Bills in the 2021 Regular Session, House.
Julie Fahey
Sponsored
Became law7
Prohibits knowingly communicating materially false statement, including by electronic or telephonic means, with intent to mislead electors about date of election, deadline for delivering ballot, voter registration deadline, method of registering to vote, locations at which elector may deposit ballot, qualifications of electors or voter registration status within 30 days of primary election or special election or within 60 days of general election.
Amends requirements and deadlines for sales of manufactured dwelling facilities.
Requires Department of Consumer and Business Services to adopt rules to establish minimum standards and statewide consistency in electronic processes for reviewing plans, issuing permits and performing field inspections.
Prohibits establishment or enforcement of occupancy limits based on familial relationships on residential dwelling units by public bodies.
Allows payment from Wage Security Fund to be made to wage claimant for wages earned and unpaid in event that Commissioner of Bureau of Labor and Industries has obtained judgment in action or has issued final order in administrative proceeding for collection of wage claim.
Prohibits Department of Consumer and Business Services from outlawing in state building code certain uses of specific refrigerants authorized under federal law.
Establishes office of Taxpayer Advocate in Department of Revenue.
Out of committee4
Authorizes Department of Revenue to disclose address information from individual tax returns to Secretary of State to verify address of voters contained in voter record.
Establishes Organ Donor Registry and Public Awareness Fund.
Increases total amount of tax credits for affordable housing lenders allowed for all taxpayers per fiscal year.
Requires Portland State University Homelessness Research and Action Collaborative to study long-term rent assistance and to report to interim committee of Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2022.
In committee11
Expands definition of "funds of a public agency" to include dollar amount of tax credits or tax abatements for purposes of public contracting law.
Modifies requirements for enforceable noncompetition agreement.
Limits rent increase for purchaser of dwelling in facility to increase consistent with that applied to existing tenants.
Aligns termination of tenancy for manufactured dwelling or floating home not in a facility with termination of other residential tenancies not in facilities.
Clarifies that, for purpose of no-cause evictions, tenancies for recreational vehicles in manufactured dwelling parks must be treated same as tenancies in park or other residential tenancies not in park.
Prohibits certain products that use or contain hydrofluorocarbons from entering into commerce in Oregon if product was manufactured after specified date.
Authorizes State Fish and Wildlife Commission to issue resident annual low income combination hunting and angling licenses for persons who are residents of this state and have household gross income that does not exceed 130 percent of federal poverty level for similarly sized households.
Directs Housing and Community Services Department to study issues relating to residential dwelling facilities and report to appropriate committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly on or before September 15, 2022.
Directs Housing and Community Services Department to study issues relating to manufactured dwellings and report to appropriate committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly on or before September 15, 2022.
Directs Housing and Community Services Department to study issues relating to residential tenancies and report to appropriate committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly on or before September 15, 2022.
Directs Housing and Community Services Department to study issues relating to housing and to report to appropriate committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly on or before September 15, 2022.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 41
Requires school district that is making reductions in educator staff positions to retain teacher with less seniority if release of teacher would result in lesser proportion of teachers with cultural or linguistic expertise.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Department of Administrative Services to distribute to Oregon Community Foundation to provide grants to support emergency shelters.
Defines "emergency shelter." Requires local governments to allow siting of qualifying emergency shelters by qualifying entities notwithstanding land use laws and regulations.
Allows Department of Consumer and Business Services to require implicit bias training for mortgage loan originators.
Provides tax exemption for property of religious organization held or used solely to provide affordable housing to low income households.
Establishes temporary limitations on lenders' remedies for borrowers' failures to make payments on obligations secured by mortgages, trust deeds or land sale contracts for certain real property.
Directs Oregon Health Authority, in collaboration with Department of Consumer and Business Services, to create implementation plan for public health plan to be made available to individuals and families in individual health insurance market and to small employers.
Requires retail electricity providers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with electricity sold to Oregon consumers to 80 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2030, 90 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2035 and 100 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2040.
Expands crisis stabilization services, including crisis stabilization centers meeting criteria adopted by Oregon Health Authority by rule, short-term respite facilities, peer respite centers, behavioral health urgent care walk-in centers and crisis hotline center.
Authorizes Public Utility Commission to consider differential energy burden and other inequities of affordability in rates.
Prohibits law enforcement agencies from receiving certain military surplus equipment from federal government.
Prescribes requirements for reimbursement by Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations of health services delivered using telemedicine.
Requires police officers to be trained in airway and circulatory anatomy and physiology and certified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to compile and annually post to website report on information reported to authority by coordinated care organizations regarding requests for prior authorization.
Allows delivery of marijuana items, pursuant to bona fide orders, to consumers within city or county in which marijuana retailer is located and to consumers in cities or counties that have adopted ordinances allowing for delivery of marijuana items from adjacent cities or counties.
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.
Clarifies permissibility of disposition of human bodies by alternative authorized processes including alkaline hydrolysis and natural organic reduction.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to provide planning grants to 10 school districts or education service districts to evaluate need and develop plans for school-based health services.
Limits cost-sharing for health benefit plan coverage of insulin prescribed for treatment of diabetes.
