Bills in the 2017 Regular Session, House.
David Gomberg
Sponsored
Became law8
Allows State Parks and Recreation Department to issue permits to entities to restore, maintain and preserve abandoned cemeteries.
Clarifies language relating to certain personal property not subject to ad valorem property taxation.
Expands exemption from requirement to equip vehicle with brakes to include certain trailers that transport dories.
Authorizes ports to acquire, construct, maintain and operate shipyards.
Establishes Affordable Housing Land Acquisition Revolving Loan Program within Housing and Community Services Department to make loans to eligible organizations to purchase land for affordable housing development and to provide supportive services to residents and low income households.
Prohibits hotels or inns from charging facility fees in addition to price of guest room rental unless facility fees are disclosed prior to guest room reservation or rental.
Makes changes to definition of "low income households" in Local Innovation and Fast Track Housing Program.
Exempts from property taxation real and personal property, including inventory, of retail store owned by nonprofit corporation if retail store deals exclusively in donated inventory and operates with substantial support from volunteers and all net proceeds of retail store sales are donated to nonprofit corporation that provides animal rescue services, to manufacturer or provider of goods or services in return for which nonprofit corporation that provides animal rescue services receives equivalen
Passed the House1
Provides that historic cemeteries be accessible to persons conducting historical research.
Out of committee1
Requires schools to instruct and drill students on survival after natural disaster.
In committee5
Modifies laws related to real estate appraisers and appraisal management companies.
Establishes Ocean Beach Fund.
Requires Legislative Policy and Research Director to provide small business impact statement if statement is requested in writing by two members of Legislative Assembly, each member from different major political party.
Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission to conduct study and develop recommendations on how to ensure students have greatest practicable opportunity to transfer credits earned at community colleges to baccalaureate degrees awarded at public universities.
Creates crime of unlawful dissemination of a commercial recording or audiovisual work.
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
Modifies grant agreement requirements for Department of Environmental Quality grants to low-interest loan programs for on-site septic system repairs, replacements, upgrades and evaluations.
Creates Task Force on Maritime Sector Workforce Development.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 27
Provides definitions relating to comparable work for purposes of pay equity provisions.
Allows liquor stores and distillery retail outlet agents to sell vermouth.
Provides that portion of U.S. Highway 20 shall be known as Oregon Medal of Honor Highway.
Designates first Saturday in June of each year as Oregon Outdoor Recreation Day.
Requires each post-secondary institution of education to provide Higher Education Coordinating Commission with number of Oregon high school graduates from each school district enrolled at institution and graduation rate at institution for Oregon high school graduates from each school district.
Authorizes city or county to adopt ordinance or resolution granting exemption for newly rehabilitated or constructed multiunit rental housing.
Allows nonimmigrant authorized to enter United States under Compact of Free Association to be law enforcement officer.
Requires long term care referral provider to be registered with Department of Human Services.
Creates alternative process for persons seeking to change name on vital record for purpose of affirming gender identity.
Exempts certain towing vessels and their towed barges from requirement that Oregon Board of Maritime Pilots licensee pilot vessel.
Authorizes court to order State Fish and Wildlife Commission to revoke all licenses, tags and permits issued under wildlife laws held by person convicted of violation of wildlife laws for unlawfully taking wildlife with culpable mental state, if violation occurred while person was acting or offering to act as outfitter and guide.
Provides that ports may enter into intergovernmental agreements for any purpose permitted under ORS chapter 190.
Authorizes ports to advertise activities of port and activities of others using port facilities.
Increases threshold, from $500,000 to $2 million, of real property value that requires port to obtain additional appraisal before purchase.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to submit annual report to Legislative Assembly on amounts of liquidated and delinquent debt written off, abated or canceled by specified state agencies in previous fiscal year.
Requires development of plan for Oregon Coast Trail.
Establishes Oregon Agricultural Heritage Fund and continuously appropriates moneys in fund to Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board.
Directs Department of Transportation to conduct pilot program on prompt payment of certain contracts.
Expands exemption from public records law of records of Office of Small Business Assistance, and directs office to maintain specified records confidentially.
Requires State Department of Agriculture to adopt rules governing posting of tax information by gas stations.
Requires Department of Education to develop and provide to public high schools written materials regarding apprenticeship opportunities.
Creates Office of Outdoor Recreation within State Parks and Recreation Department.
Modifies civil penalties, license regulation and licensing fees for certain facilities regulated by Department of Human Services.
Requires health benefit plan coverage of specified health care services, drugs, devices, products and procedures related to reproductive health.
Extends sunset on Oregon Medical Insurance Pool Account to January 2, 2018, and continuously appropriates moneys in account to Department of Consumer and Business Services.
Makes permissive rather than mandatory provision that noncompliant survey map that is not corrected by surveyor and returned to county surveyor within 30 days be forwarded by county surveyor to State Board of Examiners for Engineering and Land Surveying for action.
Prohibits public body from disclosing specified information concerning person unless required by state or federal law.
Passed the House · 2
Requires lobbyist statements filed with Oregon Government Ethics Commission to identify each bill or measure introduced before Legislative Assembly lobbyist lobbied on, whether lobbyist lobbied in favor of, in opposition to or for purpose of seeking amendments to bill or measure, each legislative topic that was not bill or measure that lobbyist lobbied on, each person or entity that hired lobbyist and how much moneys person or entity paid lobbyist.
Creates limited landscape construction professional license.
Out of committee · 10
Directs Department of Education to coordinate with Oregon FFA Association to increase student achievement and improve college attendance and career placement for students enrolled in agricultural education courses.
Directs Housing and Community Services Department to establish Affordable Homeownership Grant Program to provide grants to eligible nonprofit organizations with affordable homeownership programs to provide opportunities for homeownership to persons in low income households.
Establishes University Research Fighting Fund to provide state moneys to public universities or Oregon Health and Science University when universities seek federal research grants.
Establishes Oregon Public Places Are Safe Places Investment Fund.
Establishes Homeownership Repair and Rehabilitation Program within Housing and Community Services Department to provide grants to eligible nonprofit organizations to provide financial assistance to persons in low income households for repair and rehabilitation of residences.
Appropriates moneys to State Forestry Department for 2017-2019 biennium to carry out integrated pest management program to combat Sudden Oak Death.
Repeals Department of State Lands leasing requirements for kelp harvesting.
Establishes Task Force on Rural Medical Training Facilities.
Establishes refundable tax credit against income or corporate excise taxes for employers in specified industrial sectors for wages paid to employees at or below specified rate.
Imposes requirements upon mental health treatment providers and programs to ensure culturally and linguistically appropriate care for individuals who are deaf, deaf-blind or hard of hearing.
In committee · 8
Requires health benefit plan coverage of specified health care services, drugs, devices, products and procedures related to reproductive health.
Requires law enforcement agencies to adopt policies on responding to officer-involved domestic violence incidents.
Directs Oregon Medical Board and Oregon State Board of Nursing to adopt rules requiring practitioners to screen certain patients for pathogenic E. coli bacteria and report positive screening results to Oregon Health Authority.
Directs Department of Human Services to study necessary improvements in regulation of memory care facilities and report to appropriate committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly.
Prohibits greyhound racing.
Directs Oregon Business Development Department to develop and administer program to issue grants to address tourism-related coastal infrastructure needs.
Requires Legislative Assembly to provide translator services free of charge, in order to facilitate witness participation in hearings or informal meetings with one or more members of Legislative Assembly, or as required by federal Americans with Disabilities Act.
Revives tax credit for loss of limb function.