Bills in the 2019 Regular Session, House.
Chris Gorsek
Sponsored
Became law3
Requires outfitters and guides to rent, sell or otherwise make available helmets to all passengers on any section of waters rated as class III or higher on commonly accepted scale of river difficulty.
Authorizes governing body of county with population of more than 570,000 to set maximum dollar amount of $25,000 or more, or dollar amount adopted by county, for total assessed value of all of taxpayer's manufactured structures taxable as personal property, below which such manufactured structures are not subject to ad valorem property taxation for assessment year.
Modifies requirement to record interview with person under 18 years of age to include custodial interviews conducted inside law enforcement facility by peace officer, school resource officer or special campus security officer of investigations into misdemeanors, felonies and acts that, if committed by adult, would constitute misdemeanors or felonies.
Out of committee5
Provides that for purposes of determining salary of certain member of Public Employees Retirement System, housing allowance paid to prison chaplain shall be treated as includable in member's taxable income under Oregon law.
Allows certain police officers commissioned by Oregon Health and Science University to elect to discontinue participation in alternative retirement program and to elect to participate in Public Employees Retirement System for purposes of service performed as police officer commissioned by Oregon Health and Science University on and after date of election.
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Military Department to expand and increase access to statewide 2-1-1 system.
Imposes assessment on large employers with employees who receive or who have minor children who receive certain types of public assistance in this state, in amount equal to public assistance paid.
Modifies annual salaries of judges of Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, circuit courts and Oregon Tax Court.
In committee13
Creates urban flood safety and water quality district in portion of Multnomah County within urban growth boundary adopted by Metro, for purposes of managing and improving levee system, drainage and natural areas to provide for flood safety and contribute to water quality, habitat and landscape resiliency.
Establishes Task Force on Preventing Assaults Committed Against Public Transit Employees to address ways to reduce and prevent assaults committed against public transit employees.
Establishes Task Force on Impacts of Mandatory Overtime on Corrections Staff.
Permits board of community college to determine whether to establish campus police department and commission police officers.
Modifies process for revising form or notice sent to parents or adult students regarding statewide summative assessments.
Directs Higher Education Coordinating Commission to conduct study that identifies duplications and redundancies among public university degree programs, certificate programs, classes and other programs and identifies methods for consolidating or eliminating duplications and redundancies.
Prohibits use of single-use checkout bags except in certain cases.
Requires youth to consult with legal counsel, in person, by telephone or by video conference, prior to custodial interview with peace officer and before waiver of constitutional rights.
Provides that conditioning employment on refraining from using any substance that is lawful to use in this state is unlawful employment practice.
Modifies manner of committing crime of assault in the third degree against certain public transportation employees.
Provides that auction company has lien on motor vehicle that auction company possesses and stored on premises that auction company owns or controls.
Directs State Board of Education, in consultation with State Library, to adopt standards for school library program and academic content standards for library and media studies.
Establishes additional permissible periods for retail sales of consumer fireworks.
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
Creates urban flood safety and water quality district in portion of Multnomah County within urban growth boundary adopted by Metro, for purposes of acquiring, purchasing, constructing, improving, operating and maintaining infrastructure in order to provide for flood safety and contribute to water quality, floodplain restoration and habitat and landscape resilience.
Requires Department of Human Services and Oregon Health Authority to prescribe by rule criteria to be considered in making fitness determination findings of abuse.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 26
Creates family and medical leave insurance program to provide partially or fully compensated time away from work to covered individual who meets certain criteria while covered individual is on family leave, medical leave or safe leave.
Eliminates requirement that person provide proof of legal presence before Department of Transportation issues noncommercial driver license, noncommercial driver permit or identification card.
Modifies list of mandatory reporters of suspected child abuse to include animal control officers.
Designates May of each year as ALS Awareness Month.
Modifies culpable mental state for crime of unauthorized use of a vehicle when person takes, operates, exercises control over or otherwise uses vehicle, boat or aircraft without consent of owner.
