Bills in the 2021 Regular Session, House.
Paul Evans
Sponsored
Became law7
Specifies conditions for requiring, issuing and maintaining in effect surety bond or irrevocable letter of credit for person that creates, attaches, asserts or claims lien in connection with making, altering, repairing, transporting, storing, performing services, supplying materials or performing labor in connection with motor vehicle.
Provides that lawful units of land whose property lines are relocated by certain judgments remain lawful units.
Provides that certain employee of State Fire Marshal qualifies as firefighter for purposes of Public Employees Retirement System.
Extends time for recording partition plat incorporating city or county's permit validating unit of land to 365 days.
Provides that, if monthly salary of member of individual account program of Oregon Public Service Retirement Plan does not exceed $3,333, instead of $2,500, Public Employees Retirement Board shall credit all employee contributions made by member to employee account and credit no employee contributions made by member to employee pension stability account.
Renames Office of Emergency Management as Oregon Department of Emergency Management.
Directs State Fish and Wildlife Commission to adopt certain requirements related to carcasses of returning hatchery fish.
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Directs State Department of Agriculture to administer Oregon Hemp State Program for production, processing and sale of hemp.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Military Department for Service Member and Family Support Program in biennium beginning July 1, 2021.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to specified state agencies for specified purposes related to emergency management for biennium beginning July 1, 2021.
Directs court to consider, when determining aggravation in imposition of criminal sentence, evidence that defendant committed crime during emergency, evacuation while emergency in effect, or within one year after emergency ceases, provided that emergency is related to natural disaster and defendant took advantage of circumstances related to emergency, evacuation or recovery from emergency.
Directs Department of Veterans' Affairs to fill and utilize certain positions.
Establishes Oregon Public Places Are Safe Places Investment Fund.
Establishes Oregon Disaster Response Assistance Matching Fund.
Directs Office of Emergency Management to conduct annual multidisciplinary, all-hazards emergency response exercise.
Requires certain government officials and management employees to complete education on incident command, National Incident Management System and emergency response.
Establishes State Gambling Task Force.
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Requires student to demonstrate proficiency in civics in order to receive high school diploma.
Requires Director of Employment Department to study methods of allowing employers to pay quarterly unemployment insurance taxes over extended period.
Directs State Treasurer to develop and implement small business support loan program that aids in supporting economic activities of small businesses during times in which small businesses cannot conduct business activities at ordinary or customary level because of statewide or regional emergency or other significant disruption of business activity.
Provides worker-funded program to pay emergency benefits during state of emergency declared by Governor to unemployed independent contractors on terms similar to terms under which employees receive regular benefits.
Transfers duties, functions and powers related to administering federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act and workforce development matters from Higher Education Coordinating Commission to Bureau of Labor and Industries.
Establishes Oregon Disaster Recovery Authority.
Authorizes Governor, if necessitated by emergency, to require any person in this state to accept and fulfill orders for manufacture, sale or distribution of certain goods.
Requires law enforcement agency to designate police oversight board to annually review policies of agency and report to Department of Public Safety Standards and Training.
Requires city with population of 200,000 or fewer to establish local standards to promote housing stability no later than July 1, 2023.
Authorizes Governor, if necessitated by emergency, to require any person in this state to accept and fulfill orders for manufacture, sale or distribution of certain goods.
Requires peace officers performing official duties in uniform to display certain information on uniform.
Prohibits local government, local contracting agency or local contract review board from enacting, adopting or enforcing ordinance, resolution, rule or other law that prohibits, restricts or limits evaluation, comparison or use of pipe or piping materials for water project if pipe or piping materials meet current standards or performance specifications of specified organizations and moneys appropriated from State Treasury directly or indirectly provided funding for water project.
Establishes Oregon Cash Depository Corporation as independent public corporation and prescribes corporation's purposes and powers.
Directs Oregon Military Department to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to operations of department.
Directs Oregon Military Department to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to operations of department.
Directs Oregon Military Department to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to operations of department.
