Bills in the 2023 Regular Session, House.
Zach Hudson
Sponsored
Became law2
Modifies method for calculation of hours of employment of academic employees of community colleges and public universities for purposes of Public Employees Retirement System.
Increases amount of scholarships that may be awarded by Higher Education Coordinating Commission to diverse teacher candidates.
Out of committee5
Establishes School Safety Construction Fund in State Treasury, separate and distinct from General Fund.
Directs Legislative Administrator to pay costs of reasonable accommodation of member of Legislative Assembly who is afforded rights and protections as person with disabilities under specified federal and state law.
Increases retirement benefits and lowers normal retirement age under Oregon Public Service Retirement Plan for telecommunicators and certain employees of Oregon State Hospital.
Transfers revenue from levy of additional privilege tax under forest products harvest tax to State Forestry Department Account for distribution to Oregon Forest Resources Institute Fund, Oregon Forest Land Protection Fund and Higher Education Coordinating Commission for Oregon State University Extension Service to implement Oregon Environmental Literacy Plan.
Prohibits person from using specified types of animals in traveling animal act.
In committee10
Transfers revenue from levy of additional privilege tax under forest products harvest tax to Forest Research and Experiment Account that is appropriated to Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to Oregon State University.
Authorizes issuance of lottery bonds for deposit in Levee Project Grant Fund.
Prohibits Department of Environmental Quality and State Department of Agriculture from issuing or renewing license or permit to allow construction or operation of new industrial confined animal feeding operation, addition to or expansion of existing industrial confined animal feeding operation or addition to or expansion of livestock farm that would cause livestock farm to become industrial confined animal feeding operation.
Instructs State Department of Agriculture to establish grant program for purpose of facilitating nonlethal deterrence of wildlife conflict species by individuals who raise, keep or produce livestock or crops.
Enacts interstate Occupational Therapy Licensure Compact.
Requires each community college and public university to have at least 45 percent of total number of credit hours offered taught by full-time employee during 2024-2025 academic year, at least 55 percent of total number of credit hours taught by full-time employee during 2025-2026 academic year, at least 65 percent of total number of credit hours offered taught by full-time employee during 2026-2027 academic year and at least 75 percent of total number of credit hours offered taught by full-time employee every academic year thereafter.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Education for deposit in Educator Advancement Fund for recruiting and retaining educators and providing professional learning opportunities for educators.
Requires most outdoor lighting fixtures on public lands or constructed for projects receiving state funds to use certain shielded lighting fixtures.
Prescribes requirements for transfer of student permanent records when private school closes.
Requires general hospital licensed in Oregon to provide maternity services subject to exemption that Oregon Health Authority may allow under criteria prescribed by rule.
Carried from the Senate
Became law3
Modifies abbreviated school day program requirements.
Prohibits employer from retaliating or discriminating against employee or prospective employee who, in good faith and with no reasonable alternative, refuses exposure arising from hazardous condition at place of employment.
Authorizes board of directors of rural fire protection district to annex to district, under certain circumstances, lands that are within coverage area of district.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 43
Modifies provisions relating to reproductive health rights.
Establishes program within Apprenticeship and Training Division of Bureau of Labor and Industries to make grants to local service districts and local joint committees that develop and administer pilot projects for firefighter apprenticeship training.
Allows specified persons to distribute and administer short-acting opioid antagonist and distribute kits.
Requires Department of Corrections to establish doula program for pregnant and postpartum adults in custody at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility.
Requires Employment Relations Board to develop guidelines and procedures for authorizations designating bargaining representatives of bargaining unit to be prepared and signed electronically.
Requires hospitals to adopt policies and procedures to ensure provision of human immunodeficiency virus post-exposure prophylactic drugs or therapies following patient's possible exposure to human immunodeficiency virus.
Changes operative date from January 1, 2026, to effective date of Act, for law removing authority of Teacher Standards and Practices Commission from establishing and collecting fee from educator preparation provider based on number of license applications received by commission from provider or type of educator preparation programs offered by provider.
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.
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.
Declares children who are deaf, hard of hearing or deaf-blind have same rights and potential as children who are not deaf, hard of hearing or deaf-blind.
Modifies Department of Justice crime victim compensation program.
Amends requirements for residential landlords accepting applicant screening charge.
Directs Early Learning Council to adopt rules to establish eligibility for certain children to participate in Employment Related Day Care subsidy program.
Requires hospitals to establish professional and technical staff and service staff staffing committees, meeting specified criteria, to develop staffing plans, in addition to nurse staffing committee.
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.
