Bills in the 2023 Regular Session, House.
Emily McIntire
Sponsored
Became law2
Preserves additional funding for small school districts that merge with one or more school districts if certain conditions are met.
Establishes and modifies timelines related to enrollment of students in virtual public charter schools.
In committee12
Requires course instruction provided as part of health education curriculum to include information about human development from conception to birth.
Adds registered nurse who is nursing faculty member to types of providers who are eligible for income tax credit allowed to rural medical providers.
Eliminates requirement that school districts and public charter schools provide specified number of minutes of physical education during each school week.
Requires Department of Transportation to study means of imposing tax on use of electricity to charge electric vehicles at rate equivalent to tax rate imposed per gallon on motor vehicle fuel.
Provides that rules adopted by State Board of Education in relation to school district boards and school districts are advisory only.
Creates violation of unlawful possession of tobacco product or inhalant delivery system.
Adds phonics as component of language arts instruction and academic content standards.
Limits economic interest filing requirements for district school board members to those serving school districts with 7,500 or more students in average daily membership.
Expands period of time that persons elected to legislative office are eligible to participate in, and may participate in, health benefit plans and other related benefit plans offered by Public Employees' Benefit Board, to include time period beginning on date oath of office is administered.
Requires local government approval of project to create, enhance or restore wetlands if project would convert lands used for agricultural purposes to wetlands.
Establishes open enrollment process for school districts to allow students to attend schools in nonresident school district with consent of receiving school district.
Authorizes holders of certain water rights in Upper Klamath Basin to relocate points of diversion to consolidated point of diversion under certain circumstances.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 10
Authorizes self-service dispensing of Class 1 flammable liquids at retail dispensary.
Increases penalties for possession of certain amounts of fentanyl.
Establishes Jurisdictional Transfer Advisory Committee within Department of Transportation.
Requires Department of Education to conduct study to examine possibility of creating high school equivalency diploma and submit report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to education.
Clarifies process of Senate confirmation of members of State Fish and Wildlife Commission.
Modifies definition of "renewable energy facility" for purposes of county permitting process for solar photovoltaic power generation facility.
Establishes Early Literacy Success Initiative.
Modifies calculation of required minutes of physical education for middle school students to be based on weekly calculation.
Requires 9-8-8 crisis hotline centers to have policies and train staff on serving firefighters and other first responders.
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.
Out of committee · 14
Creates income or corporate excise tax credit for taxpayer that employs youth through Oregon Youth Employment Program.
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.
Increases amount of income tax credit allowed to rural medical providers.
Adds nursing assistant or nurse to types of providers who are eligible for income tax credit allowed to rural medical providers.
Provides that compensation for loss or injury to livestock or working dogs under wolf depredation compensation and financial assistance grant program must be based on multiplier of not more than seven times fair market value of livestock or working dogs and recommendation of county advisory committee.
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.
Transfers jurisdiction of portion of Hall Boulevard to City of Tigard.
Grants to South Suburban Sanitary District exclusive right to use and sell treated wastewater discharged by district into Klamath River or tributaries.
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.
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.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to provide grants to counties and soil and water conservation districts for treatment of western juniper.
Establishes Rural System Development Charges Program within Housing and Community Services Department to pay system development charges for rural affordable multifamily housing.
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.
In committee · 56
Repeals corporate activity tax.
Limits pretrial release of defendants charged with felony or Class A misdemeanor to security release.
Expands crime of assault in the third degree to include causing physical injury to person working in hospital while worker is performing official duties.
Allows public education provider to identify which locations to make tampons and sanitary pads available to students.
Prohibits athletic organizations from designating, classifying, naming or categorizing as specific for females certain athletic activities for which participation is permitted by persons whose biological sex is male.
Requires Public Utility Commission to investigate status of renewable projects in Oregon, including project failures.
Prohibits state agency from enforcing rules requiring vaccination against COVID-19.
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.
Prohibits Governor or state officer or agency from requiring lawful ongoing business concern to close or suspend operations during declared state of emergency or declared state of public health emergency.
Limits declaration of state of emergency to 30 days duration, unless extended by Legislative Assembly for additional 30 days.
Requires Department of Education to transfer funds to school districts necessary to pay for school resource officers.
Ends automatic voter registration through Oregon Motor Voter.
Prohibits Governor and specified state agencies from taking measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Oregon unless authorized by Legislative Assembly by law enacted on or after effective date of Act.
Modifies estate tax brackets to provide additional estate tax exclusion of $1 million.
Repeals those provisions of Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act of 2020 (Ballot Measure 110 (2020)) that pertain to decriminalization of possession of drugs.
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 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.
Removes requirement that menstrual products be provided in student bathrooms designated for males.
Increases exempt amount and filing threshhold for purposes of corporate activity tax.
Establishes Superintendent of Public Instruction as nonpartisan statewide elected office.
Prohibits insurer from canceling or raising premiums on policies of fire insurance by more than three percent if insured's property is located within wildland-urban interface or insured's primary employment or economic or business activity is farming or resource extraction.
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 governing body of public education provider to develop and revise professional learning plans.
Provides that person who receives finding under wolf depredation compensation and financial assistance grant program may appeal finding to county advisory committee.
Allows district school board to enter into agreement with superintendent for payment in lieu of 12 months' notice required when superintendent's employment is terminated without cause.
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.
Provides that Oregon estate tax is imposed only on estates of decedents dying on or before January 1, 2023.
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.
Directs district school boards to adopt procedures for notifying parents of specified information.
Prohibits State Fish and Wildlife Commission from designating private property as essential, important, probable or possible habitat without verifiable evidence of sensitive species, threatened species or endangered species on property.
Establishes Task Force on Elk and Deer Damage Compensation Funding.
Provides that person who receives finding under wolf depredation compensation and financial assistance grant program may appeal finding to county advisory committee.
Establishes income tax credit for volunteer firefighters.
Removes suspension of requirement of showing proficiency in Essential Learning Skills as condition of earning diploma.
Establishes standards for fiduciary of pension benefit plan offered by public body.
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.
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 related to hiring retired police officers to provide security in public schools.
Prohibits abortion unless health care provider first determines probable gestational age of unborn child, except in case of medical emergency.
Directs district school boards to adopt policy for selecting and reviewing books and materials for school libraries.
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 Department of State Police to release sex offender information for level two sex offenders to certain entities on website maintained by department.
Directs agencies of state government to revoke remote work arrangements that were put in place due to COVID-19 pandemic.
Creates Oregon tax subtraction for amounts received in settlement of civil action arising from wildfire.
Provides that person is automatically qualified to obtain permit to purchase firearm if person holds valid concealed handgun license.
Expands types of employers for purposes of occupational disease presumptions of certain employees.
Provides that evidence of defendant's commission of other sexual offenses is admissible if relevant in criminal action in which defendant is accused of sexual offense.
Prohibits tolling on state highways until January 2, 2026.
Allows owner of property outside urban growth boundary to site additional dwelling on property for occupancy by relative of owner.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Education for State School Fund.