Bills in the 2023 Regular Session, House.
Mark Owens
Sponsored
Became law8
Dissolves Oregon Alfalfa Seed Commission.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to designate work group to propose options for equitable access to birth and death certificates throughout state and equitable fee revenue to maintain and improve vital records system.
Modifies process for transfer of recorded brand following death of brand holder.
Authorizes State Department of Agriculture to issue public applicator licenses and public trainee certificates to employees of federally recognized Indian tribes for purposes of pesticide application on lands other than Indian country.
Provides licensing exemption for person slaughtering not more than 1,000 rabbits for use as human food.
Provides that specially assessed irrigated farmland may not be disqualified from special assessment if landowner has active in-stream lease for water rights appurtenant to such irrigated farmland and farmland is being used according to accepted farming practices that are mode of operation customarily utilized in conjunction with farm use.
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.
Makes individuals who possess relevant technical experience and are employed seven or more years by certain types of districts, and certain types of registered professionals, eligible to apply for certification as water right examiners.
Passed the House1
Establishes Missing Endangered Person Alert System.
Out of committee16
Requires State Department of Agriculture to study potential uses for animal processing waste products.
Appropriates moneys to State Department of Agriculture, out of General Fund, for purpose of developing grant program to fund construction of meat rendering plants.
Authorizes issuance of lottery bonds for Ontario Community Recreation Center.
Requires that mileage reimbursement be paid to home care workers, personal support workers and personal care workers who provide home care services to clients who live in remote locations.
Restores availability of income or corporate excise tax credit for processing or collection of woody biomass.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Transportation for grants to erect and maintain livestock safety fencing along portions of state highway where there is high risk of conflict between traveling public and livestock.
Directs Oregon Solutions at Portland State University to provide grant to nonprofit organization to establish collaborative center in Harney County.
Appropriates moneys to Water Resources Department to fund staff position and allocate moneys for purposes related to voluntary agreements among ground water users in Greater Harney Valley Groundwater Area of Concern.
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to Harney County for flood mitigation.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to High Desert Partnership for specified purposes.
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.
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.
Instructs Water Resources Department to take certain actions concerning backlog of protests of decisions concerning water rights and transfers and submit report on backlog to committees or interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to water no later than December 31, 2024.
Authorizes certain Deschutes Basin irrigation districts to temporarily allow change of place of use of water, or change in point of diversion, within Deschutes Basin irrigation districts.
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board for deposit in Oregon Agricultural Heritage Fund for hiring related to Oregon agricultural heritage programs.
Extends to January 2, 2029, sunset of program for provision of rebate for construction or installation of solar electric system or paired solar and storage system, for residential customer or low-income service provider, on real property in Oregon.
In committee59
Prohibits municipality that administers and enforces building inspection program from adopting construction standards or methods from Reach Code, or similar or related code of standards and methods, that exceed or are more stringent than statewide standards and methods Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services adopts and administers.
Authorizes Oregon Health Authority to establish multiple laboratories.
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.
Creates income or corporate excise tax credit for taxpayer that pays salary or wages of employee while employee misses work to attend jury service, or for self-employed individual unable to engage in trade or business because of jury service.
Establishes Office of the State Prosecutor under authority of State Land Board.
Modifies procedures for issuing extreme risk protection order.
Creates crime of disorderly conduct involving a family or household member.
Requires legislative task forces and work groups to provide public notice of upcoming meetings and audio or video links to permit members of public to contemporaneously listen to or observe meetings.
Allows lands zoned for exclusive farm use to be used for weddings or events east of the summit of the Cascade Range.
Prohibits insurance company from considering map of wildfire risk when determining insurance rate.
Provides that person that voluntarily fights wildfire on private forestland is not civilly liable for injury to person or property resulting from good faith firefighting efforts.
Provides that any voter who has not voted or updated voter registration in four or more years will become inactive elector, with name removed from voting rolls if voter fails to vote or update registration within additional two years.
Authorizes local government to impose local transient lodging tax at rate not to exceed three percent to fund law enforcement and emergency services.
Directs State Court Administrator to fund assessment of courthouses in small counties.
Increases maximum percentage of tax that governing body of city or county may impose on sale of marijuana items.
Changes office of Public Records Advocate from appointed office to nonpartisan statewide elected office.
Allows electors of county to approve measure allowing use of dogs for hunting, pursuing or taking cougars within county.