Establishes requirements for approving recovery schools.
Establishes pilot program at Portland State University and Eastern Oregon University to enhance hiring of public university students by nonprofit organizations.
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.
Amends Oregon Housing Needs Analysis and land use requirements for local governments related to urbanization.
Requires Oregon Health and Science University to annually publish on website of university certain information related to research using nonhuman primates.
Prohibits retail pet store from offering to sell or selling dogs or cats.
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.
Directs Department of Early Learning and Care to commission independent study regarding barriers to attaining high quality early childhood workforce.
Prohibits employer from requiring employee to use vacation, sick or annual leave for time spent by employee as appointed member of state board or commission.
Requires school districts undertaking HVAC infrastructure improvements for which state and federal funds are made specifically available to expend such funds on certain activities aimed at improving indoor air ventilation quality in schools.
Revises provisions relating to chemicals in children's products.
Establishes Oregon Disaster Response Assistance Matching Fund.
Preserves additional funding for small school districts that merge with one or more school districts if certain conditions are met.
Establishes Task Force on Tribal Consultation and specifies task force membership.
Establishes Early Literacy Success Initiative.
Requires Oregon Business Development Department to provide financial assistance to support broadband access, affordability and adoption.
Prohibits manufacturer from selling or offering to sell cosmetic developed through use of cosmetic animal test.
Authorizes Housing and Community Services Department to support replacement, reconstruction or rehabilitation of residential units damaged or destroyed by disaster and to support recovery of residents of such housing.
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 county clerk to replace recorded instrument with court-ordered version that redacts discriminatory language.
Directs Housing and Community Services Department to provide report to appropriate interim committee of Legislative Assembly on department's financial support of dwelling units with certain accessibility features.
Requires State Department of Energy to report on rate of heat pump technology adoption and to collaborate with designated state agencies to reduce barriers to home energy efficiency and resilience.
Establishes Sexual Misconduct Survey Council.
Provides, for purposes of certain statutes relating to taking of predatory animals, that term "predatory animal" does not include beavers.
Directs State Department of Energy to establish program to provide assistance related to energy projects and activities to environmental justice communities.
Increases statute of limitations for first degree sex crimes to 20 years after commission of crime or, for minor victim, any time before victim attains 30 years of age, whichever occurs later.
Vetoed · 1
Establishes State Public Bank Task Force.
Passed the House · 1
Requires pharmacy benefit managers to be licensed by Department of Consumer and Business Services beginning January 1, 2024.
Out of committee · 42
Specifies property and funds of judgment debtor that are exempt from execution or garnishment.
Directs Oregon State University to research reduced-risk pest management tools for Oregon's specialty crops and report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2027.
Appropriates $30,000,000 to Department of Environmental Quality for deposit in Zero-Emission Incentive Fund.
Allows veterans to participate in Oregon Promise program if first enrolled in classes within 12 months after discharge from military.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Health Authority to be used for specified purposes related to expanding behavioral health provider workforce.
Requires Land Conservation and Development Commission to update rules adopted in response to Governor's executive order on climate to address specific issues.
Directs Department of Human Services to ensure provision of specified services to individuals receiving child welfare services who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Requires school district to pay classified school employee not less than 10 percent more than minimum wage that applies to all employees who work in this state .
Requires school districts and education service districts to include in audit reports filed with Department of Education information describing expenditures of moneys received from State School Fund.
Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to establish, in collaboration with Department of Corrections, Family Preservation Project pilot program at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to prepare tentative budget for funding of State School Fund.
Establishes Aligning for Health Pilot Program, administered by Oregon Health Authority, to test alternative methods for payment for health care.
Requires Department of Human Services to provide financial support to nonprofits to provide affordable housing for college students.
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.
Directs Corrections Ombudsman to support Department of Corrections' continuous quality improvement efforts, and to provide report to Governor and committees or interim committees of Legislative Assembly detailing staffing and resources needed to fulfill powers and duties of office within six months of appointment of ombudsman.
Removes cap on amounts distributed from State School Fund to school districts for students eligible for special education as children with disabilities.
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Business Development Department for purpose of awarding grants for formation, improvement and operation of small business development centers .
Establishes Statewide Steering Committee on Sickle Cell Disease.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Justice for deposit into Oregon Domestic and Sexual Violence Services Fund.
Directs Department of Transportation to establish program for awarding grants to providers of traffic safety education courses to fund Spanish language traffic safety education courses.
Directs Department of Human Services to establish program to provide grants to assist noncitizens who do not possess valid immigration documentation change immigration status or obtain lawful permanent resident status.
