Bills in the 2017 Regular Session, Senate.
Michael Dembrow
Sponsored
Became law7
Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission to, on annual basis, work with Department of Human Services, each public university and each community college to determine number and graduation rates of former foster children and current foster children at each college or university.
Establishes rebuttable presumption that certain incarcerated obligors are unable to pay child support.
Establishes procedures for petitioning for and issuing Certificate of Good Standing.
Requires large employers in specified industries to provide new employee with estimated work schedule and to provide current employee with seven days' notice of employee work schedule.
Authorizes establishment of programs by cities for demolition of residences or residential buildings.
Authorizes State of Oregon to receive moneys pursuant to Volkswagen Environmental Mitigation Trust Agreement, deposit agreement moneys in Clean Diesel Engine Fund and use moneys to award grants for reducing emissions from school buses powered by diesel engines.
Requires school districts, education service districts and public charter schools to adopt Healthy and Safe Schools Plan to address environmental conditions in facilities owned or leased by districts or schools where students or staff are present on regular basis.
Vetoed1
Reestablishes Task Force on Reentry, Employment and Housing.
Out of committee3
Provides that part-time faculty member at public institution of higher education who qualifies for health care benefits will pay 10 percent of insurance premiums, with remaining 90 percent paid by state.
Directs Higher Education Coordinating Commission to establish foster youth success centers in each public university.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Public Defense Services Commission for pre-entry pilot program.
In committee26
Provides for adjustment of estate tax brackets for inflation.
Requires Department of Education and Higher Education Coordinating Commission to establish career and technical education pathways to permit students to easily progress from secondary school to public post-secondary institutions of education.
Directs Health Licensing Office to issue license to engage in practice of art therapy to qualified applicant.
Directs Higher Education Coordinating Commission to develop and implement pilot program to assist foster youth transitioning from community college to public university.
Eliminates certain driving privilege suspensions.
Provides definitions relating to comparable work for purposes of pay equity provisions.
Removes certain discretion from court to require employee to pay employer's attorney fees if employee pursues action for unpaid wages against employer but does not prevail.
Requires each governing board of public university to include one voting undergraduate student member and one voting graduate student member.
Extends ad valorem property tax exemption to existing qualified dwelling units of single-unit housing purchased by taxpayers seeking exemption.
Increases membership on Oregon Health and Science University Board of Directors by adding one faculty member and one nonfaculty staff member.
Requires Department of Education, in consultation with Oregon Health Authority, to disseminate information, processes and model plans regarding school testing for elevated levels of toxics.
Requires filing notice with State Forestry Department of proposed aerial application of pesticide as planned forest management activity on privately owned forestland.
Permits expressly identified agent, pursuant to lawfully executed advance directive and in accordance with Oregon Death with Dignity Act, to collect and administer prescribed medication for purpose of ending patient's life in humane and dignified manner if patient ceases to be capable after having received prescription for life-ending medication.
Declares November 29 of each year to be International Women Human Rights Defenders and CEDAW Day in Oregon.
Conditions issuance of certain Department of State Lands permit on balancing test that weighs potential environmental harm of proposed project against public need.
Requires Department of State Lands to consider risks of oil spill when issuing or amending certain leases.
Provides that youth offenders sentenced to mandatory minimum terms of imprisonment for certain crimes committed at 15, 16 or 17 years of age are eligible for conditional release hearing if they are in custody of Oregon Youth Authority upon attaining 24 years and six months of age.
Directs State Department of Energy to develop climate test to conduct reviews for approval of proposed fossil fuel infrastructure projects.
For counties with 35,000 or more electors, increases number of required voting booths and requires specified number of voting booth locations.
Requires county clerk of each county to develop ballot tracking program that uses electronic mail and telephone text messages to inform participating elector when ballot is mailed to elector, when elector's completed ballot is received by county clerk and whether completed ballot has nonmatching signature or other defect that requires further action by elector in order for elector's vote to be counted.
Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission to conduct study and develop recommendations regarding most effective voter registration methods for students attending public universities and community colleges.
