Bills in the 2023 Regular Session, House.
Ed Diehl
Sponsored
Became law4
Requires that court dismissing charges involving orders of commitment due to defendant lacking fitness to proceed also order transport of defendant back to jurisdiction in which charges were initiated.
Specifies physician assistant scope of practice and duties of care when practicing medicine.
Expands Department of Transportation's authority to allow specified counties, including Marion County, to designate speeds on highways within county's jurisdiction under certain circumstances.
Authorizes self-service dispensing of Class 1 flammable liquids at retail if dispensary is in city in Marion County located in certain area and city was impacted by 2020 wildfires.
In committee13
Removes requirement that adequate repository for terminal disposition of high-level radioactive waste be licensed as precondition for issuance of site certificate for nuclear-fueled thermal power plant.
Requires Public Utility Commission to study rate impacts associated with implementing reduction of greenhouse gas emissions required by House Bill 2021 (2021).
Prohibits public funding of abortions.
Replaces standard of review of local government's land use decisions with review for any evidence.
Repeals statute authorizing civil suits challenging reasonableness of local laws regulating camping by persons experiencing homelessness.
Directs Energy Facility Siting Council to adopt standards, for siting, construction, operation and retirement of energy facilities that generate electricity from renewable energy source, addressing impacts of energy facility's equipment waste recycling and disposal needs over lifetime of energy facility.
Limits Governor's ability to exercise authority conferred on Governor during declared state of emergency to no more than 60 days' duration, unless Legislative Assembly authorizes continued state of emergency.
Enacts interstate Nurse Licensure Compact.
Changes term "physician assistant" to "physician associate.".
Prohibits Environmental Quality Commission and Department of Environmental Quality from adopting or enforcing rules or standards related to motor vehicle fuels or emissions unless authorized by Legislative Assembly by law enacted on or after effective date of Act.
Prohibits medical health care professional from performing or providing sex alteration procedure on minor.
Establishes standards for fiduciary of pension benefit plan offered by public body.
Provides for homestead rebuilt by same owner on same lot to replace homestead destroyed by September 2020 wildfires to have frozen assessed value equal to assessed value for 2020-2021 property tax year to extent of destroyed homestead's square footage.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 10
Authorizes self-service dispensing of Class 1 flammable liquids at retail dispensary.
Increases penalties for possession of certain amounts of fentanyl.
Prohibits pharmacy benefit manager from retroactively denying or reducing payment on claim after adjudication unless pharmacy and pharmacy benefit manager agree that payment was incorrect due to clerical error.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Justice for Crime Victim and Survivor Services Division, for distribution to eligible children's advocacy centers.
Creates Oregon tax subtraction for amounts of personal casualty loss that are barred from deduction on federal tax return because loss is not attributable to federally declared disaster.
Clarifies area of leg to which definition of "podiatry" applies.
Modifies requirements for health insurance coverage of hearing-related items and services.
Clarifies process of Senate confirmation of members of State Fish and Wildlife Commission.
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.
Extends safe surrender period for anonymously leaving infant at authorized facility to 60 days from infant's date of birth.
Passed the House · 3
Establishes Missing Endangered Person Alert System.
Extends safe surrender period for anonymously leaving infant at authorized facility to 60 days from infant's date of birth.
Permits employer to pay employees at different compensation levels pursuant to retention bonus provided that employer does not discriminate in payment of retention bonus, and that retention bonus accounts for entire compensation differential.
Out of committee · 11
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of State Police for biennium beginning July 1, 2023, to increase capability of department's forensic laboratories to conduct analyses of blood for controlled substances.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Health Authority for costs related to increasing statewide capacity of licensed residential facilities serving individuals with substance use disorders or mental health concerns.
Directs Department of Human Services to provide grants, support and technical assistance for resilience hubs and networks in Oregon.
Modifies provisions of Department of Transportation wildlife-vehicle collision program.
Requires schools to have wireless panic alert device in each classroom of each school building.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Education to fund specified programs provided by Willamette Career Academy.
Requires Southern Oregon University, subject to appropriation of sufficient moneys, to address state's behavioral and mental health needs by materially increasing number of mental health practitioners who graduate in southern Oregon and teaching behavioral and mental health competencies through alternative academic pathways.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to establish Nurse Educator Workforce Stipend Program to provide incentives to nurse instructors.
Directs Higher Education Coordinating Commission to enter into agreement with Oregon Solutions at Portland State University to develop infrastructure funding readiness hub and enter into agreements with specified organizations to perform functions of funding navigator.
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Business Development Department to award grants to cities and Oregon Indian tribes with high poverty rates for purpose of developing local poverty reduction plans.
Authorizes State Treasurer to issue Article XI-Q general obligation bonds to finance expansion of courthouses.
In committee · 69
Delays penalties under Health Care Cost Growth Target program until 2026.
Repeals corporate activity tax.
Limits pretrial release of defendants charged with felony or Class A misdemeanor to security release.
Allows public education provider to identify which locations to make tampons and sanitary pads available to students.
Prohibits athletic organizations from designating, classifying, naming or categorizing as specific for females certain athletic activities for which participation is permitted by persons whose biological sex is male.
Prohibits Governor or state officer or agency from requiring lawful ongoing business concern to close or suspend operations during declared state of emergency or declared state of public health emergency.
Requires Department of Education to transfer funds to school districts necessary to pay for school resource officers.
Modifies estate tax brackets to provide additional estate tax exclusion of $1 million.
Repeals those provisions of Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act of 2020 (Ballot Measure 110 (2020)) that pertain to decriminalization of possession of drugs.
Creates rebuttable presumption that equal parenting time and joint custody are in best interests of child.
