Bills in the 2023 Regular Session, House.
Paul Evans
Sponsored
Became law7
Defines terms.
Clarifies area of leg to which definition of "podiatry" applies.
Expands list of employees that may be charged certain representation fees to include employees of Department of Corrections and of Oregon Corrections Enterprises, and parole and probation officers who supervise adult offenders.
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.
Directs Oregon Department of Aviation to conduct study developing plan for strategic investment for airports in this state and to report to appropriate interim committee of Legislative Assembly no later than January 1, 2024.
Establishes Oregon Disaster Response Assistance Matching Fund.
Requires official ceremony or other event held by state government to commemorate Memorial Day or Veterans Day to be held on legal holiday.
Passed the House2
Requires contracting agency to accept from contractors bonds in lieu of retainage for construction projects and public improvement contracts.
Establishes separate limitation on inclusion of hours of overtime worked for Oregon State Police in final average salary for purposes of Oregon Public Service Retirement Plan.
Out of committee9
Direct Department of Education to establish program to assist student inventors in development of intellectual property and assist education service districts in acquisition of interests in intellectual property developed by student inventors.
Directs State Department of Fish and Wildlife to award grants for recreational fishing facilities within urban growth boundary.
Establishes Oregon Public Assistance Grant Account as account in Oregon Disaster Response Fund.
Establishes Task Force on Desalination.
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.
Authorizes issuance of general obligation bonds under Article XI-Q of Oregon Constitution for emergency preparedness equipment grant program.
Requires Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study alternative methods to implement retainage provisions in public improvement contracts.
Establishes emergency veterans housing program within Housing and Community Services Department.
Establishes Task Force on Containment of Petroleum Contamination.
In committee84
Prohibits person under 21 years of age from possessing firearms with specified exceptions.
Expands duties of State Resilience Officer.
Creates income tax credit for certain employers that are required to provide paid sick leave.
Establishes Oregon Disaster Recovery Authority.
Requires Oregon Business Development Department to conduct study of economic development in Oregon.
Authorizes city or county to impose public transit incentive surcharge on amount of any fine for violation of city's or county's motor vehicle parking code.
Requires Department of Human Services to adopt rules requiring licensed long term care facilities, outpatient renal dialysis facilities and residential facilities to acquire and maintain backup power sources to be used during power outages.
Directs Department of Transportation to study issues related to improving ground transportation infrastructure resilience and to report to appropriate committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly on or before September 15, 2024.
Creates Guaranteed Opportunity Program.
Authorizes formation of bridge district in capital city region, consisting of Benton, Marion, Polk and Yamhill Counties.
Establishes criteria for state and United States flags to be official flags.
Requires Department of Education to conduct study to determine adequacy of education in public schools.
Requires Bureau of Labor and Industries to study issues related to employment in this state.
Directs Department of Transportation to study issues related to improving transportation infrastructure resilience and to report to appropriate committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly on or before September 15, 2024.
Requires Oregon Department of Emergency Management to study seaport transportation infrastructure resilience.
Directs Department of Transportation to notify vehicle dealers when department discovers documentation or fees vehicle dealer submitted to register or title vehicle are missing or incomplete.
Requires Oregon Military Department to study military.
Requires Oregon Military Department to study licensure portability for military families.
Directs Department of Transportation to provide two days' notice to vehicle dealers and dismantlers before inspecting records unless department is responding to complaint.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to contract with third party to examine restructuring of authority to improve efficiency and responsiveness.
Requires Oregon Military Department to study veterans.
Expands definition of "consumer contract" to include purchases of used motor vehicles used primarily for personal, family or household purposes.
Permits vehicle dealer to issue temporary registration permits for motor vehicles that do not have proof of compliance with pollution control equipment requirements.
Requires Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to study issues facing law enforcement agencies.
Requires nonprofit corporations that meet certain requirements, including receipt of public funds, to comply with open meetings law and public records law, to post copy of corporation's proposed annual budget to corporation's public website and to submit to and cooperate with audit.
Requires Public Employees Retirement Board to study cost-of-living adjustments to reflect inflation.
Establishes Oregon Disaster Response Assistance Matching Fund.
Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission, in coordination with public universities and community colleges, to conduct study to determine appropriate of return State of Oregon should receive for each patent obtained as result of public moneys provided to public university or community college.
Authorizes Oregon Department of Emergency Management to issue temporary professional licenses during states of emergency to individuals formerly licensed by certain professional licensing boards.
Establishes Task Force on Renewable Diesel.
Directs Oregon Department of Emergency Management to develop and maintain grant program to harden community facilities against man-made and natural disasters.
Establishes review criteria for telecommunications towers to be applied by counties.
Directs Department of Veterans' Affairs to develop and implement grant program to provide funding to Oregon counties for veterans' courts.
Requires Department of Consumer and Business Services to study feasibility of providing discounted mortgage loans to home buyers who install energy generation improvements capable of providing electricity to local utility.
Directs Department of Environmental Quality to develop and maintain grant program to prevent spills at fuel facilities.
Requires Legislative Revenue Officer to study granting tax benefit to emergency management volunteers.
Creates offense of sleeping in highway danger zone.
Directs Oregon Tourism Commission to identify, designate and monitor tourism districts in this state.
Provides for additional forms of identification that may be used by person to prove status as veteran when applying for veterans' recognition registration plate.
Transfers Public Defense Services Commission from judicial to executive branch.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to study options to maximize federal funding for ground emergency medical transport program.
Prohibits Public Utility Commission, municipal electric utilities, electric cooperatives and people's utility districts from setting maximum amount of cumulative generating capacity for solar net metering systems that is allowed to be interconnected.
Requires Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to study fire service professional training standards.
Directs Oregon Department of Emergency Management to establish liaison to each county to foster development of county-level organizations or networks to address emergency prevention, preparedness, response and recovery.
Directs Oregon Department of Emergency Management to identify long-term recovery groups operating in Oregon and to provide grants for their support.
Directs Oregon Department of Emergency Management to contract with one or more philanthropic liaisons.
Directs Oregon Business Development Department to develop registry of small businesses interested in receiving communications relating to emergency management.
Directs Oregon Department of Emergency Management to develop and implement program to provide grants to counties to create and fill county-level position of disaster mitigation and recovery manager.
Establishes Oregon Individual Assistance Grant Account as account in Oregon Disaster Response Fund.
Establishes Compliance Division within Oregon Department of Emergency Management to ensure compliance with requirements and regulations relating to moneys received from federal government.
Directs Oregon Department of Emergency Management to provide technical assistance to local entities that are active in emergency preparedness, response or recovery.
Establishes Oregon Disaster Recovery Authority.
Appropriates moneys to Department of Land Conservation and Development for natural hazards mitigation planning.
Directs Oregon Department of Emergency Management to develop and implement program to reimburse certain nongovernmental entities for specified costs related to volunteers.
Directs Oregon Department of Emergency Management to develop and implement grant program, in consultation with OregonServes Commission, to support and expand community volunteer programs related to emergency management in Oregon.
Directs Higher Education Coordinating Commission, Oregon Department of Emergency Management, Oregon Health Authority and Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to collaboratively plan and implement creation of interoperative, centralized electronic system to manage information about persons in Oregon who are available to serve as volunteers in case of emergency.
Expands statute allowing certain public bodies to grant paid leave of absence to public employee who volunteers to participate in disaster relief or recovery services in state.
Establishes Oregon Desalination Authority.
Requires Oregon Educators Benefit Board to study adequacy of benefits offered to education workers.
Requires Department of Human Services to study workload of case managers in aging and disability services division of department.
Prohibits sales of certain products about which recyclability claim has been made.
Defines "undetectable firearm." Punishes manufacturing, importing, offering for sale or transferring undetectable firearm by maximum of 10 years' imprisonment, $250,000 fine, or both.
Permits Building Codes Structures Board to adopt licensing standards for performing structural masonry in essential facilities.
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, 2035.
Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to study effect of sentencing types on recidivism rates, and to provide results of study to interim committees of Legislative Assembly no later than December 31, 2024.
Requires Oregon Military Department to study military spouses.
Makes corporations eligible to serve on juries.
Establishes tax credit against personal income taxes for purchase of qualifying gun safes or locking mechanisms.
Requires city with population of 200,000 or fewer to establish local standards to promote housing stability no later than July 1, 2025.
