Bills in the 2023 Regular Session, Senate.
Lynn Findley
Sponsored
Became law3
Adds members of household and domestic partner of candidate to list of persons who may not be employed to open ballot envelopes, handle ballots, prepare ballots for counting or count ballots.
Removes prohibition against sale, offer for sale, maintenance or control of female cattle of beef breed that have not been vaccinated against brucellosis.
Modifies requirements for residential rezoning of lands within Eastern Oregon Border Economic Development Region.
Out of committee4
Requires Housing and Community Services Department to provide sample plans and grants for senior cottages.
Establishes Task Force on School Attendance to study school attendance in Oregon, including chronic absenteeism and truancy, frequency and reasons for truancy, differences in truancy among demographics and any other issues related to school attendance.
Removes provisions of property tax exemption for community solar projects that restrict exemption to proportion owned by residential customers or leased by residential subscribers.
Requires state agencies that acquire public property to comply with local ordinances mandating notice to or consultation with local government or mandating compliance with conditions of local government.
In committee34
Requires certain agencies to apply rules applicable to certain permit application in effect on date complete permit application is received, or on date 60 days after permit application is received if agency does not notify applicant of deficiencies in application.
Requires agency to report to appropriate committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly before permanently amending rule that was adopted or last amended less than five years earlier.
Requires agency to provide technical and legal documentation supporting statement of need required in notice of rulemaking.
Creates Task Force on Regulatory Efficiency.
Modifies provisions relating to fiscal impact statements for administrative rules.
Requires agencies to post certain information about rulemaking on agency websites.
Establishes office of business ombudsman in Oregon Department of Administrative Services.
Establishes Task Force on Tax Competitiveness.
Directs Environmental Quality Commission and State Department of Agriculture to enter into memorandum of understanding to allow department to exercise exclusive jurisdiction over air quality laws, water quality laws and land quality laws that apply to agricultural lands, operations and equipment.
Requires Oregon School Activities Association to study availability of competition-size swimming pools at public and private secondary schools in this state.
Creates tax credit for contributions to youth activity organizations.
Directs public bodies and school districts to make facilities for youth sports available free of charge, except as necessary to cover maintenance expenses.
Restores corporate excise tax credit allowed for qualified research activities and sets increased maximum credit amount.
Exempts from commercial activity subject to corporate activity tax reimbursements for certain health care services, including care provided to medical assistance recipients and to Medicare recipients.
Makes certain findings concerning cloud seeding.
Increases maximum allowed amount of natural resource property credit against estate tax and maximum value of total adjusted gross estate eligible to claim credit.
Prohibits Oregon Health Authority from requiring associate degree or higher for eligibility for licensure as emergency medical services provider.
Exempts receipts from sales of prescription drugs by a pharmacy from commercial activity subject to corporate activity tax.
Provides that recipients of grants through universal representation program may not prioritize legal services to individuals who are detained or at imminent risk of deportation because they committed crimes.
Exempts from commercial activity subject to corporate activity tax reimbursements for certain health care services, including care provided to medical assistance recipients and to Medicare recipients.
Requires Department of Environmental Quality to study disposal of electric vehicle batteries and batteries used to store energy in wind or solar renewable energy facilities.
Directs State Department of Fish and Wildlife to establish program to purchase aquaculture products from private aquaculture facilities.
Increases maximum percentage of tax or fee that governing body of city or county may impose on sale of marijuana items.
Creates income tax credit for lost rental income of landlord, forgone due to prohibition on evictions and rent nonpayment actions during COVID-19 emergency period.
Provides for additional exemption against Oregon estate tax.
Directs State Fish and Wildlife Commission to develop and adopt by rule invasive grass pilot program in Phillip W. Schneider Wildlife Area.
Creates Oregon personal income tax subtraction for child care expenses paid by taxpayer during tax year.
Establishes DMV Modernization Task Force to study options for expanding number of driver and motor vehicle services available to public through private providers.
Increases exempt amount and filing threshhold for purposes of corporate activity tax.
Prevents local governments from prohibiting natural gas use in or availability for new or existing residential or commercial buildings.
Authorizes self-service dispensing of Class 1 flammable liquids at retail dispensary.
Removes restriction on distribution of Student Investment Account moneys to virtual public charter schools.
Requires Legislative Revenue Officer to study homestead property tax deferral program.
Enacts Recognition of Emergency Medical Services Personnel Licensure Interstate Compact.
Carried from the House
Became law5
Dissolves Oregon Alfalfa Seed Commission.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to designate work group to propose options for equitable access to birth and death certificates throughout state and equitable fee revenue to maintain and improve vital records system.
Modifies process for transfer of recorded brand following death of brand holder.
Provides licensing exemption for person slaughtering not more than 1,000 rabbits for use as human food.
Requires Department of Education to conduct study to examine possibility of creating high school equivalency diploma and submit report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to education.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 10
Directs Department of Human Services to provide specified services to individuals with brain injuries and to convene Brain Injury Advisory Committee.
Prohibits post-secondary institutions of education that are based in Oregon from refusing to provide transcript to current or former student because student owes debt to institution.
Allows exclusion from taxable estate for value of interest in farm, forestry or fishing business.