Directs Oregon Military Department to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to operations of department.
Directs Office of Emergency Management to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to operations of office.
Establishes criteria for state and United States flags to be official flags.
Requires every corporation to annually file affidavit with Department of Revenue attesting that corporation has registered or attempted to register with United States Selective Service System.
Creates Guaranteed Opportunity Program.
Directs Department of Veterans' Affairs to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to operations of department.
Directs Department of Veterans' Affairs to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to operations of department.
Directs Department of Veterans' Affairs to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to operations of department.
Directs Department of Veterans' Affairs to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to operations of department.
Directs Office of Emergency Management to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to operations of office.
Directs Office of Emergency Management to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to operations of office.
Directs Oregon Military Department to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to operations of department.
Directs Office of Emergency Management to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to operations of office.
Requires statement of economic interest to be filed by all members of board of directors or governing body of nonprofit that has either received or submitted testimony to Legislative Assembly requesting $1 million or more in state capital construction funding over previous five calendar years.
Modifies provisions relating to retirement benefits for public employee who is designated representative of exclusive representative and takes release time.
Directs Public Employees Retirement Board to initiate, resume or suspend payment of certain increased benefits under Public Employees Retirement System on first day of calendar quarter following receipt of notice by board that benefit payments are or are not subject to Oregon personal income tax.
Establishes minimum education requirements for teachers of certain accelerated college credit program courses.
Directs Oregon Business Development Department to conduct study regarding cost savings and expense reductions that may result to small businesses from cooperative resource sharing.
Establishes Oregon Quality Education Model Modernization Task Force.
Creates income tax credit for certain employers that are required to provide paid sick leave.
Creates credit against personal income tax for cost of criminal history record check required by state law for transfer of firearm.
Alters commissioner composition of Higher Education Coordinating Commission by redesignating five current nonvoting positions as voting positions and by adding one additional position for graduate student attending public university.
Directs Occupational Safety and Health Division of Department of Consumer and Business Services to study potential safety benefits of screening replacement workers during labor dispute with employer that employs more than 100 employees in industry involving hazardous materials.
Requires each community college and public university to have at least 65 percent of total number of credit hours offered taught by full-time employee during 2022-2023 academic year and at least 75 percent of total number of credit hours offered taught by full-time employee every academic year thereafter.
Authorizes reserve officers sponsored by law enforcement unit to pay for training as police with cash and G.I. Bill education benefits.
Directs Department of Veterans' Affairs to develop program under which providers contracting with department provide credit guarantees for qualified borrowers for purpose of refinancing home mortgages.
Requires medical assistance to include vision therapy.
Establishes Task Force on Disaster Response and Recovery.
Requires Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services to impose $15 surcharge on limited plan review for fire and life safety and to deposit proceeds of surcharge to State Treasury to credit of State Fire Marshal Fund.
Directs Oregon Homeland Security Council to develop updated list of equipment for purposes of emergency preparedness equipment grant program.
Authorizes issuance of $10 million in lottery bonds for deposit in Levee Project Grant Fund to be used to provide grants for levee projects.
Provides that contracting agency may not accept bid or proposal for public contract from covered entity for which ratio between highest amount of total compensation and lowest amount of total compensation that covered entity pays employees of covered entity exceeds 100 to 1.
Authorizes formation of bridge district in capital city region, consisting of Benton, Marion, Polk and Yamhill Counties.
Establishes Central Oregon University as separate public university, distinct from Oregon State University.
Direct State Department of Energy to study laws related to energy incentives and provide results to interim committees of Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2022.
Directs Office of Emergency Management to create and maintain registry of persons able and willing to provide services related to emergency response.
Requires health care facilities, health care providers, local public health authorities and public and private safety agencies to maintain capacity, including sufficient amounts of certain supplies, to continue in normal operation for 120 days at 25 percent mortality rate.
Appropriates moneys to Department of State Police, for State Fire Marshal, for personnel costs related to Oregon Safety Assessment Program (OrSAP).
