Bills in the 2023 Regular Session, Senate.
Chris Gorsek
Sponsored
Became law10
Requires certain executive department boards or commissions that conduct public meetings through electronic means to record and promptly publish recording on website or hosting service so that public may observe or listen to meetings free of charge.
Clarifies that moneys in State Rail Rehabilitation Fund may be used by Department of Transportation for rail projects.
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.
Makes permanent provision excluding certain employees of Oregon State Police from meaning of supervisory employee for purposes of public employment.
Clarifies distinction between commercial and residential floating structures for purposes of personal property tax return requirement.
Directs Oregon Health Authority, State Board of Education and Alcohol and Drug Policy Commission to collaborate on developing curricula supplements related to dangers of certain drugs and to laws that provide immunity or other protections related to drug or alcohol use.
Prohibits person from knowingly or intentionally manufacturing, importing, distributing, offering for sale, selling or leasing or otherwise transferring, or installing or reinstalling counterfeit automobile supplemental restraint system component, nonfunctional airbag or object that does not comply with federal standard for make, model and year of motor vehicle.
Removes minimum time period that injured worker must be absent from work for compensable medical services before injured worker may receive temporary disability benefits for such absence.
Eliminates restrictions on payment of unemployment insurance benefits to certain nonprofessional educational workers.
Modifies crime of organizing speed racing event.
Passed the Senate2
Requires Department of Transportation, Oregon Department of Administrative Services and any contracting agency that uses funds from American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to study use of apprentices in projects for public works and other public improvement projects.
Permits law enforcement agency to collect and maintain information about person's political, religious or social views or activities if information was collected and maintained for lawful purpose, including activities carried out in accordance with policy for officer-worn video cameras.
Out of committee5
Requires Department of Transportation to study options for expanding passenger rail service in Oregon.
Authorizes State Fish and Wildlife Commission to establish by rule requirements or prohibitions concerning angling, taking, hunting, trapping or possessing of wildlife defined as predatory animal.
Creates process by which person may file post-conviction relief petition due to currently available relevant forensic scientific evidence at any time after conviction.
Creates Deadly Force Prosecutions Unit within Criminal Justice Division of Department of Justice.
Establishes Joint Task Force on Hospital Discharge Challenges to develop recommendations to address challenges faced by hospitals in discharging patients to appropriate post-acute care settings.
In committee25
Changes term "naloxone" to "opioid antagonist.".
Exempts certain commercial buses from prohibition on titling and registering vehicles powered by certain model year diesel engines to owners located in Multnomah, Clackamas or Washington County.
Requires Public Utility Commission to study leasing or acquiring right of way for generation, transmission or distribution of electricity generated using solar energy.
Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission, in coordination with Department of Public Safety Standards and Training and community colleges, to study how best to make classes that are part of recruit academy training for police officers be academic credits that are part of associate degree.
Requires Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to study best practices for private security training.
Prohibits peace officer, school resource officer or special campus security officer from conducting custodial interview with person under 18 years of age unless person has consulted with attorney.
Establishes that Oregon Labor Monument is to be built in State Capital State Park.
Prohibits assignment of peace officer as school resource officer without school district's approval.
Directs Higher Education Coordinating Commission to develop and implement grant program to distribute grants to eligible community colleges for matching amounts for Article XI-G bonds.
Permits contracting agency to grant preference to procuring for public use goods or services that are provided by nonprofit organization incorporated, organized, formed or created for charitable purpose under laws of this state, if goods or services cost not more than 10 percent more than goods or services available from contractor that is not nonprofit organization.
Repeals provision that prohibits transit workers from striking.
Repeals provision prohibiting court from excluding admissible evidence on grounds evidence was obtained in violation of statute except in specified circumstances.
Directs Department of Education to conduct review of systems used to evaluate educators in state.
Excludes hours of overtime worked for Oregon State Police from limitations on inclusion of overtime in final average salary for purposes of Oregon Public Service Retirement Plan.
