Bills in the 2023 Regular Session, House.
Susan McLain
Sponsored
Became law7
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.
Directs Department of Transportation to adopt rules permitting vehicle dealers or financial institutions to electronically transmit documents necessary to take actions related to vehicle ownership including registering and titling vehicles.
Limits application of requirement that housing development regulations be clear and objective .
Authorizes Oregon Board of Licensed Professional Counselors and Therapists to issue limited permit to qualified applicant.
Limits issues that may be basis for appeal of land use decisions where local government amends comprehensive plan or land use regulations.
Out of committee9
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Health Authority for specified expenses.
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.
Requires transportation network companies to meet or exceed specified targets for percentage of service miles provided by zero-emission vehicles.
Allows veterans to participate in Oregon Promise program if first enrolled in classes within 12 months after discharge from military.
Directs Oregon Health Authority, in consultation with Newborn Bloodspot Screening Advisory Board, to adopt rules for board to evaluate and recommend adding disease to or removing disease from newborn bloodspot screening panel or taking no action on disease.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Transportation, for biennium beginning July 1, 2023, for improving safety and increasing access to walking, biking and transit on state highways that serve as community main streets.
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 committee2
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.
Authorizes sale of unpasteurized milk from small-scale farm through delivery service or at farmers' market or other farm-to-consumer sales location if milk is labeled as unpasteurized.
Carried from the Senate
Passed the Senate1
Allows motorcycle operator to travel between lanes of traffic under certain conditions.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 20
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.
Broadens public contracting preference for businesses that service-disabled veterans own to include all veteran-owned businesses.
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.
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.
Modifies method for calculation of hours of employment of academic employees of community colleges and public universities for purposes of Public Employees Retirement System.
Expands and provides funding for coordinated crisis services system including 9-8-8 suicide prevention and behavioral health crisis hotline.
Provides that person that knows or consciously avoids knowing that another person is engaging in act or practice that violates laws that regulate telephone solicitations or use of automatic dialing and announcing devices and nonetheless provides substantial assistance or support for violation is liable for loss and subject to penalty to same extent as person that engaged in violation.
Establishes requirements for approving recovery schools.
Allows conversion of building from commercial use to housing within urban growth boundary under certain conditions.
Revises provisions relating to chemicals in children's products.
Requires Oregon Business Development Department to provide financial assistance to support broadband access, affordability and adoption.
Modifies provisions of electronics recycling program.
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 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.
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.
Out of committee · 5
Removes requirement that amount of net proceeds from Oregon State Lottery allocated to County Fair Account not exceed $1.53 million annually.
Creates Oregon Soil Health Initiative.
Permits education provider to operate video recording device for purpose of recording persons who fail to stop for bus safety lights.
Requires schools to have wireless panic alert device in each classroom of each school building.
Establishes Welcome and Reception Program within Office of Immigrant and Refugee Advancement to provide immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers with support services.
In committee · 7
Establishes limits on campaign contributions that may be accepted by candidates and political committees.
Exempts from drug paraphernalia prohibitions any testing equipment that analyzes substances for presence of specified controlled substances.
Allows out-of-state applicant seeking occupational license in Oregon more time to meet Oregon standards if applicant is already licensed in another state and is seeking to work in Eastern Oregon Border Economic Development Region.
Designates February 12 of each year as Rogue River Trail of Tears Day.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to Multnomah County for Earthquake Ready Burnside Bridge project.
Prohibits, in specified areas of law, discrimination or harassment against persons based on caste.
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.