Bills in the 2024 Regular Session, House.
Ken Helm
Sponsored
Out of committee2
Directs the Oregon State University Extension Service and the College of Agricultural Sciences of Oregon State University to study the distribution and occurrence of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) found in biosolids applied to agricultural fields that do not produce crops intended for human consumption.
Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to expand programs related to wildlife disease.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Establishes the Environmental Restoration Council.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 14
Declares a state policy to support engagement between offshore wind developers and impacted organizations, communities and tribes.
Requires the Department of Education to establish and administer the Summer Learning Grant program.
Directs the Department of Education to establish and administer a pilot program for students who are foster children.
Establishes the CHIPS Child Care Fund.
Removes the requirement that farm machinery and equipment be tangible personal property for the purposes of exemption from ad valorem property taxation.
Requires an insurer, a pharmacy benefit manager and a health care service contractor to count payments made by or on behalf of an enrollee for the costs of certain prescription drugs when calculating the enrollee's contribution to an out-of-pocket maximum, deductible, copayment, coinsurance or other required cost-sharing for the drugs.
Modifies the definition of "supervisory employee" to include certain employees and exclude certain strike-prohibited public employees.
Creates rules and standards for warehouse employees' quota requirements.
Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife, the State Fish and Wildlife Commission and the Department of State Lands to implement the Ocean Policy Advisory Council recommendations to develop an adaptive management and social monitoring program to support marine reserves.
Provides that a petition for a Family Abuse Prevention Act order, Elderly Persons and Persons with Disabilities Abuse Prevention Act order or sexual abuse restraining order may be filed in the county in which the abuse occurred.
Permits an education provider to have stop arm cameras on school buses for the purpose of recording persons who fail to stop for bus safety lights.
Directs the System of Care Advisory Council to establish a subcommittee on the youth behavioral health workforce.
Establishes the Semiconductor Talent Sustaining Fund.
Modifies definitions pertaining to stalking orders and stalking offenses.
Out of committee · 5
Requires hospitals to take certain actions with respect to protecting hospital employees from workplace assaults.
Modifies the process for setting aside convictions, dismissals, contempt of court findings and guilty except for insanity judgments.
Requires the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to adopt rules to govern procurements from clean energy technology manufacturing companies.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Business Development Department for deposit in the Special Public Works Fund.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Housing and Community Services Department for the purpose of making matching deposits into individual development accounts.
In committee · 3
Permits a police officer to take a person who is publicly intoxicated or under the influence of controlled substances, but who is not incapacitated, to their dwelling or, if the person is unable to identify a dwelling, to a treatment facility or sobering facility.
Creates the crime of threatening a mass injury event.
Increases the penalties for making, delivering or possessing an object that is used to render a drug into a counterfeit substance.