Bills in the 2023 Regular Session, House.
E. Werner Reschke
Sponsored
Became law2
Confers exclusive jurisdiction on Oregon Tax Court for judicial review of questions arising under local government tax laws that impose taxes on or measured by net income.
Increases maximum dollar amounts used to determine whether addition of real property improvements constitutes "minor construction" for purposes of property tax law.
Out of committee4
Creates income and corporate excise tax credits for investments in facilities used for manufacturing, siting of headquarters or research.
Increases amount of income tax credit allowed to rural medical providers.
Adds nursing assistant or nurse to types of providers who are eligible for income tax credit allowed to rural medical providers.
Grants to South Suburban Sanitary District exclusive right to use and sell treated wastewater discharged by district into Klamath River or tributaries.
In committee37
Prohibits Governor and specified state agencies from taking measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in Oregon unless authorized by Legislative Assembly by law enacted on or after effective date of Act.
Increases expenditure threshold for exemption of municipal corporation from audit requirement.
Creates income tax credit for eligible costs of development of middle housing dwelling units that sell for price affordable to household with annual income between 80 percent and 120 percent of area median income.
Eliminates general rule that sale made to state where taxpayer is not taxable is considered sale in Oregon for apportionment of business income for corporate excise tax purposes.
Increases amount that State Fish and Wildlife Commission must annually set aside for Predatory Animal, Rabbit and Rodent Control Fund.
Requires political subdivision that imposes income tax to conform to statutory provisions governing determination of net income.
Establishes December 21, 2017, connection date for Internal Revenue Code sections governing bonus depreciation and deduction of net business interest.
Provides for additional exemption against Oregon estate tax.
Creates income or corporate excise tax credit for investment in affordable housing, available to taxpayer eligible for federal low-income housing credit, and allocated by Housing and Community Services Department.
Restores tax credit for employer-provided dependent care assistance.
Establishes Task Force on Tax Competitiveness.
Modifies personal income tax brackets.
Repeals corporate minimum tax.
Requires Department of Revenue to study optimal way to exclude tangible personal property from ad valorem property taxes.
Requires legislative review during odd-numbered year regular session of all tax credits scheduled to expire during upcoming even-numbered year or lacking review during two immediately preceding odd-numbered year regular sessions.
Provides for standing for association or organization to seek declaratory relief in Oregon Tax Court.
Increases threshold amount of understated income tax above which penalty applies.
Restores offense levels for unlawful possession of controlled substance offenses to levels that existed prior to enactment of House Bill 2355 (2017) and Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act of 2020 (Ballot Measure 110 (2020)).
Designates second Monday in October of each year as Columbus Day.
Repeals provisions regulating property services contractors.
Modifies definition of "compensation," for purposes of pay equity requirements, to exclude hiring bonuses and retention bonuses.
Requires Oregon Broadband Office to study barriers to, and opportunities for, investment and deployment of wireline and wireless broadband access points.
Exempts from commercial activity subject to corporate activity tax reimbursements for certain health care services, including care provided to medical assistance recipients and to Medicare recipients.
Eliminates requirement that health benefit plans cover abortions.
Prohibits individual from collecting and returning ballot of another individual, subject to specified exceptions.
Prohibits local governments from adopting or enforcing ordinance, rule or regulation or taking actions that prohibit or limit local government or its subdivision, agency, department or office or employee from cooperating with or assisting federal immigration authority or carrying out immigration enforcement.
Allows landlords to terminate month-to-month residential tenancies without cause.
Exempts receipts from sales of precious metals from commercial activity subject to corporate activity tax.
Prohibits abortion unless health care provider first performs ultrasound on pregnant person, except in case of medical emergency.
Directs State Parks and Recreation Department to conduct study to determine feasibility of authorizing use of electric assisted bicycles on public trails that allow for use of nonmotorized bicycles.
Directs state agencies to offer reinstatement and back pay to employees who were terminated because of COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
Provides that taxpayer is not required to make estimated corporate activity tax payment for quarter that taxpayer has zero taxable commercial activity.
Requires that person provide proof of lawful status in United States before Department of Transportation issues noncommercial driver license, noncommercial driver permit or identification card.
Changes name of Oregon Health Authority to Oregon Department of Health.
Prohibits proprietor of electronic communications network from selling, sharing, transmitting, transferring or otherwise providing to any person information that reveals time and date at which or geographical location in this state from which mobile electronic communication device that resident individual owns, controls or possesses connected to or communicated with proprietor's electronic communications network.
Directs state agencies in executive branch to offer to reinstate employees whose employment was terminated by agency because employee refused to obtain vaccination against COVID-19.
Requires application for energy facility site certificate or amended site certificate submitted to Energy Facility Siting Council to be approved by board of county commissioners for each county in which area affected by application is located.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 17
Authorizes self-service dispensing of Class 1 flammable liquids at retail dispensary.
Requires Department of Corrections to establish doula program for pregnant and postpartum adults in custody at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility.
Defines "recreational vehicle park" for the purposes of residential tenancy law.
Increases penalties for possession of certain amounts of fentanyl.
Creates Oregon tax subtraction for amounts of personal casualty loss that are barred from deduction on federal tax return because loss is not attributable to federally declared disaster.
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.
Directs Department of Transportation to waive fee for Fallen Hero roadside memorial highway sign if applicant is Gold Star Family member and funds are appropriated or otherwise made available to department for purpose of paying fees.
Directs State Board of Education to adopt rules that allow for reimbursement of school district expenses incurred for alternative transportation costs.
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.
Requires Secretary of State to establish provision to be included in each nominating petition or declaration of candidacy that allows candidate to check box indicating that candidate does not want candidate's residence address to be publicly disclosed except in response to written public records request.
