Bills in the 2023 Regular Session, House.
Courtney Neron Misslin
Sponsored
Became law10
Exempts from health care interpreter requirements individuals providing services as employees or contractors of school districts, public charter schools and education service districts.
Provides that first full week in March is known as Classified School Employees Week.
Adds outdoor child care program to definition of "child care facility." Requires Early Learning Council to adopt rules governing the operation of outdoor child care programs.
Directs district attorney to petition court for order requiring defendant charged with certain crimes to submit to testing for HIV and other communicable diseases.
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.
Requires school districts undertaking HVAC infrastructure improvements for which state and federal funds are made specifically available to expend such funds on certain activities aimed at improving indoor air ventilation quality in schools.
Directs Oregon State University Extension Service to collaborate with Department of Education for purpose of identifying and collecting student data relevant for maintenance of outdoor school programs.
Limits terminations and rent increases for three years after tenants' housing is withdrawn from publicly supported housing.
Revises provisions relating to chemicals in children's products.
Prohibits manufacturer from selling or offering to sell cosmetic developed through use of cosmetic animal test.
Out of committee7
Establishes Willamette Valley Commuter Rail Task Force.
Requires school district to pay classified school employee not less than 10 percent more than minimum wage that applies to all employees who work in this state .
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to prepare tentative budget for funding of State School Fund.
Directs Department of Transportation to establish program for awarding grants to providers of traffic safety education courses to fund Spanish language traffic safety education courses.
Directs Department of Early Learning and Care, in consultation with Department of Human Services, to convene work group to study optimal use of child care navigators to support access to and enrollment in child care and early learning programs.
Creates Oregon personal income tax subtraction for amounts received for renting out room in taxpayer's home.
Permits education provider to operate video recording device for purpose of recording persons who fail to stop for bus safety lights.
In committee26
Requires school districts to encourage community engagement in budget process and to ensure that training is received on developing and understanding school district budget.
Requires Department of Land Conservation and Development and Department of Early Learning and Care to study child care facilities in rural areas.
Directs Department of Education to conduct study to determine best methods to provide education to children in hospitals and to report results of study to interim committee of Legislative Assembly related to education.
Requires Department of Consumer and Business Services to study trends in reimbursement paid to specified health care providers by insurers and third party administrators and report findings to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to health no later than September 15, 2024.
Clarifies that "serious health condition" includes period of disability due to loss or termination of pregnancy for purposes of provisions related to protected leave.
Requires certain school districts to adopt instructional program that includes professional training component for certain school staff on administering and assisting with self-administration of seizure rescue medication for students diagnosed with seizure disorders.
Extends sunset of Oregon Industrial Site Readiness Program.
Requires the mass transit district known as TriMet to adopt ordinance to modify district boundaries to exclude specified territory.
Establishes Aurora State Airport Advisory Council for purpose of developing intergovernmental planning agreement among its members.
Directs State Apprenticeship and Training Council to develop and implement registered apprenticeship program to create pathway to licensure for teacher candidates.
Modifies zero-emission and electric vehicle rebate programs to allow rebate for purchase or lease of electric farm tractor or repowering of farm tractor.
Expands applicability of requirement to discuss class size and caseload as mandatory subject of bargaining for purposes of school district collective bargaining.
Removes cap on amounts distributed from State School Fund to school districts for students eligible for special education as children with disabilities.
Increases formula weight for students in poverty families for purposes of State School Fund distributions.
Directs Public Utility Commission to require person or municipality that manages, operates, owns or control pipeline facilities for transmission or distribution of hazardous substance or material by pipeline to mail residences within 500 feet of pipeline annual notice with certain information and, in event of pipeline leak, to provide update on efforts to fix pipeline leak and mitigate spillage every 24 hours and, when pipeline leak is fixed, to update on cleanup efforts every seven days.
Directs Environmental Quality Commission to adopt standards prohibiting engine exhaust and evaporative emissions from new small nonroad engines beginning January 1, 2026, unless a later date is required by federal Clean Air Act.
Requires governing board at each public university to include graduate student as voting member if university has more than 400 graduate students or if graduate students comprise more than 15 percent of total student body.
Directs Department of Early Learning and Care to establish and implement child care provider incentive program.