Establishes education savings account (ESA) program.
Requires Department of Consumer and Business Services to study methods for increasing available number of lumber inspectors.
Expands crime of assault in the third degree to include causing physical injury to utility worker while worker is performing official duties.
Requires governing body of public education provider to develop and revise professional learning plans.
Provides that state structural specialty code does not apply to structure located on farm or forest operation and used for purpose related to agriculture that requires not more than 20 persons to occupy structure at any one time outside of harvest season or not more than 40 persons to occupy structure at any one time during harvest season.
Permits counties to elect to increase number of voting booths available at primary and general elections in order to provide all electors with option of using easily accessible voting booth to cast ballot.
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.
Removes restriction on distribution of Student Investment Account moneys to virtual public charter schools.
Exempts receipts from sales of agricultural, floricultural, horticultural, viticultural or food products from commercial activity subject to corporate activity tax.
Provides that, before undertaking wildlife management activity involving aircraft, State Department of Fish and Wildlife must notify private landowners over whose land aircraft will fly, under specified circumstances.
Modifies provisions establishing civil action for property owner or occupier if person or public body flies unmanned aircraft system over property without permission.
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.
Provides that addition of hydroelectric generator to Bowman Dam on Prineville Reservoir is not subject to fish passage requirements.
Establishes that perfected and developed water right is not subject to forfeiture if owner of water right ceased to use all or part of water appropriated for period of five successive years because owner engaged in water conservation practices or distribution of water that owner received from water district was less than certificated maximum for period of at least five successive years.
Provides that storage of surface water for fire response preparedness does not require water right application, permit or certificate.
Clarifies role of district school board in selecting or developing courses of study and in implementing courses of study.
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.
Directs school districts to give parents, guardians and district residents equitable access to instructional materials for purpose of reviewing and examining materials.
Requires public schools to take special care to ensure that instruction and assessments are provided in neutral and objective manner.
Includes nursing technicians as staff that may be considered in establishing hospital staff nursing plans.
Eliminates daylight saving time standard of time, and requires State of Oregon to remain on standard time for entirety of calendar year.
Describes what constitutes just, fair and reasonable rate for purposes of contract between public body and Department of Corrections for public services.
Appropriates moneys out of General Fund to State Department of Agriculture for distribution to Grant Soil and Water Conservation District for purposes related to aquatics monitoring.
Instructs Grant Soil and Water Conservation District to take specified actions concerning riparian and fish restoration efforts.
Requires Water Resources Department to study water data.
Requires Department of Transportation to study issues related to transferring ownership of motor vehicles.
Directs Water Resources Commission to establish program for compensating ground water right holders for voluntarily relinquishing all or portions of ground water rights in basins designated as critical ground water areas.
Models requirements for composition of State Fish and Wildlife Commission on requirements for composition of State Board of Agriculture.
Requires Water Resources Department to study basin water plans and programs.
Directs Water Resources Department to produce state of water resources report and basin water assessments.
Directs district school boards to adopt policy for selecting and reviewing books and materials for school libraries.
Authorizes county to adopt ordinance concerning Ballot Measure 114 (2022) providing that law enforcement agency with jurisdiction entirely within county is not required to act as firearm purchase permit agent, and permit is not required for transfer of firearm from transferor within county to county resident.
Requires comprehensive election audit to be conducted every two years, following general election.
Requires Department of Land Conservation and Development to study foreign investment in Oregon agricultural land.
Requires Water Resources Department to study budget of department.
Requires Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board to study budget of board.
Requires 10 percent of electricity sold in this state by each electric company that makes sales to 25,000 or more retail electricity consumers to be generated by small-scale renewable energy facilities or certain biomass facilities.
Requires power purchase agreements to permit qualifying facilities to provide energy or energy and capacity to third parties during periods of emergency.
Requires Oregon Government Ethics Commission to study whether governmental transparency would benefit from altering who is required to file annual statement of economic interest.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to use singular formula to provide funds for local public health initiatives.
Instructs State Department of Fish and Wildlife to designate certain areas as wildlife management units and undertake predator control in wildlife management units until certain criteria are met.
Carried from the Senate
Became law3
Adds members of household and domestic partner of candidate to list of persons who may not be employed to open ballot envelopes, handle ballots, prepare ballots for counting or count ballots.
Removes prohibition against sale, offer for sale, maintenance or control of female cattle of beef breed that have not been vaccinated against brucellosis.