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.
Establishes Healthy Homes Program within the Oregon Health Authority to provide grants to entities to provide financial assistance to low income households and landlords.
Modifies police officer's duty to report misconduct.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to provide incentives to increase recruitment and retention of mental health workforce, including pipeline development, scholarships for undergraduates and stipends for graduate students, loan repayments and retention activities.
Allows pharmacist to prescribe, dispense and administer preexposure prophylactic antiretroviral therapies and post-exposure prophylactic antiretroviral therapies.
Requires Board on Public Safety Standards and Training to ensure that police officers and certified reserve officers are trained to investigate, identify and report crimes motivated by prejudice based on perceived gender of victim.
Removes "gender identity" from definition of "sexual orientation" in ORS 174.100 and creates standalone definition of "gender identity" in ORS 174.100.
Changes name of Early Learning Division to Department of Early Learning and Care.
Limits exemption from rent increase limits for landlords renting under government programs reducing rents.
Modifies crime of interfering with a peace officer or parole and probation officer.
Temporarily removes condition for being deemed "unemployed" that individual's weekly remuneration for part-time work must be less than individual's weekly unemployment insurance benefit amount.
Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to convene advisory council to assist with recommendations related to health care standards in local correctional facilities.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on organ and tissue donation and education.
Prohibits law enforcement agency or public body from denying services, benefits, privileges or opportunities to certain individuals on basis of federal civil immigration actions, inquiring about individual's citizenship status without connection to criminal investigation or providing information about individual in custody to federal immigration authority.
Requires insurer that provides coverage for full replacement costs of damaged or destroyed property to allow insured not less than 12 months within which to repair, rebuild or replace damaged or lost property or, if damage or loss to property occurred in location subject to declaration of emergency and damage or loss is directly related to emergency, not less than 24 months.
Exempts land owned by eligible covenant holder that is burdened by affordable housing covenant, requiring affordability for at least 99 years, from ad valorem property taxation if improvements on land constitute owner-occupied housing.
Requires ballots returned by mail to have postal indicator showing ballot was mailed not later than date of election and be received by county clerk not later than seven days after date of election.
Authorizes Housing and Community Services Department to grant moneys to nonprofit organization for ADU community pilot programs that develop accessory dwelling units for income-eligible homeowners and that are available for lease by income-eligible tenants.
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.
Extends look-back period used to determine Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund solvency level from 10 years to 20 years.
Out of committee · 9
Amends apprenticeship statutes to permit establishment of firefighter apprentice program.
Requires owner or possessor of firearm to secure firearm with trigger or cable lock, in locked container or in gun room except in specified circumstances.
Allows otherwise qualified individual to claim earned income tax credit under individual taxpayer identification number in lieu of Social Security number.
Establishes Prosperity 1,000 Pilot Program to provide career coaching, occupational training and job placement services for at least 1,000 low-income job seekers residing in areas of concentrated poverty.
Modifies allocation formula for grants to children's advocacy centers.
Provides that part-time faculty member at public institution of higher education who qualifies for health care benefits will pay 10 percent of insurance premiums for employee coverage.
Establishes Equity Investment and Accountability Board and Equity Investment and Accountability Office within office of Governor to provide equity oversight of cannabis industry in this state.
Directs Housing and Community Services Department to make grants to nonprofit organizations, housing authorities or government agencies that sponsor or manage homeownership programs in amounts sufficient to fund services of housing counselor to each eligible grantor that requests resolution conference with beneficiary or contacts department to request services of housing counselor.
Creates credit against income taxes for purchasing publicly supported housing to retain as affordable housing.
In committee · 11
Provides that prevailing rate of wage for trade or occupation in locality is rate of wage set forth in collective bargaining agreement for trade or occupation in locality or, if more than one collective bargaining agreement covers trade or occupation in locality, highest rate of wage among collective bargaining agreements for trade or occupation in locality.
Requires, on or after October 1, 2021, officials of public bodies to grant news media representatives access to scenes of emergencies or emergency police activity that are otherwise closed to public.
Establishes COFA Dental Program in Oregon Health Authority to provide dental care to low-income citizens of Pacific Islands in Compact of Free Association who reside in Oregon and lack access to affordable dental coverage.
Requires local governments to allow certain residential development within one-eighth mile of fixed guideway corridor stops.
Disallows, for purposes of personal income taxation, mortgage interest deduction for residence other than taxpayer's principal residence, unless taxpayer sells residence or actively markets residence for sale.
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.
Establishes ranked choice voting as voting method for selecting winner of nomination for and election to nonpartisan state offices and county and city offices except where home rule charter applies.
Permits person who will be 17 years old on date of primary election and 18 years old on date of general election to vote at primary election for candidates of major political party with which person is affiliated if major political party has adopted rule to this effect.
Provides that local government may not become stockholder in or loan credit to or in aid of municipal bank.
Disallows, for purposes of personal income taxation, mortgage interest deduction.
Establishes temporary limitations on lenders' remedies for borrowers' failures to make payments on obligations secured by mortgages, trust deeds or land sale contracts for certain real property.