Bills in the 2017 Regular Session, House.
Rob Nosse
Sponsored
Became law7
Permits licensed nurse practitioners to perform vasectomies.
Gives community college recognized student government authority to establish process and allocate mandatory student-initiated fees, subject to refusal under certain circumstances by board of education of community college district or president of community college.
Creates alternative process for persons seeking to change name on vital record for purpose of affirming gender identity.
Requires community health improvement plans adopted by coordinated care organizations and community advisory councils to focus on and develop strategy for integrating physical, behavioral and oral health care services.
Authorizes City of Portland to designate speed that is five miles per hour lower than statutory speed when highway is located in residence district and highway is not arterial highway.
Requires governing body of coordinated care organization to include representative from at least one dental care organization that serves members of coordinated care organization.
Requires, for purposes of property tax exemption, certain lease agreements for taxable property entered into by institution, organization or public body whose property is tax exempt to include express term that any tax savings resulting from such exemption shall inure solely to benefit of lessee institution, organization or public body.
Out of committee3
Specifies criteria for licensing of extended stay centers and requires Oregon Health Authority to adopt rules.
Sets forth policy objectives for State Department of Energy in administration of income tax credit allowed for construction or installation of alternative energy devices.
Provides that person may not make retail sale of tobacco product or inhalant delivery system at or from premises located in this state unless person sells tobacco product or inhalant delivery system at or from premises for which license has been issued.
In committee21
Establishes Task Force to study provisions of California's Knox-Keene Health Care Service Plan Act of 1975 to determine appropriateness and feasibility of adopting any provisions in Oregon.
Allows operators of motorcycles and mopeds to travel on shoulder of highway during traffic jams or slowdowns.
Establishes Task Force on Vision Zero: Achieving Zero Traffic Crashes, Injuries and Fatalities.
Requires governing board of public university to obtain approval from Legislative Assembly or Higher Education Coordinating Commission in order to increase tuition and mandatory enrollment fees by more than four percent annually.
Modifies requirements for local community right to know regulatory programs for toxic substances and harmful substances.
Provides that contracting agency, in solicitation for procurement, must require bidder or proposer to disclose violations of certain laws.
Establishes task force to study and consider issues related to liquor store agent compensation.
Provides for addition, on Oregon corporate excise tax return, of income or loss of corporation incorporated in tax haven and member of unitary group, if income or loss is connected to trade or business in United States.
Provides that police officer commissioned by public university or Oregon Health and Science University is police officer for purposes of Public Employees Retirement System.
Extends sunset for modified method of apportionment of business income of interstate broadcaster for purposes of corporate excise taxation.
Prohibits state contracting agency from entering public contract with contract price that exceeds $100,000 with contractor that discriminates in providing benefits against employee or employee's dependent on basis of employee's or dependent's actual or perceived gender identity, including identification as transgendered.
Creates income tax credit for live organ donation.
Creates Hospital Rate Commission in Oregon Health Authority to review hospital charges billed by certain hospitals and recommend to Oregon Health Authority whether to approve charges as reasonable based on prescribed criteria.
Defines systems that use waste heat to produce energy as renewable energy production systems for which applicants may receive grants from State Department of Energy to install or construct.
Directs Department of Transportation to remove directional sign on Southeast Powell Boulevard between Southeast 20th Avenue and Southeast 21st Avenue in Portland.
Provides that specification or calculation of amount provider must charge person who receives personal injury protection benefits, or person's insurer, may not consider discounts that provider allows in individual cases for personal or financial hardship, for prompt payment or for payment at time person receives services from provider.
Imposes tax on wholesale sale of inhalant-form nicotine based on percentage of wholesale price.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to use portion of moneys in Hospital Quality Assurance Fund to provide grants to culturally specific health care facilities beginning July 1, 2018.
Establishes Task Force on Prior Authorization of Prescription Drugs.
Requires communications service providers, Internet service providers and television service providers to provide customers with written confirmation of verbally agreed upon rate, term or condition of service within 10 days of verbal agreement.
Imposes tax on distribution of inhalant product based on percentage of wholesale price.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 19
Modifies purposes for which school districts may receive grants to pay for costs incurred by school districts to purchase food produced or processed in state.
Adds secular organizations to list of persons and entities authorized to solemnize marriages.
Requires Department of Human Services to adopt rules to establish Oregon Foster Children's Sibling Bill of Rights.
Authorizes any state agency or department to enter into agreements with any political subdivision for collection, enforcement, administration and distribution of local transient lodging taxes of such political subdivision.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to establish grant program through which individual who is homeless may obtain certified copy of individual's record of live birth at reduced cost or free of charge.
