Bills in the 2019 Regular Session, House.
E. Werner Reschke
Sponsored
Became law3
Expands list of hospitals whose medical staff may qualify for specified income tax credit.
Modifies requirements for school to qualify as small high school for purposes of State School Fund distributions.
Allows political subdivision to convey real property to nonprofit, municipal or private corporation for purpose of providing broadband service.
Out of committee2
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to distribute moneys to Klamath County to acquire and install stream gauges in Klamath Basin.
Directs Oregon Business Development Department to study tax incentives for cybersecurity businesses and to report its findings to interim legislative committees related to economic development on or before September 15, 2020.
In committee14
Creates income tax credit for foster parents.
Allows public employee who is eligible for public employee health benefit plan coverage to be paid employer contribution for enrolling in public employee health benefit plan of family member if public employee resides in county with population of 40,000 or less.
Allows board of county commissioners to vote to direct Department of Human Services not to apply for waiver of time limit on receipt of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits for specified adults residing in county.
Creates income tax credit for attendance by taxpayer dependent of private school, home school or virtual public charter school.
Requires ultrasound at least 72 hours before abortion.
Prohibits person from soliciting or knowingly acquiring, receiving, transporting, implanting, processing, preserving, storing or accepting donation of human fetal tissue for purpose of transplanting the human fetal tissue into another person or animal under specified circumstances.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to State Department of Agriculture for further allocation to Klamath Soil and Water Conservation District for purpose of conducting seepage study in Klamath Basin.
Directs Department of Education to conduct study related to spending trends of school districts and possible areas of savings for school districts.
Directs large school districts to establish policy for use of school district credit cards by school district employees.
Requires coordinated care organization that manages its own dental program to have licensed dentist on site at least one day each week.
Requires coordinated care organization that manages its own dental program to have dental clinical advisory group.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to make available upon request specified information regarding dental care providers that contract with coordinated care organizations.
Repeals provisions of law related to collection of surcharge for removal of Klamath River dams upon failure of relevant parties to begin dam removal.
Allows personal income taxpayer to subtract from taxable income amounts paid as interest on qualified education loans, if income does not exceed threshold amount.
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
Repeals crime of unlawfully transporting hay.
Prohibits person from, with intent to defraud, returning for refund value during one day 50 or more individual beverage containers that person knows were not sold in this state.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 16
Requires State Forestry Department to annually report to Legislative Assembly or interim committee regarding implementation and enforcement of property notifications and certifications required under Oregon Forestland-Urban Interface Fire Protection Act.
Allows farm tractors to operate on state highways that have speed limit or posted speed of more than 35 miles per hour.
Designates May of each year as ALS Awareness Month.
Removing population requirement for affordable housing pilot program if no qualifying nomination is received for city with population under 25,000.
Requires district attorney to include sexual assault nurse examiner or hospital representative in sexual assault response team organized by district attorney to adopt protocols addressing response to sexual assault victims.
Directs Department of Education to coordinate with Oregon FFA Association to increase student achievement and improve college preparation and career placement for students enrolled in agricultural education courses.
Eliminates mandatory inspection of onions.
Provides seven days of excused absences from school if pupil is dependent of member of Armed Forces of United States who is on active duty or who is called into active duty.
Expands types of entities that may receive grant from Farm-to-School Grant Program to purchase food produced or processed in state or to identify sources of foods or to process foods.
Allows student to wear dress uniform issued by Armed Forces of United States during high school graduation ceremony if certain conditions are met.
Directs Department of Education to create Oregon Education Support Professional of the Year Program.
Allows professional licensing board to issue nonrenewable temporary authorization to spouse of member of Armed Forces of United States stationed in Oregon and who holds eligible out-of-state authorization to provide occupational or professional service.
Increases maximum penalty for certain wildlife law offenses committed without culpable mental state to $2,000 fine.
Directs Public Utility Commission to establish public process for investigating continuing relevance of telecommunications carrier of last resort obligations.
Directs Department of Transportation to establish county safety corridor program.
Provides that U.S. Highway 26 shall also be known as POW/MIA Memorial Highway.
Passed the House · 6
Allows pharmacist to prescribe and dispense pseudoephedrine to person who is at least 18 years of age and who provides to pharmacist person's valid government-issued photo identification.
For purposes of eligibility of property for homestead property tax deferral program, creates floor of $250,000 for maximum allowable real market value of homestead.
