Bills in the 2021 Regular Session, House.
Gregory Smith
Sponsored
Became law1
Clarifies that intergovernmental entity may seek to obtain any benefits from any public or private entity that any unit of local government or American Indian tribe that is party to intergovernmental agreement may seek to obtain.
Out of committee1
Removes requirement that amount of net proceeds from Oregon State Lottery allocated to County Fair Account not exceed $1.53 million annually.
In committee10
Repeals provisions relating to prohibition on employer's ability to exclude applicant from initial interview because of past criminal conviction.
Authorizes county with population of less than 15,000 to adopt property tax exemption for newly constructed single-family dwellings built and occupied as primary residences by individuals with annual taxable income of not more than $125,000 if filing separately or not more than $250,000 if filing jointly.
Directs State Parks and Recreation Commission to study and make recommendations for options to implement adopt-a-trail and adopt-a-beach programs.
Requires state agency that enters into certain interagency agreements with public body, another state agency or unit of local government to evaluate performance of other party to interagency agreement at least once each year on basis of specified criteria and to determine every six years after date of execution of interagency agreement whether to continue or renew interagency agreement or terminate interagency agreement and enter into new interagency agreement with different public body, state agency or unit of local government.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services and Attorney General to study issues relating to state procurement and report to appropriate committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly on or before September 15, 2022.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study state administration and report to appropriate committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2022.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study agency administration and report to appropriate committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2022.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study and make recommendations regarding capital construction.
Creates Short Line Railroad Resiliency Program within Oregon Business Development Department to provide grants for short line railroad infrastructure projects.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Education for State School Fund.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Establishes State Board of Towing within Department of Transportation.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 12
Provides tax exemption for property of religious organization held or used solely to provide affordable housing to low income households.
Authorizes county with population of less than 15,000 to adopt property tax exemption for newly constructed single-family dwellings built and occupied as primary residences by individuals with annual taxable income of not more than $75,000 if filing separately or not more than $150,000 if filing jointly.
Authorizes Department of Human Services to award two-year grants to organizations that provide services to unaccompanied homeless youth and to organizations that operate host home projects for unaccompanied homeless youth.
Prescribes notification requirements for school district upon receipt of report of act of harassment, intimidation, bullying or cyberbullying.
Allows pharmacist or pharmacy technician to transfer drug containing pseudoephedrine without prescription to person who is at least 18 years of age and presents person's valid government-issued photo identification.
Authorizes electric cooperative to use or allow for use of electric easement in provision of broadband services, subject to certain conditions and exceptions.
Requires education provider to prohibit display of any symbols of hate on school property or in education program.
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.
Provides that certain employee of State Fire Marshal qualifies as firefighter for purposes of Public Employees Retirement System.
Renames Office of Emergency Management as Oregon Department of Emergency Management.
Changes name of Early Learning Division to Department of Early Learning and Care.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to seek federal approval of amendment to state Medicaid demonstration project to permit coordinated care organizations to use portion of global budgets to improve health equity, improve overall health of community or enhance payments to providers who advance health equity or provide services improving overall health of community and to allow such expenditures to be counted as medical expenses in coordinated care organization's base medical budget and in calculation of global budget and flexible spending for given year.
Vetoed · 1
Establishes regulations for kratom products, including testing standards, labeling requirements and minimum age for sale.
Passed the House · 1
Repeals sunset of predator damage control district program.
Out of committee · 8
Directs Department of Education to coordinate with Oregon career and technical student organizations in support of organizations for purposes of increasing student achievement and leadership and improving graduation rates, college preparation and career placement for students enrolled in career and technical student organization courses.
Extends sunset for additional personal exemption credit for taxpayer with severe disability.
Extends sunset for tax credit for child with disability.
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.
Establishes Rural System Development Charges Program within Housing and Community Services Department to pay system development charges for rural affordable multifamily housing.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to evaluate specified issues related to certified community behavioral health clinics and report findings and analysis to interim committees of Legislative Assembly by September 30, 2023.
Directs State Department of Agriculture, in consultation with Minor Crops Advisory Committee, to establish grant program to study alternatives to chlorpyrifos.
In committee · 17
Requires Department of Environmental Quality to approve at least three businesses to provide water quality permit application review services.
Extends sunset for tax credit for rural medical care.
Extends sunset for program granting special assessment to historic property.
Extends exemption to certain ports for property used or held for use to provide common carrier rail freight service to shippers.
Extends sunset for tax credit for production or collection of bovine manure.
Provides that licensed optometrist may perform specified ophthalmic surgery procedures.
Reduces tax rates, reduces maximum eligible income and modifies employment requirements for purposes of taxpayer election of reduced tax rate for certain pass-through income.
Reinstates tax credit for reforestation.
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.
Makes private citizen immune from civil or criminal liability arising from good faith acts made in connection with fighting wildfire.
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.
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.
Lowers estimated contract price at which apprentice utilization requirements apply to public improvement contracts with state contracting agencies from $1 million to $200,000 and raises percentage of work hours that apprentices must perform from 12 percent to 15 percent.
Prohibits discrimination in places of public accommodation on basis of person's medical history.
Requires each public school to provide full-time, in-person classroom instruction during 2021-2022 school year.
Prohibits public body from issuing COVID-19 vaccine passport.
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.