Allows Health Licensing Office to issue lactation consultant licenses to qualified applicants.
Increases age of trafficked person from 15 to 18 for crime of trafficking in persons for use in commercial sex act.
Directs Department of Education to convene advisory group to develop statewide ethnic studies standards for adoption into existing statewide social studies standards for public kindergarten through grade 12.
Requires each community college and public university to establish process for recommending, and providing oversight for implementation of, cultural competency standards for institution and institution's employees.
Prohibits state contracting agency from entering into public contract with prospective contractor that has not certified that prospective contractor has policy and practice of preventing sexual harassment, sexual assault and discrimination against members of protected classes of workers.
Requires Housing and Community Services Department, in collaboration with Oregon Health Authority, to disburse moneys in Housing for Mental Health Fund for development of community-based housing, crisis intervention services, rental subsidies and other housing-related services for individuals with mental illness and individuals with substance use disorders.
Requires hospital to adopt policy for release of patients from emergency department following treatment for behavioral health crisis.
Specifies behavioral health services that must be provided by coordinated care organization.
Authorizes Department of Revenue and units of local government to disclose to each other information related to administration of transient lodging tax laws.
Requires State Department of Agriculture to adopt rules governing posting of tax information by gas stations.
Requires Department of Education to develop and provide to public high schools written materials regarding apprenticeship opportunities.
Requires health benefit plan coverage of specified health care services, drugs, devices, products and procedures related to reproductive health.
Establishes Task Force on Assessments of Children Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing.
Prohibits public body from disclosing specified information concerning person unless required by state or federal law.
Vetoed · 1
Authorizes State Board of Psychologist Examiners to issue certificate of prescriptive authority to licensed psychologist who meets specified requirements.
Passed the House · 6
During first nine months of occupancy, prohibits landlord from terminating month-to-month tenancy within 60 days of receiving from tenant request for repairs to correct certain building, health or housing code violation or unhabitable condition.
Requires employers with 100 or more employees to provide 60 days' notice to employees and certain officials before ceasing operations, relocating or ordering mass layoff involving 50 or more employees.
Requires lobbyist statements filed with Oregon Government Ethics Commission to identify each bill or measure introduced before Legislative Assembly lobbyist lobbied on, whether lobbyist lobbied in favor of, in opposition to or for purpose of seeking amendments to bill or measure, each legislative topic that was not bill or measure that lobbyist lobbied on, each person or entity that hired lobbyist and how much moneys person or entity paid lobbyist.
Imposes moratorium until December 31, 2027, on use of hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas exploration and production.
Enacts Interstate Compact for Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote.
Creates limited landscape construction professional license.
Out of committee · 17
Requires pharmacy to report deidentified information to prescription monitoring program upon dispensing prescribed naloxone.
Directs Housing and Community Services Department to establish Affordable Homeownership Grant Program to provide grants to eligible nonprofit organizations with affordable homeownership programs to provide opportunities for homeownership to persons in low income households.
Directs State Board of Education to adopt by rule complaint process to report school district policy in violation of state law prohibiting harassment, intimidation, bullying and cyberbullying.
Establishes pilot program for purpose of increasing number of public school students who are served by school social workers.
Establishes Oregon Quality Education Model Modernization Task Force.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Environmental Quality for supporting community efforts to improve economic development and public health by reducing emissions from solid fuel burning devices that burn wood.
Allows cause of action against patent holder for genetically engineered organism present on land without permission of owner or lawful occupant.
For purpose of tax credit for affordable housing lenders, requires Housing and Community Services Department to make annual determination of remaining balance of reserved but not certified tax credits.
Establishes Oregon Public Places Are Safe Places Investment Fund.
Establishes subtraction from personal income taxes for amounts that taxpayers pay in student loan interest.
Establishes grant program for purpose of improving kindergarten student-to-teacher ratios in schools that are considered high poverty.
Designates Act as Oregon First-Time Home Buyer Savings Account Act.
Establishes product stewardship program for household hazardous waste.
Directs Department of Veterans' Affairs to develop and implement one or more pilot programs statewide to provide training, job placement services, financial assistance, technical support and business creation assistance to veterans in construction and construction materials industries.
Establishes Task Force on Rural Medical Training Facilities.
Imposes requirements upon mental health treatment providers and programs to ensure culturally and linguistically appropriate care for individuals who are deaf, deaf-blind or hard of hearing.
Ensures that private sector labor organizations and employers throughout state may enter into union security agreements to full extent allowed by federal law.
