Bills in the 2023 Regular Session, Senate.
David Brock Smith
Sponsored
Became law3
Declares intent of Legislative Assembly to displace competition under state action doctrine to allow public cargo or passenger port located in this state and any other public port, including member of Northwest Marine Terminal Association, to coordinate, reach agreements on and implement action that is within port's authority, including actions to specify rates and charges, rules, practices and procedures with respect to cargo and passenger service operations and planning, development, management, marketing, operations and uses of public port facilities.
Directs Environmental Quality Commission to adopt rules setting forth conditions for approving proposal to permanently connect accessory dwelling unit located on same lot or parcel as single-family dwelling to same subsurface sewage disposal system or alternative sewage disposal system.
Instructs State Forestry Department to endeavor to partner with federal agencies to undertake certain activities in federal forests related to fire prevention and request that federal agencies fund portions of activities.
Passed the Senate1
Restores staggering of terms of county commissioners in certain circumstances.
Out of committee9
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to State Forestry Department for purposes related to plant disease Sudden Oak Death.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to Southern Coos Hospital and Health Center for purpose of paying for engineering costs related to facility expansion.
Directs State Forestry Department to establish pilot grant program for purpose of managing wildfire risk by promoting use of air curtains by persons that make biochar.
Changes expenditure limitation for grant to Port of Port Orford to biennium beginning July 1, 2023.
Requires Land Conservation and Development Commission to adopt rules by January 1, 2026, to allow soil bioengineering systems for shoreline stabilization.
Appropriates moneys to Invasive Species Council, out of General Fund, for certain purposes.
Directs Oregon Department of Emergency Management to develop and implement grant program to distribute moneys to certain counties to fund emergency preparedness coordinators.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to Umpqua Fishery Enhancement Derby to facilitate salmonid habitat restoration projects .
Authorizes issuance of general obligation bonds under Article XI-Q of Oregon Constitution for construction of veterans' home in Roseburg, Oregon.
In committee60
Requires person that provides public access to pornography to verify that resident individual is 18 years of age or older before granting access.
Establishes $100 limit on campaign contributions that may be accepted by candidates.
Prohibits counties from allowing use of certain new dwellings on resource lands as vacation occupancies.
Permits Electrical and Elevator Board to determine fitness of person who holds journeyman electrician license or equivalent license issued by governmental authority that regulates electrical trades in another state.
Removes requirement that adequate repository for terminal disposition of high-level radioactive waste be licensed as precondition for issuance of site certificate for nuclear-fueled thermal power plant.
Directs Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to ensure nontraditional pathways to licensure are available for prospective career and technical education teachers and to provide accommodations or otherwise reduce licensure requirements for licensed career and technical education teachers, or prospective and technical education teachers, who live in rural areas.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to Beacon Broadband for development of broadband service infrastructure in southern Oregon coast region.
Allows electors of county to approve measure allowing use of dogs for hunting, pursuing or taking cougars within county.
Requires that court award damages for cost of replanting to plaintiff prevailing against federal government or contractor in action for injury to private land arising from fire originating on federal forestland.
Prohibits athletic organizations from designating, classifying, naming or categorizing as specific for females certain athletic activities for which participation is permitted by persons whose biological sex is male.
Provides that small forestland owner that planted trees under reforestation requirements may harvest trees.
Requires Department of State Lands to study creation of credits for restoration of salmon habitat.
Directs Department of Environmental Quality to notify Attorney General if air quality index readings for area of state reach 250 or higher during seven consecutive days and cause is believed to be wildfire originating on lands owned by United States.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to State Department of Agriculture for deposit in Wolf Management Compensation and Proactive Trust Fund.
Directs State Department of Fish and Wildlife to include relocation of beavers from western Oregon to central and eastern Oregon in program for voluntarily relocating beavers.
Removes requirement that adequate repository for terminal disposition of high-level radioactive waste be licensed as precondition for issuance of site certificate for nuclear-fueled thermal power plant.
Removes small modular reactor power plants from regulation of energy facilities by Energy Facility Siting Council.
Requires Oregon State University to study use of thorium as nuclear fuel in nuclear power plant.
Prohibits local governments from prohibiting or limiting residential use of energy sources.
Directs Legislative Policy and Research Office to distribute to interim committees of Legislative Assembly summary of administrative rules that have been adopted in previous two years that are relevant to subject of interim committee.
Requires State Department of Fish and Wildlife to operate program in southwest Oregon to control populations of species that prey on salmon.
Directs State Department of Fish and Wildlife, in consultation with Department of State Lands and State Parks and Recreation Department, to establish grant program for purpose of encouraging use of seaweed as feed for livestock.
