Bills in the 2023 Regular Session, House.
Ken Helm
Sponsored
Became law5
Directs Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board to establish program to provide grants to water suppliers.
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.
Makes permanent provisions conditionally allowing water right lease to split use of water between existing water right and in-stream water right within same year.
Modifies definition of "renewable energy facility" for purposes of county permitting process for solar photovoltaic power generation facility.
Authorizes Environmental Quality Commission to annually adjust, by up to three percent, fees associated with water quality programs administered by Department of Environmental Quality.
Out of committee16
Allows person who submits application for compensation under wolf depredation compensation and financial assistance grant program to amend application.
Directs Department of Environmental Quality to establish program to provide rebates to persons that purchase or lease qualifying medium or heavy duty zero-emission vehicles.
Directs Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board to establish grant program to provide grants to water suppliers to protect, restore or enhance sources of drinking water.
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.
Creates income or corporate excise tax credit for electric utility that purchases electricity produced using a fuel source that is at least 50 percent qualifying western juniper biomass.
Creates income or corporate excise tax credit for amount paid by owner of eligible generation facility for transmission services.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to provide grants to counties and soil and water conservation districts for treatment of western juniper.
Establishes Place-Based Water Planning Fund.
Amends reporting requirements for real estate transaction sampling of domestic wells to require labs conducting tests to submit results to Department of Environmental Quality.
Directs Department of Environmental Quality, in consultation with Water Resources Department, to develop recommendations and other resources to expand beneficial water reuse or recycled water programs or projects in state.
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.
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.
Instructs Water Resources Commission to make funding decisions for loans and grants awarded from Water Supply Development Account at least twice each year.
In committee19
Increases penalties for assault committed against parks and recreation employees.
Provides that persons whose farming or ranching operation suffered economic loss in 2022 due to certain natural disasters may apply for forgivable loans.
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.
Requires Public Utility Commission to study energy.
Requires Legislative Policy and Research Office to study water service rates and rate schedules.
Establishes Task Force on Offshore Wind.
Establishes Columbia River Commercial Gillnet Buyback Fund.
Increases state transient lodging tax.
Requires Department of Land Conservation and Development to study land use siting of solar photovolatic power generating facilities.
Prohibits limitation on percentage of chinook and coho salmon that may be taken by commercial fisheries using alternative gears.
Extends privilege taxes on merchantable forest products harvested on forestlands.
Instructs Water Resources Director to schedule evidentiary hearings for certain protests concerning water right applications.
Provides process and form by which associations may amend declarations and bylaws of planned community or condominium to remove unlawfully discriminatory provisions.
Restricts ability for public bodies other than Real Estate Agency to regulate or condition properties based on submission to condominium form of ownership.
Creates Interagency Water Officer in office of Governor.
Directs Oregon Department of Emergency Management to develop report on 9-1-1 emergency reporting system.
Provides for portion of surplus revenue refunds to be directed to Oregon Drought Reserve Fund instead of returned to personal income taxpayers.
Increases amount of estimate of revenues that will be received from personal income taxes for biennium beginning July 1, 2021.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 15
Modifies provisions relating to reproductive health rights.
Aligns criteria for alteration, restoration or replacement of dwellings on lands zoned for forest use consistent with criteria applicable to dwellings on lands zoned for farm use.
Expands and provides funding for coordinated crisis services system including 9-8-8 suicide prevention and behavioral health crisis hotline.
Provides that specially assessed irrigated farmland may not be disqualified from special assessment if landowner has active in-stream lease for water rights appurtenant to such irrigated farmland and farmland is being used according to accepted farming practices that are mode of operation customarily utilized in conjunction with farm use.
Requires insurer to offer 70 percent of coverage insured previously purchased for contents of residence to insured who holds policy of personal insurance without requiring inventory of loss if total loss of contents occurs as result of major disaster.
Allows conversion of building from commercial use to housing within urban growth boundary under certain conditions.
Limits improvements that landlord of manufactured dwelling park may require of tenant.
Provides for confidentiality of communications made in peer support counseling session conducted by mass transit district.
Makes individuals who possess relevant technical experience and are employed seven or more years by certain types of districts, and certain types of registered professionals, eligible to apply for certification as water right examiners.
Modifies qualifications for water well constructor's license.
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.
Requires 9-8-8 crisis hotline centers to have policies and train staff on serving firefighters and other first responders.
Prohibits landlords from terminating lease or taking other specified actions due to status of tenant as victim of bias crime.
Establishes Sexual Misconduct Survey Council.
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.
Out of committee · 17
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.
Appropriates $30,000,000 to Department of Environmental Quality for deposit in Zero-Emission Incentive Fund.
Establishes Task Force on Desalination.
Establishes Community Green Infrastructure Grant Program.
Directs Oregon Solutions at Portland State University to provide grant to nonprofit organization to establish collaborative center in Harney County.
Requires schools to have wireless panic alert device in each classroom of each school building.
Appropriates moneys to Water Resources Department to fund staff position and allocate moneys for purposes related to voluntary agreements among ground water users in Greater Harney Valley Groundwater Area of Concern.
Requires State Department of Energy, in consultation with Housing and Community Services Department, to establish whole-home energy savings program and high-efficiency electric home rebate program.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to High Desert Partnership for specified purposes.
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.
Instructs Water Resources Department to take certain actions concerning backlog of protests of decisions concerning water rights and transfers and submit report on backlog to committees or interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to water no later than December 31, 2024.
Authorizes certain Deschutes Basin irrigation districts to temporarily allow change of place of use of water, or change in point of diversion, within Deschutes Basin irrigation districts.
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board for deposit in Oregon Agricultural Heritage Fund for hiring related to Oregon agricultural heritage programs.
Extends to January 2, 2029, sunset of program for provision of rebate for construction or installation of solar electric system or paired solar and storage system, for residential customer or low-income service provider, on real property in Oregon.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Business Development Department to be used for Economic Equity Investment Program created under chapter 103, Oregon Laws 2022 (Enrolled Senate Bill 1579).
Requires Oregon Department of Administrative Services to adopt rules to govern procurements of clean energy technology.
Directs College of Forestry at Oregon State University, in collaboration with Department of Environmental Quality and State Forestry Department, to research development of fuel pathways for low carbon fuels derived from woody biomass residues from forestry operations.
In committee · 13
Clarifies meaning of "because of age" in employment discrimination law.
Extends property tax exemption to commercial community solar projects first granted exemption for property tax year beginning on or after July 1, 2023.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to City of Grants Pass to build water plant.
Establishes Rent Reporting Pilot Program in Housing and Community Services Department.
Directs Department of Transportation to disclose personal information to mass transit district created under ORS chapter 267 for purpose of investigating and enforcing ordinances of mass transit district.
Directs Water Resources Department to produce state of water resources report and basin water assessments.
Makes permanent county safety corridor program.
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 10 percent of electricity sold in this state by each electric company that makes sales to 25,000 or more retail electricity consumers to be generated by small-scale renewable energy facilities or certain biomass facilities.
Requires power purchase agreements to permit qualifying facilities to provide energy or energy and capacity to third parties during periods of emergency.
Authorizes holders of certain water rights in Upper Klamath Basin to relocate points of diversion to consolidated point of diversion under certain circumstances.
Prohibits, in specified areas of law, discrimination or harassment against persons based on caste.
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.