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.
Allows counties to partition and rezone up to 200 acres of lands within Eastern Oregon Border Economic Development Region from exclusive farm use to residential uses.
Permits adopted former foster children to have amount of tuition and all fees waived if attending defined institutions of higher education for purposes of pursuing initial undergraduate degree.
Specifies that when two or more county commissioners are elected for one county at same election and one is elected to fill vacancy, commissioner filling vacancy shall hold office for two years.
Out of committee · 17
Provides that fixed percentage of certain forecasted video lottery revenues be transferred to counties for economic development.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to administer program to provide matching grants to registered sobering facilities.
Provides grants to counties that received Secure Rural Schools Program payments in calendar year 2008 equal to at least 30 percent of all moneys deposited into county general fund.
Allows State Forester to order use of wildfire suppression personnel, equipment and services on federal lands within state borders.
Allows school district with remote small high school to use moneys received under High School Graduation and College and Career Readiness Act on existing career and technical education programs.
Directs Higher Education Coordinating Commission to conduct study to determine whether state should recognize more than one high school equivalency test.
Establishes Oregon Hemp Commission.
Directs Higher Education Coordinating Commission to establish competency-based education pilot program.
Directs Department of Education to award grants to enable school districts to provide courses in computer science as part of career and technical education program.
Creates tax credit for short line railroad rehabilitation projects.
Prescribes notification requirements for school district upon receipt of report of act of harassment, intimidation, bullying or cyberbullying .
Requires Oregon Business Development Department to distribute moneys in Oregon Rural Capacity Fund to Oregon's Economic Development Districts for purpose of assisting rural jurisdictions to apply for and administer grants and other forms of funding available from any source.
Requires Department of Veterans' Affairs, in its biennial agency request budget, to request certain level of funding.
Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission to provide pilot program grant to consortium to assist public post-secondary institutions of education in Klamath County, Jackson County and Josephine County.
Directs Department of Human Services to develop pilot program contracting with Yamhill County for provision of community-based child welfare services.
Directs Department of Education to coordinate with Oregon career and technical student organizations in support of organizations.
Requires certain state agencies and colleges at Oregon State University to conduct certain studies on opportunities for greenhouse gas sequestration by and emissions reductions from activities related to Oregon's natural and working lands and in Oregon's forest products, agricultural and building materials industries, transportation sector and electricity sector.
In committee · 59
Creates income tax credit for operation costs of housing for agricultural workers.
Exempts from property taxation property consisting of machinery, equipment, tools, implements or fixtures used primarily in agricultural or horticultural activities or animal husbandry, regardless of whether property is considered real property, and adds such property to definition of "tangible personal property." Adds farming tools and implements to tax-exempt personal property and adds preparing farm crops for shipping as tax-exempt use of personal property.
Allows Oregon Liquor Control Commission to enter into interstate agreements with agencies of other states for purpose of ensuring multistate enforcement of standards for wine consistent with standards of state where wine was produced.
Creates income tax credit for taxpayer that employs community college student as apprentice.
Clarifies that for purposes of crime of coercion, person compels or induces another person to engage in conduct from which other person has legal right to abstain if person compels or induces woman to terminate woman's pregnancy.
Creates income tax credit for teachers in rural schools.
Provides that machinery and equipment used to compress and bale harvested straw, hay, grass or other plants for purpose of storage or shipment is tangible personal property exempt from ad valorem property taxation.
Creates income tax credit for taxpayers that purchase certain emergency preparedness supplies.
Directs Department of Education to create Oregon Educational Support Professional of Year Program.
Permits duplicate health benefit plan coverage for public employees.
Modifies intake conditions for motorized suction dredge in motorized in-stream placer mining.
Requires State Board of Forestry to transfer ownership of former county forestland back to county, upon request, if former county forestland is 10 percent or less of all former county forestland owned by board.
Removes sunset on provisions that allow certain nonresident students to attend public schools as resident students for purposes of State School Fund distributions.
Increases penalties for crime of riot if, during commission of riot, person conceals person's face with intent to facilitate commission of riot.
Prohibits Department of Human Services from disclosing records and reports related to child abuse investigations to certain entities unless court finds report of abuse is founded.
Prohibits full-service restaurant from providing single-use plastic straw to consumer unless consumer requests single-use plastic straw.
Requires counties to develop community mental health action plans to identify and address mental health concerns.
Requires vision examination as part of evaluation before initially receiving special education.
