Bills in the 2023 Regular Session, House.
Ricki Ruiz
Sponsored
Became law2
Designates August 4 of each year as Bracero Program Day.
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.
Out of committee9
Requires Oregon Health Authority to provide incentives to increase recruitment and retention of local public health professionals.
Directs Department of Human Services to establish program to provide grants to assist noncitizens who do not possess valid immigration documentation change immigration status or obtain lawful permanent resident status.
Establishes Task Force on Health Care Services in Oregon Schools to examine scope of duties of employment and practice for licensed health care providers employed by schools, school districts or education service districts to provide health care services.
Establishes legislative findings relating to expanding need-based financial aid opportunities, ensuring that historically underrepresented students have increased access to wraparound services and support programs at post-secondary institutions of education and increasing levels of targeted state investment that result in increased student service levels.
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.
Requires Housing and Community Services Department to report to Legislative Assembly on homeownership disparities by September 15 of each even-numbered year.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to support homeownership and fair housing.
Directs Housing and Community Services Department by rule to establish and implement pilot program through which department cooperates with qualified lending institutions to provide 100 percent financing for residential property purchases to persons who qualify for special purpose credit programs.
Requires Bureau of Labor and Industries to study issues related to working conditions of warehouse workers.
In committee12
Requires Housing and Community Services Department to study statewide rental housing inspections.
Provides that person may file petition for post-conviction relief within reasonable amount of time after discovering or meaningfully understanding adverse immigration consequences of conviction.
Requires Department of Human Services to study implementation of tax filing assistance program.
Requires Legislative Revenue Officer to study possibility of reenacting homestead property tax refund program for homeowners and renters.
Requires Department of Human Services to study options for allowing purchase of menstrual products with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.
Directs State Board of Education to adopt rules that allow for modification of requirement to provide menstrual products in public school building that primarily provides educational services to students in grades 6 and below.
Requires residential landlords to accept personal checks, cashier's checks and money orders.
Permits employee to take bereavement leave to grieve loss of pregnancy due to miscarriage.
Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to study creation of automatic expungement process for marijuana-related convictions, and to provide results of study to interim committees of Legislative Assembly no later than December 31, 2024.
Requires Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission to study cannabis packaging.
Requires Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission to study cannabis special events.
Modifies purpose and duties of Youth Development Council and Youth Development Division.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Allows Appraiser Certification and Licensure Board to require training on implicit bias and state and federal fair housing laws for real estate appraisers.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 41
Establishes Oregon Housing Needs Analysis in Oregon Department of Administrative Services.
Modifies provisions relating to reproductive health rights.
Directs Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board to establish program to provide grants to water suppliers.
Exempts from health care interpreter requirements individuals providing services as employees or contractors of school districts, public charter schools and education service districts.
Establishes program within Apprenticeship and Training Division of Bureau of Labor and Industries to make grants to local service districts and local joint committees that develop and administer pilot projects for firefighter apprenticeship training.
Extends sunset from 2024 to 2034 on provisions allowing retired member of Public Employees Retirement System to be reemployed by participating public employer for unlimited number of hours without reduction in pension benefits.
Allows specified persons to distribute and administer short-acting opioid antagonist and distribute kits.
Directs Department of State Fire Marshal to coordinate urban search and rescue function of this state.
Directs Department of Early Learning and Care to adopt standards and processes to reduce barriers that impede international early childhood professionals from entering early learning workforce in Oregon.
Requires Employment Relations Board to develop guidelines and procedures for authorizations designating bargaining representatives of bargaining unit to be prepared and signed electronically.
Changes operative date from January 1, 2026, to effective date of Act, for law removing authority of Teacher Standards and Practices Commission from establishing and collecting fee from educator preparation provider based on number of license applications received by commission from provider or type of educator preparation programs offered by provider.
Requires that dental and vision are included in health benefits available to part-time faculty members.
Provides that qualifying agency must require as material provision of public improvement contract that contractor establish and implement plan for outreach to and recruitment and retention of women, minority individuals and veterans to perform work under public improvement contract, with aspirational target of having individuals in one or more of these groups perform at least 15 percent of total work hours that workers perform under public improvement contract.
Modifies Department of Justice crime victim compensation program.
Requires hospitals to establish professional and technical staff and service staff staffing committees, meeting specified criteria, to develop staffing plans, in addition to nurse staffing committee.
Provides that first full week in March is known as Classified School Employees Week.
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.
Expands and provides funding for coordinated crisis services system including 9-8-8 suicide prevention and behavioral health crisis hotline.
Establishes requirements for approving recovery schools.
Establishes pilot program at Portland State University and Eastern Oregon University to enhance hiring of public university students by nonprofit organizations.
Encourages schools to provide instruction on preparing for, and recovering from, fires, earthquakes, safety threats and natural disasters.
Extends deadlines for affinity group task forces to complete their work with respect to allocations of resources to address communities' needs and health inequities faced by communities and to report recommendations to Legislative Assembly.
Directs Oregon Business Development Department to provide financial assistance to eligible applicants to pay for allowable costs related to early child care infrastructure activities.
Requires school districts undertaking HVAC infrastructure improvements for which state and federal funds are made specifically available to expend such funds on certain activities aimed at improving indoor air ventilation quality in schools.
Directs Oregon State University Extension Service to collaborate with Department of Education for purpose of identifying and collecting student data relevant for maintenance of outdoor school programs.
Limits terminations and rent increases for three years after tenants' housing is withdrawn from publicly supported housing.
Establishes Oregon Disaster Response Assistance Matching Fund.
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.
Preserves additional funding for small school districts that merge with one or more school districts if certain conditions are met.