Requires State Department of Fish and Wildlife to allow person meeting criteria to hunt game mammals using crossbow.
Appropriates moneys to Housing and Community Services Department to replace manufactured dwellings in specified counties.
Prohibits public body from disclosing to federal governmental entity information concerning firearm transfer or concealed handgun license.
Repeals statute authorizing civil suits challenging reasonableness of local laws regulating camping by persons experiencing homelessness.
Requires State Forestry Department to establish by rule pilot grant program for purpose of managing wildfire risk by certain methods.
Requires Department of State Lands to petition United States Congress for transfer of certain public lands.
Prohibits state agency from enforcing rules requiring vaccination against COVID-19.
Creates income or corporate excise tax credit for taxpayer that employs youth through Oregon Youth Employment Program.
Prohibits Department of Justice from charging officers and agencies of state government for assistance rendered.
Extends sunset date of enterprise zone program.
Provides that Oregon Health Authority may not adopt rules requiring immunization against COVID-19 as condition of attendance in any school, children's facility or post-secondary institution of education.
Prohibits Department of Corrections from paying for or providing, directly or indirectly, gender-affirming care to individuals in custody of correctional facility in this state.
Expands attorney fee award for prevailing applicants to include any person developing needed housing whose approval is appealed to Land Use Board of Appeals.
Prohibits not-for-profit corporations that receive moneys directly from state from making political contributions to candidates or political committees during biennium in which corporation receives state moneys.
Requires county clerk to ensure that any board or other entity established to assist county clerk in fulfilling official duties contains equal numbers of volunteers from each major political party.
Establishes Broadband Service Infrastructure Program within Oregon Broadband Office for purpose of offsetting cost of planning and developing high speed broadband service infrastructure in unserved and underserved areas.
Allows credit against net income taxes for portion of eligible costs of newly constructed single-family dwelling that sells for price affordable to household with annual income at or below 120 percent of area median income.
Imposes tax on use by electric vehicles of highways in Oregon measured by miles traveled between registration dates at rate equivalent to gasoline tax owed by motor vehicle getting 30 miles per gallon.
Establishes certain limitation on projects under Good Neighbor Authority Agreement.
Establishes certain additional requirements concerning projects under Good Neighbor Authority Agreement.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to City of Port Orford for water recycling.
Authorizes ports to assess public bodies for share of costs of removing sediment from port waters.
Establishes Ocean Beach Fund.
Requires State Department of Energy to study energy facilities.
Requires Oregon Business Development Department, in consultation with State Treasurer, to study funding and incentive opportunities for state energy industry.
Requires State Department of Energy to study policies for supporting development of renewable hydrogen industry in Oregon.
Requires additional cities to develop urban reserves.
Amends certain land division criteria and processes.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Department of Administrative Services for biennium beginning July 1, 2023, to provide transportation services to Roseburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center for veterans residing in Coos and Curry Counties.
Provides that state agency may not adopt rules without statutory authority.
Authorizes counties to allow contiguous clustered nonresource dwellings on clustered development tract in lieu of approval of individual nonresource dwellings on farm, forest or mixed farm and forest use.
Requires Legislative Policy and Research Office to study methods for legislative oversight of administrative rules.
Requires Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission to study options available for use of marijuana tax revenues for funding law enforcement programs directed at cannabis-related offenses.
Increases speed limit on Interstate 5 and on other highways.
Prohibits Department of Environmental Quality from imposing effluent limitations or other requirements in seafood processing wastewater permit that are more stringent than requirements established under federal law or that would result in substantial and widespread economic and social impacts on coastal communities.
Requires State Department of Energy to study energy efficiency.
Requires person who operates website or online service for commercial purposes that collects consumers' personally identifiable information to develop, maintain and implement data management practices policy and post policy or link to policy prominently on website or online service home page.
Authorizes any person to submit complaint to Department of Environmental Quality if person reasonably believes that camping site of homeless individuals is causing discharge of wastes into state waters.
Carried from the House
Became law10
Makes certain changes to calculation of small forestland owner tax credit.
Aligns criteria for alteration, restoration or replacement of dwellings on lands zoned for forest use consistent with criteria applicable to dwellings on lands zoned for farm use.
Changes terms of members of board of property tax appeals from one year to two years.
Instructs State Fire Marshal to establish Rural Structural Fire Protection Review Committee to review certain provisions concerning structural fire protection and report on review and related recommendations to one or more relevant committees or interim committees of Legislative Assembly on or before September 15, 2024.
Confers exclusive jurisdiction on Oregon Tax Court for judicial review of questions arising under local government tax laws that impose taxes on or measured by net income.
Extends time during which recreational vehicle may be sited on lot with single-family dwelling that was damaged by natural disaster.
