Bills in the 2021 Regular Session, Senate.
Jeff Golden
Sponsored
Became law1
Amends requirements for limited renewable energy technician license.
In committee14
Requires State Forestry Department to study and make recommendations to interim committee of Legislative Assembly regarding operation of State Board of Forestry.
Prohibits candidates for state office from accepting contributions in excess of amounts specified and from sources not specified.
Requires State Forestry Department to study and make recommendations to interim committee of Legislative Assembly regarding efficacy of forest policy.
Establishes Bank of the State of Oregon.
Directs State Department of Energy to study fossil fuel infrastructure in Oregon and provide results to interim committees of Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2022.
Directs Water Resources Department to study water resource management and provide results of study in report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2022.
Directs State Department of Agriculture to study and make recommendations for pesticide regulation and provide results of study in report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2022.
Permits counties to adopt ranked-choice voting to conduct county elections.
Requires State Forestry Department to study and make recommendations to interim committee of Legislative Assembly regarding efficacy of prescribed burns.
Directs Department of Revenue to study taxation from which funding for Oregon Forest Resources Institute derives and to report its findings to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to revenue on or before September 15, 2022.
Directs Department of Revenue to study possible methods of taxation for funding prevention and suppression of wildfires in Oregon and to report its findings to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to revenue on or before September 15, 2022.
Directs Department of Revenue to study possible methods of taxation for funding forest management and to report its findings to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to revenue on or before September 15, 2022.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to study vaccines.
Revises disclosure requirements that must accompany public communications that support or oppose candidates for public office.
Carried from the House
Passed the House1
Establishes Sound Forestry Practices Subaccount and Family Forestlands Subaccount as subaccounts of State Forestry Department Account.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 8
Authorizes county to allow owner of lot or parcel within rural residential zone to construct one accessory dwelling unit on lot or parcel, subject to certain restrictions.
Extends for one year sunset on Task Force on Universal Health Care and extends deadline for task force to submit recommendations to Legislative Assembly.
Allows land division to separate dwelling units for new middle housing allowed in cities.
Directs State Workforce and Talent Development Board to establish Committee for Continuous Improvement to assess effectiveness of Oregon's public workforce development system.
Directs State Board of Education to review social studies standards.
Alters commissioner composition of Higher Education Coordinating Commission by redesignating five current nonvoting positions as voting positions and by adding one additional position for graduate student attending public university.
Directs presiding officers of each house of Legislative Assembly to represent legislative department in collective bargaining negotiations with legislative department employee bargaining units.
Provides that person may not engage in business as pharmaceutical representative without obtaining license from Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services.
Passed the Senate · 1
Provides that court must presume that resolution agreement that ends dispute over alleged infringement of patent or violation of other protection for protected drug has anticompetitive effects if alleged infringer receives item of value as part of or in connection with resolution agreement or if alleged infringer agrees to limit or stop researching, developing, manufacturing, marketing or selling competing drug.
Out of committee · 5
Instructs Oregon State University Extension Service to expand Center for Small Farms and Community Food Systems through certain hiring.
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.
Establishes product stewardship program for mattresses.
Allows persons convicted of felony to register to vote, update voter registration and vote in elections while incarcerated.
Disallows, for purposes of personal income taxation, mortgage interest deduction for residence other than taxpayer's principal residence, unless taxpayer sells residence or actively markets residence for sale.
In committee · 6
Requires Department of Revenue to submit to Legislative Revenue Officer information from Oregon tax returns about certain corporations doing business in Oregon.
Prohibits Department of Environmental Quality and State Department of Agriculture from issuing or renewing license or permit to allow construction or operation of new industrial dairy, addition to or expansion of existing industrial dairy or addition to or expansion of dairy that would cause dairy to become industrial dairy.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on racist history of this country and state.
Permits individual who is 16 or 17 years of age and registered to vote to cast ballot in school district elections.
Establishes ranked choice voting as voting method for selecting winner of nomination for and election to nonpartisan state offices and county and city offices except where home rule charter applies.
Modifies appointing authority for State Forester.