Bills in the 2023 Regular Session, Senate.
James Manning Jr.
Sponsored
Became law9
Modifies definition of "communication facilitator.".
Directs state agencies to use information system maintained by Oregon Department of Administrative Services to track internal investigations conducted by state agency regarding allegations of workplace discrimination and harassment concerning employees of state agency.
Expands definition of "public safety officer" to include certain regulatory specialists as persons who may be eligible for benefit awards from Public Safety Memorial Fund.
Allows Appraiser Certification and Licensure Board to require training on implicit bias and state and federal fair housing laws for real estate appraisers.
Modifies duration of Family Abuse Prevention Act restraining orders .
Requires Bureau of Labor and Industries to prepare model respectful workplace policy that employers may adopt.
Defines "active service," "active service of the state" and "state active duty." Expands authority of Adjutant General, with approval of Governor, to order members of organized militia into active service of the state.
Directs Department of Education to make biennial transfer to Oregon Military Department from State School Fund for purpose of paying costs of educational services provided through programs operated by military department for at-risk youth.
Establishes Universal Health Plan Governance Board.
Passed the Senate1
Requires passage of specified examination for certification as nursing assistant.
Out of committee8
Establishes Nonviolent Crisis Intervention and Safe Communities Fund and appropriates moneys in fund to Department of Human Services for specified purposes related to expanding access to training in public programs, school districts and education service districts on nonviolent crisis intervention methods.
Appropriates moneys to Department of Justice out of General Fund to fund animal cruelty-focused attorney within department's Criminal Justice Division.
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 .
Prohibits landlords from denying application for tenancy based on certain rental or financial screening or admissions criteria if applicant is refugee from Ukraine.
Requires Housing and Community Services Department to make grant to Network for Oregon Affordable Housing to provide low-interest loans to purchasers of homes with limited equity.
Establishes higher education grant program for qualified dependents of current Oregon National Guard members who are eligible to continue to serve in Oregon National Guard for at least six additional years.
In committee17
Adds two members who are physician assistants or retired physician assistants to membership of Oregon Medical Board.
Limits applicant screening charge to $10.
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.
Eliminates six-month residency requirement for issuance of angling or shellfish license to qualifying disabled veteran.
Allows witness to waive personal service of subpoena by electronic mail.
Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to create pilot grant program funding coalitions that create nonpolice response systems to minor instances of crime.
Creates Community Escrow Fund in State Treasury to hold coordinated care organization restricted reserves.
Requires Water Resources Department to study legal implications of recent Oregon Supreme Court case for water rights of certain hydroelectric projects.
Establishes voluntary bicycle registration program.
Requires membership of task forces and work groups to be comprised at least 50 percent of community members and individuals who are members of or who represent community-based organizations.
Exempts from crime of unlawfully obtaining or attempting to obtain conversation recording of conversation occurring in public place using unconcealed recording device.
Requires Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to establish statewide online database of certain information about public safety employees.
Changes date of certain elections in presidential election years from third Tuesday in May to first Tuesday in March.
Requires each school district board to develop written plan establishing climate change instructional program for kindergarten through grade 12 no later than June 1, 2026.
Authorizes formation of children's service districts.
Requires owner of public building to periodically conduct inspections and testing of fire dampers, smoke dampers, combination fire and smoke dampers and smoke control systems in public building.
Requires Housing and Community Services Department to provide grants to developers of single-family homes made available for affordable homeownership.
Carried from the House
Became law13
Defines "undetectable firearm." Punishes manufacturing, importing, offering for sale or transferring undetectable firearm by maximum of 10 years' imprisonment, $250,000 fine, or both.
Broadens public contracting preference for businesses that service-disabled veterans own to include all veteran-owned businesses.
Prohibits person from recklessly, knowingly or intentionally using unmanned aircraft system to interfere with wildfire suppression, law enforcement or emergency response effort.
Creates right of action for person injured by paramilitary activity.
Provides that qualifying agency must require as material provision of public improvement contract that contractor establish and implement plan for outreach to and recruitment and retention of women, minority individuals and veterans to perform work under public improvement contract, with aspirational target of having individuals in one or more of these groups perform at least 15 percent of total work hours that workers perform under public improvement contract.