Directs Department of Education to develop and implement statewide education plan for students who are Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander.
Establishes Early Literacy Success Initiative.
Creates refundable child tax credit, calculated based on number of dependents of taxpayer that are qualifying children with respect to taxpayer and are under six years of age at close of tax year.
Requires county clerk to replace recorded instrument with court-ordered version that redacts discriminatory language.
Authorizes Oregon Board of Licensed Professional Counselors and Therapists to issue limited permit to qualified applicant.
Requires entity that receives funds for certain workforce program initiatives to establish wage standards and develop training plan for individuals who participate in program administered by entity if, under program, entity provides individuals with paid work experience.
Provides that individuals who participate in certain on-the-job training programs are entitled to certain rights and protections concerning civil rights, discrimination and harassment as employees in employment relationship with employer.
Increases membership of State Board of Education to include additional representative of congressional district and to include member engaged as classified staff member for public school or education service district.
Establishes Sexual Misconduct Survey Council.
Provides that, if certain state agencies provide temporary housing to displaced individuals in response to emergency, agencies shall ensure housing is safe and provided in compliance with state and federal laws relating to discrimination.
Makes unlawful employment practice for employer to make offer to negotiate settlement agreement conditional upon worker also entering into agreement that includes no-rehire provision.
Establishes Task Force on Alcohol Pricing and Addiction Services.
Vetoed · 1
Establishes State Public Bank Task Force.
Passed the House · 2
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.
Provides that violation of prohibitions against unfair claim settlement practices with respect to insurance is subject to enforcement action under Unlawful Trade Practices Act.
Out of committee · 23
Establishes School Safety Construction Fund in State Treasury, separate and distinct from General Fund.
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Business Development Department to distribute to Oregon cultural organizations in response to negative impact of COVID-19 pandemic on organization finances.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to issue grants to specified recipients.
Appropriates $30,000,000 to Department of Environmental Quality for deposit in Zero-Emission Incentive Fund.
Allows veterans to participate in Oregon Promise program if first enrolled in classes within 12 months after discharge from military.
Increases retirement benefits and lowers normal retirement age under Oregon Public Service Retirement Plan for telecommunicators and certain employees of Oregon State Hospital.
Modifies definition of "former foster child" for purposes of tuition and fee waiver program, Oregon Opportunity Grant program and foster child scholarship program.
Requires school districts and education service districts to include in audit reports filed with Department of Education information describing expenditures of moneys received from State School Fund.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to prepare tentative budget for funding of State School Fund.
Removes cap on amounts distributed from State School Fund to school districts for students eligible for special education as children with disabilities.
Directs Department of Transportation to establish program for awarding grants to providers of traffic safety education courses to fund Spanish language traffic safety education courses.
Establishes Oregon Spirits Board as semi-independent state agency to develop and promote Oregon's distilled spirits industry.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to establish grant program for purpose of distributing moneys to institutions of higher education and organizations that administer training programs to develop training and instructional programs that prepare students to enter into behavioral health workforce.
Limits, for purposes of personal income taxation, amount of allowed mortgage interest deduction.
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.
Prohibits distributing, selling, attempting to sell or allowing to be sold flavored inhalant delivery system product or flavored tobacco product in this state.
Requires schools to have wireless panic alert device in each classroom of each school building.
Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission to establish grant program for purpose of supporting organizations to expand scope and community outreach of college access and success programs.
Appropriates moneys to Higher Education Coordinating Commission for purpose of carrying out Oregon's Open Educational Resources (OER) Program.
Requires Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission to require applicant for cannabis-related license or license renewal to submit signed attestation that applicant will refrain from interfering with labor organizing efforts or submit attestation that applicant and labor organization that is certified to represent employees of applicant have entered into and will abide by terms of labor peace agreement.
Establishes Task Force on the State of Sport in Oregon to make recommendations for growing businesses in athletics, team sports, outdoor activities and recreation ecosystem in order to establish Oregon as most conducive location in North America for sports economy.
Directs Department of Education to conduct study to determine impact, cost and feasibility of implementing Salem-Keizer Threat Assessment System in school districts, to conduct study to identify costs and possible funding sources to improve school safety and to conduct study to identify sources of funding to pay for costs of establishing secure, single point of entry for each public school.
Requires Housing and Community Services Department to provide grants for urban community housing supporting agricultural employees.
In committee · 13
Clarifies meaning of "because of age" in employment discrimination law.
Prohibits operating boat carrying child under 16 years of age unless child is wearing properly sized and secured personal flotation device.
Establishes Universal School Meal Account for purpose of reimbursing school districts for certain costs incurred in providing federally reimbursable meals.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to study effects of social media and cell phone use among youth.
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.
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.
Requires employer to compensate employee for on-call shift for which employee must remain on or near employer's premises or such that employee cannot use scheduled on-call hours for personal purposes.
Directs county clerk to keep residence address of elector exempt from disclosure as public record if elector is education board member.
Requires general hospital licensed in Oregon to provide maternity services subject to exemption that Oregon Health Authority may allow under criteria prescribed by rule.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to award grant to nonprofit organization to plan and develop community center that provides resources relevant to Vietnamese speakers.
Prohibits, in specified areas of law, discrimination or harassment against persons based on caste.
Prohibits tolling on state highways until January 2, 2026.
Requires original equipment manufacturer to make available to owner of consumer electronic equipment or independent repair provider on fair and reasonable terms any documentation, tool, part or other device or implement that original equipment manufacturer makes available to authorized service provider for purpose of diagnosing, maintaining or repairing consumer electronic equipment.