Requires business that provides online product, service or feature that child is reasonably likely to access to identify, evaluate and mitigate risks to child from online product, service or feature.
Expands requirement for mandatory bargaining over class size and caseload limits to all school districts.
Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to adopt rules requiring law enforcement units to report certain incidents and complaints to commission.
Provides that Department of State Police has exclusive jurisdiction to investigate certain incidents involving police officers and corrections officers.
Establishes Public Defense Services Student Loan Repayment Assistance Program in Oregon State Bar to provide forgivable loans to eligible public defense attorneys for outstanding student loans.
Permits employees of certain state agencies to refuse to work additional mandatory overtime shift scheduled by employer when employee has already worked mandatory overtime in same month.
Removes Department of Transportation exemption from apprenticeship utilization standards for public improvement contracts.
Expands eligibility for pre-plea probation.
Modifies procedures required for binding arbitration for certain public employees.
Directs Metro to study rail corridors within Metro, including inventory of rail corridors and determination of feasibility of using rail corridors to carry passenger trains.
Establishes procedures for review of certain Department of Corrections disciplinary orders and other housing-related decisions by panel of Court of Appeals.
Carried from the House
Became law2
Prohibits employer from requiring employee to use vacation, sick or annual leave for time spent by employee as appointed member of state board or commission.
Increases membership of State Board of Education to include additional representative of congressional district and to include member engaged as classified staff member for public school or education service district.
Passed the House1
Establishes separate limitation on inclusion of hours of overtime worked for Oregon State Police in final average salary for purposes of Oregon Public Service Retirement Plan.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 6
Authorizes community colleges to offer Bachelor of Science in nursing degrees.
Modifies applicability of earned reduction of supervision changes in House Bill 2172 (2021).
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.
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.
Establishes Universal Health Plan Governance Board.
Passed the Senate · 2
Expands crime of assault in the third degree to include assault of public transit vehicle operator acting in course of official duty.
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.
Out of committee · 8
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Transportation for distribution to Port of Hood River for construction of Hood River-White Salmon Interstate Bridge.
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.
Authorizes issuance of lottery bonds for deposit in Levee Project Grant Fund.
Modifies process for setting aside convictions and guilty except for insanity judgments.
Directs Judicial Department to develop and implement automated system that identifies convictions, arrests, citations, charges and judgments of guilty except for insanity that are eligible to be automatically sealed.
Establishes Universal Health Plan Governance Board and directs board to create comprehensive plan for implementing Universal Health Plan .
Directs Oregon Health Authority to develop list of suicide risk assessment and treatment continuing education opportunities for specified physical health care providers.
Modifies definition of "employment relations" to exclude standards, requirements or procedures relating to body-worn cameras for purposes of law enforcement officer collective bargaining.
In committee · 6
Permits court to consider evidence of abuse when determining amount of spousal support.
Provides that lack of verbal or physical resistance does not by itself constitute lack of consent or inability to consent in determination of whether sexual act is consensual.
Authorizes governing bodies of certain public entities that own or control public building to adopt policy, ordinance or regulation or precluding affirmative defense for possession of firearms in public building and adjacent grounds by concealed handgun licensees.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Department of Administrative Services for expenses related to Bridge of the Gods seismic strengthening.
Requires public body that procures construction services for certain qualified projects that use $750,000 or more in funds of public agency or moneys made available to state under federal American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to enter into project labor agreement that, at minimum, provides for payment of wages at or above prevailing rate of wage, to use apprentices to perform at least 15 percent of work hours that workers in apprenticeable occupations perform on project and to establish and execute plan for outreach, recruitment and retention of women, minority individuals and veterans to perform work on project.
Establishes COFA Food Assistance Program to provide nutrition assistance to COFA citizens who would qualify for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits but for their immigration status and who have incomes at or below federal poverty guidelines.