Bills in the 2023 Regular Session, House.
Kim Wallan
Sponsored
Out of committee2
Directs court clerk to provide, upon request, certified copy of any record available on electronic records management system of Judicial Department.
Grants certain immunities to children's advocacy centers and to employees and designated agents of children's advocacy centers.
In committee7
Appropriates moneys to Public Defense Services Commission for distribution to counties to reimburse district attorneys for indigent defendant discovery costs.
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.
Modifies pay equity requirements for employers.
Prohibits district school boards from adopting specified procedures relating to parental notification.
Directs State Board of Education to conduct annual review of education standards in state.
Specifies that new or increased fees adopted by state agency do not become effective unless approved by three-fifths of each chamber of the Legislative Assembly.
Prohibits strikes by public employees.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 8
Requires Department of Corrections to establish doula program for pregnant and postpartum adults in custody at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility.
Increases penalties for possession of certain amounts of fentanyl.
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.
Defines terms.
Clarifies process of Senate confirmation of members of State Fish and Wildlife Commission.
Establishes Early Literacy Success Initiative.
Modifies provisions of electronics recycling program.
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 · 2
Requires pharmacy benefit managers to be licensed by Department of Consumer and Business Services beginning January 1, 2024.
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 · 4
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of State Police for biennium beginning July 1, 2023, to increase capability of department's forensic laboratories to conduct analyses of blood for controlled substances.
Requires Land Conservation and Development Commission to update rules adopted in response to Governor's executive order on climate to address specific issues.
Requires schools to have wireless panic alert device in each classroom of each school building.
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 · 11
Increases penalties for assault committed against parks and recreation employees.
Requires Department of Education to transfer funds to school districts necessary to pay for school resource officers.
Enacts interstate Nurse Licensure Compact.
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.
Allows city to expand its urban growth boundary, or to require Metro to expand its urban growth boundary, in order to include land designated as urban reserve that supports workforce housing and commercial development supportive of workforce housing if certain conditions are met.
Repeals sunset of Broadband Fund and related program.
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.
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.
Directs agencies of state government to revoke remote work arrangements that were put in place due to COVID-19 pandemic.
Expands types of employers for purposes of occupational disease presumptions of certain employees.