Bills in the 2021 Regular Session, Senate.
Michael Dembrow
Sponsored
Became law13
Directs county sheriffs, municipal police departments, university police departments and Oregon State Police to develop policies regarding parental notification of interviews of child witnesses and to submit report regarding policies developed to interim committees of Legislative Assembly by September 15, 2022.
Authorizes county to allow owner of lot or parcel within rural residential zone to construct one accessory dwelling unit on lot or parcel, subject to certain restrictions.
Provides that part-time faculty member at public institution of higher education qualifies for employee-only health care benefits if part-time faculty member works at level equal to at least half of full-time equivalent employee during at least three of four previous academic terms.
Provides that student who legally entered United States under Compact of Free Association treaty between United States and Republic of Palau, Republic of the Marshall Islands or Federated States of Micronesia and who has not previously established residence in any state or territory of United States other than Oregon qualifies for exemption from nonresident tuition and fees at public universities and is eligible to receive state and university scholarships or other financial aid.
Modifies procedure for expunction of certain juvenile records.
Requires court, under certain circumstances, to appoint legal counsel for respondent or protected person in protective proceeding.
Amends definition of "employment relations" to include class size and caseload limits as mandatory collective bargaining subjects in schools that qualify for certain federal assistance.
Establishes producer responsibility program for packaging, printing and writing paper and food serviceware.
Directs State Board of Education to review social studies standards.
Alters commissioner composition of Higher Education Coordinating Commission by redesignating five current nonvoting positions as voting positions and by adding one additional position for graduate student attending public university.
Prohibits public or private post-secondary institution of education from requiring prospective student to disclose whether prospective student has criminal conviction before institution makes final determination on whether to admit student.
Directs presiding officers of each house of Legislative Assembly to represent legislative department in collective bargaining negotiations with legislative department employee bargaining units.
Directs Department of Corrections to consider all other alternatives before suspending or terminating alternative incarceration program in its entirety for more than five consecutive days.
Vetoed1
Allows operator of motorcycle to travel between lanes of traffic under certain conditions.
Out of committee9
Prescribes requirements for annual school district and school performance reports, including requirement for inclusion of data related to suspensions and expulsions.
Directs Department of Environmental Quality, in consultation with Public Utility Commission and State Department of Energy, to study fugitive methane emissions from natural gas production, storage, transportation and delivery and provide results of study and recommendations for legislation in report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly no later than November 15, 2022.
Establishes product stewardship program for mattresses.
Directs Oregon Public Guardian and Conservator to develop and administer program for providing guardianship services to defendants who are unable to aid and assist in their defense and who will be released into community.
Establishes Truth in Labeling Task Force.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Human Services to award grants to refugee resettlement agencies to provide specified services to refugees.
Directs Oregon Health Authority or local public health administrator to release aggregate information about reportable disease investigations that does not identify individual cases or sources of information, upon receipt of public records request.
Modifies procedures for early medical release of adult in custody from prison.
Establishes Bottle Bill Expansion, Access and Transparency Task Force.
In committee17
Limits exemption from requirement of obtaining water right application, permit or certificate to use of surface water for livestock watering that does not exceed 5,000 gallons a day.
Defines "covered employee" as including employees of Department of Human Services who work in stabilization and crisis unit for purposes of specifying certain presumptions as to compensability of covered employee's claim of benefits under workers' compensation law for death, disability or impairment of health.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to award grants to eligible agencies to provide immigration-related services and supports, and education and outreach, to immigrant communities.
Directs Public Utility Commission, in coordination with State Department of Energy, to study and develop proposal for modifying Oregon laws as necessary to require 100 percent of electricity sold to retail electricity consumers to be electricity generated utilizing renewable and carbon-free energy.
Establishes Bottle Bill Expansion Task Force.
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.
Specifies contract price at which apprentice utilization requirements apply to qualified contracts with institutions of higher education and school districts.
Prohibits Department of Environmental Quality and State Department of Agriculture from issuing or renewing license or permit to allow construction or operation of new industrial dairy, addition to or expansion of existing industrial dairy or addition to or expansion of dairy that would cause dairy to become industrial dairy.
Requires diesel fuel that retail dealers, nonretail dealers and wholesale dealers sell or offer for sale in this state to contain at least five percent biodiesel during period that begins on October 2 of each year and ends on March 31 of following year and to contain at least 20 percent biodiesel during period that begins on April 1 and ends on October 1 of each year.
Directs division of Oregon Department of Administrative Services that serves as department's office of economic analysis to estimate savings to General Fund in biennium beginning July 1, 2023, resulting from certain prison closures.