Establishes Task Force on Health Care Services in Oregon Schools to examine scope of duties of employment and practice for licensed health care providers employed by schools, school districts or education service districts to provide health care services.
Establishes legislative findings relating to expanding need-based financial aid opportunities, ensuring that historically underrepresented students have increased access to wraparound services and support programs at post-secondary institutions of education and increasing levels of targeted state investment that result in increased student service levels.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to establish grant program for purpose of distributing moneys to institutions of higher education and organizations that administer training programs to develop training and instructional programs that prepare students to enter into behavioral health workforce.
Directs Department of Human Services to provide grants, support and technical assistance for resilience hubs and networks in Oregon.
Creates Oregon Soil Health Initiative.
Modifies provisions of Department of Transportation wildlife-vehicle collision program.
Limits, for purposes of personal income taxation, amount of allowed mortgage interest deduction.
Establishes Community Green Infrastructure Grant Program.
Authorizes Department of Justice to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault with housing needs.
Permits education provider to operate video recording device for purpose of recording persons who fail to stop for bus safety lights.
Requires addition to federal taxable income of amounts excluded as gain attributable to investment in federal qualified opportunity zone.
Authorizes Higher Education Coordinating Commission to award "Hunger Free Campus" designation to public universities and community colleges that demonstrate required actions taken to combat hunger.
Requires schools to have wireless panic alert device in each classroom of each school building.
Requires Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission to require applicant for cannabis-related license or license renewal to submit signed attestation that applicant will refrain from interfering with labor organizing efforts or submit attestation that applicant and labor organization that is certified to represent employees of applicant have entered into and will abide by terms of labor peace agreement.
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.
Establishes Community Information Exchange Board and specifies membership and duties.
Requires medical assistance to include continuous glucose monitor for specified recipients of medical assistance.
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Business Development Department to award grants to cities and Oregon Indian tribes with high poverty rates for purpose of developing local poverty reduction plans.
Requires Bureau of Labor and Industries to study issues related to working conditions of warehouse workers.
Establishes factors to be considered when Superintendent of Public Instruction enters into contract with education service district or school district to provide educational services to youths in Youth Corrections Education Program or Juvenile Detention Education Program.
Expresses commitment of Legislative Assembly to support specified bridge projects through investments of specified amounts.
In committee · 28
Establishes limits on campaign contributions that may be accepted by candidates and political committees.
Establishes Universal Health Plan Governance Board and directs board to create comprehensive plan for implementing Universal Health Plan beginning in 2027.
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.
Modifies membership of Oregon Transportation Commission.
Authorizes county to declare shortage of health care and human services personnel and apply to Oregon Health Authority for moneys to make grants to employers to alleviate shortage by offering certain benefits to potential workers and educators.
Expands applicability of requirement to discuss class size and caseload as mandatory subject of bargaining for purposes of school district collective bargaining.
Provides that Legislative Assembly finds and declares that home rule cities and counties have constitutional authority to prohibit or limit use of fossil fuels in new buildings or installation of fossil fuel infrastructure.
Clarifies meaning of "because of age" in employment discrimination law.
Prohibits seller from selling or leasing motor vehicle if sale or lease is contingent upon lender's agreement to purchase retail installment contract or lease agreement.
Establishes Parkinson's disease registry.
Requires governing board at each public university to include graduate student as voting member if university has more than 400 graduate students or if graduate students comprise more than 15 percent of total student body.
Directs Department of Early Learning and Care to establish and implement child care provider incentive program.
Makes certain graduate and post-graduate student workers eligible employees for purposes of Oregon Public Service Retirement Plan.
Creates crime of threatening a mass injury event.
Increases state transient lodging tax.
Allows local governments to adopt maximum applicant screening charges.
Authorizes Multnomah County to form master plan and service district regarding bridges that span Willamette River.
Requires minimum percentages of certain accessible units in multifamily housing developed under Housing and Community Services Department programs.
Requires local governments to include accessible units when updating land use plans relating to urbanization and to report on development of accessible units.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to Multnomah County for Earthquake Ready Burnside Bridge project.
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.
Establishes limits on campaign contributions that may be accepted by candidates and political committees.
Requires employer to compensate employee for on-call shift for which employee must remain on or near employer's premises or such that employee cannot use scheduled on-call hours for personal purposes.
Removes statutory provisions relating to death penalty.
Expands definition of "debilitating medical condition" for medical use of marijuana.
Prohibits, in specified areas of law, discrimination or harassment against persons based on caste.
Prohibits tolling on state highways until January 2, 2026.
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.