Bills in the 2023 Regular Session, House.
Ben Bowman
Sponsored
Became law5
Allows district school board to choose to provide directors with monthly stipend and individual directors to decline to receive stipend.
Establishes Jurisdictional Transfer Advisory Committee within Department of Transportation.
Identifies certain covered vendors.
Provides for confidentiality of communications made in peer support counseling session conducted by mass transit district.
Modifies calculation of required minutes of physical education for middle school students to be based on weekly calculation.
Out of committee5
Establishes Task Force on School Starting Times.
Transfers jurisdiction of portion of Hall Boulevard to City of Tigard.
Establishes Imagination Library of Oregon Program to provide free book each month to eligible children, encourage children to develop love of reading and learning, and improve third-grade reading proficiency and high school graduation rates.
Requires Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission to require applicant for cannabis-related license or license renewal to submit signed attestation that applicant will refrain from interfering with labor organizing efforts or submit attestation that applicant and labor organization that is certified to represent employees of applicant have entered into and will abide by terms of labor peace agreement.
Directs State Board of Education to adopt uniform standards related to collection of specified data.
In committee16
Prohibits charging of fees or requiring of participation in fundraising activities as condition of participating in interscholastic activities.
Establishes Access Oregon program within State Department of Fish and Wildlife for landowners to voluntarily give permission to public to access corner locked land.
Limits terminations and rent increases for senior tenants of publicly supported housing following termination of affordability restrictions.
Establishes Legislative Oversight and Accountability Committee and directs committee to select Legislative Oversight and Accountability Director.
Prohibits public employer from prohibiting public employee from displaying symbols of inclusion in public employee's immediate workspace.
Requires public universities and community colleges to charge tuition and fees of no greater than resident rate for active member of Armed Forces of United States and for spouse or dependent child of active member of Armed Forces of United States.
Directs Department of Transportation to disclose personal information to mass transit district created under ORS chapter 267 for purpose of investigating and enforcing ordinances of mass transit district.
Makes unlawful practice for employer to advertise employment opportunity without disclosing certain information regarding opportunity.
Permits individual who is 16 or 17 years of age and registered to vote to cast ballot in school district elections.
Authorizes remote attestation of certain wills.
Establishes Task Force on Public Procurement Modernization.
Renames task force to create bridge program as Joint Task Force on Affordable Coverage and charges joint task force with creating comprehensive plan for expanded bridge program that provides affordable health insurance to individuals with incomes above 200 percent of federal poverty guidelines and meets specified criteria.
Establishes minimum amount of reimbursement for primary care services, dental care and behavioral health services provided to recipients of medical assistance.
Requires Department of Transportation to study laws related to tolling.
Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission to conduct study to determine best method for improving graduation rate of students who enroll in post-secondary institutions of education.
Prohibits professional corporation organized for purpose of practicing medicine from removing director or officer by means other than majority vote of directors or officers, as appropriate, who are licensed to practice medicine in this state.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 42
Establishes Oregon Housing Needs Analysis in Oregon Department of Administrative Services.
Modifies provisions relating to reproductive health rights.
Defines "undetectable firearm." Punishes manufacturing, importing, offering for sale or transferring undetectable firearm by maximum of 10 years' imprisonment, $250,000 fine, or both.
Establishes program within Apprenticeship and Training Division of Bureau of Labor and Industries to make grants to local service districts and local joint committees that develop and administer pilot projects for firefighter apprenticeship training.
Allows specified persons to distribute and administer short-acting opioid antagonist and distribute kits.
Requires Department of Corrections to establish doula program for pregnant and postpartum adults in custody at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility.
Requires Employment Relations Board to develop guidelines and procedures for authorizations designating bargaining representatives of bargaining unit to be prepared and signed electronically.
Requires hospitals to adopt policies and procedures to ensure provision of human immunodeficiency virus post-exposure prophylactic drugs or therapies following patient's possible exposure to human immunodeficiency virus.
Requires that dental and vision are included in health benefits available to part-time faculty members.
Requires school districts to make available to students of school district specified informational surveys and to provide parents and guardians with notice and opportunity to review survey before it is administered.
Modifies Department of Justice crime victim compensation program.
Requires hospitals to establish professional and technical staff and service staff staffing committees, meeting specified criteria, to develop staffing plans, in addition to nurse staffing committee.
Provides that person that knows or consciously avoids knowing that another person is engaging in act or practice that violates laws that regulate telephone solicitations or use of automatic dialing and announcing devices and nonetheless provides substantial assistance or support for violation is liable for loss and subject to penalty to same extent as person that engaged in violation.
Establishes requirements for approving recovery schools.
Increases military leave of absence to which public employee who is member of National Guard, National Guard Reserve or reserve component of Armed Forces of the United States or of United States Public Health Service is entitled to 21 work days.
Requires Oregon Health and Science University to annually publish on website of university certain information related to research using nonhuman primates.
Prohibits retail pet store from offering to sell or selling dogs or cats.
Modifies requirements for health insurance coverage of hearing-related items and services.
Directs Department of Transportation to waive fee for Fallen Hero roadside memorial highway sign if applicant is Gold Star Family member and funds are appropriated or otherwise made available to department for purpose of paying fees.
Directs Oregon Business Development Department to provide financial assistance to eligible applicants to pay for allowable costs related to early child care infrastructure activities.
Directs State Board of Education to adopt rules that allow for reimbursement of school district expenses incurred for alternative transportation costs.
Limits terminations and rent increases for three years after tenants' housing is withdrawn from publicly supported housing.
Revises provisions relating to chemicals in children's products.
Establishes Oregon Disaster Response Assistance Matching Fund.
Preserves additional funding for small school districts that merge with one or more school districts if certain conditions are met.
Directs Department of Education to develop and implement statewide education plan for students who are Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander.
