Bills in the 2023 Regular Session, Senate.
Wlnsvey Campos
Sponsored
Became law5
Establishes Task Force on Modernizing Grant Funding and Contracting.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to study membership of Pain Management Commission.
Requires Oregon Health Authority, every three years, to conduct survey of retail pharmacies enrolled as providers in state medical assistance program regarding pharmacies' dispensing costs.
Directs Department of Human Services to consider hours worked as graduate assistant as hours worked in employment for purpose of meeting work requirements in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
Caps annual rent increases for residential tenancies.
Out of committee4
Appropriates moneys to Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to Oregon Office for Community Dispute Resolution at University of Oregon.
Establishes Food for All Oregonians Program in Department of Human Services to provide nutrition assistance to residents of this state who would qualify for federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program but for immigration status or lack of Social Security number.
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to Pueblo Unido PDX for facilitating creation of certain language proficiency evaluations.
Requires sentencing court to consider as mitigation evidence whether defendant was subjected to domestic abuse that was ongoing when criminal behavior occurred and was contributing factor in criminal behavior.
In committee9
Requires owners of multifamily rental housing to offer right of first refusal to tenants who form tenant committee and membership entity.
Directs Commissioner of Bureau of Labor and Industries to appoint long term care wage board to examine factors that may present challenges to recruiting and retaining long term care employees.
Establishes People's Housing Assistance Fund Demonstration Program, administered by Department of Human Services, to provide 12 monthly payments of $1,000 to individuals who are experiencing homelessness, are at risk of homelessness, are severely rent burdened or earn at or below 60 percent of area median income.
Requires Department of Education to provide grants to school districts to carry out school district's child sexual abuse prevention instructional program.
Creates affirmative defense to crimes involving visual depiction or visual recording of sexually explicit conduct involving child when defendant and child are within specified age range and certain other circumstances exist.
Creates Commission for Indigenous Communities.
Creates Commission for Original Peoples from South America, Central America and Mexico.
Specifies physician assistant scope of practice and duties of care when practicing medicine.
Allows pharmacist to test and provide treatment for certain health conditions.
Carried from the House
Became law2
Limits terminations and rent increases for three years after tenants' housing is withdrawn from publicly supported housing.
Creates refundable child tax credit, calculated based on number of dependents of taxpayer that are qualifying children with respect to taxpayer and are under six years of age at close of tax year.
Passed the House2
Provides insured with cause of action for insurer's unfair claim settlement practices, other than practices related to settling workers' compensation or medical malpractice claim.
Provides that violation of prohibitions against unfair claim settlement practices with respect to insurance is subject to enforcement action under Unlawful Trade Practices Act.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 13
Directs Department of Revenue to develop schedule allowing personal income taxpayers to voluntarily report taxpayers' self-identified race and ethnicity identifiers.
Directs Oregon Business Development Department to develop grant and loan program to support businesses applying for financial assistance under Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors for America Act of 2022 (P.L. 117-167).
Clarifies that moneys in State Rail Rehabilitation Fund may be used by Department of Transportation for rail projects.
Expands composition of Oregon Health and Science University Board of Directors to include one member of faculty and one member of nonfaculty staff as voting members of board.
Requires owner or operator of municipal solid waste incinerator to develop plan for continuous monitoring or sampling of specified emissions for 12 consecutive months.
Eliminates restrictions on payment of unemployment insurance benefits to certain nonprofessional educational workers.
Prohibits food vendor from using polystyrene foam container in sales of prepared food.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to adopt and maintain list of designated high priority chemicals of concern used in cosmetic products and to periodically review and revise list.
Modifies applicability of earned reduction of supervision changes in House Bill 2172 (2021).
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.
Modifies abbreviated school day program requirements.
Prohibits cost-sharing on certain health insurance coverage of supplemental and diagnostic breast examinations.
Establishes Universal Health Plan Governance Board.
Passed the Senate · 3
Allows specified production of food in planned community by lot owners and their tenants.
Prohibits state from paying costs of travel to or from Oregon for employee in state service who telecommutes from principal worksite more than 60 miles outside this state, unless collective bargaining agreement provides otherwise or essential requirements of position make it necessary for employee to telecommute from outside this state.
Allows farm direct marketer sales and consignment sales of maple syrup.
Out of committee · 11
Establishes youth advisory council.
Directs State Department of Agriculture to perform certain responsibilities related to Healthy and Safe Schools Plan .
Amends allowable purposes of Emergency Housing Account to include account moneys to be used for grants to assist companion animals of individuals experiencing or at risk of homelessness.
Establishes state policy regarding natural climate solutions.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to modify amounts of grants for school-based health centers for inflation.
Requires Department of Human Services to contract with up to two agencies providing agency with choice services.
Requires Department of Human Services to administer program to provide medical assistance to employed individuals with disabilities without regard to individuals' income or resources.
Allows persons convicted of felony to register to vote, update voter registration and vote in elections while incarcerated.
Requires professional licensing boards to provide culturally responsive training to specified staff members, publish guidance on pathways to professional authorization for internationally educated individuals and waive requirement for English proficiency examination for specified internationally educated individuals.
Modifies definition of "employment relations" to exclude standards, requirements or procedures relating to body-worn cameras for purposes of law enforcement officer collective bargaining.
Directs Department of Education to establish school media program standards and provide technical assistance related to those standards.
In committee · 7
Requires Oregon Health Authority to conduct study and develop recommendations for classification system for traumatic brain injuries and training for first responders and law enforcement in identifying symptoms of traumatic brain injuries, acquired brain injuries and post-traumatic stress syndrome and training on appropriate referrals for services and treatment.
Permits court to consider evidence of abuse when determining amount of spousal support.
Authorizes issuance of lottery bonds for school-based health resources.
Establishes annual salary of members of Legislative Assembly equal to annual average wage for all covered employment in Oregon for prior year.
Makes unlawful practice for employer or employment agency to advertise job, promotion or transfer opportunity without disclosing pay range and employment benefits in job posting.
Requires Department of Transportation to conduct review of specified portion of U.S. Highway 30 and present report to Joint Committee on Transportation no later than September 15, 2024.
Modifies Department of Justice crime victim compensation program.