Bills in the 2021 Regular Session, Senate.
Chris Gorsek
Sponsored
Became law7
Permits community colleges to allow each criminal justice course approved by curriculum committee of college to be eligible course for social science cluster portion of associate degree.
Creates rebuttable presumption that statement made by person under 18 years of age, during custodial interview in connection with investigation into certain acts, is involuntary if peace officer intentionally used false information to elicit statement.
Defines "instructional capacity" to exclude instructional assistants from scope of statutes prohibiting payment of unemployment insurance benefits to professional employees of educational institution for weeks of unemployment commencing during period between two successive academic years or terms.
Removes prohibition on payment of unemployment insurance benefits to nonprofessional employees of educational institution providing school food services, early intervention services or prekindergarten services for weeks of unemployment commencing during period between two successive academic years or terms.
Requires court to indicate in judgment document when person is convicted of misdemeanor assault or menacing constituting domestic violence.
Requires supervising officer to notify probationer of right to file objection and have hearing concerning officer's proposed modification to special conditions of probation.
Prohibits scrap metal business from purchasing or receiving catalytic converters, except from commercial seller or owner of vehicle from which catalytic converter was removed.
Passed the Senate2
Creates separate standards for storage of unclaimed personal property in Multnomah County when homeless individuals are removed from established camping site.
Requires school district to adopt and implement policy concerning ownership rights to teacher-created intellectual property.
Out of committee3
Directs Multnomah County to create program for awarding grants to individuals and neighborhood associations for community cleanup projects.
Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to establish, in collaboration with Department of Corrections, Family Preservation Project pilot program at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility.
Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission to provide grants to nonprofits providing affordable housing to university students.
In committee22
Imposes minimum service requirements on certain mass transit districts.
Directs Oregon Health Authority and Oregon Liquor Control Commission to study cannabis packaging.
Requires issue subject to collective bargaining during term of collective bargaining agreement that is not resolved through negotiation or mediation to be resolved through binding arbitration.
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.
Directs Department of Human Services to develop written materials describing how adult who was involved in child welfare matter as a child can obtain access to child welfare records.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to study medical and pharmaceutical interventions for gender dysphoria.
Prohibits insurer, insurance producer or insurance-support organization from seeking or obtaining information about individual's mental health diagnosis, prognosis, treatment or condition as part of investigation or adjustment of claim for benefits under automobile insurance policy unless insurer, insurance producer or insurance-support organization demonstrates with clear and convincing evidence that accident that gave rise to claim resulted from or was directly related to individual's mental health condition.
Directs Department of State Police to maintain staffing level of at least 15 patrol troopers per 100,000 residents of this state, beginning January 1, 2030.
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.
Directs Oregon State Police to study impact that number of Oregon State Police troopers has on public safety and report to appropriate committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2022.
Requires that person notifying court of violation of release condition, or otherwise requesting issue of warrant for violation of release condition, notify released person's attorney concerning notification or request.
Directs Department of Education and Higher Education Coordinating Commission to prepare specified materials related to Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program.
Requires public body employer to establish and implement process by which employees may request employer to use unique identifier in lieu of employee's name in records contained by employer for purposes of public records requests.
Directs Department of Education to convene advisory group to study media program standards developed by State Board of Education and to report results of study to interim committee of Legislative Assembly related to education.
Creates Public Assistance Protection Fund.
Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to study issues related to requiring all law enforcement agencies to use body-worn cameras and to provide results of study to interim committees of Legislative Assembly no later than December 31, 2021.
Requires certain mass transit and transportation districts to be registered apprenticeship training agents as condition of receiving distributions from Statewide Transportation Improvement Fund.
Includes matters concerning apprenticeship or training program administered by certain mass transit districts as mandatory subject of collective bargaining for employees of district.
Repeals provision that prohibits transit workers from striking.
Directs Department of Consumer and Business Services to study issues relating to workers' compensation claims processing and report to appropriate committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly on or before September 15, 2022.
Directs Department of Consumer and Business Services to study issues relating to workers' compensation for secondary effects of infection by SARS-CoV-2 or diagnosis with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and report to appropriate committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly on or before September 15, 2022.
Provides that employee of marijuana retailer may be subject to collection for marijuana retail tax not remitted to Department of Revenue, only if employee was authorized to pay or direct payment of tax, and employee was, or should have been, aware that taxes collected by marijuana retailer were not remitted to department.
Carried from the House
Became law5
Requires each community college and public university to hire benefits navigator to assist students in determining eligibility and applying for federal, state and local benefits programs.
Requires each public university and community college to prominently display , or establish link to website that displays, estimated costs of all required course materials and directly related course fees for no less than 75 percent of total for-credit courses offered by public university or community college.
Directs education employer to provide materials and assistance to eligible employees concerning public service loan forgiveness program.
Prohibits law enforcement agency or public body from denying services, benefits, privileges or opportunities to certain individuals on basis of federal civil immigration actions, inquiring about individual's citizenship status without connection to criminal investigation or providing information about individual in custody to federal immigration authority.
Requires every public education provider to provide both tampons and sanitary pads at no cost to students.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 13
Modifies procedures for motions to set aside conviction, arrest, citation, charge, finding of contempt of court or judgment of guilty except for insanity.
Requires students to complete at least one-half credit of civics in order to receive high school diploma.
Provides that part-time faculty member at public institution of higher education qualifies for employee-only health care benefits if part-time faculty member works at level equal to at least half of full-time equivalent employee during at least three of four previous academic terms.
Requires person to secure firearm with trigger or cable lock, in locked container or in gun room except in specified circumstances.
Modifies procedure for expunction of certain juvenile records.
Amends definition of "employment relations" to include class size and caseload limits as mandatory collective bargaining subjects in schools that qualify for certain federal assistance.
Requires Department of Revenue to issue license to qualified retailers of tobacco products and inhalant delivery systems that do not hold license or other authorization issued by city or local public health authority.
Provides that employer signatories to multiemployer collective bargaining agreements are considered to have met minimum requirements of sick time provisions if terms of collective bargaining agreement provide, as benefit to employees subject to agreement, sick leave policy or other paid time off program that is substantially equivalent to or more generous than minimum requirements of sick time provisions.
Removes sunset on requirement that students must receive certain information related to statewide summative assessments.
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 · 4
Creates civil claim for wrongful conviction.
Allows persons convicted of felony to register to vote, update voter registration and vote in elections while incarcerated.
Modifies procedures for early medical release of adult in custody from prison.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Justice for purposes of funding Environmental Crimes and Cultural Resources Enforcement Unit of department.
In committee · 4
Requires Department of Revenue to submit to Legislative Revenue Officer information from Oregon tax returns about certain corporations doing business in Oregon.
Limits exemption from requirement of obtaining water right application, permit or certificate to use of surface water for livestock watering that does not exceed 5,000 gallons a day.
Defines "covered employee" as including employees of Department of Human Services who work in stabilization and crisis unit for purposes of specifying certain presumptions as to compensability of covered employee's claim of benefits under workers' compensation law for death, disability or impairment of health.
Removes general prohibition that precludes State Fish and Wildlife Commission from adopting rules to limit times, places or amounts of taking of predatory animals.