Modifies definition of "supervisory employee" to exclude certain strike prohibited public employees.
Requires Housing and Community Services Department to develop strategic housing stipend pilot program to provide housing stipends to individuals to move to city where their labor is expected to benefit economic development of city.
Requires public university to submit any proposed change in affiliation with athletic association, conference or organization with authority over intercollegiate sports to appropriate legislative committees for review.
Directs Department of Corrections to contract with vendor for creation and maintenance of victim notification system.
Authorizes cities to bring certain lands within their urban growth boundaries for light industrial and open space uses.
Creates crime of unlawful disclosure of private information.
Permits motor vehicle drawing trailer to also draw farm trailer under specified conditions.
Directs Department of Corrections to study facilities used to execute adults in custody at Oregon State Penitentiary.
Prohibits law enforcement unit from disciplining police officer because officer's name has been placed on list maintained by prosecutor's office of recurring witnesses for whom there is known potential impeachment information, or because officer's name may otherwise be subject to disclosure pursuant to Brady v.
Requires Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission to study alcohol delivery.
Requires Department of Corrections to study issues related to post-custodial workforce development in this state.
Directs State Department of Fish and Wildlife to establish program to purchase trophy trout from private aquaculture facilities.
Requires State Department of Fish and Wildlife to study animal sanctuaries.
Requires owner of public building to periodically conduct inspections and testing of fire dampers, smoke dampers, combination fire and smoke dampers and smoke control systems in public building.
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.
Carried from the Senate
Became law3
Adds certain hospital, medical and infectious waste incinerators to facilities at which covered drugs under drug takeback program may be disposed of.
Eliminates restrictions on payment of unemployment insurance benefits to certain nonprofessional educational workers.
Directs Department of Education to make biennial transfer to Oregon Military Department from State School Fund for purpose of paying costs of educational services provided through programs operated by military department for at-risk youth.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 39
Establishes Oregon Housing Needs Analysis in Oregon Department of Administrative Services.
Defines "undetectable firearm." Punishes manufacturing, importing, offering for sale or transferring undetectable firearm by maximum of 10 years' imprisonment, $250,000 fine, or both.
Broadens public contracting preference for businesses that service-disabled veterans own to include all veteran-owned businesses.
Allows specified persons to distribute and administer short-acting opioid antagonist and distribute kits.
Directs Department of State Fire Marshal to coordinate urban search and rescue function of this state.
Prohibits person from recklessly, knowingly or intentionally using unmanned aircraft system to interfere with wildfire suppression, law enforcement or emergency response effort.
Requires Employment Relations Board to develop guidelines and procedures for authorizations designating bargaining representatives of bargaining unit to be prepared and signed electronically.
Requires that dental and vision are included in health benefits available to part-time faculty members.
Requires Department of Education to conduct study to identify best methodology for determining appropriate number of students on workload for certain school-based health practitioners.
Increases penalties for possession of certain amounts of fentanyl.
Provides that qualifying agency must require as material provision of public improvement contract that contractor establish and implement plan for outreach to and recruitment and retention of women, minority individuals and veterans to perform work under public improvement contract, with aspirational target of having individuals in one or more of these groups perform at least 15 percent of total work hours that workers perform under public improvement contract.
Modifies Department of Justice crime victim compensation program.
Provides that first full week in March is known as Classified School Employees Week.
Directs district attorney to petition court for order requiring defendant charged with certain crimes to submit to testing for HIV and other communicable diseases.
Directs Department of Land and Conservation and Development to convene work group to examine strategies for expanding early learning and care facilities in this state.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Justice for Crime Victim and Survivor Services Division, for distribution to eligible children's advocacy centers.
Expands and provides funding for coordinated crisis services system including 9-8-8 suicide prevention and behavioral health crisis hotline.
Authorizes governing body of public body to meet in executive session to consider matters relating to safety of governing body, public body staff and public body volunteers and to security of public body facilities and meeting spaces, and relating to cyber security infrastructure and responses to cyber security threats.
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.
Extends time during which recreational vehicle may be sited on lot with single-family dwelling that was damaged by natural disaster.
Encourages schools to provide instruction on preparing for, and recovering from, fires, earthquakes, safety threats and natural disasters.
