Bills in the 2023 Regular Session, House.
Cyrus Javadi
Sponsored
Became law2
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.
Authorizes local governments to allow, prohibit, require zone change for or subject to conditional use permit development of certain affordable housing on certain lands within tsunami inundation zones or 100-year floodplains.
In committee8
Changes name of Health Care Cost Growth Target program to Premium Cost Growth Target program.
Delays penalties under Health Care Cost Growth Target program until 2026.
Requires State Department of Agriculture to study confined animal feeding operations.
Instructs State Forester to analyze certain criteria before adopting rule changing management of state forest lands.
Creates procedure for minor who is at least 14 years old to intervene and move court to suspend or terminate parenting time of parent against whom Department of Human Services substantiated allegation of abuse.
Removes requirement for Higher Education Coordinating Commission to include family share of cost of education when calculating student's potential award from Oregon Opportunity Grant.
Authorizes driver improvement course as alternative to conviction of traffic violation for person 18 years of age or less whose driving record shows no prior convictions of traffic offenses.
Requires counties and Land Conservation and Development Commission to allow development of certain parcels below minimum size if partitioned from lots or parcels larger than 10 acres.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Requires certain cities and communities in Tillamook County to allow middle housing on residentially zoned lands, to adopt housing production strategies and to accommodate estimated housing needs upon lands inventoried as buildable lands.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 15
Establishes Oregon Housing Needs Analysis in Oregon Department of Administrative Services.
Allows specified persons to distribute and administer short-acting opioid antagonist and distribute kits.
Authorizes self-service dispensing of Class 1 flammable liquids at retail dispensary.
Allows certain pharmacy technicians to administer vaccines.
Decreases number of course hours required before person may sit for certified public accountant exam.
Increases penalties for possession of certain amounts of fentanyl.
Prohibits pharmacy benefit manager from retroactively denying or reducing payment on claim after adjudication unless pharmacy and pharmacy benefit manager agree that payment was incorrect due to clerical error.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Justice for Crime Victim and Survivor Services Division, for distribution to eligible children's advocacy centers.
Clarifies area of leg to which definition of "podiatry" applies.
Modifies requirements for health insurance coverage of hearing-related items and services.
Limits ability of insurers offering dental benefit to require reimbursement of claims by credit card or electronic funds transfer.
Authorizes holder of certain water right certificates that authorize storage of water for municipal use to change authorized point of diversion and place of use without losing priority of right under specified circumstances.
Allows Oregon Board of Dentistry to require applicant for certification as dental assistant to pass written examination.
Appropriates moneys to Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution for purposes related to outdoor recreation economy.
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.
Passed the House · 2
Prohibits Oregon Board of Dentistry from requiring applicant for certification as dental assistant to pass written examination for radiological proficiency.
Requires pharmacy benefit managers to be licensed by Department of Consumer and Business Services beginning January 1, 2024.
Out of committee · 17
Removes requirement that amount of net proceeds from Oregon State Lottery allocated to County Fair Account not exceed $1.53 million annually.
Modifies conditions of eligibility for tax credit allowed to rural medical care provider.
Requires Department of Human Services to contract with nonprofit organization to implement and administer program to assist recipients of supplemental nutrition assistance in purchasing locally grown fruits and vegetables from farmers' markets, farm share sites and retail outlets that participate in program.
Requires State Department of Fish and Wildlife, State Fish and Wildlife Commission and Department of State Lands to implement Ocean Policy Advisory Council recommendations to develop adaptive management and social monitoring program to support marine reserves.
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to Oregon Coast Visitors Association to be expended on various projects.
Establishes Oregon Spirits Board as semi-independent state agency to develop and promote Oregon's distilled spirits industry.
Directs Higher Education Coordinating Commission to establish program to issue grants to community colleges to promote and increase dental assistant and dental hygienist training programs in Oregon.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to establish Oral Health Advisory Committee and Office of Oral Health.
Creates Oregon personal income tax subtraction for amounts received for renting out room in taxpayer's home.
Requires schools to have wireless panic alert device in each classroom of each school building.
Establishes Health Insurance Mandate Review Advisory Committee to review , at request of chair or vice chair of committee of Legislative Assembly related to health, proposed legislative measure, legislative concept or amendment that requires health insurer or health care service contractor to reimburse cost of specified procedure or provider and to produce report analyzing specified anticipated effects of coverage or lack of coverage of treatment or service proposed.
Requires Oregon Department of Administrative Services to provide grants for regional housing coordination and to local governments to support development of needed housing.
Establishes Rural System Development Charges Program within Housing and Community Services Department to pay system development charges for rural affordable multifamily housing.
Requires Southern Oregon University, subject to appropriation of sufficient moneys, to address state's behavioral and mental health needs by materially increasing number of mental health practitioners who graduate in southern Oregon and teaching behavioral and mental health competencies through alternative academic pathways.
Directs Department of Education to conduct study to determine impact, cost and feasibility of implementing Salem-Keizer Threat Assessment System in school districts, to conduct study to identify costs and possible funding sources to improve school safety and to conduct study to identify sources of funding to pay for costs of establishing secure, single point of entry for each public school.
Requires Housing and Community Services Department to award grants for predevelopment costs of affordable housing and grant to assist nonprofits receiving grants or loans under Act.
Authorizes State Treasurer to issue Article XI-Q general obligation bonds to finance expansion of courthouses.
In committee · 57
Repeals corporate activity tax.
Limits pretrial release of defendants charged with felony or Class A misdemeanor to security release.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to State Parks and Recreation Department for continued development of Oregon Coast Trail.