Appropriates to Department of Education for deposit in High School Graduation and College and Career Readiness Fund amount prescribed to be deposited under High School Graduation and College and Career Readiness Act (Ballot Measure 98 (2016)).
Extends by five years certain provisions that allow nonresident students to attend public schools as resident students for purposes of State School Fund distributions.
Expands purposes for which physical restraint may be used on students.
Designates February of each year as Future Business Leaders of America Month.
Exempts collection, storage or use of diffuse surface water from falling rain, melting snow or other precipitation from requirement to obtain water right permit or certificate.
Allows public charter school to change sponsorship if charter is terminated.
Allows school on land zoned for exclusive farm use to expand to contiguous land owned by school.
Reduces interest rates chargeable on delinquent property tax payments and payable on property tax refunds.
Prohibits Attorney General from accepting funds from sources other than public bodies of this state to pay cost of employing assistants, temporary assistants, special legal assistants or private counsel to Attorney General.
Requires Oregon transparency website to contain itemized information about state agency advertising expenditures.
Provides that employee of public employer is liable to employer for wages paid to employee during period of administrative leave if employee was placed on leave as result of allegation that employee engaged in criminal conduct and if employee is thereafter convicted of crime by reason of conduct.
Requires that statements made by certain witnesses to committee of Legislative Assembly be made under oath and therefore subject to crime of false swearing.
Provides that Oregon estate tax is imposed only on estates of decedents dying on or before December 31, 2018.
Requires that information concerning sex offenders convicted of certain offenses be released on website maintained by Department of State Police.
Allows subtraction from federal taxable income for purchase of qualifying gun safe.
Requires State Department of Fish and Wildlife to allow person meeting criteria to hunt game mammals using crossbow.
Directs Housing and Community Services Department to conduct study to estimate amount of additional homeless shelter capacity necessary in each county and cost of building or acquiring such capacity.
Modifies crime of promoting prostitution to include knowingly recruiting, persuading or encouraging, or attempting to recruit, persuade or encourage, another person to engage in prostitution.
Modifies retirement plan options of persons elected or appointed as statewide elected officials or judges.
Prohibits person from performing or attempting to perform abortion if abortion is because of sex of unborn child.
Allows student subjected to substantiated act of harassment, intimidation, bullying or cyberbullying to request transfer to another school.
Prohibits abortion unless physician has first determined probable post-fertilization age of unborn child, except in case of medical emergency.
Deletes residential address of public body employee or volunteer exemption from public record disclosure.
Prohibits terms of collective bargaining agreement from requiring public employee who has withdrawn membership from labor organization from continuing to pay member dues or continuing to authorize public employer to deduct dues from salary of employee.
Extends statute of limitations for certain sex crimes.
Creates refundable income tax credit for renting farmland to beginning farmers for term of three years.
Requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to report to Department of Consumer and Business Services total cost of patient assistance programs and information on financial assistance provided to pharmacies, government agencies and advocacy organizations.
Authorizes exception allowing certain cities to impose tax or fee, in excess of standard limitation, on production, processing or sale of marijuana items.
Creates income tax credit for employers that pay minimum wage to employees who are under 21 years of age and who perform agricultural labor.
Provides that persons employed by participating public employers may not become members of pension program or individual account program of Oregon Public Service Retirement Plan on or after January 1, 2020.
Increases total amount allowed in tax year to all taxpayers as tax credits for donations to fiduciary organizations for distribution to individual development accounts.
Directs Public Utility Commission to require electricity or natural gas utility to provide analog meter option for residential customers.
Authorizes self-service dispensing of Class 1 flammable liquids at retail dispensary.
Creates income tax subtraction for qualifying sales of single-family or multifamily housing.
Creates credit against income taxes for amounts paid by veteran as principal or interest on qualified education loans.
Establishes additional permissible periods for retail sales of consumer fireworks.
Requires health care practitioner to exercise proper degree of care to preserve health and life of child born alive after abortion or attempted abortion.
Allows resident serving, or who has served, in Armed Forces of United States to obtain free licenses for hunting, angling or shellfish.
Exempts receipts from sales of certain agricultural products from commercial activity subject to corporate activity tax.
Exempts receipts from sales of basic necessities from commercial activity subject to corporate activity tax.
Transfers Leaburg Fish Hatchery from State Department of Fish and Wildlife to State Parks and Recreation Department.