Bills in the 2019 Regular Session, Senate.
Rob Wagner
Sponsored
Became law2
Requires school district to adopt policy requiring comprehensive district plan on student suicide prevention.
Requires school districts to provide instruction about Holocaust and genocide beginning with 2020-2021 school year.
Out of committee1
Establishes Dreamers Access Program to award student loans to eligible students with demonstrated financial need.
In committee2
Requires person to secure permit before purchasing or otherwise receiving firearm.
Authorizes court to include money award in criminal conviction of bribe giving or bribe receiving committed for purpose of admitting individual at public institution of higher education.
Carried from the House
Became law1
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.
Passed the House1
Requires hospitals and long term care facilities to make available to patients and residents plant-based meals when necessary to accommodate medical, religious, cultural or ethnic needs, preferences or requests.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 32
Permits community colleges to offer applied baccalaureate degree programs under specified conditions and upon receiving approval from Higher Education Coordinating Commission.
Repeals sunset on moratorium on oil, gas and sulfur leasing in territorial sea.
Prohibits insurer from receiving reimbursement or subrogation for personal injury protection benefits or health benefits insurer provided to person injured in motor vehicle accident from any recovery injured person obtains in action for damages except to extent that injured person first receives full compensation for injured person's injuries and reimbursement or subrogation is paid only from total amount of recovery in excess of amount that fully compensates for injured person's injuries.
Prohibits law enforcement agencies from employing person as law enforcement officer unless person has completed psychological screening to determine person's fitness to serve as law enforcement officer.
Requires prospective contractor to state in bid or proposal for public contract whether and extent to which prospective contractor will use conflict minerals in performing public contract and whether prospective contractor's disclosures, policies, practices and procedures with respect to procuring conflict minerals comply with Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development's Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas.
Reduces length of time of parental desertion or abandonment of child resulting in forfeiture of parent's intestate share of child's estate or parent's interest in property transferred from child to parent by transfer on death deed in parental forfeiture action to one year if person who would benefit from forfeiture is child or sibling of deceased child or three years for all others.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to collaborate with certain schools and facilities when developing plan for communication following suspected suicide.
Prohibits school district from restricting access by alternative education students, English language learners or special education students to specialized learning areas and certain common areas.
Prohibits Department of Corrections from entering into contract with inmate telephone services provider that authorizes department to receive fee or commission other than reimbursement for expenses.
Specifies certain presumptions as to compensability of covered employee's claim of benefits under workers' compensation law for death, disability or impairment of health .
Directs Oregon Health Authority to design, implement and maintain voluntary statewide program to provide nurse home visiting services to families with infants up to six months of age.
Imposes certain requirements related to private security providers who contract with or are employed by institutions of higher education to provide private security services on campus and special campus security officers commissioned by governing boards of public universities.
Renames crime of intimidation as bias crime.
Prohibits use of cyanide devices to control wildlife.
Makes person holding resident disabled veteran hunting license eligible for additional preference points in controlled hunt permit preference system.
Requires research facilities that use dogs or cats for laboratory research to offer dogs or cats no longer used for research for adoption prior to euthanasia.
Prohibits name of county clerk or filing officer from appearing in official capacity on voters' pamphlet, return identification envelope, secrecy envelope or other ballot information provided to electors if county clerk or filing officer is on ballot.
Establishes Youth Suicide Intervention and Prevention Advisory Committee.
Makes unlawful employment practice for employer to enter agreement that would prevent employee from disclosing or discussing conduct that constitutes unlawful discrimination, including sexual assault.
Authorizes recognized student government of community college or public university, or member of recognized student government, to make statement or issue resolution to promote or oppose gathering of signatures on initiative or referendum petition or adoption of ballot measure.
Requires health benefit plans that cover radiation therapy for cancer to cover proton beam therapy on basis no less favorable than other covered benefits.
Establishes Task Force on Universal Health Care charged with recommending to Legislative Assembly design of Health Care for All Oregon Plan, administered by Health Care for All Oregon Board to provide publicly funded, equitable, affordable, comprehensive and high quality health care to all Oregon residents.
Requires that, to extent provided by Oregon Liquor Control Commission rules, if appellation of origin on wine label is American viticultural area in Oregon that is in larger American viticultural area, label must also identify larger American viticultural area.
Declares purpose of Critical Incident Review Teams.
Exempts graduate students at public universities who qualify for tuition equity from having to pay nonresident tuition.
Requires state to pay for ballot return envelopes that can be returned by business reply mail, or other mailing service determined by Secretary of State to be more cost effective or efficient, for each election held in this state.
Enacts Interstate Compact for Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote.
Directs local mental health authority to notify local systems having contact with deceased individual 24 years of age or younger of suspected suicide if local mental health authority received notice of death from third party.
Provides that form or document issued by public body asking person to identify person's race or ethnicity must allow person to select multiple races or ethnicities .
