Bills in the 2021 Regular Session, House.
E. Werner Reschke
Sponsored
Became law2
Designates Oregon Institute of Technology as Oregon's Polytechnic University.
Designates May 22 of each year as Crater Lake National Park Day.
Out of committee1
Creates income or corporate excise tax credit for contributions to workforce training organizations.
In committee7
Modifies conditions of eligibility for tax credit allowed to rural medical care provider.
Prohibits individual from collecting and returning ballot of other individual, subject to specified exceptions.
Prohibits discrimination in places of public accommodation on basis of person's medical history.
Provides that civil penalty imposed as result of violation of COVID-19 emergency rule becomes due and payable 50 years after order imposing penalty becomes final.
Directs Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services to repeal all permanent rules adopted by director in connection with addressing COVID-19 public health emergency in all Oregon workplaces.
Prohibits public institution of education or educational employee from requiring, compelling, coercing or otherwise directing student to acknowledge, affirm, declare, confess, state or in any way act in accordance with belief that any race, ethnicity, color, sex, gender, religion or national origin is inherently superior or inferior to another, that individual may be discriminated against or treated in different manner on basis of individual's membership in particular group or classification, or that any individual, by virtue of individual's membership in particular group or classification, endorses, benefits uniquely from or is inherently responsible for actions that other individuals with membership in same group or classification have taken.
Creates refundable income tax credit to adjust for effect on federal income subtraction of recovery rebates allowed to personal income taxpayers.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Requires state to offer to transfer title and assets of Warner Creek Correctional Facility to Lake County if closed.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 27
Authorizes county to adopt ordinance or resolution authorizing waiver of interest charged for failure to pay taxes when due.
Makes permanent school district funding for foreign exchange students and small school district grants.
Excludes from meaning of "communication," for purposes of central assessment for property taxation, services of television and radio stations licensed by Federal Communications Commission that use primarily earth-based transmitters to broadcast programming via radio waves to television or radio receivers that use indoor or outdoor antennas for reception.
Directs Department of Human Services to report information regarding prescription of psychotropic medications to children in foster care.
Authorizes tax collector in county covered by state of emergency declared by Governor due to fire or act of God, or authority of Governor under Emergency Conflagration Act, who knows or has reason to believe property has been destroyed or damaged by fire or act of God to prorate taxes imposed on property.
Authorizes governing body of enterprise zone sponsor to adopt resolution suspending enterprise zone employment requirements otherwise imposed on authorized business firms for either or both of property tax years beginning on July 1, 2021, and July 1, 2022.
Modifies provisions allowing for income and corporate excise tax credits.
Extends sunset of property tax exemption for property of nonprofit corporation offered, occupied or used as low-income housing.
Includes in definition of "conversation" communication occurring through video conferencing program for purposes of statutes regulating recording of communications.
Requires state medical assistance program to provide mental health wellness appointments as prescribed by Oregon Health Authority.
Prescribes requirements for reimbursement by Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations of health services delivered using telemedicine.
Provides that juror may not be identified by name in court proceeding open to public.
Requires each public university and community college to prominently display mandatory fees charged.
Exempts from construction taxes residential housing being constructed to replace residential housing destroyed or damaged by fire or other emergency event or situation.
Prescribes notification requirements for school district upon receipt of report of act of harassment, intimidation, bullying or cyberbullying.
Allows surviving spouse or disabled heir of individual whose homestead was granted deferral under homestead property tax deferral program to continue deferral without having owned or occupied homestead for five years.
Modifies CASA Volunteer Programs to direct Oregon Department of Administrative Services to contract with nongovernmental entity to serve as statewide coordinating entity for provision of court appointed special advocate services.
Directs State Department of Agriculture to establish grant program to fund upgrades to establishments expected to operate under program of state meat inspection, construction of new establishments expected to operate under program of state meat inspection and expansion of certain establishments that operate under program of federal inspection.
Allows temporary siting for up to 24 months of recreational vehicles on properties with dwellings that natural disasters have made uninhabitable.
Allows student enrolled in program provided by school district or education service district to earn General Educational Development (GED) certificate to participate in interscholastic activities.
Requires each public university and community college to prominently display , or establish link to website that displays, estimated costs of all required course materials and directly related course fees for no less than 75 percent of total for-credit courses offered by public university or community college.
Allows physician assistant to register with Oregon Medical Board for authority to dispense prescription drugs.
Extends time for filing of estate tax return .
Requires mental health care provider who assesses minor to be at imminent and serious threat of attempting suicide to disclose relevant information to parent, guardian or other individuals to engage in safety planning.
Amends residency requirements for purposes of licenses, tags and permits related to wildlife.
Expands definition of term "eligible residential treatment program" for purpose of determining which programs Department of Education will provide payment for costs of education of students in program.
Extends look-back period used to determine Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund solvency level from 10 years to 20 years.
Vetoed · 1
Establishes regulations for kratom products, including testing standards, labeling requirements and minimum age for sale.
Passed the House · 3
Allows owner of reservoir located on specified property within Big Butte Creek drainage area to register reservoir with Water Resources Department.
