Bills in the 2024 Regular Session, House.
Boomer Wright
Sponsored
In committee2
Prohibits a medical health care professional from referring a minor for, or performing on a minor, a sex alteration procedure.
Provides a credit against an employer's 2025 unemployment insurance taxes if the employer's tax rate for 2025 is less than the employer's tax rate for 2022, 2023 and 2024 as determined in accordance with Enrolled House Bill 3389 (2021).
Co-sponsored
Became law · 19
Directs the Department of State Police to study the causes of and ways to address the medical examiner shortage, and to provide the results of the study to the appropriate interim committees of the Legislative Assembly no later than October 1, 2024.
Creates the crime of interfering with an investigation into an offense against an animal.
Requires counties to establish a process for handling the surplus proceeds from property tax lien foreclosure sales.
Creates a residential property wholesaler registration.
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 Department of Education to establish and administer a pilot program for students who are foster children.
Requires the Oregon Health Authority to conduct a study to determine the funding required for each community mental health program to provide the services and perform the functions required by law related to individuals with behavioral health disorders in specified age groups.
Removes the requirement that farm machinery and equipment be tangible personal property for the purposes of exemption from ad valorem property taxation.
Modifies the definition of "supervisory employee" to include certain employees and exclude certain strike-prohibited public employees.
Enhances the protections for post-secondary institutions of education, student athletes and others regarding the provision of compensation for a student's name, image, likeness or athletic reputation.
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.
Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to provide grants to cities for specified infrastructure projects that will benefit housing developments that will make at least 30 percent of the dwelling units affordable to workforce income households.
Directs the State Board of Education to adopt rules by which a student who has completed an International Baccalaureate program may satisfy certain requirements for a high school diploma in this state.
Directs the Department of Justice to include in future budget requests amounts necessary to fund children's advocacy centers, the Survivor Housing Funds grant program and the Oregon Domestic and Sexual Violence Services Fund.
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.
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.
Passed the House · 4
Creates an Oregon tax subtraction for amounts received in settlement of civil actions arising from wildfire.
Excludes glass wine containers from definition of "covered product" under producer responsibility law until July 1, 2026.
Prohibits the Energy Facility Siting Council from exercising jurisdiction over or requiring a site certificate for an energy facility that is a renewable energy facility or transmission line, is sited wholly within federal lands and is subject to review under the National Environmental Policy Act.
Prohibits a shareholder, director or officer of a domestic or foreign professional corporation organized for the purpose of practicing medicine or naturopathic medicine, or for the purpose of allowing physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners to jointly render professional health care services, from owning or controlling shares in, serving as a director or officer of, being an employee or contractor of or otherwise participating in managing both the professional corporation and a management services organization with which the professional corporation has a contract.
Out of committee · 2
Establishes the Task Force on Health Professional Licensing Modernization.
Requires the Housing and Community Services Department to guarantee local governments' deferral of system development charges for housing developments.
In committee · 13
Increases the penalties for possession of a controlled substance.
Allows an occupying homeowner outside of an urban growth boundary to site one additional family dwelling unit on the tract of the home.
Requires local governments to approve certain adjustments to land use regulations for housing development within urban growth boundaries.
Requires each athletic association, conference or organization with authority over intercollegiate sports, post-secondary institution of education and school district to designate athletic competitions and extracurricular sports according to biological sex.
Expands the statutory list of strike-prohibited employees to include teachers employed by a common school district or a union high school district.
Creates the crime of using a controlled substance in public.
Directs the State Forester to establish sustainable harvest levels for harvesting timber on state forestland and develop a timber inventory model to inform sustainable harvest levels.
Provides that compensation for loss or injury to livestock or working dogs under the wolf depredation compensation and financial assistance grant program must be based on certain multipliers of fair market value.
Requires a health care practitioner to exercise the proper degree of care to preserve the health and life of a child born alive after an abortion or an attempted abortion.
Provides that forensic scientists and evidence technicians employed by the Department of State Police qualify as police officers under the Public Employees Retirement System.
Excludes new hospitals providing inpatient psychiatric services, inpatient rehabilitation services or inpatient or outpatient substance use treatment and new long term care facilities from requirement to obtain a certificate of need from the Oregon Health Authority.
Provides that when a person is charged with committing a new felony sex crime while on pretrial release for a felony sex crime, the person is only eligible for release after a hearing during which the court determines whether security release may be denied, and if security release is allowed, the person must deposit the full security amount set by the court.
Increases the limitation on the percentage of students in a school district who may enroll in a virtual public charter school that is not sponsored by the student's resident school district without first receiving approval from the school district.