Bills in the 2021 Regular Session, House.
Janelle Bynum
Sponsored
Became law10
Regulates use of chemical incapacitants, kinetic impact projectiles and sound devices by law enforcement agencies.
Modifies police officer's duty to report misconduct.
For purposes of arbitration proceedings concerning alleged misconduct by law enforcement officers, specifies burden of proof necessary for law enforcement agency, or civilian or community oversight board, agency or review body, to show law enforcement officer engaged in misconduct and that any disciplinary action taken against officer was with just cause.
Directs law enforcement unit to participate in National Use-of-Force Data Collection operated by Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Limits authority of school district to become member of voluntary organization that administers interscholastic activities unless organization implements equity focused policies that meet certain requirements.
States legislative findings about racism and public safety.
Declares venue of juvenile proceeding subject to waiver hearing to be county where alleged act was committed.
Creates exception to 28-day time limit for detention of youth if request for waiver hearing is pending.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to provide incentives to increase recruitment and retention of mental health workforce, including pipeline development, scholarships for undergraduates and stipends for graduate students, loan repayments and retention activities.
Modifies statute authorizing law enforcement officers to command dispersal of unlawful assemblies and arrest participants who do not disperse.
Out of committee2
Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to establish program to award grants for restorative justice programs.
Removes certain nonviolent crimes from list of crimes that automatically make person ineligible to hold license or registration issued by Teacher Standards and Practices Commission if person has been convicted of crime.
In committee11
Requires person who arrests another person to ensure arrested person receives medical assessment.
Provides that it is unlawful for governmental authority or agent to engage in pattern or practice that deprives persons of rights, privileges or immunities.
Provides that public safety officer who represents that person is acting as employee or agent of public body is acting in scope of employment for purposes of Oregon Tort Claims Act.
Provides that student who experiences incident of harassment, discrimination or intimidation based on student's race, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability or national origin, has cause of action against school district and perpetrator of incident.
Directs Department of Justice to study issues related to prosecuting crime of riot and to provide results of study to interim committees of Legislative Assembly no later than December 31, 2021.
Provides that employer may not use evidence that public safety officer has been placed on impeachment list for purpose of other investigations or disciplinary action.
Requires Legislative Assembly to provide translator and interpreter services free of charge in order to facilitate witness participation in hearings or informal meetings with one or more members of Legislative Assembly, as required by federal Americans with Disabilities Act, or in conjunction with constituent outreach services.
Requires school districts to ensure that students for whom out-of-school suspensions or expulsions have been imposed receive specified services during suspensions or expulsions.
Requires parties to franchise agreement to deal in good faith and commercially reasonable manner, and specifies required disclosures in franchise sale transaction.
Specifies new grounds that, when established by petitioner, require court to grant post-conviction relief.
Allows court to order joint custody upon finding by court that joint custody is in best interests of child.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 46
Requires school district that is making reductions in educator staff positions to retain teacher with less seniority if release of teacher would result in lesser proportion of teachers with cultural or linguistic expertise.
Expands membership of Public Defense Services Commission from seven to nine members.
Allows Department of Consumer and Business Services to require implicit bias training for mortgage loan originators.
Requires public employers to give preferences to residents of Malheur County for civil service positions if majority of work of position will be performed within Eastern Oregon Border Economic Development Region.
Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to establish program to award grants for restorative justice programs.
Provides that, if Water Resources Commission or Water Resources Department denies stay of final order under certain circumstances and petitioner requests hearing on denial, court must hold hearing not more than 21 days after request is made and denial shall remain in effect until hearing has been held and court has issued decision concerning denial.
Creates program through which certain lenders may, after competitive RFP process, receive award moneys to fund accounts out of which lenders may be reimbursed for principal losses incurred due to defaults on qualified loans to qualified businesses.
Prohibits knowingly communicating materially false statement, including by electronic or telephonic means, with intent to mislead electors about date of election, deadline for delivering ballot, voter registration deadline, method of registering to vote, locations at which elector may deposit ballot, qualifications of electors or voter registration status within 30 days of primary election or special election or within 60 days of general election.
Requires Oregon Business Development Department to distribute moneys in Oregon Rural Capacity Fund to Oregon's Economic Development Districts for purpose of assisting rural jurisdictions to apply for and administer grants and other forms of funding available from any source.
Requires health care providers to work with health care interpreters from health care interpreter registry operated by Oregon Health Authority to provide interpretation services.
Requires transportation network company and taxi company to provide motor vehicle liability insurance policy with personal injury protection benefits to each driver who operates personal motor vehicle in affiliation with transportation network company or taxi in affiliation with taxi company.
Includes in definition of "conversation" communication occurring through video conferencing program for purposes of statutes regulating recording of communications.
Requires state medical assistance program to provide mental health wellness appointments as prescribed by Oregon Health Authority.
Prohibits law enforcement agencies from receiving certain military surplus equipment from federal government.
Directs Governor's Child Foster Care Advisory Commission to establish Child Welfare Equity Advisory Committee to advise commission and Department of Human Services regarding equitable provision of child welfare services.
Prescribes requirements for reimbursement by Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations of health services delivered using telemedicine.
Requires police officers to be trained in airway and circulatory anatomy and physiology and certified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Establishes program to make forgivable loans to reimburse private owner or operator of brownfield for eligible costs incurred in completion of removal or remedial action at brownfield.
Designates second Monday of October of each year as Indigenous Peoples' Day.
Directs Oregon Board of Dentistry to issue dental therapist license to qualified applicant.
Requires school or school district to offer lunches and breakfasts at no charge to student if school or school district meets requirements of special provisions of federal meal program or if student is from household with income that does not exceed 300 percent of federal poverty guidelines.
