Bills in the 2023 Regular Session, House.
Nathan Sosa
Sponsored
Became law5
Establishes pilot program at Portland State University and Eastern Oregon University to enhance hiring of public university students by nonprofit organizations.
Requires Department of Human Services to conduct annual assessment of workforce capacity and needs in each program and unit of department and report results to interim committees of Legislative Assembly no later than September 30 of each even-numbered year.
Provides that use of serial electronic written communication or use of intermediaries to communicate may constitute meeting of governing body subject to public meetings law if other specified conditions are satisfied.
Authorizes governing body of public body to meet in executive session to consider matters relating to safety of governing body, public body staff and public body volunteers and to security of public body facilities and meeting spaces, and relating to cyber security infrastructure and responses to cyber security threats.
Provides that member of State Board of Towing may be chief of police or county sheriff.
Passed the House2
Provides insured with cause of action for insurer's unfair claim settlement practices, other than practices related to settling workers' compensation or medical malpractice claim.
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 committee1
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Business Development Department to be used for Economic Equity Investment Program created under chapter 103, Oregon Laws 2022 (Enrolled Senate Bill 1579).
In committee3
Clarifies meaning of "because of age" in employment discrimination law.
Prohibits seller from selling or leasing motor vehicle if sale or lease is contingent upon lender's agreement to purchase retail installment contract or lease agreement.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to study nutritionist licensing.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 20
Establishes Oregon Housing Needs Analysis in Oregon Department of Administrative Services.
Modifies provisions relating to reproductive health rights.
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.
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.
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 person that knows or consciously avoids knowing that another person is engaging in act or practice that violates laws that regulate telephone solicitations or use of automatic dialing and announcing devices and nonetheless provides substantial assistance or support for violation is liable for loss and subject to penalty to same extent as person that engaged in violation.
Requires Oregon Health and Science University to annually publish on website of university certain information related to research using nonhuman primates.
Prohibits retail pet store from offering to sell or selling dogs or cats.
Designates August 4 of each year as Bracero Program Day.
Requires insurer to offer 70 percent of coverage insured previously purchased for contents of residence to insured who holds policy of personal insurance without requiring inventory of loss if total loss of contents occurs as result of major disaster.
Directs Oregon Business Development Department to provide financial assistance to eligible applicants to pay for allowable costs related to early child care infrastructure activities.
Prohibits employer from requiring employee to use vacation, sick or annual leave for time spent by employee as appointed member of state board or commission.
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.
Modifies definition of "renewable energy facility" for purposes of county permitting process for solar photovoltaic power generation facility.
Authorizes Housing and Community Services Department to support replacement, reconstruction or rehabilitation of residential units damaged or destroyed by disaster and to support recovery of residents of such housing.
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 State Department of Energy to report on rate of heat pump technology adoption and to collaborate with designated state agencies to reduce barriers to home energy efficiency and resilience.
Prohibits landlords from terminating lease or taking other specified actions due to status of tenant as victim of bias crime.
Directs State Department of Energy to establish program to provide assistance related to energy projects and activities to environmental justice communities.
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 · 18
Specifies property and funds of judgment debtor that are exempt from execution or garnishment.
Authorizes Oregon Business Development Department to provide financial assistance to projects related to industrial land.
Directs Legislative Administrator to pay costs of reasonable accommodation of member of Legislative Assembly who is afforded rights and protections as person with disabilities under specified federal and state law.
Allows veterans to participate in Oregon Promise program if first enrolled in classes within 12 months after discharge from military.
Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to establish, in collaboration with Department of Corrections, Family Preservation Project pilot program at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility.
Directs President of Senate and Speaker of House of Representatives to appoint work group to develop framework for multi-sector plan for aging to be administered by Department of Human Services.
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.
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 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.
Creates Oregon Soil Health Initiative.
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.
Requires schools to have wireless panic alert device in each classroom of each school building.
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 Community Information Exchange Board and specifies membership and duties.
Authorizes Oregon Advocacy Commissions Office, Commission on Hispanic Affairs, Commission on Black Affairs, Commission for Women and Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander Affairs to employ paid interns and staff necessary to supervise interns.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to establish Nurse Educator Workforce Stipend Program to provide incentives to nurse instructors.
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.
In committee · 3
Requires governing body of public body, when meeting in executive session at which news media is allowed to attend, to provide means for media to attend through telephone or other electronic or virtual means.
Prohibits, in specified areas of law, discrimination or harassment against persons based on caste.
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.