Bills in the 2023 Regular Session, House.
Anna Scharf
Sponsored
Became law1
Makes certain changes to calculation of small forestland owner tax credit.
Out of committee1
Modifies definition of "former foster child" for purposes of tuition and fee waiver program, Oregon Opportunity Grant program and foster child scholarship program.
In committee28
Provides that certain restrictions on take of beaver apply only to take on land from which forest tree species are harvested for commercial purposes.
Prohibits certain information collected during traditionally maintained channel study from being used by Department of State Lands in essential indigenous anadromous salmonid habitat map or included in database of fish habitat distribution maintained by State Department of Fish and Wildlife.
Exempts repair or replacement of artificial obstruction smaller than 15 feet across from fish passage mandates.
Direct State Fish and Wildlife Commission to waive requirement for fish passage under certain circumstances.
Requires Public Utility Commission to investigate status of renewable projects in Oregon, including project failures.
Modifies mileage rate paid to witnesses for travel to and from civil and criminal proceedings.
Directs Office of Children's Advocate to investigate reports of child abuse involving child or ward in care or custody of Department of Human Services.
Requires reports of child abuse involving children in care or custody of Department of Human Services to be investigated by Criminal Justice Division of Department of Justice.
Removes requirement that amount of net proceeds from Oregon State Lottery allocated to County Fair Account not exceed $1.53 million annually.
Directs Department of Human Services to notify juvenile court of certain adoptive placement decisions.
Directs Department of Human Services to notify court of decisions made on behalf of child or ward in department's care or custody that contradict recommendations of child's or ward's mental health care provider.
Modifies criteria for granting motion for intervention by person having caregiver relationship with child in juvenile dependency proceeding.
Requires entity participating in community information exchange to access, use or disclose information consistent with authorization provided by individual or personal representative of individual.
Requires Oregon Department of Administrative Services to develop and maintain information system to provide and make available information regarding proposed administrative rules to public.
Expands restrictions on post-legislative service activities to prohibit receiving money or other consideration for advocacy, on behalf of public or private entity, for changes in policy or funding for public or private sector programs or entities.
Maintains applicable minimum wage rates, indexed for inflation as determined on April 30, 2023, until June 30, 2028.
Establishes Superintendent of Public Instruction as nonpartisan statewide elected office.
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.
Requires sentencing court to order person convicted of drunk driving offense that resulted in death of victim to pay restitution to surviving child of victim in form of child maintenance.
Modifies criteria requiring Department of Human Services to file petition to terminate parental rights to include child or ward who has been removed from parent's home three times or who has been in substitute care for aggregate of 36 months.
Directs Department of Human Services to consider placement of child or ward with previous substitute care providers, if applicable.
Prohibits transitional housing accommodations near schools.
Prohibits health insurers and pharmacy benefit managers from restricting coverage of physician-administered prescription drugs that are obtained by nonparticipating pharmacies.
Prohibits specified practices by insurers and pharmacy benefit managers in reimbursing cost of prescription drugs.
Exempts receipts from sales of prescription drugs by all pharmacies from commercial activity subject to corporate activity tax.
Expands duties of Legislative Policy and Research Director to include investigating, reviewing activities of and conducting oversight of executive branch agencies, taking in and investigating complaints by members of public concerning executive branch agency programs and reporting to relevant legislative committees on oversight work undertaken by director.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Transportation for construction of Newberg-Dundee Bypass Project.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Directs Department of Human Services to maintain inventory of luggage carriers for use when transporting personal effects of foster children.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 16
Aligns criteria for alteration, restoration or replacement of dwellings on lands zoned for forest use consistent with criteria applicable to dwellings on lands zoned for farm use.
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.
Modifies penalties for throwing lighted material onto certain property.
Requires Governor, in appointing members to Oregon State Board of Nursing, to balance diversity of setting in which nurse or certified nursing assistant members provide care.
Defines "recreational vehicle park" for the purposes of residential tenancy law.
Authorizes State Department of Agriculture to issue public applicator licenses and public trainee certificates to employees of federally recognized Indian tribes for purposes of pesticide application on lands other than Indian country.
Provides licensing exemption for person slaughtering not more than 1,000 rabbits for use as human food.
Prohibits pharmacy benefit manager from retroactively denying or reducing payment on claim after adjudication unless pharmacy and pharmacy benefit manager agree that payment was incorrect due to clerical error.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Justice for Crime Victim and Survivor Services Division, for distribution to eligible children's advocacy centers.
Requires Oregon Health and Science University to annually publish on website of university certain information related to research using nonhuman primates.
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.
Clarifies process of Senate confirmation of members of State Fish and Wildlife Commission.
Requires 9-8-8 crisis hotline centers to have policies and train staff on serving firefighters and other first responders.
Authorizes local governments to allow, prohibit, require zone change for or subject to conditional use permit development of certain affordable housing on certain lands within tsunami inundation zones or 100-year floodplains.