Permits individual who is 16 or 17 years of age and registered to vote to cast ballot in school district elections.
Establishes Task Force on Guardianship and Conservatorship Reform.
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.
Makes certain findings concerning effects of poor forest management.
Directs Department of Environmental Quality to study impacts of engine emissions on environment and provide results of study in report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2022.
Creates limited wholesale license to be issued to eligible applicant to store, transport, sell at wholesale and distribute certain cider and malt beverages.
Prohibits Public Utility Commission from acknowledging in integrated resource plan, or allowing in customer rates, costs of investment in or upgrade of renewable energy facility, or certain contracts to acquire electricity, unless energy proposed to be acquired is generated by renewable energy facility constructed in compliance with certain labor standards.
Carried from the House
Became law5
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.
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.
Directs Department of Consumer and Business Services, in consultation with State Forestry Department, Oregon Forest and Industries Council, Oregon Small Woodlands Association, Oregon State University, Oregon Prescribed Fire Council and representative of insurance industry, to study liability for prescribed fires.
Establishes Task Force on Student Success for Underrepresented Students in Higher Education.
Allows pharmacist or pharmacy technician to transfer drug containing pseudoephedrine without prescription to person who is at least 18 years of age and presents person's valid government-issued photo identification.
Passed the House2
Revises provisions relating to chemicals in children's products.
Requires at least two commissioners of Oregon Liquor Control Commission to have public health background.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 14
Modifies procedures for motions to set aside conviction, arrest, citation, charge, finding of contempt of court or judgment of guilty except for insanity.
Creates crime of intimidation by display of a noose.
Creates rebuttable presumption that statement made by person under 18 years of age, during custodial interview in connection with investigation into certain acts, is involuntary if peace officer intentionally used false information to elicit statement.
Extends for one year sunset on Task Force on Universal Health Care and extends deadline for task force to submit recommendations to Legislative Assembly.
Creates rebuttable presumption that person violated prohibition against retaliation or discrimination against employee or prospective employee if person takes certain action against employee or prospective employee within 60 days after employee or prospective employee has engaged in certain protected activities.
Defines "instructional capacity" to exclude instructional assistants from scope of statutes prohibiting payment of unemployment insurance benefits to professional employees of educational institution for weeks of unemployment commencing during period between two successive academic years or terms.
Removes prohibition on payment of unemployment insurance benefits to nonprofessional employees of educational institution providing school food services, early intervention services or prekindergarten services for weeks of unemployment commencing during period between two successive academic years or terms.
Requires person to secure firearm with trigger or cable lock, in locked container or in gun room except in specified circumstances.
Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission to design question or questions allowing each student to identify whether student is parent or person acting as parent or legal guardian that may be placed on one or more forms used on annual basis to collect demographic information by public post-secondary institutions of education.
Includes as unlawful practice medical provider's denial of treatment that is likely to benefit patient based on patient's race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age or disability.
Requires State Department of Energy to prepare report identifying benefits, opportunities and challenges posed by development or expansion of regional transmission organization in this state.
Provides that discovery of victim's actual or perceived gender, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation does not constitute reasonable explanation for extreme emotional disturbance for purposes of affirmative defense to murder in the second degree.
Establishes Office of Immigrant and Refugee Advancement to operate statewide immigrant and refugee integration strategy.
Prohibits scrap metal business from purchasing or receiving catalytic converters, except from commercial seller or owner of vehicle from which catalytic converter was removed.
Passed the Senate · 1
Authorizes formation of children's service districts.
Out of committee · 5
Creates civil claim for wrongful conviction.
Establishes COFA Dental Program in Oregon Health Authority to provide dental care to low-income citizens of Pacific Islands in Compact of Free Association who reside in Oregon, qualify for medical assistance through Oregon Supplemental Income Program and lack access to affordable dental coverage.
Allows persons convicted of felony to register to vote, update voter registration and vote in elections while incarcerated.
Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to establish, in collaboration with Department of Corrections, Family Preservation Project pilot program at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility.
Disallows, for purposes of personal income taxation, mortgage interest deduction for residence other than taxpayer's principal residence, unless taxpayer sells residence or actively markets residence for sale.
In committee · 4
Requires Department of Revenue to submit to Legislative Revenue Officer information from Oregon tax returns about certain corporations doing business in Oregon.
Requires State Forestry Department to study and make recommendations to interim committee of Legislative Assembly regarding operation of State Board of Forestry.
Prohibits candidates for state office from accepting contributions in excess of amounts specified and from sources not specified.
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.