AFT-Oregon 2013 Regular and Special Session Scorecard
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HB 2787: Tuition Equity HB 2585: Injury Reporting HB 2305: Corporate Kicker for Community Colleges HB 2152: Staff Ratio Reporting KeyKey ○ Right Way ● = Voted theVote: WRONG = Voted the Vote: RIGHT Way A = Wrong Absent:Absent A
AFT-Oregon Position Outcome Senate Herman Baertschiger (R-2) Alan Bates (D-3) Lee Beyer (D-6) Brian Boquist (R-12) Ginny Burdick (D-18) Betsy Close (R-8) Peter Courtney (D-11) Richard Devlin (D-19) Jackie Dingfelder (D-23) Chris Edwards (D-7) Ted Ferrioli (R-30) Larry George (R-13) Fred Girod (R-9) Bill Hansell (R-29) Mark Hass (D-14) Betsy Johnson (D-16) Tim Knopp (R-27) Jeff Kruse (R-1) Laurie Monnes Anderson (D-25) Rod Monroe (D-24) Alan Olsen (R-20) Floyd Prozanski (D-4) Arnie Roblan (D-5) Diane Rosenbaum (D-21) Chip Shields (D-22) Bruce Starr (R-15) Elizabeth Steiner Hayward (D-17) Chuck Thomsen (R-26) Doug Whitsett (R-28) Jackie Winters (R-10)
HB 2902: Payment Parity for NPs and PAs
2013 Senate Legislative Scorecard
HB 3079: Adverse Impact
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HB 3120: Higher Education Coordinating Committee
Each Legislative Session AFT-Oregon advocates for and against bills that address issues important to members’ working lives. These issues are discussed and developed by AFT members at the annual AFT-Oregon Convention. After convention, the Political and Legislative Action Network (PLAN), made up of members from AFT-Oregon and the OSEA, then develop legislative priorities based on these issues. The 2013 Legislative Scorecard reflects the voting record of all 90 legislators on the issues important to AFT-Oregon. A brief description of the bill is included in the scorecard. Although the scorecard gives the voting record on certain bills which received a floor vote, it is not entirely reflective of support by legislators for AFT-Oregon’s Legislative Priorities. Additional variables include measures such as bill sponsorship, readiness and availability to meet with AFT members or legislative staff, and active advocacy on behalf of an issue. These measures are not reflected in the scorecard but are taken into account when assessing performance.
HB 3341: Adverse Impact
2013 Legislative Scorecard
HB 3342: Public Sector Accountability
AFT-Oregon: Support Status: Did not pass the Senate This legislation, introduced by Secretary of State Kate Brown would direct designated voter registration agencies to automatically register citizens to vote and automatically update voter registration when a voter moved. Unfortunately, there was a stalemate in the Senate and this legislation did not pass.
HB 3472: Pay It Forward
Voting Rights (HB 3521)
HB 3521: Voting Rights
AFT-Oregon: Support Status: Passed and signed into law by the Governor HB 2902, requiring insurers to reimburse Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants at the same rate as physicians when they provide the same mental health or primary care service and bill insurers using the same codes passed the legislature. This upholds an important principle, “equal pay for equal work,” and is a move against the trend of underpaying employees solely based on their job classification.
HB 5019: Community College Support Fund
Payment Parity for NPs and PAs (HB 2902)
HB 5031: Oregon University System Fund
AFT-Oregon: Support Status: Passed and signed into law by the Governor HB 3342, the Public Dollars Accountability Act, will keep public employers from spending money to either promote or deter unions in their workplaces, as well as ensuring that our state laws around union organizing are enforced uniformly. This bill is important since many public employers have hired union-busting law firms and consultants to interfere with their employees’ self-determination in organizing efforts. With the help the testimony of Deborah Green and Yvonne Braun of United Academics this bill passed the House and Senate.
SB 5519: K-12 State School Fund
Public Sector Accountability (HB 3342)
SJR1: Oregon Opportunity Act
Union Rights
SB 861: Further Cuts to PERS Costof Living
AFT-Oregon: Support Status: Stalled in Senate Committee HB 2305 would have directed any monies intended for the “kicker” refund to corporations to go to the Community College Support Fund. This measure passed the House by a vote of 46 – 16, but got stuck in the Senate Finance and Revenue Committee and was not brought up for a vote.
HB 3601: Special Session Revenue Bill
Corporate Kicker for Community Colleges (HB 2305)
33% 88% 88% 33% 81% 56% 81% 80% 94% 75% 38% 38% 31% 56% 69% 75% 56% 50% 81% 81% 19% 93% 81% 88% 93% 47% 81% 50% 31% 50%
Overall AFT-Oregon 2013 Rating
ways to relieve student debt and increase funding for post-secondary education. There are strong doubts about how this scheme would be able to fund our colleges and universities in a time of austerity budgets. We’re also extremely concerned that the state would use this program to justify the continued abdication of its responsibility to prove an affordable and accessible public education.
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AFT-Oregon 2013 Regular and Special Session Scorecard
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