Directs Office of Emergency Management to create and maintain database for flagging of known or suspected hazardous locations during emergency.
Directs Oregon Business Development Department to establish program to create Oregon Critical Emergency Preparedness Stockpile to ensure robust stock of emergency supplies and equipment.
Imposes surtax on income tax liability.
Directs Department of Veterans' Affairs to develop and implement grant program to provide funding to Oregon counties for veterans' courts.
Appropriates moneys to Bureau of Labor and Industries for purposes of program to inform veterans about trade careers and connect veterans with apprenticeship opportunities.
Requires coordinated care organization drug outlets to dispense seven-day supply of prescription drug to veteran with disability, at no cost to veteran, if veteran is unable to obtain prescription drug through United States Department of Veterans Affairs.
Requires public post-secondary institutions to grant 12 academic credits to veterans who have served two or more years on active duty.
Provides that veteran must provide evidence of eligibility for veterans' preference in public employment at time of application for civil service position.
Directs Department of Veterans' Affairs to establish and administer program to acquire and manage residential properties for benefit of veterans who are experiencing, or are at risk of experiencing, housing instability.
Creates crime of criminal defamation of a servicemember.
Makes corporations eligible to serve on juries.
Requires State Forestry Department to establish Western Oregon Regional Carbon Sink as geographical area and take certain actions regarding area on or before January 1, 2033.
Authorizes State Treasurer to issue general obligation bonds under Article XI-E of Oregon Constitution in amount that produces $500 million in net proceeds for Strategic Carbon Sequestration and Forestry Sustainability Program.
Directs municipal law enforcement agency with jurisdiction over population of at least 350,000 to staff patrol vehicles with minimum of two officers.
Requires State Forestry Department to develop and maintain comprehensive statewide map of wildfire risk, including boundaries of wildland-urban interface within state.
Expands membership of Emergency Board.
Requires each county to have facility jointly managed by sheriff and community mental health director to house and treat individuals with behavioral health disorders or intellectual or developmental disabilities who are in custody of county sheriff pending trial.
Establishes correctional facility staffing committee within each Department of Corrections facility.
Provides that directors of district school board of Salem-Keizer School District must be nominated and elected by zone.
Establishes Oregon Vehicle Industry Board.
Establishes temporary limitations on lenders' remedies for borrowers' failures to make payments on obligations secured by mortgages, trust deeds or land sale contracts for certain real property.
Establishes Oregon Wildfire Preparedness and Community Protection Fund and directs State Fire Marshal, State Forestry Department and Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board to make expenditures from fund for various activities related to restoration, protection and recovery from wildfires.
Carried from the Senate
Became law3
Requires students to complete at least one-half credit of civics in order to receive high school diploma.
Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission to design question or questions allowing each student to identify whether student is parent or person acting as parent or legal guardian that may be placed on one or more forms used on annual basis to collect demographic information by public post-secondary institutions of education.
Alters commissioner composition of Higher Education Coordinating Commission by redesignating five current nonvoting positions as voting positions and by adding one additional position for graduate student attending public university.
Co-sponsored
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Defines "emergency shelter." Requires local governments to allow siting of qualifying emergency shelters by qualifying entities notwithstanding land use laws and regulations.
Requires Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services to amend state building code to require that new construction of certain buildings include provisions for electrical service capacity for specified percentage of parking spaces.
Directs public university to report annually to Attorney General on university's use of outside counsel for legal matters.
Exempts certain types of voluntary service in uniformed service from five-year limit on eligibility for reemployment rights in private and public sectors.
Authorizes county to adopt ordinance or resolution authorizing waiver of interest charged for failure to pay taxes when due.
Establishes Oregon Hemp Commission.
Establishes alternative process for alteration, restoration or replacement of certain uses affected by 2020 wildfires.
Requires State Parks and Recreation Department to allow for installation and service of public electric vehicle charging stations in parking spaces that are part of facilities of state park system.