Authorizes Water Resources Department to seek injunctive relief if person has engaged, or is about to engage, in activity that is or will be violation of certain water laws.
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.
Identifies certain covered vendors.
Preserves additional funding for small school districts that merge with one or more school districts if certain conditions are met.
Provides that Governor's appointment of chief administrative law judge is subject to confirmation by Senate.
Modifies definition of "renewable energy facility" for purposes of county permitting process for solar photovoltaic power generation facility.
Establishes Early Literacy Success Initiative.
Modifies calculation of required minutes of physical education for middle school students to be based on weekly calculation.
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 entity that receives funds for certain workforce program initiatives to establish wage standards and develop training plan for individuals who participate in program administered by entity if, under program, entity provides individuals with paid work experience.
Provides that individuals who participate in certain on-the-job training programs are entitled to certain rights and protections concerning civil rights, discrimination and harassment as employees in employment relationship with employer.
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.
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.
Establishes Joint Task Force on Hospital Discharge Challenges.
Requires 9-8-8 crisis hotline centers to have policies and train staff on serving firefighters and other first responders.
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.
Vetoed · 1
Establishes State Public Bank Task Force.
Passed the House · 2
Establishes Missing Endangered Person Alert System.
Prohibits major residential contractor from collecting or retaining more than 50 percent of original contract price before substantial completion of remodeling or repair of owner-occupied one-family or two-family residential structure if original contract price exceeds $40,000.
Out of committee · 29
Exempts from state income tax military pay received by Oregon National Guard member while in active service of state or on state active duty.
Authorizes issuance of lottery bonds for Ontario Community Recreation Center.
Establishes Public Defense Services Student Loan Repayment Assistance Program in Oregon State Bar to provide forgivable loans to eligible public defense attorneys and staff members for outstanding student loans.
Directs Oregon Department Office of Emergency Management to administer grant program in support of projects to consolidate and modernize or upgrade public safety answering points.
Removes requirement that amount of net proceeds from Oregon State Lottery allocated to County Fair Account not exceed $1.53 million annually.
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.
Declares harmful algal blooms to be menace to public health and welfare.
Increases retirement benefits and lowers normal retirement age under Oregon Public Service Retirement Plan for telecommunicators and certain employees of Oregon State Hospital.
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.
Expands regular employment protections afforded for performance of legislative duties by members of Legislative Assembly by requiring employers, at option of member , to grant time off for less than full-day absence to member to perform legislative duties.
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Business Development Department for purpose of awarding grants for formation, improvement and operation of small business development centers .
Directs Oregon Department of Emergency Management to develop and implement program to award grants for fairgrounds used as emergency evacuation sites.
Authorizes cities and counties to adopt program for awarding grants to developers of affordable housing and moderate income housing projects to finance certain costs associated with such housing projects.
Creates Oregon Soil Health Initiative.
Modifies provisions of Department of Transportation wildlife-vehicle collision program.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Transportation to cover costs associated with Fallen Hero roadside memorial signs and veterans' recognition registration plates for biennium beginning July 1, 2023.
Establishes Community Green Infrastructure Grant Program.
Authorizes Department of Justice to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault with housing needs.
Requires schools to have wireless panic alert device in each classroom of each school building.
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Department of Administrative Services to provide grant to Regional Rural Revitalization Strategies Consortium to plan for and develop housing.
Establishes program within Higher Education Coordinating Commission for supporting strategic investments in maritime workforce development programs and activities.
Requires Cherriots to collaborate with Department of Transportation, Department of Environmental Quality, local community members, economists and business leaders to study feasibility of developing rail streetcar system in City of Salem.
Requires State Department of Agriculture to submit report on economic competitiveness of Oregon's agricultural sector to committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly related to agriculture no later than September 15, 2024.
Appropriates moneys to Higher Education Coordinating Commission, for allocation to Oregon State University through Oregon Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, for specified purposes related to zoonotic disease.
Requires Oregon Tourism Commission to establish and administer grant program to promote, develop and sustain opportunities for agricultural tourism in rural communities in this state.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to enter into contract with Oregon Association of Water Utilities to perform, or enter into contract with third party to perform, study of needs and vulnerabilities of small and very small community water systems, design and construct water utility training center and hire three staff to provide related support and resources.