Makes violation of permit requirements for service of alcoholic beverages punishable by maximum of $1,000 fine.
Prohibits retail establishments from providing single-use checkout bags to customers, except in certain cases.
Expands types of entities that may receive grant from Farm-to-School Grant Program to purchase food produced or processed in state or to identify sources of foods or to process foods.
Requires long term care facilities, conversion facilities and residential care facilities providing care to six or more residents to adopt specified protocols and procedures regarding preventing and reporting disease outbreaks.
Limits guardian's authority to limit protected person's preferred associations with third parties.
Directs Department of Transportation to study train delays experienced by trains operated by Amtrak and report on findings to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to transportation on or before September 15, 2020.
Directs Department of State Police to study how to increase and improve criminal justice resources relating to missing and murdered Native American women in Oregon and report to appropriate committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2020.
Directs Department of Corrections, in cooperation with Oregon Criminal Justice Commission, to establish pilot program to provide legal services that assist women who are incarcerated at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility to reenter and reintegrate into local communities, to reduce womens' vulnerability to domestic violence and to obtain employment, housing services and other benefits.
Appropriates moneys to Department of Consumer and Business Services to contract with vendor to conduct demographic study of dental needs and geographic distribution of COFA citizens in this state and to issue request for information to gauge interest and determine capacity of dental care organizations to provide oral health care to COFA citizens.
Establishes Oregon Conservation and Recreation Fund.
Requires State Department of Fish and Wildlife, in cooperation with Department of Transportation, to develop Wildlife Corridor Action Plan for use by state agencies.
Allows State Department of Fish and Wildlife to refuse or condition disclosure of information relevant to department ability to manage or protect described fish or wildlife species or individual members or populations of species.
Allows student to wear dress uniform issued by Armed Forces of United States during high school graduation ceremony if certain conditions are met.
Prohibits court from inquiring into defendant's immigration status or requiring defendant to disclose defendant's immigration status at time of plea or at any other time during criminal proceeding.
Allows professional licensing board to issue nonrenewable temporary authorization to spouse of member of Armed Forces of United States stationed in Oregon and who holds eligible out-of-state authorization to provide occupational or professional service.
Expands membership of Justice Reinvestment Program Grant Review Committee.
Provides that agreement for conditional discharge for controlled substance offenses may not contain requirement that defendant enter plea of guilty or no contest.
Creates civil cause of action against person who knowingly summons police officer with intent to cause specified harm.
Directs district attorney of each county to, no later than December 1, 2020, develop and adopt policies relating to discovery, charging decisions, sentencing and program recommendations and other specified subjects, and to make policies available to public on website.
Provides that client has right to privately communicate with lawyer and representative of lawyer.
Directs each covered manufacturer of covered drugs that are sold within this state to develop and implement drug take-back program for purpose of collecting from individuals and nonbusiness entities covered drugs for disposal.
Passed the House · 2
Prohibits food vendor from using polystyrene container in selling, offering for sale, serving or dispensing prepared food to public.
Provides that diagnostic services are compensable under workers' compensation law after industrial accident or occupational disease has been determined to be compensable and if diagnostic services are reasonable and necessary to identify nature or extent of medical condition that may be related to industrial accident or occupational disease.
Out of committee · 14
Establishes Statewide School Safety and Prevention System.
Requires owner or possessor of firearm to secure firearm with trigger or cable lock or in locked container except in specified circumstances.
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Department of Administrative Services to increase size and diversity of group of court appointed special advocates.
Directs Department of Justice to administer violence prevention funding program in consultation with Attorney General's Sexual Assault Task Force.
Increases threshold under which school district may receive additional State School Fund moneys for student eligible for special education.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to design program to import wholesale prescription drugs from Canada.
Prescribes requirements for removal of student from classroom or school setting by school employees or law enforcement.