Directs State Department of Fish and Wildlife to adopt by rule and administer program for authorizing voluntary projects for stream restoration and habitat improvement through construction of environmental restoration weirs.
Prohibits knowingly communicating materially false statement, including by electronic or telephonic means, with intent to mislead electors about date of election, deadline for delivering ballot, voter registration deadline, method of registering to vote, locations at which elector may deposit ballot, qualifications of electors or voter registration status within 30 days of primary election or special election or within 60 days of general election.
Authorizes tax collector in county covered by state of emergency declared by Governor due to fire or act of God, or authority of Governor under Emergency Conflagration Act, who knows or has reason to believe property has been destroyed or damaged by fire or act of God to prorate taxes imposed on property.
Requires Oregon Business Development Department to distribute moneys in Oregon Rural Capacity Fund to Oregon's Economic Development Districts for purpose of assisting rural jurisdictions to apply for and administer grants and other forms of funding available from any source.
Expands crisis stabilization services, including crisis stabilization centers meeting criteria adopted by Oregon Health Authority by rule, short-term respite facilities, peer respite centers, behavioral health urgent care walk-in centers and crisis hotline center.
Directs Oregon Homeland Security Council to develop updated list of equipment for purposes of emergency preparedness equipment grant program.
Includes in definition of "conversation" communication occurring through video conferencing program for purposes of statutes regulating recording of communications.
Allows school districts to use moneys distributed from Student Investment Account for payment of student fees, costs and instructors of career and technical student organization programs.
Requires each public university and community college to prominently display mandatory fees charged.
Establishes Willamette Falls Locks Authority as public corporation.
Permits Office of Emergency Management to enter into agreement with nonprofit organization representing sheriffs under which organization is authorized to administer program to produce and sell outdoor recreation search and rescue cards.
Imposes tsunami design standards for certain buildings and other structures.
Renames portion of Interstate 5, beginning in Albany and ending in Salem, to Atomic Veterans and Atomic Cleanup Veterans Memorial Highway.
Allows pharmacist or pharmacy technician to transfer drug containing pseudoephedrine without prescription to person who is at least 18 years of age and presents person's valid government-issued photo identification.
Modifies criteria for erecting roadside memorial signs for deceased veterans formerly prisoners of war or unaccounted for.
Requires each community college and public university to hire benefits navigator to assist students in determining eligibility and applying for federal, state and local benefits programs.
Extends Veteran Educational Bridge Grant Program.
Limits ability of public university to refuse new mandatory incidental fees or process for collecting mandatory incidental fees.
Adds requirements for suspension of hospital nurse staffing plan during national or state emergency declaration.
Authorizes Oregon Health Authority to disclose individually identifiable information related to COVID-19 to certain persons and under certain circumstances.
Designates May 22 of each year as Crater Lake National Park Day.
Temporarily removes condition for being deemed "unemployed" that individual's weekly remuneration for part-time work must be less than individual's weekly unemployment insurance benefit amount.
Vetoed · 1
Establishes regulations for kratom products, including testing standards, labeling requirements and minimum age for sale.
Passed the House · 3
Directs Oregon Business Development Department to study impact of laws related to wetlands on economic development and to provide results of study in report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2022.
Imposes requirements on state agency that employs person at rate higher than rate for executives under compensation plan for state employees.
Requires board of directors of publicly traded corporation to have specified proportion of female directors and directors who are members of underrepresented communities.
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Directs Judicial Department to establish centralized veterans treatment court that counties may opt into beginning July 1, 2023.
Requires Oregon Business Development Department to develop matching grant program to fund new positions in tribal governments to increase tribal capacity for economic development activities.
Amends apprenticeship statutes to permit establishment of firefighter apprentice program.
Directs Office of Emergency Management to administer grant program in support of projects to consolidate and modernize or upgrade public safety answering points.
Enacts express sunset for tax credit for establishment of employee training programs in rural counties.
Extends sunset for tax credit for provision of medical care to residents of Oregon Veterans' Home.
