Bills in the 2024 Regular Session, Senate.
Kim Thatcher
Sponsored
Passed the Senate1
For the part of the state located in the Pacific Time Zone, abolishes the annual one-hour change in time from standard time to daylight saving time and maintains the Pacific Time Zone portion of Oregon on standard time for all 12 months of the calendar year, if California and Washington make the same change within the next 10 years.
In committee1
Exempts from state income tax for a taxpayer who has not attained 63 years of age before the close of the taxable year for which a return is filed and is receiving retirement pay or pension for service in the Armed Forces of the United States up to $17,500 in retirement pay or pension received for service in the Armed Forces of the United States.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 5
Requires school districts, education service districts, community college districts and public universities to make video recordings of governing body meetings or, if the public body's facilities lack broadband Internet access, to make audio recordings, and to post the video or audio recordings, as applicable, of the meetings on their official public body websites or social media sites.
Creates Oregon tax subtraction for amounts received in resolution of a civil action arising from wildfire.
Modifies the crime of interfering with public transportation to include the use of an unlawfully possessed controlled substance while in or on a public transit vehicle.
Increases the cap on amounts held in the Oregon Rainy Day Fund.
Requires an original equipment manufacturer to make available to an owner of consumer electronic equipment or an independent repair provider on fair and reasonable terms any documentation, tool, part or other device or implement that the original equipment manufacturer makes available to an authorized service provider for the purpose of diagnosing, maintaining or repairing consumer electronic equipment.
Out of committee · 1
Requires the Department of Transportation, in partnership with the Westside Express Advisory Committee, to study extending the Westside Express Service commuter line to Salem.
In committee · 7
Allows a school district, an education service district or a public charter school to employ a person who is not licensed or registered with the Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to teach reading to students.
Authorizes district school boards to establish a policy to encourage students to develop vocational skills by performing maintenance tasks for school districts.
Prohibits an abortion unless a health care provider first determines the probable gestational age of the unborn child, except in the case of a medical emergency.
Creates the crime of using a controlled substance in public.
Deletes two bases for a worker to refuse an offer of modified employment without losing temporary total disability benefits.
Increases penalties for possession of a controlled substance.
Makes in-person voting on the date of an election the standard method for conducting an election.