Bills in the 2023 Regular Session, House.
Boomer Wright
Sponsored
Became law2
Aligns criteria for alteration, restoration or replacement of dwellings on lands zoned for forest use consistent with criteria applicable to dwellings on lands zoned for farm use.
Cancels outstanding ad valorem property taxes and interest assessed on property transferred from federal government to port district.
Out of committee2
Requires State Department of Energy to study feasibility of establishing renewable hydrogen hub at Oregon International Port of Coos Bay.
Appropriates moneys to Department of Education for distribution to certain school districts for certain career and technical education programs.
In committee26
Appropriates moneys to Charleston Merchants Association to purchase properties for purpose of community development.
Allows public education provider to identify which locations to make tampons and sanitary pads available to students.
Prohibits both ballot envelopes mailed by county clerks to electors and ballot return identification envelopes used by electors from containing outward identifier, including but not limited to numeric code, that would allow person to know political party affiliation of elector.
Exempts residential tenancies within 25 miles of coastline from maximum limits on rent increases.
Repeals limits on increases to residential rent.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to issue grant to Coos County for purpose of establishing public access to Lighthouse Beach.
Requires Governor to certify to United States Secretary of Commerce that terms of national marine sanctuary located within seaward boundary of Oregon are unacceptable unless Legislative Assembly confirms designation.
Directs State Department of Fish and Wildlife to develop game fish carcass recovery project.
Creates income tax credit for teachers in rural schools.
Requires State Department of Fish and Wildlife to establish and operate fish incubation nursery program for rearing of salmonids on suitable waterways in coastal areas of southern Oregon.
Requires public schools to take special care to ensure that instruction is provided in neutral manner that focuses on academic subject matter and does not advocate personal views of educator.
Instructs State Fish and Wildlife Commission to establish program that awards $5 for each take of smallmouth bass in Coquille River.
Authorizes landowners who meet certain criteria to petition for formation of predator damage control district as funding mechanism to pay actual costs to county of preventing, reducing and mitigating damage to property from predatory animals.
Prohibits athletic organizations from designating, classifying, naming or categorizing as specific for females certain athletic activities for which participation is permitted by persons whose biological sex is male.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to State Forestry Department for purposes related to plant disease Sudden Oak Death.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to Beacon Broadband for development of broadband service infrastructure in southern Oregon coast region.
Directs Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to ensure nontraditional pathways to licensure are available for prospective career and technical education teachers and to provide accommodations or otherwise reduce licensure requirements for licensed career and technical education teachers, or prospective and technical education teachers, who live in rural areas.
Establishes state policy that benefits from offshore wind energy development go to local and regional communities, ecosystems and environments and economies and that interconnection of offshore energy projects be carried out in manner that promotes electric grid reliability and resilience.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to State Parks and Recreation Department for continued development of Oregon Coast Trail.
Instructs State Fish and Wildlife Commission to establish by rule certain requirements for sea urchin commercial fishery to address proliferation of purple sea urchins.
Removes requirement that menstrual products be provided in student bathrooms designated for males.
Modifies provisions regarding appointment of counsel for parents or children in juvenile dependency proceedings and contested adoption proceedings.
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.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to convene advisory group to assist in study of solutions to ensuring access to care for individuals who have been civilly committed or who have complex mental or behavioral health needs.
Requires State Department of Fish and Wildlife to study salmon and trout enhancement program.
Establishes Oregon International Student Support Program in Higher Education Coordinating Commission for purpose of encouraging international students to enroll at public institutions of higher education.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 23
Modifies process for transfer of recorded brand following death of brand holder.
Confers exclusive jurisdiction on Oregon Tax Court for judicial review of questions arising under local government tax laws that impose taxes on or measured by net income.
Increases penalties for possession of certain amounts of fentanyl.
Authorizes State Department of Agriculture to issue public applicator licenses and public trainee certificates to employees of federally recognized Indian tribes for purposes of pesticide application on lands other than Indian country.
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.
Directs Department of Land and Conservation and Development to convene work group to examine strategies for expanding early learning and care facilities in this state.
Establishes requirements for approving recovery schools.
Establishes Jurisdictional Transfer Advisory Committee within Department of Transportation.
Encourages schools to provide instruction on preparing for, and recovering from, fires, earthquakes, safety threats and natural disasters.