Directs Oregon Homeland Security Council to establish program to create Oregon Critical Disaster Preparedness Stockpile to ensure robust stock of emergency supplies and equipment.
Directs Public Utility Commission to convene workshops on best practices regarding wildfires.
Prohibits Department of Justice from charging officers and agencies of state government for assistance rendered.
Allows otherwise qualified individual to claim earned income tax credit under individual taxpayer identification number in lieu of Social Security number.
Establishes Prosperity 1,000 Pilot Program to provide career coaching, occupational training and job placement services for at least 1,000 low-income job seekers residing in areas of concentrated poverty.
Establishes Task Force on Age Discrimination.
Provides that part-time faculty member at public institution of higher education who qualifies for health care benefits will pay 10 percent of insurance premiums for employee coverage.
Removes requirement that amount of net proceeds from Oregon State Lottery allocated to County Fair Account not exceed $1.53 million annually.
Increases maximum amount of tax credits for certified film production development contributions that may be certified for fiscal year for all taxpayers.
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Provides that Legislative Assembly finds and declares that telecommunicators are first responders.
Designates September of each year as Brain Aneurysm Awareness Month.
Directs Director of Veterans' Affairs to establish Oregon Veterans' Community, to include residential units and medical and social services for veterans and family members.
Modifies zero-emission and electric vehicle rebate programs to allow rebate for purchase or lease of electric farm tractor or repowering of farm tractor.
Modifies definition of "plug-in hybrid electric vehicle" for purposes of zero-emission and electric vehicle rebates.
Directs administrator of electric and zero-emission vehicle rebate program to conduct outreach efforts.
Directs Department of Environmental Quality to provide interest-free loans to school districts, mass transit districts and transportation districts for purchase of electric buses and charging infrastructure for electric buses.
Requires electric companies to expend any revenues from participation as credit aggregator or credit generator in clean fuels program on transportation electrification.
Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission to provide grants to qualified public safety and healthcare employees to attend community colleges, public universities, or Oregon Health and Science University.
Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission to adopt by rule additional minimum standards regarding source of tuition revenue for licensing of career schools and schools authorized to confer degrees.
Requires local correctional facility to provide to veteran who is in pretrial detention health care recommended by United States Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration.
Establishes that certain statements and assertions set forth in legislative subpoena or other process used by Senate President, Speaker of House of Representatives or chair or vice chair of legislative committee are binding on court for purposes of enforcement of process.
Prohibits member of Legislative Assembly who is absent and unexcused when Legislative Assembly is in session from receiving salary, per diem or expense reimbursement, and imposes fine of $500 per day of unexcused absence.
Requires ballots returned by mail to be postmarked not later than date of election.
Establishes Emergency Shelter Task Force.
Requires Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services to prescribe in appropriate specialty codes standards, safeguards and guidelines for incorporating fire prevention and fireproofing or fire resistance measures into construction, repair, renovation, rehabilitation, retrofitting or maintenance of buildings and other structures that are located in areas of this state that are subject to or susceptible to wildfires.
Directs Office of Emergency Management to study and make recommendations regarding workforce levels necessary to respond to emergencies.
Establishes Task Force on Rural Fire Protection District Community Development to study and develop recommendations for developing, enhancing or expanding ability of rural fire protection districts to facilitate community development efforts following natural disaster.
Directs Office of Emergency Management to create and maintain roster of individuals available for temporary emergency-related work.
Provides that telecommunicator qualifies as police officer under Public Employees Retirement System.
Requires that declarations and extensions of states of emergency under certain statutes be accompanied by written explanations.
Establishes personal income tax credit of $1,000 per qualifying child.
Establishes Oregon Cleanup and Beautification pilot program within Oregon Corrections Enterprises.
Amends definition of "employment relations" to include class size and caseload limits as mandatory collective bargaining subjects for school districts.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Justice for 2021-2023 biennium for purposes of resource prosecutor position dedicated to assisting prosecution of offenses involving detriment or risk of detriment to animals.
Establishes Task Force on Forestry.