Amends requirements for residential landlords accepting applicant screening charge.
Requires hospitals to establish professional and technical staff and service staff staffing committees, meeting specified criteria, to develop staffing plans, in addition to nurse staffing committee.
Provides that first full week in March is known as Classified School Employees Week.
Increases military leave of absence to which public employee who is member of National Guard, National Guard Reserve or reserve component of Armed Forces of the United States or of United States Public Health Service is entitled to 21 work days.
Encourages schools to provide instruction on preparing for, and recovering from, fires, earthquakes, safety threats and natural disasters.
Allows Oregon Board of Dentistry to require applicant for certification as dental assistant to pass written examination.
Requires 9-8-8 crisis hotline centers to have policies and train staff on serving firefighters and other first responders.
Prohibits landlords from terminating lease or taking other specified actions due to status of tenant as victim of bias crime.
Passed the House1
Permits employer to pay employees at different compensation levels pursuant to retention bonus provided that employer does not discriminate in payment of retention bonus, and that retention bonus accounts for entire compensation differential.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 38
Requires students to complete one half-credit of higher education and career path skills and one half-credit of personal financial education as requirements for high school diploma.
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.
Makes permanent provision excluding certain employees of Oregon State Police from meaning of supervisory employee for purposes of public employment.
Directs Department of Human Services to provide specified services to individuals with brain injuries and to convene Brain Injury Advisory Committee.
Prohibits health benefit plans from imposing prior authorization or other utilization review requirements on coverage of proton beam therapy that do not apply to coverage of radiation therapy.
Requires owner or operator of municipal solid waste incinerator to develop plan for continuous monitoring or sampling of specified emissions for 12 consecutive months.
Authorizes community colleges to offer Bachelor of Science in nursing degrees.
Modifies legislative findings concerning alternative incarceration programs.
Directs Department of Human Services to maintain inventory of luggage carriers for use when transporting personal effects of foster children.
Directs Oregon 529 Savings Board to provide information to designated beneficiaries of ABLE accounts regarding potential impact to benefits and services if contributions are made to workplace retirement account.
Modifies when use of force upon minor child or student is justifiable and not criminal.
Modifies applicability of earned reduction of supervision changes in House Bill 2172 (2021).
Designates fourth Saturday of November of each year as Holodomor Remembrance Day.
Makes restorative justice communications confidential.
Authorizes Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services to conduct comprehensive inspection of any place of employment as deemed necessary by department based on prior violation history of place of employment.
Directs certifying agencies to report annually to Oregon Criminal Justice Commission on victim helpfulness certification requests.
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.
Directs court to consider, when determining aggravation at sentencing, whether defendant was wearing body armor in course of and in furtherance of crime or to facilitate immediate flight therefrom.
Permits consumers to obtain from controller that processes consumer personal data confirmation as to whether controller is processing consumer's personal data and categories of personal data controller is processing, list of specific third parties to which controller has disclosed consumer's personal data or any personal data and copy of all of consumer's personal data that controller has processed or is processing.
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.
Prohibits lobbyist from serving as chairperson of interim committees or certain legislative work groups or legislative task forces.
Directs county juvenile department to ensure that specified youth or adjudicated youth receives sex trafficking screening.
Prescribes timelines and redacting requirements for records related to provision of special education.
Creates offense of unlawful fender height modifications.
Allows parking in spaces regulated by out-of-service parking meters operated by public bodies unless notice prohibiting parking is posted.
Modifies abbreviated school day program requirements.
Provides that person who voluntarily fights wildfire on private forestland is not civilly liable for injury to person or property resulting from good faith performance of firefighting efforts.
Directs Department of Human Services to begin search for relative placement resources immediately upon child or ward entering substitute care.
Establishes Organized Retail Theft Grant Program.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to support implementation of AgriStress Helpline in Oregon.
Expands types of prior convictions that increase offense level for crime of public indecency.
Creates crime of sexual abuse by fraudulent representation.
Directs Department of Human Services to establish and maintain regional family support networks for families of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Prohibits cost-sharing on certain health insurance coverage of supplemental and diagnostic breast examinations.
Modifies crimes related to involuntary servitude and human trafficking.
Provides that in prosecution for offense that includes as element causing physical injury to another person, evidence of physical injury may include specified types of evidence.