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Business Development Department for distribution to recipients for industrial lands projects.
Authorizes State Treasurer to issue Article XI-Q general obligation bonds to finance expansion of courthouses.
In committee · 40
Establishes limits on campaign contributions that may be accepted by candidates and political committees.
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.
Increases penalties for assault committed against parks and recreation employees.
Limits pretrial release of defendants charged with felony or Class A misdemeanor to security release.
Expands crime of assault in the third degree to include causing physical injury to person working in hospital while worker is performing official duties.
Adds processor to types of entities from which taxpayer engaged in farming operation may obtain certification stating percentage of in-state agricultural commodity sold to entity, in order to determine taxpayer's commercial activity for purposes of corporate activity tax.
Directs Board of Cosmetology to adopt rules to allow holder of provisional certificate to perform in cosmetology field of practice under supervision of practitioner.
Requires Department of Education to transfer funds to school districts necessary to pay for school resource officers.
Requires school districts to encourage community engagement in budget process and to ensure that training is received on developing and understanding school district budget.
Increases expenditure threshold for exemption of municipal corporation from audit requirement.
Permits Building Codes Structures Board to adopt licensing standards for performing structural masonry in essential facilities.
Directs State Treasurer to establish linked deposit program under which State Treasurer purchases investment instruments from qualified depository at below-market rates and qualified depository issues below-market rate loans to minority-owned businesses, woman-owned businesses or businesses that service-disabled veterans own.
Provides that persons whose farming or ranching operation suffered economic loss in 2022 due to certain natural disasters may apply for forgivable loans.
Expands crime of assault in the third degree to include causing physical injury to utility worker while worker is performing official duties.
Alters composition of governing boards of public universities by increasing number of student, faculty and nonfaculty staff members and requiring these members to be voting members of board.
Extends sunset of Oregon Industrial Site Readiness Program.
Requires paid-for-by tagline on political communications by candidate to identify top five large donors to candidate's principal campaign committee.
Establishes grant program within State Department of Energy to provide grants to fund replacement of generators that use diesel or fossil fuels with renewable hydrogen-fueled generators.
Directs Department of Transportation to establish grant program for fuel cell electric vehicle and hydrogen fueling demonstration projects.
Establishes Legislative Oversight and Accountability Committee and directs committee to select Legislative Oversight and Accountability Director.
Provides immunity from civil and criminal liability to school administrators, teachers or other school employees designated by school administrator who administer naloxone to pupils experiencing opiate overdoses.
Modifies definition of "property" for purposes of arson and reckless burning crimes.
Establishes Community Benefiting Water Infrastructure Investment Program.
Requires Public Utility Commission to study energy.
Extends property tax exemption to commercial community solar projects first granted exemption for property tax year beginning on or after July 1, 2023.
Establishes Universal School Meal Account for purpose of reimbursing school districts for certain costs incurred in providing federally reimbursable meals.
Establishes Task Force on Offshore Wind.
Establishes personal financial education as requirement for high school diploma.
Adds registered nurse who is nursing faculty member to types of providers who are eligible for income tax credit allowed to rural medical providers.
Creates violation of unlawful possession of tobacco product or inhalant delivery system.
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.
Requires Department of Land Conservation and Development to study land use siting of solar photovolatic power generating facilities.
Directs Department of Corrections to determine last-known address of adults in custody, if address is readily known or available to adult in custody, and submit information to Secretary of State.
Authorizes remote attestation of certain wills.
Requires Department of Education, in collaboration with certain other agencies, to establish criteria for recognizing student internship programs.
Requires certain entities that received funding to develop, implement, administer or oversee certain workforce programs to meet certain reporting requirements for purposes of measuring outcomes of programs.
Establishes additional requirements that entities providing paid work experience opportunities to individuals must meet in order to receive certain workforce investment grant funding.
Permits candidates to have name listed in more than one place on general election ballot if nominated for same office by multiple political parties.
Provides that evidence of defendant's commission of other sexual offenses is admissible if relevant in criminal action in which defendant is accused of sexual offense.
Authorizes federal firearms licensee to enter into firearm hold agreement with firearm owner.