Establishes Task Force on Government Transparency.
Requires Department of Human Services to contract with nonprofit organization to implement and administer program to assist recipients of supplemental nutrition assistance in purchasing locally grown fruits and vegetables from farmers' markets, farm share sites and retail outlets that participate in program.
Establishes procedure for charging aggravated version of certain assault and attempted murder offenses when defendant causes permanent physical injury to victim during commission of crime.
Limits procurement authority of Oregon Health Authority.
Provides for restoration of retirement credit for member of Oregon Public Service Retirement Plan who forfeited retirement credit due to lack of service at end of 2020.
Provides that student who legally entered United States under Compact of Free Association treaty between United States and Republic of Palau, Republic of the Marshall Islands or Federated States of Micronesia and who has not previously established residence in any state or territory of United States other than Oregon qualifies for exemption from nonresident tuition and fees at public universities and is eligible to receive state and university scholarships or other financial aid.
Directs Oregon Military Department to study and make recommendations regarding military leave from public employment.
Lowers normal retirement age for firefighters under Oregon Public Service Retirement Plan.
Requires school director candidates to publicly disclose organizations with which candidates are affiliated.
Directs Department of Education to establish and administer pilot program to assist school districts in providing age-appropriate instruction on natural disasters.
Provides that individual receiving erroneous payment of unemployment insurance benefits through no fault of individual is liable for repayment of benefits in addition to being liable to having amount of erroneous payment deducted from future benefits.
Reinstates tax credit for reforestation.
Creates credit against income taxes for amounts paid by veteran as principal or interest on qualified education loans.
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.
Requires ballots returned by mail to be postmarked not later than date of election.
Adds lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender to definition of "minority individual" for purposes of providing public contracting opportunities to minority-owned businesses in this state.
Requires State Forestry Department to study and make recommendations to interim committee of Legislative Assembly regarding improvement of fire protection.
Directs Higher Education Coordinating Commission to study effectiveness of statutes implementing unified statewide transfer agreements and to determine whether additional legislation is necessary to enhance process of transferring academic credits between community colleges and public universities.
Directs State Department of Fish and Wildlife to develop game fish carcass recovery project.
Declares harmful algal blooms to be menace to public health and welfare.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Higher Education Coordinating Commission for Community College Support Fund for distribution to community colleges and community college service districts.
Establishes Small Donor Elections Program to enable candidates for office of state Representative and state Senator to receive 6-to-1 match on small dollar donations.
Requires public institutions of higher education to award academic credit in each instance in which enrolled student completed high school class or participated in high school program that offered learning and experiences comparable to introductory communications, public speaking or argumentation course offered at institution.
Provides that part-time faculty member at public institution of higher education who qualifies for health care benefits will pay 10 percent of insurance premiums for employee coverage.
Requires Employment Relations Board to develop guidelines and procedures for authorizations designating bargaining representatives of bargaining unit to be prepared and signed electronically.
Prohibits Oregon State Lottery from offering games playable via mobile phone, personal computer or other personal electronic device, except for certain sports betting and multistate numbers drawing lottery games.
Provides that certain substitute teachers are considered employees of school district and are eligible for retirement benefits and health benefit plans.
Requires state agency that enters into certain interagency agreements with public body, another state agency or unit of local government to evaluate performance of other party to interagency agreement at least once each year on basis of specified criteria and to determine every six years after date of execution of interagency agreement whether to continue or renew interagency agreement or terminate interagency agreement and enter into new interagency agreement with different public body, state agency or unit of local government.
Directs Department of State Police to maintain staffing level of at least 15 patrol troopers per 100,000 residents of this state, beginning January 1, 2030.
Requires Department of Consumer and Business Services to develop and implement programs to make one-time payments directly to certain workers as incentive payments to return to work or as worker retention payments for workers who were frontline essential workers during first year of COVID-19 pandemic.
Prohibits person who has previously been expelled from Legislative Assembly from being appointed to fill vacancy in office of state Senator or state Representative.