Establishes Task Force on Student Success for Underrepresented Students in Higher Education.
Allows surviving spouse or disabled heir of individual whose homestead was granted deferral under homestead property tax deferral program to continue deferral without having owned or occupied homestead for five years.
Authorizes electric cooperative to use or allow for use of electric easement in provision of broadband services, subject to certain conditions and exceptions.
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.
Designates April of each year as Arab-American Heritage Month.
Renames Office of Emergency Management as Oregon Department of Emergency Management.
Extends grace period for repayment of nonresidential rent between April 1, 2020, and September 30, 2020, until September 30, 2021, for certain tenants.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to provide funding to peer-run organizations in Portland metropolitan area, southern Oregon region, Oregon coast and eastern and central Oregon region to operate peer respite centers to provide peer respite services to individuals with mental illness or trauma response symptoms who experience acute distress, anxiety or emotional pain that may lead to need for higher level of care.
Requires Board on Public Safety Standards and Training to ensure that police officers and certified reserve officers are trained to investigate, identify and report crimes motivated by prejudice based on perceived gender of victim.
Modifies amount of compensation paid to members of state boards and commissions.
Provides that advisory committees appointed by agency as part of rulemaking must represent interests of persons and communities likely to be affected by rule.
Limits ability of public university to refuse new mandatory incidental fees or process for collecting mandatory incidental fees.
Requires Secretary of State to create and make publicly available list of five most common languages spoken, other than English, by residents of state and of each county.
Establishes Task Force on Corrections Medical Care.
Establishes civil cause of action for improper disclosure of personal information.
Limits certain restrictions by local governments on use of property for child care facilities.
Directs Department of Transportation to create emergency contact information form and make form available for individuals to voluntarily provide emergency contact information for inclusion in individual's motor vehicle record for police officers to use, during or after emergency situations, to contact those listed.
Delays to December 15 date on which interest begins to accrue on first one-third of property taxes, and other related charges, not paid when due on November 15.
Temporarily removes condition for being deemed "unemployed" that individual's weekly remuneration for part-time work must be less than individual's weekly unemployment insurance benefit amount.
Prohibits law enforcement agency from releasing booking photo except in specified circumstances.
Requires every public education provider to provide both tampons and sanitary pads at no cost to students.
Authorizes Housing and Community Services Department to grant moneys to nonprofit organization for ADU community pilot programs that develop accessory dwelling units for income-eligible homeowners and that are available for lease by income-eligible tenants.
Directs Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to adopt standards for educator preparation programs relating to evaluations of teacher candidates.
Provides that third-party food platform may not take and arrange for delivery of order from food place without written consent of food place.
Extends look-back period used to determine Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund solvency level from 10 years to 20 years.
Passed the House · 2
Requires board of directors of publicly traded corporation to have specified proportion of female directors and directors who are members of underrepresented communities.
Allows production of food in planned community by lot owners and their tenants.
Out of committee · 11
Requires advisory committee to Oregon Health Authority and Department of Human Services on collection of data on race, ethnicity, preferred spoken and written languages and disability status to commission study to inventory state agencies' databases used to compile data on race, ethnicity, language and disability status, ability readiness of data systems to collect data, cost to collect data, needed upgrades to data systems and which data systems are priority for upgrades.
Directs Higher Education Coordinating Commission to conduct needs assessment identifying current mental health provider education programs and curricula offered at community colleges and public universities.
Amends apprenticeship statutes to permit establishment of firefighter apprentice program.
Extends and modifies tax credits for donations for individual development accounts.
Extends sunset of pilot program for provision of legal services to adults in custody serving sentences at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility.
Establishes Task Force on Age Discrimination.
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.
Expands infrastructure of, access to and services provided in statewide coordinated crisis services system including 9-8-8 suicide prevention and behavioral health crisis hotline.
Establishes Equity Investment and Accountability Board and Equity Investment and Accountability Office within office of Governor to provide equity oversight of cannabis industry in this state.
Increases maximum amount of tax credits for certified film production development contributions that may be certified for fiscal year for all taxpayers.
Extends sunset for authorization to Department of Justice to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault with housing needs until January 2, 2024.
In committee · 15
Allows land division to separate dwelling units for new middle housing allowed in cities.
Allows persons convicted of felony to register to vote, update voter registration and vote in elections while incarcerated.
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.
Removes entering or remaining unlawfully in or on public transit vehicle or public transit station as manner of committing crime of interfering with public transportation.
Provides that licensed optometrist may perform specified ophthalmic surgery procedures.
Requires delivery of certain land use notices to property owners and to properties within wider geographic range.
Allows counties to authorize construction of accessory dwelling units on lands zoned for rural residential use.
Requires voter registration cards and electronic voter registration system to include option for person to identify race, ethnicity and preferred language of person.
Requires employers of employees who engage in outdoor work activities to take certain actions to mitigate employee's risk of exposure to unhealthy air quality from wildfire smoke.
Establishes BIPOC health care provider loan forgiveness program within Oregon Health Authority to provide loan repayment subsidies to BIPOC health care providers.
Requires sentencing court to consider as mitigation evidence defendant was subjected to domestic abuse that was significant factor in criminal behavior.
Provides court with discretion to appoint counsel for child or children in hearings related to domestic relations, custody or support, parentage or habeas corpus.
Requires Legislative Assembly to provide translator and interpreter services free of charge in order to facilitate witness participation in hearings or informal meetings with one or more members of Legislative Assembly, as required by federal Americans with Disabilities Act, or in conjunction with constituent outreach services.
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.
Declares racism as public health crisis in this state.