Establishes Task Force on Tribal Consultation and specifies task force membership.
Establishes Early Literacy Success Initiative.
Authorizes Housing and Community Services Department to support replacement, reconstruction or rehabilitation of residential units damaged or destroyed by disaster and to support recovery of residents of such housing.
Creates refundable child tax credit, calculated based on number of dependents of taxpayer that are qualifying children with respect to taxpayer and are under six years of age at close of tax year.
Requires pharmacy to report dispensation of prescription drugs classified in schedules II through V under federal Controlled Substances Act to electronic system established for monitoring and reporting prescription drugs when drug is prescribed and dispensed to individual for use by individual or individual's animal.
Imposes new requirements on hospitals with respect to financial assistance policies and processes.
Allows local government to adopt land use exception to Goal 16 under certain conditions for applications for deep draft navigation channel improvements in Oregon International Port of Coos Bay.
Requires State Department of Energy to report on rate of heat pump technology adoption and to collaborate with designated state agencies to reduce barriers to home energy efficiency and resilience.
Directs Oregon State Board of Nursing to issue license to practice as certified registered nurse anesthetist to qualified applicant.
Requires 9-8-8 crisis hotline centers to have policies and train staff on serving firefighters and other first responders.
Prohibits landlords from terminating lease or taking other specified actions due to status of tenant as victim of bias crime.
Establishes Sexual Misconduct Survey Council.
Provides that, if certain state agencies provide temporary housing to displaced individuals in response to emergency, agencies shall ensure housing is safe and provided in compliance with state and federal laws relating to discrimination.
Provides, for purposes of certain statutes relating to taking of predatory animals, that term "predatory animal" does not include beavers.
Directs schools or school districts to provide electronic communication to parents and guardians of students attending, and to school district employees employed at, school at which safety threat action occurred.
Directs State Department of Energy to establish program to provide assistance related to energy projects and activities to environmental justice communities.
Vetoed · 1
Establishes State Public Bank Task Force.
Passed both houses · 1
Establishes ranked choice voting as voting method for selecting winner of nomination for and election to offices of President of United States, United States Senator, Representative in Congress, Governor, Secretary of State, State Treasurer and Attorney General.
Passed the House · 1
Establishes Missing Endangered Person Alert System.
Out of committee · 19
Specifies property and funds of judgment debtor that are exempt from execution or garnishment.
Requires individual and group health benefit plans and benefit plans offered by Public Employees' Benefit Board and Oregon Educators Benefit Board to reimburse services provided by naturopathic physicians within scope of their practice if services are reimbursed when provided by licensed physicians.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to issue grants to specified recipients.
Allows veterans to participate in Oregon Promise program if first enrolled in classes within 12 months after discharge from military.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Health Authority to be used for specified purposes related to expanding behavioral health provider workforce.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to prepare tentative budget for funding of State School Fund.
Directs President of Senate and Speaker of House of Representatives to appoint work group to develop framework for multi-sector plan for aging to be administered by Department of Human Services.
Establishes Aligning for Health Pilot Program, administered by Oregon Health Authority, to test alternative methods for payment for health care.
Requires State Department of Fish and Wildlife, State Fish and Wildlife Commission and Department of State Lands to implement Ocean Policy Advisory Council recommendations to develop adaptive management and social monitoring program to support marine reserves.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to establish grant program for purpose of distributing moneys to institutions of higher education and organizations that administer training programs to develop training and instructional programs that prepare students to enter into behavioral health workforce.
Creates Oregon personal income tax subtraction for amounts received for renting out room in taxpayer's home.
Permits education provider to operate video recording device for purpose of recording persons who fail to stop for bus safety lights.
Prohibits distributing, selling, attempting to sell or allowing to be sold flavored inhalant delivery system product or flavored tobacco product in this state.
Requires schools to have wireless panic alert device in each classroom of each school building.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Transportation, for biennium beginning July 1, 2023, for improving safety and increasing access to walking, biking and transit on state highways that serve as community main streets.
Establishes Task Force on the State of Sport in Oregon to make recommendations for growing businesses in athletics, team sports, outdoor activities and recreation ecosystem in order to establish Oregon as most conducive location in North America for sports economy.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to disburse to Oregon Health and Science University funds to support entity established within Oregon Health and Science University that advocates for improved maternal and neonatal outcomes.
Creates crime of interfering with an investigation into an offense against an animal.
Requires Bureau of Labor and Industries to study issues related to working conditions of warehouse workers.
In committee · 11
Authorizes governing bodies of certain public entities that own or control public building to adopt policy, ordinance or regulation or precluding affirmative defense for possession of firearms in public building and adjacent grounds by concealed handgun licensees.
Prohibits practice of conversion therapy by certain professionals.
Modifies requirements for coordinated care organization contracts.
Clarifies meaning of "because of age" in employment discrimination law.
Establishes Universal School Meal Account for purpose of reimbursing school districts for certain costs incurred in providing federally reimbursable meals.
Makes unlawful practice for employer or employment agency to advertise job, promotion or transfer opportunity without disclosing pay range and employment benefits in job posting.
Provides that unit of government may not assess toll on state highways or interstate highways located in tri-county area unless Department of Transportation conducts and submits equity plan for approval by affected counties.
Establishes Office of Health Care Affordability and transfers to office functions of Oregon Health Authority related to containment of health care costs.
Prohibits, in specified areas of law, discrimination or harassment against persons based on caste.
Prohibits tolling on state highways until January 2, 2026.
Requires original equipment manufacturer to make available to owner of consumer electronic equipment or independent repair provider on fair and reasonable terms any documentation, tool, part or other device or implement that original equipment manufacturer makes available to authorized service provider for purpose of diagnosing, maintaining or repairing consumer electronic equipment.