Requires Public Utility Commission to investigate status of renewable projects in Oregon, including project failures.
Removes requirement that adequate repository for terminal disposition of high-level radioactive waste be licensed as precondition for issuance of site certificate for nuclear-fueled thermal power plant.
Requires Department of Education to transfer funds to school districts necessary to pay for school resource officers.
Modifies estate tax brackets to provide additional estate tax exclusion of $1 million.
Limits Governor's ability to exercise authority conferred on Governor during declared state of emergency to no more than 60 days' duration, unless Legislative Assembly authorizes continued state of emergency.
Enacts interstate Nurse Licensure Compact.
Establishes procedure for charging aggravated version of offense when defendant commits felony after receiving commutation.
Requires that pardon, commutation and remission actions by Governor be initiated by application and follow specified procedures.
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.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to establish and administer Pregnancy Launch Program to provide certain services to specified persons.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to establish grant program for purpose of making grants to entities that provide services related to encouraging and assisting pregnant persons in carrying their pregnancies to term.
Increases exempt amount and filing threshhold for purposes of corporate activity tax.
Requires Personnel Division of Oregon Department of Administrative Services to review and update classification plan and compensation for specified positions held by individuals employed by community developmental disabilities programs or support service brokerages.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to establish toll-free pregnancy resources hotline to provide information and assistance to pregnant persons seeking abortions in this state.
Removes limitation on percentage of students in school district who may enroll in virtual public charter school not sponsored by school district without first receiving approval from school district.
Modifies personal income tax brackets.
Requires person that receives state financial incentive for development of renewable energy generation facility to maintain nameplate capacity of facility for period of at least 25 years.
Requires district school board or higher education governing board that adopts policy limiting possession of firearms by concealed handgun licensees on school grounds to install metal detectors at entrances to buildings subject to policy.
Prohibits specified practices by insurers and pharmacy benefit managers in reimbursing cost of prescription drugs.
Provides that Oregon estate tax is imposed only on estates of decedents dying on or before January 1, 2023.
Excludes certain costs from consideration as total health expenditures for purposes of Health Care Cost Growth Target program.
Adds registered nurse who is nursing faculty member to types of providers who are eligible for income tax credit allowed to rural medical providers.
Requires Department of Environmental Quality to study disposal of electric vehicle batteries.
Requires Department of Environmental Quality to study impacts of waste from solar or wind renewable energy facilities.
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.
Prohibits pharmacy benefit manager, after adjudication of and payment on claim for reimbursement of prescription drug, from recouping reimbursement paid except as part of routine audit, or from imposing retroactive fee on basis that was not determined when claim was adjudicated.
Prohibits medical health care professional from performing or providing sex alteration procedure on minor.
Establishes standards for fiduciary of pension benefit plan offered by public body.
Changes requirements for members of State Fish and Wildlife Commission.
Directs Department of Education to conduct study to identify sources of funding to pay for costs of establishing secure, single point of entry for each public school.
Requires certain recipients of grant or loan moneys distributed by state agencies to submit annual reports to committees of Legislative Assembly.
Prohibits Department of Environmental Quality from imposing effluent limitations or other requirements in seafood processing wastewater permit that are more stringent than requirements established under federal law or that would result in substantial and widespread economic and social impacts on coastal communities.
Requires Department of Veterans' Affairs to distribute moneys for veterans' service officers to counties that have population of less than 30,000 and are or will be unable to maintain operations of veterans' service officers due to budget decreases.
Extends statute of limitations for certain sex crimes.
Directs Department of Education to conduct study to determine need, feasibility and cost of providing school-based mental health center in every public middle school.
Directs Department of Education to conduct study to identify costs and possible funding sources to improve school safety.
Directs Department of Education to conduct study to identify methods for improving safety of schools.
Revises definition of term "sexual conduct" for purposes of certain laws involving students.
Directs Department of Education to conduct study related to hiring retired police officers to provide security in public schools.
Directs Department of Education to conduct study to identify sources of funding to pay for costs of establishing secure, single point of entry for each public school and to determine if costs may be covered in seismic rehabilitation projects.
Includes first cousins as members of same family for purposes of exclusion from definition of "employment" under unemployment insurance law.
Directs Department of Education, in collaboration with Teacher Standards and Practices Commission and Educator Advancement Council, to conduct study on recruitment, retention, mentoring and professional development of educators who serve students from student groups that may be at risk for experiencing achievement gap.
Requires forensic laboratory to test blood or urine sample within 90 days of receiving sample in prosecution of driving while under influence of intoxicants.
Requires business entity that receives public funds from state agency to develop and submit emergency preparedness plan to Secretary of State along with annual report.
Creates aggravated version of certain sex offenses.
Creates process for charging aggravated version of certain sex offenses when defendant, in order to facilitate commission of offense, knowingly causes victim to ingest controlled substance without victim's consent.
Makes permanent county safety corridor program.
Directs Department of Education to conduct study to examine impact of biennial legislative appropriations that are less than amount of moneys determined by Quality Education Commission to be sufficient to fund public education.
Prohibits abortion unless health care provider first determines probable gestational age of unborn child, except in case of medical emergency.
Provides protections for person who refuses to participate in procedure related to abortion or physician-assisted suicide if refusal is based on person's ethical, moral or religious convictions.
Directs agencies of state government to revoke remote work arrangements that were put in place due to COVID-19 pandemic.
Prohibits, in specified areas of law, discrimination or harassment against persons based on caste.
Authorizes certain cities with demonstrated need for housing to add project area to their urban growth boundary upon certain conditions.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Education for State School Fund.