Bills in the 2023 Regular Session, House.
Farrah Chaichi
Sponsored
Out of committee1
Repeals prohibition on local rent control.
In committee17
Exempts electric vehicles from motor vehicle privilege and use taxes.
Imposes additional personal income tax on portion of income treated as net capital gain.
Converts mandatory minimum sentences for specified felonies other than murder to presumptive sentences.
Provides statewide minimum wage rate beginning on July 1, 2024.
Prohibits public universities from charging tuition or mandatory enrollment fees to resident undergraduate or graduate students.
Expresses intent of Legislative Assembly to commit to implementation of single payer health care system.
Establishes Oregon Right to Rest Act.
Modifies definition of "food services establishment." Repeals provision of predictive work scheduling statutes that permitted employer to maintain voluntary standby list of employees whom employer may ask to work additional hours in certain circumstances.
Modifies personal income tax brackets.
Modifies definitions of "employer" and "employee" to include certain categories of individuals within scope of application of laws concerning private sector labor relations.
Establishes procedure for individual or representative organization to bring action in name of state to recover civil penalties for violations of certain state laws.
Prescribes manner in which Commissioner of Bureau of Labor and Industries shall classify status of individual as employee or independent contractor for purposes of wage and hour laws and employment discrimination laws.
Requires publicly traded corporation to deliver each year to Secretary of State for filing statement that identifies corporation and provides information about corporation's income, sales, tax liabilities and other information.
Establishes ranked choice voting as voting method for selecting winner of nomination for and election to nonpartisan state offices and county and city offices except where home rule charter applies.
Establishes Oregon Election Coverage Fund.
Modifies firearm permit application and issuance process.
Removes statutory provisions relating to death penalty.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 18
Establishes Oregon Housing Needs Analysis in Oregon Department of Administrative Services.
Allows specified persons to distribute and administer short-acting opioid antagonist and distribute kits.
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 establish professional and technical staff and service staff staffing committees, meeting specified criteria, to develop staffing plans, in addition to nurse staffing committee.
Expands and provides funding for coordinated crisis services system including 9-8-8 suicide prevention and behavioral health crisis hotline.
Establishes Jurisdictional Transfer Advisory Committee within Department of Transportation.
Requires Oregon Health and Science University to annually publish on website of university certain information related to research using nonhuman primates.
Requires hospitals to file certain reports showing demographics of hospitals' workforces with Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries for posting to Bureau of Labor and Industries' website.
Extends deadlines for affinity group task forces to complete their work with respect to allocations of resources to address communities' needs and health inequities faced by communities and to report recommendations to Legislative Assembly.
Prohibits employer from requiring employee to use vacation, sick or annual leave for time spent by employee as appointed member of state board or commission.
Establishes Task Force on Tribal Consultation and specifies task force membership.
Prohibits manufacturer from selling or offering to sell cosmetic developed through use of cosmetic animal test.
Directs Housing and Community Services Department to provide report to appropriate interim committee of Legislative Assembly on department's financial support of dwelling units with certain accessibility features.
Increases membership of State Board of Education to include additional representative of congressional district and to include member engaged as classified staff member for public school or education service district.
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.
Prohibits landlords from terminating lease or taking other specified actions due to status of tenant as victim of bias crime.
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.
Makes unlawful employment practice for employer to make offer to negotiate settlement agreement conditional upon worker also entering into agreement that includes no-rehire provision.
Vetoed · 1
Establishes State Public Bank Task Force.
Out of committee · 13
Specifies property and funds of judgment debtor that are exempt from execution or garnishment.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to issue grants to specified recipients.
Transfers jurisdiction of portion of Hall Boulevard to City of Tigard.
Directs Corrections Ombudsman to support Department of Corrections' continuous quality improvement efforts, and to provide report to Governor and committees or interim committees of Legislative Assembly detailing staffing and resources needed to fulfill powers and duties of office within six months of appointment of ombudsman.
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.
Directs Department of Human Services to provide grants, support and technical assistance for resilience hubs and networks in Oregon.
Requires addition to federal taxable income of amounts excluded as gain attributable to investment in federal qualified opportunity zone.
Requires schools to have wireless panic alert device in each classroom of each school building.
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.
Prohibits person from using specified types of animals in traveling animal act.
Establishes Community Information Exchange Board and specifies membership and duties.
Authorizes Oregon Advocacy Commissions Office, Commission on Hispanic Affairs, Commission on Black Affairs, Commission for Women and Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs to employ paid interns and staff necessary to supervise interns.
Requires Housing and Community Services Department to provide grants for urban community housing supporting agricultural employees.
In committee · 17
Requires State Treasurer to exit from certain carbon-intensive investments, subject to fiduciary duties.
Provides that Legislative Assembly finds and declares that home rule cities and counties have constitutional authority to prohibit or limit use of fossil fuels in new buildings or installation of fossil fuel infrastructure.
Clarifies meaning of "because of age" in employment discrimination law.
Requires person who owns, operates or controls high energy use facility to ensure that greenhouse gas emissions associated with electricity used by high energy use facility are reduced to 60 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2027, 80 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2030, 90 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2035 and 100 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2040.
Exempts from drug paraphernalia prohibitions pipes, fentanyl test strips and other harm reduction items.
Provides that registered nurse providing patient care in good faith is immune from criminal liability for act or omission that is part of provision of care unless offense has intentional or knowing culpable mental state.
Directs insurer to consider only specified information in determining rates for motor vehicle liability insurance policy.
Requires health benefit plan coverage of donated human breast milk for infant if prescribed by licensed medical professional.
Requires annual registration and fee for each rental residential dwelling and vacation occupancy with Housing and Community Services Department.
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.
Requires employer to compensate employee for on-call shift for which employee must remain on or near employer's premises or such that employee cannot use scheduled on-call hours for personal purposes.
Authorizes federal firearms licensee or other person to enter into firearm hold agreement with firearm owner.
Provides that, beginning on January 1, 2026, annual salary or wages paid to officer or employee of certain state agencies may not exceed 10 times lowest annual salary or wages paid to full-time officer or employee of agency.
Prohibits, in specified areas of law, discrimination or harassment against persons based on caste.
Prohibits tolling on state highways until January 2, 2026.
Authorizes federal firearms licensee to enter into firearm hold agreement with firearm owner.
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.