Bills in the 2021 Regular Session, House.
Suzanne Weber
Sponsored
In committee1
Allows specified local governments to coordinate in planning for housing needs.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 12
Requires each public university and community college to prominently display mandatory fees charged.
Authorizes Department of Human Services to award two-year grants to organizations that provide services to unaccompanied homeless youth and to organizations that operate host home projects for unaccompanied homeless youth.
Imposes tsunami design standards for certain buildings and other structures.
Requires education provider to prohibit display of any symbols of hate on school property or in education program.
Modifies CASA Volunteer Programs to direct Oregon Department of Administrative Services to contract with nongovernmental entity to serve as statewide coordinating entity for provision of court appointed special advocate services.
Directs State Department of Agriculture to establish grant program to fund upgrades to establishments expected to operate under program of state meat inspection, construction of new establishments expected to operate under program of state meat inspection and expansion of certain establishments that operate under program of federal inspection.
Renames Office of Emergency Management as Oregon Department of Emergency Management.
Defines "adult use cannabis item," "artificially derived cannabinoid," "delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol" and "total delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol" for statutes related to marijuana and industrial hemp.
Specifies behavioral health treatment that must be provided by coordinated care organizations and covered by group health insurance and individual health plans and restricts utilization review criteria for behavioral health treatment.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of State Lands, State Department of Fish and Wildlife and Higher Education Coordinating Commission in certain amounts for certain purposes related to ocean chemistry.
Requires mental health care provider who assesses minor to be at imminent and serious threat of attempting suicide to disclose relevant information to parent, guardian or other individuals to engage in safety planning.
Requires every public education provider to provide both tampons and sanitary pads at no cost to students.
Out of committee · 3
Permits adopted former foster children to have amount of tuition and all fees waived if attending defined institutions of higher education for purposes of pursuing initial undergraduate degree.
Directs Legislative Policy and Research Director to conduct study to collect and interpret data to enable legislators to develop understanding of students' instructional needs caused by school closures due to COVID-19 pandemic.
Removes requirement that amount of net proceeds from Oregon State Lottery allocated to County Fair Account not exceed $1.53 million annually.
In committee · 14
Provides that licensed optometrist may perform specified ophthalmic surgery procedures.
Requires health care practitioner to exercise proper degree of care to preserve health and life of child born alive after abortion or attempted abortion.
Directs Public Employees Retirement Board to initiate, resume or suspend payment of certain increased benefits under Public Employees Retirement System on first day of calendar quarter following receipt of notice by board that benefit payments are or are not subject to Oregon personal income tax.
Establishes state policy that career and technical education is provided through seamless system that begins at secondary school level and progresses to post-secondary career and technical education institutions, community colleges and apprenticeship programs.
Limits types of restrictions that Governor may impose on certain businesses during state of emergency related to COVID-19 pandemic.
Prohibits discrimination in places of public accommodation on basis of person's medical history.
Directs Department of Corrections to continue to operate Shutter Creek Correctional Institution.
Establishes temporary limitations on lenders' remedies for borrowers' failures to make payments on obligations secured by mortgages, trust deeds or land sale contracts for certain real property.
Requires each public school to provide full-time, in-person classroom instruction during 2021-2022 school year.
Requires Secretary of State to establish electronic filing system to allow candidates for nomination or election to county or city office held at primary or general election to file portrait and statement electronically with secretary if candidate cannot have portrait and statement printed in county voters' pamphlet.
Directs Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services to repeal all permanent rules adopted by director in connection with addressing COVID-19 public health emergency in all Oregon workplaces.
Prohibits public body from issuing COVID-19 vaccine passport.
Prohibits public institution of education or educational employee from requiring, compelling, coercing or otherwise directing student to acknowledge, affirm, declare, confess, state or in any way act in accordance with belief that any race, ethnicity, color, sex, gender, religion or national origin is inherently superior or inferior to another, that individual may be discriminated against or treated in different manner on basis of individual's membership in particular group or classification, or that any individual, by virtue of individual's membership in particular group or classification, endorses, benefits uniquely from or is inherently responsible for actions that other individuals with membership in same group or classification have taken.
Requires Department of Consumer and Business Services to develop and implement program to make return-to-work incentive payments to employees.