In committee · 38
Repeals prohibition on city or county ordinance or resolution controlling rent charged for rental of dwelling unit.
Requires Department of Revenue to submit to Legislative Revenue Officer information from Oregon tax returns about certain corporations doing business in Oregon.
Increases rate of taxation on cigarettes and tobacco products.
Prohibits selling, dispensing or using aviation fuel that contains lead or lead compounds after January 1, 2022.
Requires Environmental Quality Commission to, no later than January 1, 2022, adopt by rule standards and programs for reducing diesel emissions from medium-duty trucks, heavy-duty trucks and nonroad diesel engines.
Specifies requirements for property of nonprofit hospitals and nonprofit health systems to be exempt from taxation.
Restricts limitation on award of noneconomic damages to claims in actions for wrongful death.
Establishes Oregon Right to Rest Act.
Requires health benefit plan coverage of specified health care services, drugs, devices, products and procedures related to reproductive health.
Increases cigarette tax and provides for distribution of increase in revenue.
Requires Environmental Quality Commission to adopt by rule certain statewide greenhouse gas emissions limits by no later than January 1, 2018.
Allows local government to inhibit or prevent production or use of seed or seed products for purpose of protecting seed or products that are not genetically engineered from adverse impacts of genetically engineered seed or products or if enforcing local measure approved by county voters on May 20, 2014.
Modifies laws related to real estate appraisers and appraisal management companies.
Provides that Director of the Oregon Health Authority may enter into agreements governing sharing and use of information reported to prescription monitoring program with regulatory authorities of other states that administer prescription monitoring programs.
Requires pharmacy to report de-identified information to prescription monitoring program upon dispensing prescribed naloxone.
Directs Oregon Transportation Commission to adopt rules establishing quantitative system for scoring and ranking transportation projects that are being considered by commission for inclusion in Statewide Transportation Improvement Program.
Alters passenger motor vehicle registration fee from flat rate to fee based on formula.
Requires student to demonstrate proficiency in civics in order to receive high school diploma.
Allows person with other convictions within previous 10 years to file motion to set aside conviction after three years from date of judgment if other convictions were part of same criminal episode as conviction that is subject of motion.
Provides that evidence obtained during or as result of defendant's unlawful detention by peace officer is inadmissible in criminal proceeding against defendant.
Requires youth to consult with legal counsel in person, by telephone or by video conference prior to custodial interview with peace officer, and before waiver of constitutional rights.
Directs Occupational Safety and Health Division of Department of Consumer and Business Services to study potential safety benefits of screening replacement workers during labor dispute with employer that employs more than 100 employees in industry involving hazardous materials.
Restricts number of personnel files concerning faculty members that community college may maintain.
Authorizes local government to publish notice of public hearing regarding proposed rule on agency's website instead of in newspaper of general circulation.
Establishes Ranger Program within Oregon Youth Conservation Corps.
Directs Health Licensing Office to issue lactation consultant license to qualified applicant.
Requires nonprofit corporations that meet certain requirements, including receipt of public funds, to comply with open meetings law and public records law, to post copy of corporation's proposed annual budget to corporation's public website and to submit to and cooperate with audit.
Requires person that engages in business as vehicle repair shop to obtain certificate from Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services.
Modifies law regarding requirement that public employer grant preference to veteran or disabled veteran in selection process for civil service position.
Increases speed limit on Oregon Route 138 between Roseburg and Glide.
Prohibits requiring high school diploma or General Educational Development (GED) certificate as qualification for obtaining limited specialty plumber license to install or replace residential water heaters.
Directs State Department of Energy to develop climate test to conduct reviews for approval of proposed fossil fuel infrastructure projects.
For purposes of Oregon Indoor Clean Air Act, expands definition of "public place" to include common areas of commercial residential buildings and residential buildings with two or more rental units.
Directs Department of Education to identify and adopt procedures for reporting and collecting data related to acts of harassment, intimidation or bullying and acts of cyberbullying.
Removes existing specification of maximum application and processing fees local government may charge for recommendation regarding Oregon Liquor Control Commission issuance or renewal of license.
Requires prospective contractor to state in bid or proposal for public contract whether and extent to which prospective contractor will use conflict minerals in performing public contract and whether prospective contractor's disclosures, policies, practices and procedures with respect to procuring conflict minerals comply with rules that Securities and Exchange Commission promulgates under provisions of Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
Limits hours that nurses employed in Department of Corrections institutions may work.
Provides that Department of State Lands shall distribute certain moneys that have been in Common School Fund Account for 25 years or more.