Cancels outstanding ad valorem property taxes and interest assessed on property transferred from federal government to port district.
Repeals sunset of predator damage control district program.
Out of committee · 6
Provides that counties may authorize Oregon Department of Administrative Services to make deductions from lottery revenues dedicated to county economic development purposes to pay for portion of costs of regional solutions coordinators within Regional Solutions Program.
Extends and modifies tax credits for donations for individual development accounts.
Directs Department of Education to award grants to wildfire-impacted school districts in amounts to cover any decreases in State School Fund distributions and Student Investment Account distributions resulting from decreases in average daily membership, as compared to 2019-2020 school year, that are caused by wildfires.
Directs State Department of Agriculture to study barriers to family-scale meat production and ways to promote family-scale meat production, and recommend legislative or regulatory avenues to remove identified barriers and promote family-scale meat production.
Directs Department of Environmental Quality, in consultation with State Department of Agriculture, to study laws related to permitting of animal rendering facilities and provide results of study in report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2022.
Removes requirement that amount of net proceeds from Oregon State Lottery allocated to County Fair Account not exceed $1.53 million annually.
In committee · 33
Increases 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.
Requires Department of Environmental Quality to approve at least three businesses to provide water quality permit application review services.
Requires that declarations and extensions of states of emergency under certain statutes be accompanied by written explanations.
Establishes personal income tax credit of $1,000 per qualifying child.
Exempts receipts from sales of agricultural, floricultural, horticultural, viticultural or food products from commercial activity subject to corporate activity tax.
Establishes for five school years process by which school district may participate in open enrollment and individual who is not resident of participating district may be considered resident of district for educational purposes.
Modifies provisions of corporate activity tax.
Extends sunset of corporate tax offset of insurer assessment.
Requires use of taxpayer's audience or subscribers in determining numerator of apportionment factor for broadcasting sales, for purposes of corporate excise taxation.
Prohibits abortion unless health care provider has first determined probable gestational age of unborn child, except in case of medical emergency.
Provides that State Fish and Wildlife Commission may waive requirement that artificial obstruction in waters of this state provide for fish passage if commission determines that artificial obstruction will be repaired or replaced and is less than eight feet tall, or that artificial obstruction is dam that provides hydropower, drinking water or water for irrigation use, artificial obstruction provides fish habitat and providing for fish passage would increase cost of project by more than 10 percent.
Directs Water Resources Department to review water measurement data collection, retention, use and reporting and report to committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly related to water on or before September 15, 2022.
Prohibits Oregon Transportation Commission from establishing toll on Interstate 205.
Reinstates tax credit for reforestation.
Exempts, from commercial activity subject to corporate activity tax, contractor receipts from repair or rebuilding of structure destroyed or damaged by wildfire.
Authorizes legislative caucus leaders to each appoint Senate Majority Legislative Counsel, Senate Minority Legislative Counsel, House Majority Legislative Counsel and House Minority Legislative Counsel, and establishes legislative caucus leaders as Legislative Counsel Committee.
Limits liability for certain claims for damages arising out of acts or omissions taken during COVID-19 emergency period in reasonable compliance with government guidance related to COVID-19.
Permits municipality or Department of Consumer and Business Services to contract with person to administer and enforce building inspection program and act as building official.
Requires health care practitioner to exercise proper degree of care to preserve health and life of child born alive after abortion or attempted abortion.
Creates income or corporate excise tax credit for taxpayers that provide career and technical education student internships.
Limits Governor's ability to exercise authority conferred on Governor during declared state of emergency to no more than 60 days' duration, unless Legislative Assembly authorizes continued state of emergency.
Reinstates tax credit for reforestation.
Establishes state policy that career and technical education is provided through seamless system that begins at secondary school level and progresses to post-secondary career and technical education institutions, community colleges and apprenticeship programs.
Increases allowable size of temporary signs on private property.
Maintains unemployment insurance tax rate in effect for each employer for calendar year 2020 until first calendar year that begins after later of December 31, 2022, or date on which state of emergency declared by Governor on March 8, 2020, for COVID-19 pandemic, and any extension of state of emergency, is no longer in effect.
Authorizes local government to publish notice of public hearing regarding proposed rule on agency's website instead of in newspaper of general circulation.
Creates income tax subtraction for recovery rebates paid to personal income taxpayers.
Creates income tax credit for eligible costs of development of single-family owner-occupied housing that sells for price affordable to household with annual income at or below 80 percent of area median income.
Creates Short Line Railroad Resiliency Program within Oregon Business Development Department to provide grants for short line railroad infrastructure projects.
Requires each public school to provide full-time, in-person classroom instruction during 2021-2022 school year.
Requires Secretary of State to establish electronic filing system to allow candidates for nomination or election to county or city office held at primary or general election to file portrait and statement electronically with secretary if candidate cannot have portrait and statement printed in county voters' pamphlet.
Prohibits public body from issuing COVID-19 vaccine passport.
Requires Department of Consumer and Business Services to develop and implement program to make return-to-work incentive payments to employees.