Modifies requirements for residential rezoning of lands within Eastern Oregon Border Economic Development Region.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 19
Directs Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board to establish program to provide grants to water suppliers.
Aligns criteria for alteration, restoration or replacement of dwellings on lands zoned for forest use consistent with criteria applicable to dwellings on lands zoned for farm use.
Prohibits person from recklessly, knowingly or intentionally using unmanned aircraft system to interfere with wildfire suppression, law enforcement or emergency response effort.
Requires Governor, in appointing members to Oregon State Board of Nursing, to balance diversity of setting in which nurse or certified nursing assistant members provide care.
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.
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.
Establishes Jurisdictional Transfer Advisory Committee within Department of Transportation.
Directs Oregon Business Development Department to provide financial assistance to eligible applicants to pay for allowable costs related to early child care infrastructure activities.
Clarifies process of Senate confirmation of members of State Fish and Wildlife Commission.
Preserves additional funding for small school districts that merge with one or more school districts if certain conditions are met.
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.
Modifies definition of "renewable energy facility" for purposes of county permitting process for solar photovoltaic power generation facility.
Establishes Early Literacy Success Initiative.
Repeals provision specifying fiscal year end date for credit unions.
Requires Oregon Business Development Department to provide financial assistance to support broadband access, affordability and adoption.
Modifies qualifications for water well constructor's license.
Appropriates moneys to Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution for purposes related to outdoor recreation economy.
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.
Passed the House · 2
Establishes separate limitation on inclusion of hours of overtime worked for Oregon State Police in final average salary for purposes of Oregon Public Service Retirement Plan.
Extends safe surrender period for anonymously leaving infant at authorized facility to 60 days from infant's date of birth.
Out of committee · 43
Establishes School Safety Construction Fund in State Treasury, separate and distinct from General Fund.
Directs Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to establish program to provide grants to nonprofit organization to fund care of retired law enforcement dogs.
Exempts from state income tax military pay received by Oregon National Guard member while in active service of state or on state active duty.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of State Police for biennium beginning July 1, 2023, to increase capability of department's forensic laboratories to conduct analyses of blood for controlled substances.
Requires law enforcement agencies to take DNA sample of person arrested for certain crimes.
Removes requirement that amount of net proceeds from Oregon State Lottery allocated to County Fair Account not exceed $1.53 million annually.
Creates income tax credit for child care workers employed in rural areas.
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.
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.
Directs Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board to establish grant program to provide grants to water suppliers to protect, restore or enhance sources of drinking water.
Directs State Department of Fish and Wildlife to award grants for recreational fishing facilities within urban growth boundary.
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.
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.
Creates Oregon Soil Health Initiative.
Modifies provisions of Department of Transportation wildlife-vehicle collision program.
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.
Creates income or corporate excise tax credit for amount paid by owner of eligible generation facility for transmission services.
Establishes Task Force on Elk and Deer Damage Compensation Funding.
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.
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 Oregon Department of Administrative Services to provide grants to counties and soil and water conservation districts for treatment of western juniper.
Establishes Place-Based Water Planning Fund.
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.
Amends reporting requirements for real estate transaction sampling of domestic wells to require labs conducting tests to submit results to Department of Environmental Quality.
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 State Department of Agriculture to submit report on economic competitiveness of Oregon's agricultural sector to committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly related to agriculture no later than September 15, 2024.
Establishes Wallowa Rural and Recreational Economic Development Board.
Directs Higher Education Coordinating Commission to enter into agreement with Oregon Solutions at Portland State University to develop infrastructure funding readiness hub and enter into agreements with specified organizations to perform functions of funding navigator.
Permits county to develop and adopt energy resilience plan and incorporate energy resilience plan into county's applicable natural hazard mitigation plan.
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Business Development Department for distribution to recipients for industrial lands projects.
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Business Development Department to award grants to cities and Oregon Indian tribes with high poverty rates for purpose of developing local poverty reduction plans.
Authorizes State Treasurer to issue Article XI-Q general obligation bonds to finance expansion of courthouses.
In committee · 72
Repeals corporate activity tax.
Limits pretrial release of defendants charged with felony or Class A misdemeanor to security release.
Authorizes landowners who meet certain criteria to petition for formation of predator damage control district as funding mechanism to pay actual costs to county of preventing, reducing and mitigating damage to property from predatory animals.
