Bills in the 2021 Regular Session, House.
Paul Holvey
Sponsored
Became law7
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.
Extends timeline for filing complaint with Commissioner of Bureau of Labor and Industries alleging retaliation or discrimination for reporting unlawful practices or exercising certain rights relating to safety and health in workplace.
Provides that, during statutorily declared emergency, Governor may authorize Director of Department of Revenue to disclose certain information set forth in tax report or return to Director of Employment Department if Director of Department of Revenue determines that administration of any federal or state law or program requires disclosure to enable Employment Department to verify identity or income level of any person for purposes related to emergency or any consequences of emergency.
Permits chief administrative law judge to require implied consent hearing to be conducted by telephone or other two-way communication device if judge determines that meeting in person poses significant risk to health or safety.
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 covered organization from collecting, using or disclosing personal health data about resident individual who has not given affirmative express consent for collection, use or disclosure unless in context of employment relationship or to comply with legal obligation, or unless personal health data was lawfully available to public from federal, state or local government records, was collected before emergency period for reasons other than tracking, monitoring or tracing resident individual's exposure to or infection by SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19 or has been deidentified in accordance with federal law.
Extends look-back period used to determine Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund solvency level from 10 years to 20 years.
Out of committee4
Imposes severance tax on owner of timber at time of harvest at five percent of value of timber.
Creates Oregon Independent Science Review Board.
Directs Housing and Community Services Department to make grants to nonprofit organizations, housing authorities or government agencies that sponsor or manage homeownership programs in amounts sufficient to fund services of housing counselor to each eligible grantor that requests resolution conference with beneficiary or contacts department to request services of housing counselor.
Lowers number of actions to foreclose trust deed by advertisement and sale or by suit that beneficiary may commence during preceding calendar year and still claim exemption from requirement to participate in resolution conference with borrower that has failed to pay amount due on obligation secured by residential real property.
In committee17
Prohibits sale of products that make deceptive or misleading claims about recyclability.
Provides that prevailing rate of wage for trade or occupation in locality is rate of wage set forth in collective bargaining agreement for trade or occupation in locality or, if more than one collective bargaining agreement covers trade or occupation in locality, highest rate of wage among collective bargaining agreements for trade or occupation in locality.
Directs those agencies that administer certain state laws to use specific criteria to determine whether individual is employee or independent contractor and to cooperate in adopting rules to facilitate consistency in application of definition of independent contractor and provisions of Act.
Authorizes Public Utility Commission to consider differential energy burden and other inequities of affordability in rates.
Requires short term health insurance policies to cover essential health benefits.
Prescribes grace periods for payment of premiums on certain types of health insurance.
Reduces number of districts within which public works project may be performed for purposes of applying prevailing rate of wage from 14 to 5.
Imposes severance tax on all timber harvested from public and private forestland.
Provides that employer signatories to multiemployer collective bargaining agreements are considered to have met minimum requirements of sick time provisions if terms of collective bargaining agreement provide, as benefit to employees subject to agreement, sick leave policy or other paid time off program that is substantially equivalent to or more generous than minimum requirements of sick time provisions.
Lowers estimated contract price at which apprentice utilization requirements apply to public improvement contracts with state contracting agencies from $1 million to $200,000 and raises percentage of work hours that apprentices must perform from 12 percent to 15 percent.
Requires bidder for public improvement contract to demonstrate to contracting agency as part of responsibility determination that bidder provides health benefit plan or health insurance and retirement benefit plan to bidder's employees, if public improvement contract or subcontract related to public improvement contract has contract price that exceeds $200,000.
Declares harmful algal blooms to be menace to public health and welfare.
Includes insurance in definition of real estate, goods and services that are subject to penalties for unlawful trade practices.
Permits insured or beneficiary who suffers ascertainable loss of money or property that results from insurer's commission or performance of unfair claim settlement practice to bring action to recover insured's or beneficiary's actual damages or statutory damages of $200, whichever is greater.
Transfers certain duties, functions and powers related to state building code and Building Codes Division from Department of Consumer and Business Services to Bureau of Labor and Industries.
Provides that court may not stay or prohibit federal home loan bank from exercising rights to collateral pledged by insurer-member that is subject to delinquency proceeding.
Imposes severance tax on owner of timber harvested from public or private forestland.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Allows holder of direct shipment permit to ship up to five cases of wine, each containing not more than nine liters, per month to Oregon resident.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 44
Defines "emergency shelter." Requires local governments to allow siting of qualifying emergency shelters by qualifying entities notwithstanding land use laws and regulations.
Requires retail electricity providers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with electricity sold to Oregon consumers to 80 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2030, 90 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2035 and 100 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2040.
Directs State Department of Fish and Wildlife to adopt by rule and administer program for authorizing voluntary projects for stream restoration and habitat improvement through construction of environmental restoration weirs.
Provides that lawful units of land whose property lines are relocated by certain judgments remain lawful units.
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 persons that have responsibility for or control over packaging and labeling premoistened nonwoven disposable wipes with specified characteristics to comply with certain labeling requirements for product packaging.
Amends requirements and deadlines for sales of manufactured dwelling facilities.
Permits claims against insurance assets of dissolved business entities notwithstanding certain time limitations that otherwise would bar claims.
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.
Requires Department of Consumer and Business Services to adopt rules to establish minimum standards and statewide consistency in electronic processes for reviewing plans, issuing permits and performing field inspections.
Expands crisis stabilization services, including crisis stabilization centers meeting criteria adopted by Oregon Health Authority by rule, short-term respite facilities, peer respite centers, behavioral health urgent care walk-in centers and crisis hotline center.
Directs Oregon Homeland Security Council to develop updated list of equipment for purposes of emergency preparedness equipment grant program.