Directs Oregon State University Extension Service to collaborate with Department of Education for purpose of identifying and collecting student data relevant for maintenance of outdoor school programs.
Requires Department of Education to conduct study to examine possibility of creating high school equivalency diploma and submit report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to education.
Clarifies process of Senate confirmation of members of State Fish and Wildlife Commission.
Preserves additional funding for small school districts that merge with one or more school districts if certain conditions are met.
Authorizes peace officer to issue investigative subpoena or request order from circuit court for information regarding missing individual if specified standards are met.
Establishes Task Force on Tribal Consultation and specifies task force membership.
Establishes Early Literacy Success Initiative.
Modifies calculation of required minutes of physical education for middle school students to be based on weekly calculation.
Establishes and modifies timelines related to enrollment of students in virtual public charter schools.
Authorizes holder of certain water right certificates that authorize storage of water for municipal use to change authorized point of diversion and place of use without losing priority of right under specified circumstances.
Allows county to validate unit of land that had been approved for recognition that was later revoked after sale to innocent purchaser.
Allows local government to adopt land use exception to Goal 16 under certain conditions for applications for deep draft navigation channel improvements in Oregon International Port of Coos Bay.
Authorizes local governments to allow, prohibit, require zone change for or subject to conditional use permit development of certain affordable housing on certain lands within tsunami inundation zones or 100-year floodplains.
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.
Out of committee · 26
Creates income or corporate excise tax credit for taxpayer that employs youth through Oregon Youth Employment Program.
Establishes School Safety Construction Fund in State Treasury, separate and distinct from General Fund.
Provides that fixed percentage of certain forecasted video lottery revenues be transferred to counties for economic development.
Exempts from state income tax military pay received by Oregon National Guard member while in active service of state or on state active duty.
Creates income tax credit for child care workers employed in rural areas.
Adds licensed mental health professionals, naturopathic physicians and pharmacists and certified medical laboratory scientists and medical laboratory technicians to types of providers eligible for tax credit allowed to rural medical care provider.
Modifies definition of "former foster child" for purposes of tuition and fee waiver program, Oregon Opportunity Grant program and foster child scholarship program.
Modifies conditions of eligibility for tax credit allowed to rural medical care provider.
Requires Department of Human Services to contract with nonprofit organization to implement and administer program to assist recipients of supplemental nutrition assistance in purchasing locally grown fruits and vegetables from farmers' markets, farm share sites and retail outlets that participate in program.
Transfers jurisdiction of portion of Hall Boulevard to City of Tigard.
Directs Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board to establish grant program to provide grants to water suppliers to protect, restore or enhance sources of drinking water.
Requires Department of Consumer and Business Services to study approval standards for residential development.
Requires Department of Consumer and Business Services to enter into public contract to research and analyze administrative procedures for approving residential construction projects in this state and to develop recommendations, including recommendations for best practices, for reducing amount of time necessary for approval.
Establishes Imagination Library of Oregon Program to provide free book each month to eligible children, encourage children to develop love of reading and learning, and improve third-grade reading proficiency and high school graduation rates.
Requires State Department of Fish and Wildlife, State Fish and Wildlife Commission and Department of State Lands to implement Ocean Policy Advisory Council recommendations to develop adaptive management and social monitoring program to support marine reserves.
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to Oregon Coast Visitors Association to be expended on various projects.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Justice for deposit into Oregon Domestic and Sexual Violence Services Fund.
Directs Oregon Department of Emergency Management to develop and implement program to award grants for fairgrounds used as emergency evacuation sites.
Creates Oregon personal income tax subtraction for amounts received for renting out room in taxpayer's home.
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.
Creates residential property wholesaler registration.
Requires schools to have wireless panic alert device in each classroom of each school building.
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Department of Administrative Services to provide grant to Regional Rural Revitalization Strategies Consortium to plan for and develop housing.
Establishes program within Higher Education Coordinating Commission for supporting strategic investments in maritime workforce development programs and activities.
Requires Oregon Department of Administrative Services to provide grants for regional housing coordination and to local governments to support development of needed housing.
Establishes Rural System Development Charges Program within Housing and Community Services Department to pay system development charges for rural affordable multifamily housing.