Permits county clerk to decide whether to conduct hand count of ballots or risk-limiting audit following each primary, general or special election.
Modifies allowed and prohibited uses of restraint of students by public education programs.
Establishes goals that promote zero-emission vehicle use and requires entities of executive department to promote zero-emission vehicle use.
Passed the Senate · 4
Grants higher property tax exemption for property of veterans with service-connected disabilities.
Authorizes formation of children's service districts.
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.
Requires that, to extent provided in Oregon Liquor Control Commission rules, wine using American viticultural area in this state as appellation of origin or implying American viticultural area as source be produced entirely from grapes grown in that American viticultural area.
Out of committee · 20
Requires health benefit plan, other than employer-sponsored plan, that covers cost of pregnancy care and childbirth to cover cost of pregnancy care and childbirth for enrollee who is surrogate.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Higher Education Coordinating Commission for agricultural experiment station and branch stations, Oregon State University Extension Service and Forest Research Laboratory programs of Oregon State University.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Ocean Science Trust, State Department of Fish and Wildlife and Higher Education Coordinating Commission in certain amounts for certain purposes related to ocean chemistry.
Provides that student who legally entered United States under Compact of Free Association treaty between United States and Republic of Palau, Republic of the Marshall Islands or Federated States of Micronesia and who has not previously established residence in any state or territory of United States other than Oregon qualifies for exemption from nonresident tuition and fees at public universities and is eligible to receive state and university scholarships or other financial aid.
Directs Department of Education to conduct audit of use of statewide summative assessment in public schools in this state.
Prohibits State Board of Education, school district or public charter school from requiring student to pass test to demonstrate proficiency in Essential Learning Skills in order to receive diploma.
Establishes Statewide School Safety and Prevention System.
Establishes Outdoor Therapy Grant Program within State Parks and Recreation Department for purpose of awarding grants to enhance outdoor environmental, ecological, agricultural or other natural resource-based therapy programs serving residents of this state.
Directs Youth Development Division to develop and administer statewide youth reengagement system.
Establishes Task Force on Protecting Health Information.
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.
Establishes procedure for aggrieved person, whistleblower or representative organization to bring action in name of state to recover civil penalties for violations of certain laws related to labor and employment.
Amends definition of "employment relations" to include class size and caseload limits as mandatory collective bargaining subjects for school districts.
Establishes Task Force on Forest Health Enhancement to develop recommendations for certain forest-related activities.
Establishes Task Force on Prison Education.
Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission to design question allowing each student to identify whether student is parent or person acting as parent or legal guardian that will be placed on one or more forms used on annual basis to collect demographic information by public post-secondary institutions of education.
Provides that part-time faculty member at public institution of higher education who qualifies for health care benefits will pay 10 percent of insurance premiums for employee coverage and 50 percent of increase in premium cost for employee and dependent coverage.
Requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to report to Department of Consumer and Business Services total amount of money spent on patient assistance programs, information on financial assistance provided to pharmacies, government agencies and advocacy organizations and total amount of financial incentives paid to each pharmacy benefit manager.
Authorizes issuance of general obligation bonds under Article XI-Q of Oregon Constitution for construction of veterans' home in Roseburg, Oregon.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to Curry Health District for emergency room in Curry Medical Center.
In committee · 13
Requires owner or possessor of firearm to secure firearm with trigger or cable lock or in locked container except in specified circumstances.
Adds consumer advocate as nonvoting member of Higher Education Coordinating Commission.
Requires law enforcement agency that takes custody of firearms under firearms surrender protocol to establish procedures to notify certain individuals of law enforcement agency's anticipated return of firearm.
Authorizes juvenile offender charged with offense subject to mandatory minimum sentence, who receives mandatory minimum sentence or other sentence of imprisonment, to be eligible for conditional release after serving at least one-half of sentence imposed.
Repeals $500,000 limitation on awards of noneconomic damages in civil actions seeking damages for bodily injury, death or property damage.
Directs Department of Transportation, in conjunction with Oregon Health Authority, to provide to applicant for driver license written material regarding becoming bone marrow donor.
Provides that action based on sexual assault or knowingly allowing, permitting or encouraging sexual assault that occurs when person is 18 years of age or older must be commenced within seven years from date person discovers, or in exercise of reasonable care should have discovered, causal connection between sexual assault and injury.
Creates crime of unlawful storage of firearm.
Prohibits Secretary of State and county clerks from disclosing as public record, or including on lists of electors, residence address of elector who is candidate for elected office or holder of elected office.
Prohibits sale, purchase or use of pesticide chlorpyrifos.
Expands definition of "family member" for purposes of family and medical leave.
Establishes investigatory procedures for reports of suspected sexual conduct.
Directs Department of Human Services to provide reimbursements for transportation expenses incurred on behalf of foster child if expenses are related to child's continuing participation in extracurricular activities child engaged in prior to child's placement in foster home or child-caring agency.