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
Establishes Missing Endangered Person Alert System.
Out of committee · 13
Requires that mileage reimbursement be paid to home care workers, personal support workers and personal care workers who provide home care services to clients who live in remote locations.
Removes requirement that amount of net proceeds from Oregon State Lottery allocated to County Fair Account not exceed $1.53 million annually.
Directs Oregon State University to research reduced-risk pest management tools for Oregon's specialty crops and report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2027.
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.
Modifies conditions of eligibility for tax credit allowed to rural medical care provider.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Justice for deposit into Oregon Domestic and Sexual Violence Services Fund.
Directs Oregon Department of Emergency Management to develop and implement program to award grants for fairgrounds used as emergency evacuation sites.
Directs Department of Early Learning and Care to establish and adopt by rule child care assistance pilot program to provide assistance and support to long term care employees with child care needs.
Establishes Oregon Spirits Board as semi-independent state agency to develop and promote Oregon's distilled spirits industry.
Requires schools to have wireless panic alert device in each classroom of each school building.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Education to fund specified programs provided by Willamette Career Academy.
Requires State Department of Agriculture to submit report on economic competitiveness of Oregon's agricultural sector to committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly related to agriculture no later than September 15, 2024.
Establishes Rural System Development Charges Program within Housing and Community Services Department to pay system development charges for rural affordable multifamily housing.
In committee · 56
Repeals corporate activity tax.
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.
Makes in-person voting on date of election, rather than vote by mail, standard method for conducting election.
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.
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.
Enacts interstate Nurse Licensure Compact.
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.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to establish toll-free pregnancy resources hotline to provide information and assistance to pregnant persons seeking abortions in this state.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to establish and administer grant program to provide financial assistance to certain prospective adoptive families.
Requires parent or legal guardian of student to provide written permission prior to student participating in human sexuality education course.
Modifies personal income tax brackets.
Requires ballots returned by mail to be received by date of election.
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.
Allows additional estate tax exclusion of $1 million.
Lowers disability threshold for property tax exemption for homestead or personal property of veterans to 10 percent.
Exempts receipts from sales of prescription drugs by a pharmacy from commercial activity subject to corporate activity tax.
Provides that person who receives finding under wolf depredation compensation and financial assistance grant program may appeal finding to county advisory committee.
Allows district school board to enter into agreement with superintendent for payment in lieu of 12 months' notice required when superintendent's employment is terminated without cause.
Removes restriction on distribution of Student Investment Account moneys to virtual public charter schools.
Exempts receipts from sales of agricultural, floricultural, horticultural, viticultural or food products from commercial activity subject to corporate activity tax.
Permits minors 16 and 17 years of age to operate power-driven machinery in certain circumstances.
Provides that Oregon estate tax is imposed only on estates of decedents dying on or before January 1, 2023.
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.
Establishes process and requirements for establishing education savings accounts.
Repeals Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act of 2020 (Ballot Measure 110 (2020)) and provisions related to decriminalization of possession of drugs, creation of Oversight and Accountability Council and grants and funding for Behavioral Health Resource Networks to provide drug treatment.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to develop and maintain electronic system to collect information about administration of naloxone or other specified drugs, and deaths resulting from opioid overdose.
Prohibits public employer from making deduction from salary or wages of public employee to pay dues, fees or other assessments to labor organization.
Requires state agency or political subdivision of State of Oregon that possesses or controls real property within wildland-urban interface, or adjacent to privately owned real property within wildland-urban interface, to take certain actions to prevent wildfire.
Prohibits state agency from enforcing rules adopted as result of state of emergency related to COVID-19.
Repeals Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act of 2020 (Ballot Measure 110 (2020)) and provisions related to decriminalization of possession of drugs, creation of Oversight and Accountability Council and grants and funding for Behavioral Health Resource Networks to provide drug treatment.
Directs district school boards to adopt procedures for notifying parents of specified information.
Repeals single-use checkout bag prohibitions.
Repeals provisions prohibiting food and beverage providers from providing single-use plastic straws to consumers except upon request.
Prohibits State Fish and Wildlife Commission from designating private property as essential, important, probable or possible habitat without verifiable evidence of sensitive species, threatened species or endangered species on property.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to study issues related to telemedicine and to submit findings to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to health care on or before September 15, 2024.
Establishes income tax credit for volunteer firefighters.
Directs state agencies to offer reinstatement and back pay to employees who were terminated because of COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
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 State Department of Agriculture to hire as employee of department person that is familiar with parties and markets related to grass seed associations and cooperatives and designate employee to carry out department's active supervision of association's or cooperative's collective bargaining to arrive at minimum price for grass seed.
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.
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.
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 Department of Land Conservation and Development to study foreign investment in Oregon agricultural land.
Directs Department of State Police to release sex offender information for level two sex offenders to certain entities on website maintained by department.
Provides that person is automatically qualified to obtain permit to purchase firearm if person holds valid concealed handgun license.
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.
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.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Education for State School Fund.