Bills in the 2021 Regular Session, House.
Boomer Wright
Sponsored
In committee4
Directs Department of Veterans' Affairs to create, maintain and raise public awareness of database of veterans' services providers and other supports.
Establishes Veterans Transportation Grant Program within Department of Veterans' Affairs.
Increases number of beverage containers returned by any one person during one day that dealer that occupies a space of 5,000 or more square feet must accept and pay refund value for.
Directs Department of Corrections to continue to operate Shutter Creek Correctional Institution.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 42
Expands membership of Public Defense Services Commission from seven to nine members.
Provides tax exemption for property of religious organization held or used solely to provide affordable housing to low income households.
Establishes alternative process for alteration, restoration or replacement of certain uses affected by 2020 wildfires.
Makes permanent school district funding for foreign exchange students and small school district grants.
Directs Department of Human Services to report information regarding prescription of psychotropic medications to children in foster care.
Authorizes tax collector in county covered by state of emergency declared by Governor due to fire or act of God, or authority of Governor under Emergency Conflagration Act, who knows or has reason to believe property has been destroyed or damaged by fire or act of God to prorate taxes imposed on property.
Allows certain holders of temporary event licenses to sell specified alcoholic beverages for on and off-premises consumption at more than one location on licensed premises or have up to three premises licensed under single temporary sales license and operate for up to 30 days.
Requires state medical assistance program to provide mental health wellness appointments as prescribed by Oregon Health Authority.
Designates Oregon Institute of Technology as Oregon's Polytechnic University.
Prescribes requirements for reimbursement by Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations of health services delivered using telemedicine.
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.
Requires school or school district to offer lunches and breakfasts at no charge to student if school or school district meets requirements of special provisions of federal meal program or if student is from household with income that does not exceed 300 percent of federal poverty guidelines.
Allows school districts to use moneys distributed from Student Investment Account for payment of student fees, costs and instructors of career and technical student organization programs.
Requires each public university and community college to prominently display mandatory fees charged.
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.
Requires public institutions of higher education to have same developmental educational requirements and placement tests for incoming student who completes high school and institution determines is college ready and incoming student who received certificate for passing approved high school equivalency test and received grade indicating student is college ready .
Imposes tsunami design standards for certain buildings and other structures.
Exempts from construction taxes residential housing being constructed to replace residential housing destroyed or damaged by fire or other emergency event or situation.
Permits agricultural building to be used for uses other than uses set forth in definition of "agricultural building" if additional uses are incidental and accessory to defined uses, are personal to farm owner and farm owner's immediate family or household and do not pose greater hazard to persons or property than defined uses.
Prescribes notification requirements for school district upon receipt of report of act of harassment, intimidation, bullying or cyberbullying.
Renames portion of Interstate 5, beginning in Albany and ending in Salem, to Atomic Veterans and Atomic Cleanup Veterans Memorial Highway.
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.
Requires that real estate continuing education courses include information on state and federal fair housing laws.
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.
Directs State Marine Board to provide optional licensing of boats as charter boats if boat carries fewer than seven passengers for hire.
Allows temporary siting for up to 24 months of recreational vehicles on properties with dwellings that natural disasters have made uninhabitable.
Allows student enrolled in program provided by school district or education service district to earn General Educational Development (GED) certificate to participate in interscholastic activities.
Establishes Healthy Homes Program within the Oregon Health Authority to provide grants to entities to provide financial assistance to low income households and landlords.
Requires each public university and community college to prominently display , or establish link to website that displays, estimated costs of all required course materials and directly related course fees for no less than 75 percent of total for-credit courses offered by public university or community college.
Renames Office of Emergency Management as Oregon Department of Emergency Management.
Directs Department of Transportation to waive fee for issuing, renewing or replacing identification card if person who is issued card is experiencing homelessness.
Allows physician assistant to register with Oregon Medical Board for authority to dispense prescription drugs.
Specifies behavioral health treatment that must be provided by coordinated care organizations and covered by group health insurance and individual health plans and restricts utilization review criteria for behavioral health treatment.
Changes name of Early Learning Division to Department of Early Learning and Care.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of State Lands, State Department of Fish and Wildlife and Higher Education Coordinating Commission in certain amounts for certain purposes related to ocean chemistry.
Requires mental health care provider who assesses minor to be at imminent and serious threat of attempting suicide to disclose relevant information to parent, guardian or other individuals to engage in safety planning.
Makes changes to statutes related to operating vehicle or boat while under influence of intoxicants that reference controlled substances to clarify applicability to psilocybin.
Designates May 22 of each year as Crater Lake National Park Day.
Requires every public education provider to provide both tampons and sanitary pads at no cost to students.