In committee · 88
Repeals corporate activity tax.
Expands crime of assault in the third degree to include causing physical injury to person working in hospital while worker is performing official duties.
Makes in-person voting on date of election, rather than vote by mail, standard method for conducting election.
Requires Department of Education to transfer funds to school districts necessary to pay for school resource officers.
Prohibits establishment of unofficial ballot drop sites to collect ballots.
Requires secrecy envelope to be included with every ballot.
Prohibits individual from collecting and returning ballot of another individual, subject to specified exceptions.
Provides that any voter who has not voted or updated voter registration in four or more years will become inactive elector.
Modifies estate tax brackets to provide additional estate tax exclusion of $1 million.
Authorizes issuance of lottery bonds for deposit in Levee Project Grant Fund.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to establish and administer Pregnancy Launch Program to provide certain services to specified persons.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to establish grant program for purpose of making grants to entities that provide services related to encouraging and assisting pregnant persons in carrying their pregnancies to term.
Increases exempt amount and filing threshhold for purposes of corporate activity tax.
Prohibits insurer from canceling or raising premiums on policies of fire insurance by more than three percent if insured's property is located within wildland-urban interface or insured's primary employment or economic or business activity is farming or resource extraction.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to establish toll-free pregnancy resources hotline to provide information and assistance to pregnant persons seeking abortions in this state.
Requires parent or legal guardian of student to provide written permission prior to student participating in human sexuality education course.
Removes limitation on percentage of students in school district who may enroll in virtual public charter school not sponsored by school district without first receiving approval from school district.
Establishes education savings account (ESA) program.
Modifies personal income tax brackets.
Requires course instruction provided as part of health education curriculum to include information about human development from conception to birth.
Establishes income tax credit for sheriff's deputies employed in rural counties.
Directs district school board to ensure that curriculum of each course of study offered by school district is made available to public on school district's website.
Directs district school boards to ensure that buildings regularly used by students have proper heating, air conditioning and ventilation systems to provide temperatures within acceptable range for learning and safety.
Permits counties to elect to increase number of voting booths available at primary and general elections in order to provide all electors with option of using easily accessible voting booth to cast ballot.
Allows district school board to enter into agreement with superintendent for payment in lieu of 12 months' notice required when superintendent's employment is terminated without cause.
Removes restriction on distribution of Student Investment Account moneys to virtual public charter schools.
Exempts receipts from sales of agricultural, floricultural, horticultural, viticultural or food products from commercial activity subject to corporate activity tax.
Provides that, before undertaking wildlife management activity involving aircraft, State Department of Fish and Wildlife must notify private landowners over whose land aircraft will fly, under specified circumstances.
Modifies provisions establishing civil action for property owner or occupier if person or public body flies unmanned aircraft system over property without permission.
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.
Prohibits health insurers and pharmacy benefit managers from restricting coverage of physician-administered prescription drugs that are obtained by nonparticipating pharmacies.
Prohibits specified practices by insurers and pharmacy benefit managers in reimbursing cost of prescription drugs.
Permits minors 16 and 17 years of age to operate power-driven machinery in certain circumstances.
Provides that Oregon estate tax is imposed only on estates of decedents dying on or before January 1, 2023.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to develop, implement and administer program to support consumer engagement efforts aimed at increasing and optimizing consumer involvement in planning and decision-making surrounding the access to, and the delivery of, behavioral health services in this state.
Removes limitation on percentage of students in school district who may enroll in virtual public charter school not sponsored by school district without first receiving approval from school district.
Exempts receipts from sales of prescription drugs by all pharmacies from commercial activity subject to corporate activity tax.
Prescribes sentence of 58 to 130 months' imprisonment if person convicted of unlawful delivery of controlled substance that results in death of another person from use of controlled substance.
Prohibits public employer from making deduction from salary or wages of public employee to pay dues, fees or other assessments to labor organization.
Modifies definition of "property" for purposes of arson and reckless burning crimes.
Repeals requirement to secure firearm in specified circumstances.
Requires Oregon Department of Emergency Management to study emergency communications infrastructure.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to Josephine County for emergency infrastructure improvements to Josephine County fairgrounds.
Reduces notice period before removal of homeless individuals from established camping site to 24 hours.
