Bills in the 2023 Regular Session, House.
Pam Marsh
Sponsored
Became law16
Prohibits acceptance of consideration for displaying human remains to public.
Prohibits person from recklessly, knowingly or intentionally using unmanned aircraft system to interfere with wildfire suppression, law enforcement or emergency response effort.
Instructs State Fire Marshal to establish Rural Structural Fire Protection Review Committee to review certain provisions concerning structural fire protection and report on review and related recommendations to one or more relevant committees or interim committees of Legislative Assembly on or before September 15, 2024.
Directs Department of Land and Conservation and Development to convene work group to examine strategies for expanding early learning and care facilities in this state.
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.
Authorizes Water Resources Department to seek injunctive relief if person has engaged, or is about to engage, in activity that is or will be violation of certain water laws.
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.
Authorizes Oregon Health Authority to establish by rule maximum percentage of grant funds that grant recipients under Healthy Homes Program may use for administrative expenses.
Limits improvements that landlord of manufactured dwelling park may require of tenant.
Modifies definitions to allow for publication of legal notices in digital newspaper.
Requires Oregon Business Development Department to provide financial assistance to support broadband access, affordability and adoption.
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.
Modifies provisions of electronics recycling program.
Repeals Department of Environmental Quality's dry cleaner environmental program.
Provides, for purposes of certain statutes relating to taking of predatory animals, that term "predatory animal" does not include beavers.
Passed the House1
Requires Public Utility Commission to establish eligibility cap for standard avoided costs rates and contracts for purchase of energy or energy and capacity from qualifying facilities at no less than 10 megawatts.
Out of committee14
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Early Learning Division of Department of Education to distribute to specified Early Learning Hub to administer pilot program to coordinate services and other resources provided to low-income pregnant individuals and families with children under five years of age by local and state agencies, human services providers, early learning services providers, health care providers and other community organizations in Jackson and Josephine Counties.
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.
Authorizes cities and counties to adopt program for awarding grants to developers of affordable housing and moderate income housing projects to finance certain costs associated with such housing projects.
Requires Oregon Business Development Department and Housing and Community Services Department to provide grants and loans for housing.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Land Conservation and Development and Housing and Community Services Department to support manufactured dwellings and manufactured dwelling parks.
Directs State Forestry Department to establish Prescribed Fire Liability Pilot Program and administer program .
Directs State Forestry Department to establish Prescribed Fire Capacity Grant Program.
Directs Department of Human Services to provide grants, support and technical assistance for resilience hubs and networks in Oregon.
Extends Residential Heat Pump Fund until January 2, 2026.
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.
Requires Oregon Department of Administrative Services to provide grants for regional housing coordination and to local governments to support development of needed housing.
Directs State Department of Energy and Department of Land Conservation and Development to establish Finding Opportunities and Reducing Conflict in Energy Siting process to identify locations best suited to site renewable energy or transmission development and ways to streamline or expedite siting process for renewable energy or transmission development.
Permits county to develop and adopt energy resilience plan and incorporate energy resilience plan into county's applicable natural hazard mitigation plan.
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 committee7
Expands traffic offense of pedestrian with improper position upon or improperly proceeding along a highway to include prohibiting pedestrian on interstate highways.
Directs Department of Corrections to study use of solitary confinement within department facilities, and to provide results of study to interim committees of Legislative Assembly no later than December 31, 2023.
Requires person who owns, operates or controls high energy use facility to ensure that greenhouse gas emissions associated with electricity used by high energy use facility are reduced to 60 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2027, 80 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2030, 90 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2035 and 100 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2040.
Establishes Community Benefiting Water Infrastructure Investment Program.
Directs State Department of Energy and Department of Land Conservation and Development to convene work group to examine barriers, opportunities and other issues related to renewable energy and transmission project siting in Oregon.
Permits Public Utility Commission to institute one or more proceedings to ensure commission's regulations, rules and orders, and programs overseen by commission, align with greenhouse gas emissions reduction requirements and targets established by statute or executive order, do not impede or delay timely and equitable implementation of greenhouse gas emissions reduction requirements and targets, and mitigate energy burden and risks of stranded assets for residential utility customers.
Requires Oregon Business Development Department to provide grants and loans for modular housing and components.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 28
Establishes Oregon Housing Needs Analysis in Oregon Department of Administrative Services.
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.