Requires that pardon, commutation and remission actions by Governor be initiated by application and follow specified procedures.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to establish and administer Pregnancy Launch Program to provide certain services to specified persons.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to establish grant program for purpose of making grants to entities that provide services related to encouraging and assisting pregnant persons in carrying their pregnancies to term.
Removes requirement that menstrual products be provided in student bathrooms designated for males.
Increases exempt amount and filing threshhold for purposes of corporate activity tax.
Requires Personnel Division of Oregon Department of Administrative Services to review and update classification plan and compensation for specified positions held by individuals employed by community developmental disabilities programs or support service brokerages.
Prohibits district school boards from adopting specified procedures relating to parental notification.
Prohibits insurance company from considering map of wildfire risk when determining insurance rate.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to establish toll-free pregnancy resources hotline to provide information and assistance to pregnant persons seeking abortions in this state.
Requires Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organization to pay reasonable per diem rate for patient whose discharge from hospital is delayed due to circumstances beyond hospital's control.
Removes limitation on percentage of students in school district who may enroll in virtual public charter school not sponsored by school district without first receiving approval from school district.
Establishes education savings account (ESA) program.
Modifies personal income tax brackets.
Requires course instruction provided as part of health education curriculum to include information about human development from conception to birth.
Authorizes sale of unpasteurized milk from small-scale farm through delivery service or at farmers' market or other farm-to-consumer sales location if milk is labeled as unpasteurized.
Allows additional estate tax exclusion of $1 million.
Permits counties to elect to increase number of voting booths available at primary and general elections in order to provide all electors with option of using easily accessible voting booth to cast ballot.
Allows district school board to enter into agreement with superintendent for payment in lieu of 12 months' notice required when superintendent's employment is terminated without cause.
Removes restriction on distribution of Student Investment Account moneys to virtual public charter schools.
Requires district school board or higher education governing board that adopts policy limiting possession of firearms by concealed handgun licensees on school grounds to install metal detectors at entrances to buildings subject to policy.
Directs Department of Human Services to consider placement of child or ward with previous substitute care providers, if applicable.
Prohibits transitional housing accommodations near schools.
Prohibits health insurers and pharmacy benefit managers from restricting coverage of physician-administered prescription drugs that are obtained by nonparticipating pharmacies.
Prohibits specified practices by insurers and pharmacy benefit managers in reimbursing cost of prescription drugs.
Permits minors 16 and 17 years of age to operate power-driven machinery in certain circumstances.
Provides that Oregon estate tax is imposed only on estates of decedents dying on or before January 1, 2023.
Removes limitation on percentage of students in school district who may enroll in virtual public charter school not sponsored by school district without first receiving approval from school district.
Modifies requirements for coordinated care organization contracts.
Excludes certain costs from consideration as total health expenditures for purposes of Health Care Cost Growth Target program.
Requires Department of Environmental Quality to study disposal of electric vehicle batteries.
Requires Department of Environmental Quality to study impacts of waste from solar or wind renewable energy facilities.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to contract with third party to examine restructuring of authority to improve efficiency and responsiveness.
Increases exempt amount and filing threshold for purposes of corporate activity tax.
Increases exempt amount and filing threshold for purposes of corporate activity tax.
Prohibits abortion in this state after 39th week of gestation.
Prohibits abortion in this state after 38th week of gestation.
Prohibits late-term abortions in this state except in medical emergency or to terminate pregnancy resulting from rape or incest.
Prohibits abortion in this state after 37th week of gestation.
Repeals Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act of 2020 (Ballot Measure 110 (2020)) and provisions related to decriminalization of possession of drugs, creation of Oversight and Accountability Council and grants and funding for Behavioral Health Resource Networks to provide drug treatment.
Directs Oregon Department of Emergency Management to identify long-term recovery groups operating in Oregon and to provide grants for their support.
Authorizes person to use dogs to hunt or pursue cougars on private property owned by person or with consent of property owner or owners.
Prohibits state agency from enforcing rules adopted as result of state of emergency related to COVID-19.
Allows State Forester to order use of wildfire suppression personnel, equipment and services on federal lands within state borders.
Clarifies role of district school board in selecting or developing courses of study and in implementing courses of study.
Directs district school boards to adopt procedures for notifying parents of specified information.
Includes nursing technicians as staff that may be considered in establishing hospital staff nursing plans.
Directs Department of Education to conduct study to identify sources of funding to pay for costs of establishing secure, single point of entry for each public school.
Directs Department of Education to conduct study to identify costs and possible funding sources to improve school safety.
Directs Department of Education to conduct study related to hiring retired police officers to provide security in public schools.
Prohibits abortion unless health care provider first determines probable gestational age of unborn child, except in case of medical emergency.
Directs district school boards to adopt policy for selecting and reviewing books and materials for school libraries.
Provides protections for person who refuses to participate in procedure related to abortion or physician-assisted suicide if refusal is based on person's ethical, moral or religious convictions.
Authorizes county to adopt ordinance concerning Ballot Measure 114 (2022) providing that law enforcement agency with jurisdiction entirely within county is not required to act as firearm purchase permit agent, and permit is not required for transfer of firearm from transferor within county to county resident.
Requires Department of Land Conservation and Development to study foreign investment in Oregon agricultural land.
Creates Oregon tax subtraction for amounts received in settlement of civil action arising from wildfire.
Provides that person is automatically qualified to obtain permit to purchase firearm if person holds valid concealed handgun license.
Expands definition of "debilitating medical condition" for medical use of marijuana.
Allows owner of property outside urban growth boundary to site additional dwelling on property for occupancy by relative of owner.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Education for State School Fund.