Cancels outstanding ad valorem property taxes and interest assessed on property transferred from federal government to port district.
Authorizes State Department of Fish and Wildlife to waive certain requirements for black bass and walleye angling competitions if department determines that limiting black bass or walleye populations would benefit native fish species or ecological health of body of water.
Allows local government to adopt land use exception to Goal 16 under certain conditions for applications for deep draft navigation channel improvements in Oregon International Port of Coos Bay.
Authorizes local governments to allow, prohibit, require zone change for or subject to conditional use permit development of certain affordable housing on certain lands within tsunami inundation zones or 100-year floodplains.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 22
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.
Adds members of household and domestic partner of candidate to list of persons who may not be employed to open ballot envelopes, handle ballots, prepare ballots for counting or count ballots.
Removes prohibition against sale, offer for sale, maintenance or control of female cattle of beef breed that have not been vaccinated against brucellosis.
Requires certain cities and communities in Tillamook County to allow middle housing on residentially zoned lands, to adopt housing production strategies and to accommodate estimated housing needs upon lands inventoried as buildable lands.
Directs Department of Human Services to provide specified services to individuals with brain injuries and to convene Brain Injury Advisory Committee.
Directs State Department of Agriculture to adopt rules allowing donation of meat to charitable organizations and other organizations that offer food for noncommercial purposes.
Allows exclusion from taxable estate for value of interest in farm, forestry or fishing business.
Makes certain changes to farm direct marketing law.
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 provisions relating to sales of homemade foods.
Amends requirements relating to wildfire hazard mitigation for development of accessory dwelling units on lands zoned for rural residential use.
Provides that year in which Governor declares that drought exists, or is likely to exist, within county does not count toward period of time for forfeiture of water right for nonuse for holder of water right within county.
Requires Department of Education to conduct study to identify how to increase access to advanced instruction for purpose of preparing students for college and career.
Modifies duration of Family Abuse Prevention Act restraining orders .
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.
Authorizes Environmental Quality Commission to adopt rules for determining whether community or area-wide sewerage system is available for purposes of sewage disposal system construction permit.
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.
Permits counties to allow certain rural homeowners to site one recreational vehicle on their property.
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.
Directs Department of Early Learning and Care to establish and administer by rule pilot program for child care micro centers.
Modifies crimes related to involuntary servitude and human trafficking.
Passed the Senate · 6
Prescribes information related to courses of study offered by school district that district school board must ensure is provided on school district's website.
Allows specified production of food in planned community by lot owners and their tenants.
Requires Department of Education to conduct study to determine how to integrate instruction on identification and prevention of sex trafficking into academic content standards.
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.
Directs Director of Department of Revenue to reimburse worker leasing company for any employer contribution payments made by worker leasing company if Department of Revenue determines pursuant to amended combined quarterly report that refund is due.
Authorizes county to allow homestead rebuilt by same owner on same lot to replace homestead destroyed by September 2020 wildfires to have specially assessed value equal to destroyed homestead's real market value for 2020-2021 property tax year, to extent of square footage of destroyed homestead.
Out of committee · 11
Creates crime of patronizing a trafficked child.
Removes annual limit of $1.53 million, adjusted for inflation, on allocations from Administrative Services Economic Development Fund to County Fair Account.
Creates refundable income tax credit for certain child care workers.
Requires Department of Human Services to contract with up to two agencies providing agency with choice services.
Establishes pilot program to provide funding to school districts for purposes of increasing access to schools by homeless students and improving academic achievement of homeless students.
Establishes state policy that meaningful share of benefits from offshore wind energy development go to local and regional communities, ecosystems and environments and economies and that interconnection of offshore energy projects be carried out in manner that promotes electric grid reliability and resilience.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to State Parks and Recreation Department for planning and coordination to continue to develop, maintain or work toward completion of Oregon Coast Trail.
Directs State Board of Forestry to convey certain state forest lands to county that determines that county would secure greatest permanent value of lands to county and requests conveyance.
Grants higher property tax exemption for property of veterans with disabilities.
Instructs forester, or forest protective association or agency that is under contract or agreement with State Board of Forestry for protection of forestland against fire, and whose protection area is or may be affected by fire on nearby federal lands, to take certain actions to address fire.
Provides that maximum loading weight of motorboat means factory-specified dry gross weight of motorboat.
In committee · 47
Creates Oregon personal income tax subtraction for amounts received for renting out room in taxpayer's home.
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.
Establishes Department of the Oregon Public Safety Reserve Force to employ retired law enforcement officers and corrections officers and law enforcement officers and corrections officers from other states to serve in reserve force for local law enforcement units and Department of Corrections.
