Bills in the 2024 Regular Session, House.
Mark Owens
Sponsored
Became law1
Authorizes the Oregon Health Authority or a third party to provide electronic notification to a practitioner in certain circumstances when the practitioner's patient has a fatal or nonfatal overdose.
In committee1
Requires insurance coverage for motor vehicles to be made available as part of a peer-to-peer car sharing arrangement.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 10
Directs the Department of State Police to study the causes of and ways to address the medical examiner shortage, and to provide the results of the study to the appropriate interim committees of the Legislative Assembly no later than October 1, 2024.
Requires counties to establish a process for handling the surplus proceeds from property tax lien foreclosure sales.
Creates a residential property wholesaler registration.
Directs the Department of Education to establish and administer a pilot program for students who are foster children.
Modifies the definition of "supervisory employee" to include certain employees and exclude certain strike-prohibited public employees.
Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to provide grants to cities for specified infrastructure projects that will benefit housing developments that will make at least 30 percent of the dwelling units affordable to workforce income households.
Directs the Department of Justice to include in future budget requests amounts necessary to fund children's advocacy centers, the Survivor Housing Funds grant program and the Oregon Domestic and Sexual Violence Services Fund.
Requires pharmacy benefit managers to be licensed by the Department of Consumer and Business Services beginning January 1, 2025.
Modifies definitions pertaining to stalking orders and stalking offenses.
Modifies the length of time by which a person is considered a student for purposes of determining if conduct is prohibited sexual conduct.
Passed the House · 2
Creates an Oregon tax subtraction for amounts received in settlement of civil actions arising from wildfire.
Prohibits the Energy Facility Siting Council from exercising jurisdiction over or requiring a site certificate for an energy facility that is a renewable energy facility or transmission line, is sited wholly within federal lands and is subject to review under the National Environmental Policy Act.
Out of committee · 6
Directs the Oregon State University Extension Service and the College of Agricultural Sciences of Oregon State University to study the distribution and occurrence of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) found in biosolids applied to agricultural fields that do not produce crops intended for human consumption.
Establishes the Task Force on Health Professional Licensing Modernization.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Business Development Department for deposit in the Special Public Works Fund.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Housing and Community Services Department for the purpose of making matching deposits into individual development accounts.
Makes certain changes related to the forest products harvest tax.
Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to expand programs related to wildlife disease.
In committee · 15
Increases the penalties for possession of a controlled substance.
Prohibits a medical health care professional from referring a minor for, or performing on a minor, a sex alteration procedure.
Allows an occupying homeowner outside of an urban growth boundary to site one additional family dwelling unit on the tract of the home.
Requires each athletic association, conference or organization with authority over intercollegiate sports, post-secondary institution of education and school district to designate athletic competitions and extracurricular sports according to biological sex.
Increases the exempt amount and the filing threshold for purposes of the corporate activity tax.
Creates the crime of using a controlled substance in public.
Directs the State Forester to establish sustainable harvest levels for harvesting timber on state forestland and develop a timber inventory model to inform sustainable harvest levels.
Provides that compensation for loss or injury to livestock or working dogs under the wolf depredation compensation and financial assistance grant program must be based on certain multipliers of fair market value.
Requires a health care practitioner to exercise the proper degree of care to preserve the health and life of a child born alive after an abortion or an attempted abortion.
Permits a police officer to take a person who is publicly intoxicated or under the influence of controlled substances, but who is not incapacitated, to their dwelling or, if the person is unable to identify a dwelling, to a treatment facility or sobering facility.
Establishes the Oregon Jail-Based Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Grant Program in the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission.
Provides that when a person is charged with committing a new felony sex crime while on pretrial release for a felony sex crime, the person is only eligible for release after a hearing during which the court determines whether security release may be denied, and if security release is allowed, the person must deposit the full security amount set by the court.
Requires athletic organizations, institutions of higher education and school districts to designate athletic competitions according to biological sex.
Increases the penalties for making, delivering or possessing an object that is used to render a drug into a counterfeit substance.
Increases the limitation on the percentage of students in a school district who may enroll in a virtual public charter school that is not sponsored by the student's resident school district without first receiving approval from the school district.