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.
Allows electors of county to approve measure allowing use of dogs for hunting, pursuing or taking cougars within county.
Modifies estate tax brackets to provide additional estate tax exclusion of $1 million.
Eliminates statute of limitations for specified crimes when victim is under 18 years of age at time of crime.
Requires Department of State Police to create electronic statewide system for application and issuance of search warrants.
Repeals those provisions of Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act of 2020 (Ballot Measure 110 (2020)) that pertain to decriminalization of possession of drugs.
Creates rebuttable presumption that equal parenting time and joint custody are in best interests of child.
Requires that declarations and extensions of states of emergency under certain statutes be accompanied by written explanations.
Authorizes court to issue order requiring person to appear upon failure to appear on Class E violation citation, and to issue arrest warrant upon further failure to appear.
Exempts from ad valorem property taxation machinery and equipment used to compress and bale harvested straw, hay, grass or other plants.
Directs Energy Facility Siting Council to adopt standards, for siting, construction, operation and retirement of energy facilities that generate electricity from renewable energy source, addressing impacts of energy facility's equipment waste recycling and disposal needs over lifetime of energy facility.
Enacts interstate Nurse Licensure Compact.
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.
Increases amount that State Fish and Wildlife Commission must annually set aside for Predatory Animal, Rabbit and Rodent Control Fund.
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.
Appropriates moneys out of General Fund to State Fire Marshal for distribution to Illinois Valley Fire District for purposes related to district's water supply and treatment of sewage.
Modifies definition of "compensation," for purposes of pay equity requirements, to exclude hiring bonuses and retention bonuses.
Allows additional estate tax exclusion of $1 million.
Establishes income tax credit for sheriff's deputies employed in rural counties.
Directs district school board to ensure that curriculum of each course of study offered by school district is made available to public on school district's website.
Exempts receipts from sales of prescription drugs by a pharmacy from commercial activity subject to corporate activity tax.
Provides that person who receives finding under wolf depredation compensation and financial assistance grant program may appeal finding to county advisory committee.
Directs State Board of Education to adopt by rule standards by which certain students may take assessment to satisfy high school diploma requirements.
Requires practitioner to query electronic prescription monitoring system with respect to patient prior to issuing to, or renewing for, patient prescription for certain prescription drugs.
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.
Establishes Legislative Oversight and Accountability Committee and directs committee to select Legislative Oversight and Accountability Director.
Exempts receipts from sales of prescription drugs by all pharmacies from commercial activity subject to corporate activity tax.
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.
Expands all-terrain vehicle highway access routes to include county roads.
Increases exempt amount and filing threshold for purposes of corporate activity tax.
Increases exempt amount and filing threshold for purposes of corporate activity tax.
Authorizes person to use dogs to hunt or pursue cougars on private property owned by person or with consent of property owner or owners.
Removes certain lands from definitions of buildable lands for purposes of urbanization.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to Josephine County for emergency infrastructure improvements to Josephine County fairgrounds.
Requires State Forestry Department to study recovery after wildfire.
Establishes Community Benefiting Water Infrastructure Investment Program.
Extends property tax exemption to commercial community solar projects first granted exemption for property tax year beginning on or after July 1, 2023.
Prohibits Environmental Quality Commission and Department of Environmental Quality from adopting or enforcing rules or standards related to motor vehicle fuels or emissions unless authorized by Legislative Assembly by law enacted on or after effective date of Act.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to City of Grants Pass to build water plant.
Prohibits discrimination in places of public accommodation on basis of person's medical history.
Establishes Columbia River Commercial Gillnet Buyback Fund.
Modifies definition of "supervisory employee" to exclude certain strike prohibited public employees.
Establishes income tax credit for volunteer firefighters.
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.
Instructs Water Resources Director to schedule evidentiary hearings for certain protests concerning water right applications.
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.
Directs Department of Education to conduct study related to hiring retired police officers to provide security in public schools.
Creates Interagency Water Officer in office of Governor.
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.
Provides that unit of government may not assess toll on state highways or interstate highways located in tri-county area unless Department of Transportation conducts and submits equity plan for approval by affected counties.
Authorizes holders of certain water rights in Upper Klamath Basin to relocate points of diversion to consolidated point of diversion under certain circumstances.
Instructs State Forester to analyze certain criteria before adopting rule changing management of state forest lands.
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.