to include establishment providing or offering to provide dog by lease or rental.	House Ag
	HJM 4 Urging Congress to call a convention to propose amendments to the United States Constitution expressing that corporations are not people and money is not speech.	House Rules	I took the liberty of stating already that OPP endorses this.
	HB 3262 CARRIED OVER FROM THE 3/31/2015 AGENDA: Requires Oregon transparency website to contain biennial budget of each state agency for advertising purposes and annual expenditures by agency for advertising purposes.	House Consumer Protection
	HB 3415 Imposes 10-year moratorium on use of hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas exploration and production.	House Energy & Environment
	HB 3478 Phases in prohibition on manufacture and sale of personal care products and over-the-counter drugs that contain synthetic plastic microbeads.	House Energy & Environment	This crap is in toothpaste and other personal hygiene products.  Gets embedded in your body . . . and in fish, etc.
	HB 2559 Prohibits inclusion, in instrument conveying or contracting to convey real property or in declaration or bylaws of planned community or condominium, of provisions prohibiting installation and use of solar panels for obtaining solar access.	House Energy & Environment
	HB 3225 Directs Environmental Quality Commission to adopt rules applying certain oil spill prevention and emergency response planning requirements to railroads that own or operate high hazard train routes in this state.	House Energy & Environment
	HB 3194 Requires insurers to accept third party payments for health insurance premiums.	House Health Care
	HB 3349 Requires hospitals and emergency departments to maintain written charity care policies meeting specified requirements.	House Health Care
	HB 2074 Expands definition of tobacco products for purpose of taxation to include electronic cigarettes and nicotine solution.	House Revenue
	HB 2134 Expands definition of "tobacco products" for purpose of taxation to include electronic cigarettes and nicotine solution.	House Revenue
	HB 2447 A Extends sunset for tax credit for alternative energy devices.	House Revenue
	HB 2448 A Extends sunset for tax credit for energy conservation projects.	House Revenue
	HB 3193 Increases license tax on leaded aircraft fuel.	House Transportation
	HB 2237 Requires transportation network company to maintain insurance policy to cover private passenger motor vehicle when vehicle's registered owner or designated operator actively participates as driver with transportation network company.	House Transportation	A minor reform of Uber and Lyft.

Oppose?	Bill	Committee	Dan's Comments
	HB 3273 CARRIED OVER FROM THE 3/31/2015 AGENDA: Imposes one-year moratorium on adoption, amendment or repeal of any administrative rule that has fiscal impact on public of $50,000 or more.	House Consumer Protection	Ludicrous.  Eviscerates nearly all consumer protection, environmental protection rules.