Includes in definition of "conversation" communication occurring through video conferencing program for purposes of statutes regulating recording of communications.
Authorizes Public Utility Commission to consider differential energy burden and other inequities of affordability in rates.
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.
Allows school districts to use moneys distributed from Student Investment Account for payment of student fees, costs and instructors of career and technical student organization programs.
Requires each public university and community college to prominently display mandatory fees charged.
Requires agencies to send copies of reports on public access sites to State Marine Board and for board to make reports public, including by hosting map of reported sites on website.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to provide planning grants to 10 school districts or education service districts to evaluate need and develop plans for school-based health services.
Limits cost-sharing for health benefit plan coverage of insulin prescribed for treatment of diabetes.
Authorizes electric cooperative to use or allow for use of electric easement in provision of broadband services, subject to certain conditions and exceptions.
Prohibits moving voter to inactive status due to voter not voting or updating voter registration for any period of time.
Requires education provider to prohibit display of any symbols of hate on school property or in education program.
Requires that real estate continuing education courses include information on state and federal fair housing laws.
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.
Allows student enrolled in program provided by school district or education service district to earn General Educational Development (GED) certificate to participate in interscholastic activities.
Requires each community college and public university to hire benefits navigator to assist students in determining eligibility and applying for federal, state and local benefits programs.
Establishes Healthy Homes Program within the Oregon Health Authority to provide grants to entities to provide financial assistance to low income households and landlords.
Requires city that provides disability or retirement system for firefighters by ordinance or charter that is not subject to workers' compensation law to apply provisions requiring presumption that condition or impairment of health is occupational disease that results from employment if firefighter took physical examination upon gaining or during employment that failed to reveal evidence of occupational disease that existed before employment.
Allows pharmacist to prescribe, dispense and administer preexposure prophylactic antiretroviral therapies and post-exposure prophylactic antiretroviral therapies.
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.
Changes name of Early Learning Division to Department of Early Learning and Care.
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.
Authorizes State Department of Fish and Wildlife to operate wildlife inspection stations for purposes of preventing spread of infections or infestations harmful to wildlife or of furthering wildlife management efforts.
Designates May 22 of each year as Crater Lake National Park Day.
Prohibits spreading of material in undisturbed wetlands during maintenance of agricultural channels.
Directs State Fish and Wildlife Commission to adopt certain requirements related to carcasses of returning hatchery fish.
Prohibits Department of Consumer and Business Services from outlawing in state building code certain uses of specific refrigerants authorized under federal law.
Prohibits law enforcement agency or public body from denying services, benefits, privileges or opportunities to certain individuals on basis of federal civil immigration actions, inquiring about individual's citizenship status without connection to criminal investigation or providing information about individual in custody to federal immigration authority.
Requires every public education provider to provide both tampons and sanitary pads at no cost to students.
Renames Health Care for All Oregon Children program as Cover All People program and expands eligibility to adults who would qualify for Medicaid-funded state medical assistance program but for their immigration status.
Provides that third-party food platform may not take and arrange for delivery of order from food place without written consent of food place.
Authorizes Department of Environmental Quality to require certain information related to history of compliance with environmental quality laws from applicant for license or permit.
Passed the House · 6
Establishes Sound Forestry Practices Subaccount and Family Forestlands Subaccount as subaccounts of State Forestry Department Account.
Revises provisions relating to chemicals in children's products.
Allows exception to requirement for property tax exemption that property of industry apprenticeship or training trust be actually and exclusively occupied and used for purposes of industry apprenticeship or training trust for occasional use by corporation exempt from federal income tax for purposes for which corporation is granted federal exemption.
Modifies membership of State Marine Board.
Prohibits person from conducting or participating in contest, competition, tournament or derby that has objective of taking coyotes for cash or prizes.
Incorporates certain provisions of federal Indian Child Welfare Act into Oregon laws relating to youth offenders adjudicated for status offenses and to voluntary adoptions.
Out of committee · 6
Prohibits employers from permitting, requiring or suffering agricultural workers to work in excess of certain maximum hours in one workweek unless workers are compensated for overtime hours worked.
Directs Oregon Homeland Security Council to establish program to create Oregon Critical Disaster Preparedness Stockpile to ensure robust stock of emergency supplies and equipment.
Requires that statewide land use planning goal relating to citizen involvement address participation and engagement for disadvantaged groups.
Requires owner or possessor of firearm to secure firearm with trigger or cable lock, in locked container or in gun room except in specified circumstances.
Establishes Small Donor Elections Program to enable candidates for office of state Representative and state Senator to receive 6-to-1 match on small dollar donations.
Establishes product stewardship program for household hazardous waste.
In committee · 6
Directs Legislative Policy and Research Office to study issues related to funding construction of wildlife corridor road crossings and report to appropriate committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly on or before September 15, 2022.
Permits person who will be 17 years old on date of primary election and 18 years old on date of general election to vote at primary election for candidates of major political party with which person is affiliated if major political party has adopted rule to this effect.
Requires statement of economic interest to include certain information about sources of income for business in which public official or candidate, or member of household of public official or candidate, is officer, holds directorship or does business under if source of income has legislative or administrative interest and 10 percent or more of total gross annual income of business comes from that source of income.
Prohibits candidate or principal campaign committee of candidate from expending campaign moneys for professional services rendered by certain businesses required to be listed on candidate's statement of economic interest.
Prohibits person who is foreign national from making contribution or expenditure to candidate, political committee or petition committee to influence nomination for or election to public office, election on measure or initiative, referendum or recall petition or to pay for communication in support of or in opposition to candidate or measure.
Requires Department of Consumer and Business Services to develop and implement programs to make one-time payments directly to certain workers as incentive payments to return to work or as worker retention payments for workers who were frontline essential workers during first year of COVID-19 pandemic.