Establishes Universal School Meal Account for purpose of reimbursing school districts for certain costs incurred in providing federally reimbursable meals.
Makes certain graduate and post-graduate student workers eligible employees for purposes of Oregon Public Service Retirement Plan.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Transportation for transfer to City of Sherwood to construct underpass beneath Cedar Creek Trail.
Creates crime of threatening a mass injury event.
Prohibits sale or use of two-cycle gasoline-powered leaf blowers in counties with population greater than 400,000.
Establishes immunity from prosecution for theft in first degree and civil liability for nonprofit animal rescue entity that takes possession of, keeps and disposes of cat or dog as provided in Act.
Prohibits tolling on state highways until January 2, 2026.
Requires original equipment manufacturer to make available to owner of consumer electronic equipment or independent repair provider on fair and reasonable terms any documentation, tool, part or other device or implement that original equipment manufacturer makes available to authorized service provider for purpose of diagnosing, maintaining or repairing consumer electronic equipment.
Carried from the Senate
Became law5
Directs Department of Human Services to provide specified services to individuals with brain injuries and to convene Brain Injury Advisory Committee.
Requires owner or operator of municipal solid waste incinerator to develop plan for continuous monitoring or sampling of specified emissions for 12 consecutive months.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to adopt and maintain list of designated high priority chemicals of concern used in cosmetic products and to periodically review and revise list.
Requires landlord to allow dwelling to be used as family child care home, subject to conditions.
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.
Passed the Senate1
Allows Department of Revenue to establish electronic means for collection of elector signatures in support of inclusion of entity on schedule of income tax return for purpose of receiving contribution by means of checkoff.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 26
Establishes Oregon Housing Needs Analysis in Oregon Department of Administrative Services.
Broadens public contracting preference for businesses that service-disabled veterans own to include all veteran-owned businesses.
Allows specified persons to distribute and administer short-acting opioid antagonist and distribute kits.
Exempts from required disclosure records concerning cybersecurity plans, devices and systems, including contractual and insurance records setting forth specifications, applications and coverages.
Requires Department of Corrections to establish doula program for pregnant and postpartum adults in custody at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility.
Requires Employment Relations Board to develop guidelines and procedures for authorizations designating bargaining representatives of bargaining unit to be prepared and signed electronically.
Requires that dental and vision are included in health benefits available to part-time faculty members.
Increases penalties for possession of certain amounts of fentanyl.
Modifies Department of Justice crime victim compensation program.
Directs Department of Land and Conservation and Development to convene work group to examine strategies for expanding early learning and care facilities in this state.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Justice for Crime Victim and Survivor Services Division, for distribution to eligible children's advocacy centers.
Expands Housing and Community Services Department ability to allow financing of certain affordable residential units within certain housing developments subject to limits established by Oregon Housing Stability Council.
Provides that use of serial electronic written communication or use of intermediaries to communicate may constitute meeting of governing body subject to public meetings law if other specified conditions are satisfied.
Authorizes governing body of public body to meet in executive session to consider matters relating to safety of governing body, public body staff and public body volunteers and to security of public body facilities and meeting spaces, and relating to cyber security infrastructure and responses to cyber security threats.
Amends Oregon Housing Needs Analysis and land use requirements for local governments related to urbanization.
Prohibits retail pet store from offering to sell or selling dogs or cats.
Directs Oregon Business Development Department to provide financial assistance to eligible applicants to pay for allowable costs related to early child care infrastructure activities.
Directs State Board of Education to adopt rules that allow for reimbursement of school district expenses incurred for alternative transportation costs.
Directs Department of Education to develop and implement statewide education plan for students who are Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander.
Establishes Task Force on Tribal Consultation and specifies task force membership.
Requires Oregon Business Development Department to provide financial assistance to support broadband access, affordability and adoption.
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.
Requires State Department of Energy to report on rate of heat pump technology adoption and to collaborate with designated state agencies to reduce barriers to home energy efficiency and resilience.
Provides, for purposes of certain statutes relating to taking of predatory animals, that term "predatory animal" does not include beavers.
Directs schools or school districts to provide electronic communication to parents and guardians of students attending, and to school district employees employed at, school at which safety threat action occurred.