Extends sunset from 2024 to 2034 on provisions allowing retired member of Public Employees Retirement System to be reemployed by participating public employer for unlimited number of hours without reduction in pension benefits.
Allows specified persons to distribute and administer short-acting opioid antagonist and distribute kits.
Authorizes Early Learning Council to adopt by rule reasonable requirements for landlords of tenants who operate certified family child care home in tenant's dwelling.
Requires Department of Corrections to establish doula program for pregnant and postpartum adults in custody at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility.
Requires that dental and vision are included in health benefits available to part-time faculty members.
Directs Early Learning Council to adopt rules to establish eligibility for certain children to participate in Employment Related Day Care subsidy program.
Adds outdoor child care program to definition of "child care facility." Requires Early Learning Council to adopt rules governing the operation of outdoor child care programs.
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 Housing and Community Services Department ability to allow financing of certain affordable residential units within certain housing developments subject to limits established by Oregon Housing Stability Council.
Amends Oregon Housing Needs Analysis and land use requirements for local governments related to urbanization.
Extends time during which recreational vehicle may be sited on lot with single-family dwelling that was damaged by natural disaster.
Directs State Department of Agriculture, in consultation with Oregon Health Authority and Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission, to establish cannabis reference laboratory to support enforcement of cannabis regulation.
Directs Oregon Business Development Department to provide financial assistance to eligible applicants to pay for allowable costs related to early child care infrastructure activities.
Directs State Board of Education to adopt rules that allow for reimbursement of school district expenses incurred for alternative transportation costs.
Establishes Oregon Disaster Response Assistance Matching Fund.
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.
Establishes Task Force on Tribal Consultation and specifies task force membership.
Establishes Early Literacy Success Initiative.
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.
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.
Appropriates moneys to Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution for purposes related to outdoor recreation economy.
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.
Directs State Department of Energy to establish program to provide assistance related to energy projects and activities to environmental justice communities.
Passed both houses · 1
Establishes ranked choice voting as voting method for selecting winner of nomination for and election to offices of President of United States, United States Senator, Representative in Congress, Governor, Secretary of State, State Treasurer and Attorney General.
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 · 22
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Business Development Department to distribute to Oregon cultural organizations in response to negative impact of COVID-19 pandemic on organization finances.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to issue grants to specified recipients.
Creates credit against income taxes for selling publicly supported housing to retain as affordable housing.
Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to establish, in collaboration with Department of Corrections, Family Preservation Project pilot program at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility.
Directs President of Senate and Speaker of House of Representatives to appoint work group to develop framework for multi-sector plan for aging to be administered by Department of Human Services.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to State Department of Agriculture for purpose of funding grant program related to establishments that process and sell meat products.
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Business Development Department for purpose of awarding grants for formation, improvement and operation of small business development centers .
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to Oregon Coast Visitors Association to be expended on various projects.
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Business Development Department for distribution for purposes related to outdoor recreation economy.
Allocates moneys to Oregon Business Development Department to develop and implement program to award grants to county fair operators in response to negative impact of COVID-19 pandemic on county fair operators' earned revenue.
Creates Oregon Soil Health Initiative.
Modifies provisions of Department of Transportation wildlife-vehicle collision program.
Directs Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission to establish annual registration program and labeling requirements for industrial hemp commodity or product that contains cannabinoids and is intended for human or animal consumption.
Requires schools to have wireless panic alert device in each classroom of each school building.
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Department of Administrative Services to provide grant to Regional Rural Revitalization Strategies Consortium to plan for and develop housing.
Establishes program within Higher Education Coordinating Commission for supporting strategic investments in maritime workforce development programs and activities.
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 Oregon Tourism Commission to establish and administer grant program to promote, develop and sustain opportunities for agricultural tourism in rural communities in this state.
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 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.
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board for deposit in Oregon Agricultural Heritage Fund for hiring related to Oregon agricultural heritage programs.
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Business Development Department for distribution to recipients for industrial lands projects.
In committee · 6
Establishes Universal Health Plan Governance Board and directs board to create comprehensive plan for implementing Universal Health Plan beginning in 2027.
Provides that any agreement related to providing ultra-high-speed ground transportation in this state must include service to Eugene.
Directs Department of Transportation to work with Washington State Department of Transportation and British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure to develop plans to operate and fund rail transportation.
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.
Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to award noncompetitive grants through Illegal Marijuana Market Enforcement Grant Program to Department of State Police for specified purposes related to unlawful marijuana cultivation or distribution operations.
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.