Requires state agency or political subdivision of State of Oregon that possesses or controls real property within wildland-urban interface, or adjacent to privately owned real property within wildland-urban interface, to take certain actions to prevent wildfire.
Provides that Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services may apply requirement to include provisions for electrical service capacity for charging electric vehicles only to commercial buildings under private ownership.
Prohibits state agency from enforcing rules adopted as result of state of emergency related to COVID-19.
Directs Governor, when vacancy occurs in office of Superintendent of State Police, to establish advisory committee for appointment of new superintendent.
Prohibits discrimination in places of public accommodation on basis of person's medical history.
Requires Legislative Revenue Officer to study incentives for development of affordable and workforce housing.
Requires State Forestry Department to study recovery after wildfire.
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.
Allows governing body of city or county to adopt reasonable regulations on industrial hemp operations in area subject to jurisdiction of city or county.
Bars creditors' claims against decedents' estates if no petition for appointment of personal representative or small estate affidavit is filed within 18 months following decedent's date of death.
Directs district school boards to adopt procedures for notifying parents of specified information.
Prohibits State Fish and Wildlife Commission from designating private property as essential, important, probable or possible habitat without verifiable evidence of sensitive species, threatened species or endangered species on property.
Eliminates requirement that school districts and public charter schools provide specified number of minutes of physical education during each school week.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to study issues related to telemedicine and to submit findings to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to health care on or before September 15, 2024.
Establishes income tax credit for volunteer firefighters.
Removes suspension of requirement of showing proficiency in Essential Learning Skills as condition of earning diploma.
Exempts receipts from sales of precious metals from commercial activity subject to corporate activity tax.
Establishes standards for fiduciary of pension benefit plan offered by public body.
Changes requirements for members of State Fish and Wildlife Commission.
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 of need for educators to be better trained in relation to mental health of students and of programs and resources available to students in relation to mental health.
Directs Department of Education to identify cost and feasibility of implementing recommendations of study on recruitment, retention, mentoring and professional development of educators who serve students from student groups that may be at risk for experiencing achievement gap.
Establishes timelines for Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to conduct investigation after receiving complaint.
Directs Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission to conduct study of feasibility of reporting transactions electronically and each quarter, rather than each month.
Directs Oregon Health Authority, in consultation with Oregon Board of Naturopathic Medicine, Oregon Medical Board and Oregon State Board of Nursing, to study shortages of licensed health care providers in medically underserved areas of this state.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to study methods by which to increase access to health care services in cities and unincorporated areas with 10,000 or fewer residents.
Directs Department of Education to conduct study to identify best method for ensuring amount of moneys appropriated for education is adequate, consistent, stable and sustainable.
Requires Department of Education, in collaboration with certain other agencies, to establish criteria for recognizing student internship programs.
Prohibits Department of Environmental Quality from imposing effluent limitations or other requirements in seafood processing wastewater permit that are more stringent than requirements established under federal law or that would result in substantial and widespread economic and social impacts on coastal communities.
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.
Makes permanent county safety corridor program.
Directs Department of Education to conduct study to examine impact of biennial legislative appropriations that are less than amount of moneys determined by Quality Education Commission to be sufficient to fund public education.
Prohibits abortion unless health care provider first determines probable gestational age of unborn child, except in case of medical emergency.
Provides protections for person who refuses to participate in procedure related to abortion or physician-assisted suicide if refusal is based on person's ethical, moral or religious convictions.
Directs Legislative Policy and Research Director to study feasibility and costs of providing infrastructure necessary to support telemedicine in rural counties of this state and other areas of this state that are underserved by medical professionals.
Directs Department of State Police to release sex offender information for level two sex offenders to certain entities on website maintained by department.
Creates Oregon tax subtraction for amounts received in settlement of civil action arising from wildfire.
Provides that person is automatically qualified to obtain permit to purchase firearm if person holds valid concealed handgun license.
Requires State Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology to adopt rules requiring licensed person to inform prospective purchaser of hearing aids about specified hearing aids.
Establishes open enrollment process for school districts to allow students to attend schools in nonresident school district with consent of receiving school district.
Prohibits tolling on state highways until January 2, 2026.
Allows owner of property outside urban growth boundary to site additional dwelling on property for occupancy by relative of owner.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Education for State School Fund.