Creates family and medical leave insurance program to provide employee who is eligible for coverage with portion of wages while employee is on family and medical leave or military family leave.
Permits duplicate health benefit plan coverage for public employees.
Extends from July 1, 2019, to July 1, 2023, period of time public universities must provide scope and value of specified employee benefits.
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.
Appropriates moneys to fund engineering and design work necessary for adding bicycle and pedestrian lane to Bridge of the Gods.
Directs Department of Education to coordinate with Oregon career and technical student organizations in support of organizations.
Requires that, to extent provided by Oregon Liquor Control Commission rules, if wine labeled with American viticultural area in Oregon is labeled with single grape variety as type designation, wine must meet specified content requirements.
In committee · 30
Provides that county, for purposes of grant-in-aid funding from Department of Corrections for community corrections, is responsible for supervision, sanctions and services for offenders convicted of certain domestic violence misdemeanors.
Creates income tax credit for taxpayer that employs community college student as apprentice.
Allows operator of motorcycle or moped to travel between lanes of traffic under certain conditions.
Prohibits State Board of Education from requiring, and school districts from administering, certain assessments to students enrolled or preparing to enroll in prekindergarten through grade two.
Expands potential recipients of levee project grants to include any public body.
Authorizes issuance of $10 million in lottery bonds for deposit in Levee Project Subaccount to be used for any purpose for which funds in subaccount may be used.
Provides that hours worked by school marshal providing security in school do not count for purposes of limitations on reemployment of retired member of Public Employees Retirement System.
Directs State Board of Education to adopt by rule complaint process to report school district policy in violation of state law prohibiting harassment, intimidation, bullying and cyberbullying.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to community colleges and community college service districts for various purposes.
Allows employee of school district or education service district, or employee's exclusive representative, to challenge cost analysis for procurement that school district or education service district conducted.
Permits duplicate health benefit plan coverage for public employees.
Requires original equipment manufacturer to make available to owner of digital electronic equipment or independent repair provider on fair and reasonable terms any part, tool, service manual or other device, implement or information that original equipment manufacturer makes available to authorized repair provider for purpose of diagnosing, maintaining or repairing digital electronic equipment that original equipment manufacturer makes or supplies.
For purposes of taxpayer election of reduced tax rate for certain pass-through income, reduces tax rates, reduces maximum eligible income and modifies employment requirements.
Expands purposes for which physical restraint may be used on students.
Requires State Department of Fish and Wildlife to allow person meeting criteria to hunt game mammals using crossbow.
Requires law enforcement agencies to adopt policies on responding to officer-involved domestic violence.
Provides that municipal bank is not required to obtain deposit insurance from Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
Establishes Legislative Assembly Paid Internships Program to provide stipends to interns performing services in offices of members of Legislative Assembly.
Prohibits abusive conduct by parents or students toward school employees.
Extends statute of limitations for certain sex crimes.
Redefines crime of aggravated murder.
Removes future dangerousness as factor for jury to determine when deciding on sentence of death.
Increases amount of value of homestead exempt from sale on execution, judgment lien or liability for debts of owner.
Creates credit against income taxes for amounts paid by veteran as principal or interest on qualified education loans.
Requires certain pharmacies to provide notice that naloxone and necessary medical supplies to administer naloxone are available at pharmacy.
Makes unlawful employment practice for employer to request employee to enter agreement that would prevent employee from disclosing or discussing conduct that constitutes unlawful discrimination, including sexual assault.
Requires state agencies that provide moneys to certain entities to report annually in writing to Legislative Assembly on amount of moneys provided in each county and number of persons served in each county by such moneys.
Requires amendment of state building code to include special inspections to detect construction defects in exterior waterproofing system of common property of homeowners association, residential dwelling in planned community served by homeowners association or condominium.
Establishes additional permissible periods for permits to sell consumer fireworks at retail.
Establishes TriMet Crash Advisory Committee.