Directs State Department of Energy to establish program to provide assistance related to energy projects and activities to environmental justice communities.
Out of committee · 21
Authorizes Oregon Business Development Department to provide financial assistance to projects related to industrial land.
Requires individual and group health benefit plans and benefit plans offered by Public Employees' Benefit Board and Oregon Educators Benefit Board to reimburse services provided by naturopathic physicians within scope of their practice if services are reimbursed when provided by licensed physicians.
Appropriates $30,000,000 to Department of Environmental Quality for deposit in Zero-Emission Incentive Fund.
Creates credit against income taxes for selling publicly supported housing to retain as affordable housing.
Modifies definition of "former foster child" for purposes of tuition and fee waiver program, Oregon Opportunity Grant program and foster child scholarship program.
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.
Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to establish, in collaboration with Department of Corrections, Family Preservation Project pilot program at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility.
Transfers jurisdiction of portion of Hall Boulevard to City of Tigard.
Establishes Imagination Library of Oregon Program to provide free book each month to eligible children, encourage children to develop love of reading and learning, and improve third-grade reading proficiency and high school graduation rates.
Removes cap on amounts distributed from State School Fund to school districts for students eligible for special education as children with disabilities.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Justice for deposit into Oregon Domestic and Sexual Violence Services Fund.
Directs Department of Early Learning and Care to establish and adopt by rule child care assistance pilot program to provide assistance and support to long term care employees with child care needs.
Directs Department of Human Services to establish program to provide grants to assist noncitizens who do not possess valid immigration documentation change immigration status or obtain lawful permanent resident status.
Modifies provisions of Department of Transportation wildlife-vehicle collision program.
Establishes Community Green Infrastructure Grant Program.
Authorizes Department of Justice to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault with housing needs.
Requires schools to have wireless panic alert device in each classroom of each school building.
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Business Development Department to award grants to cities and Oregon Indian tribes with high poverty rates for purpose of developing local poverty reduction plans.
Prohibits wagering on greyhound races.
Requires Housing and Community Services Department to provide grants for urban community housing supporting agricultural employees.
Requires Bureau of Labor and Industries to study issues related to working conditions of warehouse workers.
In committee · 14
Requires State Treasurer to exit from certain carbon-intensive investments, subject to fiduciary duties.
Provides that Legislative Assembly finds and declares that home rule cities and counties have constitutional authority to prohibit or limit use of fossil fuels in new buildings or installation of fossil fuel infrastructure.
Clarifies meaning of "because of age" in employment discrimination law.
Prohibits seller from selling or leasing motor vehicle if sale or lease is contingent upon lender's agreement to purchase retail installment contract or lease agreement.
Requires person who owns, operates or controls high energy use facility to ensure that greenhouse gas emissions associated with electricity used by high energy use facility are reduced to 60 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2027, 80 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2030, 90 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2035 and 100 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2040.
Changes term "naloxone" to "short-acting opioid antagonist.".
Allows owner of publicly accessible building or facility to obtain from Oregon Health Authority kit including short-acting opioid antagonist and necessary medical supplies to administer short-acting opioid antagonist for use by members of public.
Changes term "naloxone" to "short-acting opioid antagonist." Allows law enforcement officer, firefighter or emergency medical services provider to distribute multiple kits to specified individuals.
Permits Public Utility Commission to institute one or more proceedings to ensure commission's regulations, rules and orders, and programs overseen by commission, align with greenhouse gas emissions reduction requirements and targets established by statute or executive order, do not impede or delay timely and equitable implementation of greenhouse gas emissions reduction requirements and targets, and mitigate energy burden and risks of stranded assets for residential utility customers.
Permits individual who is 16 or 17 years of age and registered to vote to cast ballot in school district elections.
Provides that person who is registered owner of motor vehicle whose vehicle is registered at address that is within three-mile radius of toll collection facility on Interstate 205 is eligible for limited toll rate.
Provides that unit of government may not assess toll on state highways or interstate highways located in tri-county area unless Department of Transportation conducts and submits equity plan for approval by affected counties.
Prohibits, in specified areas of law, discrimination or harassment against persons based on caste.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Education for State School Fund.