Increases exempt amount and filing threshhold for purposes of corporate activity tax.
Repeals those provisions of Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act of 2020 (Ballot Measure 110 (2020)) that pertain to decriminalization of possession of drugs.
Allows student who is resident of state to attend any public school of state.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to engage independent auditor to analyze expenditures from Drug Treatment and Recovery Services Fund for mental health purposes.
Establishes procedure for charging aggravated version of certain assault and attempted murder offenses when defendant causes permanent physical injury to victim during commission of crime.
Establishes subtraction from personal taxable income for eligible rental payments made by eligible renters.
Establishes tax rate for taxable income from partnerships, S corporations and sole proprietorships.
Establishes Rural Traffic Safety Grant Fund to provide grants to rural cities for installation and improvement of traffic control devices and crosswalks.
Allows personal income taxpayer to subtract from taxable income amounts paid as interest on qualified education loans, if income does not exceed threshold amount.
Allows person taking certain nuisance game mammals to offer meat to charitable organization or retain meat.
Creates crime of unlawful disclosure of information about victim of sexual assault or sex trafficking.
Exempts from state income tax retirement pay or pension received as result of service in Armed Forces of the United States.
Exempts from state income for taxpayers 62 years of age or younger receiving retirement pay or pension for service in Armed Forces of the United States up to $17,500 in retirement pay or pension received for service in Armed Forces of the United States and up to $17,500 in retirement pay or pension received from other sources.
Requires school officials to provide parents or guardians of student who was subjected to act of harassment, intimidation or bullying or act of cyberbullying with notification that describes actions of school in responding to report of act of harassment, intimidation or bullying or act of cyberbullying.
Prohibits individual from collecting and returning ballot of another individual, subject to specified exceptions.
Requires Department of Education to transfer funds to school districts necessary to pay for school resource officers.
Establishes durational limits for states of emergency declared under certain statutes.
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.
Prevents local governments from prohibiting natural gas use in or availability for new or existing residential or commercial buildings.
Creates crime of controlled substances homicide.
Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to classify crime of felon in possession of a firearm as crime category 8.
Appropriates $50 million to State Forestry Department to fund increased forest thinning operations in specified wildfire-prone counties.
Removes requirement that State Forestry Department oversee development of statewide map of wildfire risk.
Provides, for purposes of ad valorem property taxation, frozen assessed value for homestead of individual at least 68 years of age, or person with disability, if homestead and individual would be eligible for homestead property tax deferral program but for fact that homestead is pledged as security for reverse mortgage.
Allows certain local governments to amend urban growth boundaries to include lands to be used for needed housing.
Requires State Forester to actively manage state forestlands to achieve and maintain low forest fuel load levels.
Requires that all executive clemency actions by Governor be initiated by application and follow specified procedures.
Requires course instruction provided as part of health education curriculum to include information about human development from conception to birth.
Requires Public Utility Commission to study rate impacts associated with implementing reduction of greenhouse gas emissions required by House Bill 2021 (2021).
Allows recreational vehicle used to provide security of farm use to be sited on lands zoned for exclusive farm use.
Establishes criteria for determining existence or lack of new ground water use impairment or interference with water right having earlier priority date.
Exempts collection, storage or use of diffuse surface water from falling rain, melting snow or other precipitation from requirement to obtain water right permit or certificate.
Declares that policy of state is to include atmospheric carbon sequestered by lands and waters of state in calculation to determine progress towards greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals.
Restores offense levels for unlawful possession of controlled substance offenses to levels that existed prior to enactment of House Bill 2355 (2017) and Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act of 2020 (Ballot Measure 110 (2020)).
Increases statute of limitations for first degree sex crimes to 20 years after commission of crime or, for minor victim, any time before victim attains 30 years of age, whichever occurs later.
Separates possession, delivery and manufacture of fentanyl from general controlled substance offense statute into separate statutes.
Requires Department of Revenue to make surplus revenue refunds, known as "kicker" refunds, in form of check.
Directs Legislative Assembly to allocate moneys to members for distribution.
Requires that sex offender risk assessment methodology take into consideration specified information.
Defines "victim" for purposes of release of sex offender information by Department of State Police.
Requires Oregon Health Policy Board to produce and provide to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to health by December 31, 2024, comprehensive report regarding success in achieving aims of Oregon Integrated and Coordinated Health Care Delivery System.
Requires Department of Land Conservation and Development to study urban reserves.
Abolishes annual one-hour change in time from standard time to daylight saving time and maintains Oregon on standard time for all 12 months of calendar year, except in portion of Oregon in Mountain Time Zone.
Sets $100 cap each year on sum of contributions that can be received by candidate or committee in cash from any source.