Authorizes community colleges to offer Bachelor of Science in nursing degrees.
Amends requirements relating to wildfire hazard mitigation for development of accessory dwelling units on lands zoned for rural residential use.
Provides that year in which Governor declares that drought exists, or is likely to exist, within county does not count toward period of time for forfeiture of water right for nonuse for holder of water right within county.
Provides that person who voluntarily fights wildfire on private forestland is not civilly liable for injury to person or property resulting from good faith performance of firefighting efforts.
Authorizes Environmental Quality Commission to adopt rules for determining whether community or area-wide sewerage system is available for purposes of sewage disposal system construction permit.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to support implementation of AgriStress Helpline in Oregon.
Authorizes board of directors of rural fire protection district to annex to district, under certain circumstances, lands that are within coverage area of district.
Passed the Senate · 3
Prohibits state from paying costs of travel to or from Oregon for employee in state service who telecommutes from principal worksite more than 60 miles outside this state, unless collective bargaining agreement provides otherwise or essential requirements of position make it necessary for employee to telecommute from outside this state.
Restores staggering of terms of county commissioners in certain circumstances.
Directs Director of Department of Revenue to reimburse worker leasing company for any employer contribution payments made by worker leasing company if Department of Revenue determines pursuant to amended combined quarterly report that refund is due.
Out of committee · 4
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Transportation for distribution to Port of Hood River for construction of Hood River-White Salmon Interstate Bridge.
Establishes income tax credit for volunteer firefighters.
Directs State Board of Forestry to convey certain state forest lands to county that determines that county would secure greatest permanent value of lands to county and requests conveyance.
Restores tax credit allowed for qualified research activities at increased maximum credit amount.
In committee · 29
Directs Department of Early Learning and Care to develop, implement and administer Oregon Imagination Library Project to improve reading proficiency and high school graduation rates by providing enrolled children with one age-appropriate book per child each month.
Establishes procedure for charging aggravated version of certain assault and attempted murder offenses when defendant causes permanent physical injury to victim during commission of crime.
Prohibits physicians from performing irreversible gender reassignment surgery on minor.
Requires school districts to designate athletic competitions and extracurricular sports according to biological sex.
Prohibits abortion unless health care provider first determines probable gestational age of unborn child, except in case of medical emergency.
Exempts from state income for taxpayers 62 years of age or younger receiving retirement pay or pension for service in Armed Forces of the United States up to $17,500 in retirement pay or pension received for service in Armed Forces of the United States and up to $17,500 in retirement pay or pension received from other sources.
Requires school officials to provide parents or guardians of student who was subjected to act of harassment, intimidation or bullying or act of cyberbullying with notification that describes actions of school in responding to report of act of harassment, intimidation or bullying or act of cyberbullying.
Provides one month extension on use of studded tires for vehicles traveling in Deschutes County.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to request federal approval to allow parent or legal guardian to be paid to act as personal support worker or direct support professional for minor child who has intellectual or developmental disability.
Removes restrictions on district school board related to termination of superintendent.
Removes requirement that State Forestry Department oversee development of statewide map of wildfire risk.
Establishes that employee may bring claim against employer if employee suffers vaccine injury, vaccine was required by employer as condition of employment and employer refused to exempt employee from receiving vaccine as required by law.
Provides that U.S. Highway 30 in Oregon shall be known as Gold Star Families Memorial Highway.
Specifies that new or increased fees adopted by state agency do not become effective unless approved by Legislative Assembly by law.
Requires State Forester to actively manage state forestlands to achieve and maintain low forest fuel load levels.
Requires Deschutes County to approve certain applications to develop manufactured dwelling or recreational vehicle parks outside urban growth boundary.
Requires State Forestry Department to establish by rule pilot grant program for purpose of managing wildfire risk by certain methods.
Prohibits state agency from enforcing rules requiring vaccination against COVID-19.
Creates income or corporate excise tax credit for taxpayer that employs youth through Oregon Youth Employment Program.
Prohibits Department of Justice from charging officers and agencies of state government for assistance rendered.
Provides that Oregon Health Authority may not adopt rules requiring immunization against COVID-19 as condition of attendance in any school, children's facility or post-secondary institution of education.
Prohibits Department of Corrections from paying for or providing, directly or indirectly, gender-affirming care to individuals in custody of correctional facility in this state.
Prohibits not-for-profit corporations that receive moneys directly from state from making political contributions to candidates or political committees during biennium in which corporation receives state moneys.
Requires county clerk to ensure that any board or other entity established to assist county clerk in fulfilling official duties contains equal numbers of volunteers from each major political party.
Allows credit against net income taxes for portion of eligible costs of newly constructed single-family dwelling that sells for price affordable to household with annual income at or below 120 percent of area median income.
Requires Department of Revenue to make surplus revenue refunds, known as "kicker" refunds, in form of check.
Allows personal income and corporate excise taxpayers to subtract from taxable income amounts paid as principal and interest on qualified education loans, if borrower is taxpayer or spouse, dependent or employee of taxpayer.
Directs Legislative Assembly to allocate moneys to members for distribution.
Authorizes any person to submit complaint to Department of Environmental Quality if person reasonably believes that camping site of homeless individuals is causing discharge of wastes into state waters.