Requires Secretary of State to ensure that there is at least one official ballot drop site at each public high school and on campus of each school of higher education.
Requires Secretary of State, in consultation with Director of Department of Revenue, to conduct study and develop recommendations regarding desirability and most effective method for using tax filings submitted to Department of Revenue to ensure accuracy of addresses of electors contained in centralized voter registration system.
Establishes Health Care for All Oregon Board to develop, implement and oversee Health Care for All Oregon Plan to be administered by Oregon Health Authority.
Requires Department of Education to develop model plan for conducting tests for certain environmental hazards in facilities owned or leased by school districts or public charter schools where students or staff are present on regular basis and for reporting test results.
Requires Environmental Quality Commission to adopt carbon pollution market by rule.
Carried from the House
Became law5
Permits licensed nurse practitioners to perform vasectomies.
Directs Health Licensing Office to issue license to engage in practice of art therapy to qualified applicant.
Directs Housing and Community Services Department to develop and implement Rent Guarantee Program to provide incentives and financial assistance to landlords that rent or lease to low income households by guaranteeing payments to landlords for unpaid rent and for eviction and property damage costs within certain limits.
Authorizes mass transit districts to establish administrative process to adjudicate certain ordinance violations.
Extends ad valorem property tax exemption to existing qualified dwelling units of single-unit housing purchased by taxpayers seeking exemption.
Passed the House1
During first nine months of occupancy, prohibits landlord from terminating month-to-month tenancy within 60 days of receiving from tenant request for repairs to correct certain building, health or housing code violation or unhabitable condition.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 10
Establishes procedures for person to file motion to vacate judgment of conviction for prostitution if person was victim of sex trafficking at or around time of offense.
Creates affirmative defense to crime of prostitution if, at time of alleged offense, defendant was victim of certain trafficking crimes.
Makes evidence about sexual behavior or predisposition inadmissible in civil proceeding except under certain circumstances.
Directs Early Learning Division to support Relief Nursery programs statewide.
Directs certain agencies to allow informational materials about human trafficking to be posted at roadside rest areas.
Adds Oregon Volunteer Firefighters Association to list of entities eligible for individual income tax return checkoff contribution.
Exempts county permit application for mining operation on significant mineral resource site in certain counties from requirements for uses in exclusive farm use zones and statewide land use planning goals and rules relating to land use.
Allows person who is at least 16 years of age to register to vote.
Ensures that private sector labor organizations and employers throughout state may enter into union security agreements to full extent allowed by federal law.
Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to study expenditure of public moneys on alcohol and drug treatment and report results to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to judiciary on or before September 15, 2019.
Passed the Senate · 1
Eliminates probationary driver permits.
Out of committee · 2
Appropriates moneys to Department of Education for purposes of developing academic content standards for Oregon Studies and preparing materials to support teacher training and classroom instruction in Oregon Studies.
Requires state to pay for ballot return envelopes that can be returned by business reply mail for each election held in this state.
In committee · 8
Limits landlord to charging single applicant screening charge for applicant applying to rent multiple dwelling units owned or managed by landlord.
Directs Department of Human Services to conduct monthly, in-person visits with child or ward in substitute care that include updates on academic status and progress.
Directs Department of Human Services to create and maintain website containing information about prospective adoptive children and prospective adoptive parents to increase awareness and provide resources about children who are available for adoption in state.
Requires State Department of Agriculture to conduct four-year pilot program for replacing noxious weeds that supply pollen and nectar to pollinating insects with noninvasive forage plants offering similar benefit for pollinating insects.
Enacts Interstate Compact for Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote.
Enacts Interstate Compact for Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote.
Requires employer operating certain facility to submit annual materials balance report on facility's input and output of hazardous materials to Department of Environmental Quality.
Allows local government to inhibit or prevent production or use of seed or seed products for purpose of protecting seed or products that are not genetically engineered from adverse impacts of genetically engineered seed or products or if enforcing local measure approved by county voters on May 20, 2014.