Bills in the 2021 Regular Session, House.
Dan Rayfield
Sponsored
Became law5
Prohibits moving voter to inactive status due to voter not voting or updating voter registration for any period of time.
Requires person that rents utility vehicle to contracting agency to provide records that describe in detail results of most recent inspection that person performed or had performed on utility vehicle's traction, structure, power train, control components and related parts and equipment in compliance with specified rules, regulations or standards.
Requires school districts to provide instruction on organ and tissue donation and education.
Requires ballots returned by mail to have postal indicator showing ballot was mailed not later than date of election and be received by county clerk not later than seven days after date of election.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to seek federal approval of amendment to state Medicaid demonstration project to permit coordinated care organizations to use portion of global budgets to improve health equity, improve overall health of community or enhance payments to providers who advance health equity or provide services improving overall health of community and to allow such expenditures to be counted as medical expenses in coordinated care organization's base medical budget and in calculation of global budget and flexible spending for given year.
Out of committee1
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.
In committee19
Establishes ranked choice voting as voting method for selecting winner of nomination for and election to nonpartisan state offices and county and city offices except where home rule charter applies.
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.
Establishes Addiction Treatment and Prevention Fund consisting of moneys transferred from Problem Gambling Treatment Fund, Mental Health Alcoholism and Drug Services Account, Drug Prevention and Education Fund and Intoxicated Driver Program Fund.
Requires Secretary of State or county clerk, rather than filer, to designate argument filed for publication in voters' pamphlet as either supporting or opposing ballot measure.
Requires that Secretary of State provide official Military or Overseas Elector Ballots for elections held on date of primary election that permit military or overseas electors to rank candidates by order of preference.
Requires that any voting machine or vote tally system approved by Secretary of State must be compatible with elections conducted by ranked-choice voting and any other form of voting that is authorized under Oregon Constitution and has been used within previous 10 years in any federal, state or local election in United States.
Requires ballots returned by mail to be postmarked not later than date of election.
Requires Department of Transportation to establish pilot program to assess how products that department or contractor for department procures affect emissions of carbon dioxide.
Directs State Department of Agriculture to establish grant program for purpose of facilitating nonlethal deterrence of wildlife conflict species by farmers and ranchers.
Alters passenger motor vehicle registration fee from flat rate to fee based on formula calculated from age, weight, list price and miles per gallon or miles per gallon equivalent of vehicle.
Requires Secretary of State to randomly select for examination accounts of political committees.
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.
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.
Establishes State Board of Sign Language Interpreters within Oregon Health Authority.
Establishes financial literacy as requirement for high school diploma.
Requires paid-for-by tagline on political communications by candidate to identify top five large donors to candidate's principal campaign committee.
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 Secretary of State to conduct study and develop recommendations regarding how to amend election timelines in Oregon to ensure both more efficient electoral process and increased participation by electors.
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
Allows base pay of attorneys who are employed by public corporation, nonprofit organization, public university or city or county in this state and who perform substantially similar work to be used for comparison of compensation for assistant attorneys general.
Removes sunset on post-graduate scholar program.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 3
Provides tax exemption for property of religious organization held or used solely to provide affordable housing to low income households.
Renames Office of Emergency Management as Oregon Department of Emergency Management.
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.
In committee · 2
Prohibits person from using specified types of animals in traveling animal act.
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.