Bills in the 2024 Regular Session, House.
Jules Walters
Sponsored
Became law1
Establishes the CHIPS Child Care Fund.
In committee1
Requires at least one of the commissioners of the Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission to have a background in public health.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 17
Declares a state policy to support engagement between offshore wind developers and impacted organizations, communities and tribes.
Requires the Department of Education to establish and administer the Summer Learning Grant program.
Directs the Oregon Investment Council and the State Treasurer to make efforts to eliminate certain investments in thermal coal companies.
Directs the Department of Education to establish and administer a pilot program for students who are foster children.
Removes the requirement that farm machinery and equipment be tangible personal property for the purposes of exemption from ad valorem property taxation.
Requires an insurer, a pharmacy benefit manager and a health care service contractor to count payments made by or on behalf of an enrollee for the costs of certain prescription drugs when calculating the enrollee's contribution to an out-of-pocket maximum, deductible, copayment, coinsurance or other required cost-sharing for the drugs.
Modifies the definition of "supervisory employee" to include certain employees and exclude certain strike-prohibited public employees.
Creates rules and standards for warehouse employees' quota requirements.
Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife, the State Fish and Wildlife Commission and the Department of State Lands to implement the Ocean Policy Advisory Council recommendations to develop an adaptive management and social monitoring program to support marine reserves.
Provides that a petition for a Family Abuse Prevention Act order, Elderly Persons and Persons with Disabilities Abuse Prevention Act order or sexual abuse restraining order may be filed in the county in which the abuse occurred.
Permits an education provider to have stop arm cameras on school buses for the purpose of recording persons who fail to stop for bus safety lights.
Requires pharmacy benefit managers to be licensed by the Department of Consumer and Business Services beginning January 1, 2025.
Directs the System of Care Advisory Council to establish a subcommittee on the youth behavioral health workforce.
Establishes the Task Force on Artificial Intelligence.
Establishes the Semiconductor Talent Sustaining Fund.
Modifies definitions pertaining to stalking orders and stalking offenses.
Modifies the length of time by which a person is considered a student for purposes of determining if conduct is prohibited sexual conduct.
Out of committee · 9
Creates the Task Force on Electric Micromobility.
Directs the Oregon Health Authority to modify the amounts of grants for school-based health centers for inflation.
Requires hospitals to take certain actions with respect to protecting hospital employees from workplace assaults.
Directs the Bureau of Labor and Industries to conduct a comprehensive study of youth apprenticeships in the United States.
Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Business Development Department to distribute to Oregon cultural organizations in response to the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on organization finances.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Housing and Community Services Department for the purpose of making matching deposits into individual development accounts.
Directs the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to expand programs related to wildlife disease.
Directs the Oregon Business Development Department to study infrastructure financing in Oregon by considering and evaluating tools the state may use to have a positive effect on infrastructure and housing costs in Oregon.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Oregon Business Development Department for deposit in the Child Care Infrastructure Fund to provide financial assistance to certain child care providers or organizations that support those child care providers.
In committee · 3
Imposes requirements on hospitals regarding predictive scheduling and on-call shifts.
Permits a police officer to take a person who is publicly intoxicated or under the influence of controlled substances, but who is not incapacitated, to their dwelling or, if the person is unable to identify a dwelling, to a treatment facility or sobering facility.
Increases the penalties for making, delivering or possessing an object that is used to render a drug into a counterfeit substance.