Preserves additional funding for small school districts that merge with one or more school districts if certain conditions are met.
Authorizes peace officer to issue investigative subpoena or request order from circuit court for information regarding missing individual if specified standards are met.
Modifies definition of "renewable energy facility" for purposes of county permitting process for solar photovoltaic power generation facility.
Establishes and modifies timelines related to enrollment of students in virtual public charter schools.
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 · 1
Permits employer to pay employees at different compensation levels pursuant to retention bonus provided that employer does not discriminate in payment of retention bonus, and that retention bonus accounts for entire compensation differential.
Out of committee · 15
Creates income or corporate excise tax credit for taxpayer that employs youth through Oregon Youth Employment Program.
Authorizes Oregon Business Development Department to provide financial assistance to projects related to industrial land.
Exempts from state income tax military pay received by Oregon National Guard member while in active service of state or on state active duty.
Removes requirement that amount of net proceeds from Oregon State Lottery allocated to County Fair Account not exceed $1.53 million annually.
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.
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.
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.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Justice for deposit into Oregon Domestic and Sexual Violence Services Fund.
Creates Oregon Soil Health Initiative.
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 Oregon personal income tax subtraction for amounts received for renting out room in taxpayer's home.
Requires schools to have wireless panic alert device in each classroom of each school building.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to provide grants to counties and soil and water conservation districts for treatment of western juniper.
Establishes Semiconductor Talent Sustaining Fund and subaccounts of fund.
Establishes Rural System Development Charges Program within Housing and Community Services Department to pay system development charges for rural affordable multifamily housing.
In committee · 60
Repeals corporate activity tax.
Limits pretrial release of defendants charged with felony or Class A misdemeanor to security release.
Expands crime of assault in the third degree to include causing physical injury to person working in hospital while worker is performing official duties.
Adds processor to types of entities from which taxpayer engaged in farming operation may obtain certification stating percentage of in-state agricultural commodity sold to entity, in order to determine taxpayer's commercial activity for purposes of corporate activity tax.
Requires Public Utility Commission to investigate status of renewable projects in Oregon, including project failures.
Prohibits state agency from enforcing rules requiring vaccination against COVID-19.
Makes in-person voting on date of election, rather than vote by mail, standard method for conducting election.
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.
Limits declaration of state of emergency to 30 days duration, unless extended by Legislative Assembly for additional 30 days.
Requires Department of Education to transfer funds to school districts necessary to pay for school resource officers.
Modifies estate tax brackets to provide additional estate tax exclusion of $1 million.
Repeals those provisions of Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act of 2020 (Ballot Measure 110 (2020)) that pertain to decriminalization of possession of drugs.
Enacts interstate Nurse Licensure Compact.
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.
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.
Prohibits insurer from canceling or raising premiums on policies of fire insurance by more than three percent if insured's property is located within wildland-urban interface or insured's primary employment or economic or business activity is farming or resource extraction.
Exempts receipts from sales of certain agricultural products from commercial activity subject to corporate activity tax.
Prohibits insurance company from considering map of wildfire risk when determining insurance rate.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to establish toll-free pregnancy resources hotline to provide information and assistance to pregnant persons seeking abortions in this state.
Requires parent or legal guardian of student to provide written permission prior to student participating in human sexuality education course.
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.
Requires ballots returned by mail to be received by date of election.
Provides that parent or legal guardian may be notified of minor's consent to treatment.
Ends automatic voter registration through Oregon Motor Voter.
Provides person with privileges and legal defenses available to person with Oregon concealed handgun license if person is licensed to carry concealed handgun by another state, or city or county in another state.
Undoes provisions of Senate Bill 762 (2021). .
Allows additional estate tax exclusion of $1 million.
Establishes income tax credit for sheriff's deputies employed in rural counties.
Exempts receipts from sales of prescription drugs by a pharmacy from commercial activity subject to corporate activity tax.
Requires person that receives state financial incentive for development of renewable energy generation facility to maintain nameplate capacity of facility for period of at least 25 years.
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.
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.
Prohibits public employer from making deduction from salary or wages of public employee to pay dues, fees or other assessments to labor organization.
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.
Repeals single-use checkout bag prohibitions.
Repeals provisions prohibiting food and beverage providers from providing single-use plastic straws to consumers except upon request.
Provides that person who receives finding under wolf depredation compensation and financial assistance grant program may appeal finding to county advisory committee.
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.
Requires certain recipients of grant or loan moneys distributed by state agencies to submit annual reports to committees of Legislative Assembly.
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 related to hiring retired police officers to provide security in public schools.
Prohibits abortion unless health care provider first determines probable gestational age of unborn child, except in case of medical emergency.
Directs district school boards to adopt policy for selecting and reviewing books and materials for school libraries.
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.
Requires Department of Land Conservation and Development to study foreign investment in Oregon agricultural land.
Requires local government approval of project to create, enhance or restore wetlands if project would convert lands used for agricultural purposes to wetlands.
Directs Department of State Police to release sex offender information for level two sex offenders to certain entities on website maintained by department.
Creates Oregon tax subtraction for amounts received in settlement of civil action arising from wildfire.
Restores criminal penalties for possession of controlled substance offenses to level prior to enactment of Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act of 2020 (Ballot Measure 110 (2020)) when person has been previously cited for Class E violation for possession of controlled substance.
Requires State Department of Fish and Wildlife to study salmon and trout enhancement program.
Establishes open enrollment process for school districts to allow students to attend schools in nonresident school district with consent of receiving school district.
Authorizes holders of certain water rights in Upper Klamath Basin to relocate points of diversion to consolidated point of diversion under certain circumstances.
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.