Authorizes board of directors of rural fire protection district to annex to district, under certain circumstances, lands that are within coverage area of district.
Passed the Senate · 4
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.
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 · 30
Allows person who retires from Department of State Police as police officer to participate in group benefit plan offered by Public Employees' Benefit Board with no increase in premiums.
Requires pharmacy benefit managers and group purchasing organizations to annually report to Department of Consumer and Business Services information relating to prices, rebates, fees and similar information.
Establishes youth advisory council.
Directs State Department of Agriculture to perform certain responsibilities related to Healthy and Safe Schools Plan .
Prohibits denial of medical assistance on basis that individual under 19 years of age is in detention pending adjudication.
Requires health insurance coverage of specified fertility services and treatments with exemption for certain insurers.
Prohibits licensing board, commission or agency from denying, suspending or revoking occupational or professional license solely for reason that applicant or licensee was convicted of crime or subject to qualifying juvenile adjudication that does not substantially relate to specific duties and responsibilities for which license is required.
Establishes Medical Release Advisory Committee within State Board of Parole and Post-Prison Supervision.
Establishes state policy regarding natural climate solutions.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to modify amounts of grants for school-based health centers for inflation.
Creates process by which person may file post-conviction relief petition due to currently available relevant forensic scientific evidence at any time after conviction.
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.
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.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Department of Administrative Services for purposes of deposit in Universal Representation Fund.
Establishes income tax credit for volunteer firefighters.
Establishes Task Force on Reparations and directs task force to study and develop proposals for financial and nonfinancial reparations for Oregonians of African-American descent, develop appropriate methods for educating public about task force findings and recommend appropriate remedies based on task force findings.
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.
Grants higher property tax exemption for property of veterans with disabilities.
Creates Deadly Force Prosecutions Unit within Criminal Justice Division of Department of Justice.
Instructs Water Resources Department to take certain actions related to Walla Walla Water 2050 Strategic Plan.
Directs Oregon Department of Emergency Management to develop and implement grant program to distribute moneys to certain counties to fund emergency preparedness coordinators.
Requires Department of Education to annually designate whether each school district is conditionally standard, nonstandard or standard.
Requires State Department of Agriculture to study expansion of organic agriculture sectors.
Modifies definition of "employment relations" to exclude standards, requirements or procedures relating to body-worn cameras for purposes of law enforcement officer collective bargaining.
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.
Directs Department of Education to establish school media program standards and provide technical assistance related to those standards.
Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission to establish project connecting adults in custody and former adults in custody to community colleges, public universities and apprenticeship programs.
In committee · 23
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.
Provides that Department of State Police has exclusive jurisdiction to investigate certain incidents involving police officers and corrections officers.
Requires school districts to prepare ventilation verification assessment and take certain actions based on recommendations that result from assessment.
Exempts from state income tax retirement pay or pension received as result of service in Armed Forces of the United States.
Specifies contract price at which apprentice utilization requirements apply to qualified contracts with institutions of higher education and school districts.
Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to convene advisory council to consider policy implications of identifying specific crimes for which conviction is disqualifying conviction for individuals seeking licensure or registration from Teacher Standards and Practices Commission or seeking employment or contract with school district.
Allows gun dealer or person transferring firearms, firearm accessories, ammunition or ammunition components for purchase at gun show, or business engaged in repairing or servicing firearms to establish minimum age of 21 years for such purchases, repairs or services.
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.
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.
Modifies definition of "sexual contact" for purposes of Oregon Criminal Code.
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.
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.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to request federal approval to allow parent or legal guardian to be paid to act as personal support worker or direct support professional for minor child who has intellectual or developmental disability.
Establishes annual salary of members of Legislative Assembly equal to annual average wage for all covered employment in Oregon for prior year.
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.
Creates Commission for Original Peoples from South America, Central America and Mexico.
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.
Directs State Court Administrator to develop judicial training program focusing on domestic violence and child abuse in family law cases.
Allows Health Licensing Office to issue license to practice health care administration to qualified applicant.
Establishes procedure for person with qualifying conviction for possession of controlled substance to file motion requesting court order setting aside conviction.
Establishes standards for establishment of farm cafes on lands in Lane County zoned for exclusive farm use.