Directs Department of Transportation to provide progress report on implementation and utilization of recommendations identified in department's report titled "Blueprint for Urban Design." Requires department to submit report to Joint Committee on Transportation no later than September 15, 2022.
Passed the House · 2
Requires certain landlords to post and provide tenants with informational notice developed by Bureau of Labor and Industries regarding discrimination upon execution of rental agreement on or after January 1, 2022, or for existing rental agreements by February 1, 2022.
Cancels outstanding ad valorem property taxes and interest assessed on property transferred from federal government to port district.
Out of committee · 16
Requires Director of Oregon Health Authority to work with Alcohol and Drug Policy Commission to take statewide inventory of services available to prevent and treat substance use disorders and to support individuals in recovery from substance use disorders.
Permits adopted former foster children to have amount of tuition and all fees waived if attending defined institutions of higher education for purposes of pursuing initial undergraduate degree.
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 tax credit for university venture development fund contributions.
Directs Department of Education, in consultation with STEM Investment Council, to develop statewide, long-term strategic plan to provide computer science education.
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.
Requires Department of Education to provide technical assistance to school districts in adoption and implementation of child sexual abuse prevention instructional program.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Military Department for Service Member and Family Support Program in biennium beginning July 1, 2021.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to specified state agencies for specified purposes related to emergency management for biennium beginning July 1, 2021.
Directs court to consider, when determining aggravation in imposition of criminal sentence, evidence that defendant committed crime during emergency, evacuation while emergency in effect, or within one year after emergency ceases, provided that emergency is related to natural disaster and defendant took advantage of circumstances related to emergency, evacuation or recovery from emergency.
Directs Department of Veterans' Affairs to fill and utilize certain positions.
Establishes Oregon Public Places Are Safe Places Investment Fund.
Directs Legislative Policy and Research Director to conduct study to collect and interpret data to enable legislators to develop understanding of students' instructional needs caused by school closures due to COVID-19 pandemic.
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.
Transfers oversight and regulation of medical marijuana processing sites and medical marijuana dispensaries from Oregon Health Authority to Oregon Liquor Control Commission.
Directs Oregon Business Development Department to develop and implement program to award grants to operators of movie theaters closed to public due to public health restrictions related to COVID-19.
In committee · 23
Requires that declarations and extensions of states of emergency under certain statutes be accompanied by written explanations.
Allows land division to separate dwelling units for new middle housing allowed in cities.
Requires health benefit plan and health care service contract coverage of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections and pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome.
Directs Department of Education to conduct study on safety in career and technical education spaces and to report results of study to interim committee of Legislative Assembly related to education.
Requires health care practitioner to exercise proper degree of care to preserve health and life of child born alive after abortion or attempted abortion.
Allows counties to authorize construction of accessory dwelling units on lands zoned for rural residential use.
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.
Requires local governments to approve certain reconstruction after 2020 wildfires.
Directs Department of Veterans' Affairs to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to operations of department.
Directs Public Employees Retirement Board to initiate, resume or suspend payment of certain increased benefits under Public Employees Retirement System on first day of calendar quarter following receipt of notice by board that benefit payments are or are not subject to Oregon personal income tax.
Establishes state policy that career and technical education is provided through seamless system that begins at secondary school level and progresses to post-secondary career and technical education institutions, community colleges and apprenticeship programs.
Limits types of restrictions that Governor may impose on certain businesses during state of emergency related to COVID-19 pandemic.
Prohibits individual from collecting and returning ballot of other individual, subject to specified exceptions.
Requires Secretary of State to establish electronic filing system to allow candidates for nomination or election to county, city or special district office within county to file portrait and statement electronically with secretary if candidate cannot have portrait and statement printed in county voters' pamphlet.
Prohibits discrimination in places of public accommodation on basis of person's medical history.
Provides that civil penalty imposed as result of violation of COVID-19 emergency rule becomes due and payable 50 years after order imposing penalty becomes final.
Prohibits state agencies from disbursing moneys to City of Portland to pay for costs, losses or damages resulting from certain public demonstrations occurring in city.
Requires each public school to provide full-time, in-person classroom instruction during 2021-2022 school year.
Requires Secretary of State to establish electronic filing system to allow candidates for nomination or election to county or city office held at primary or general election to file portrait and statement electronically with secretary if candidate cannot have portrait and statement printed in county voters' pamphlet.
Directs Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services to repeal all permanent rules adopted by director in connection with addressing COVID-19 public health emergency in all Oregon workplaces.
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.
Creates refundable income tax credit to adjust for effect on federal income subtraction of recovery rebates allowed to personal income taxpayers.