Bills in the 2019 Regular Session, Senate.
Bill Hansell
Sponsored
Became law8
Makes person voluntarily fighting wildfire immune from civil liability for injury resulting from good faith performance of firefighting efforts.
Authorizes annexation of land to pioneer cemetery maintenance district upon petition by owner and approval of governing body of district.
Modifies provisions for emergency commitment of individuals in Indian country.
Allows employee or agent of funeral home or person acting as funeral service practitioner named in record of death or fetal death to request certified copy of record of death or fetal death at any time following date of death.
Requires State Department of Fish and Wildlife to consider elk overpopulation when implementing Oregon Landowner Damage Program.
Requires public universities and community colleges to charge resident tuition to Native Americans and Alaska Natives who graduated from Oregon high schools.
Allows county to approve certain divisions of land zoned for exclusive farm use for purposes of siting utility facilities necessary for public service.
Requires health benefit plans that cover radiation therapy for cancer to cover proton beam therapy on basis no less favorable than other covered benefits.
Out of committee9
Allows governing body of county, city or district to authorize persons to exercise authority regarding Emergency Conflagration Act.
Establishes Indian Health Scholarship Program to provide free tuition and fees for qualifying Indian health profession students in exchange for student commitment to work at tribal service site after graduation.
Prohibits denial of medical assistance on basis that individual under 19 years of age is in detention pending adjudication.
Repeals exemption from universal service fund charge for radio communications services, radio paging services, commercial mobile radio services, personal communications services and cellular communications services.
Directs State Parks and Recreation Department to convene advisory committee to assist department in researching and developing recommendations for changes to campsite administration and reservation process to improve access for service-disabled veterans.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to State Department of Agriculture for distribution to Food Innovation Center of Oregon State University to support product development relating to milk.
Directs school district board to adopt child sexual abuse prevention instructional program that addresses sex trafficking of children.
Requires Secretary of State to establish rules authorizing licensed use of state seal on goods, wares and merchandise.
Modifies child abuse reporting requirements to add hotelkeepers and innkeepers as mandatory reporters of child abuse.
In committee29
Declares state policy regarding fighting of wildfires on unprotected land.
Provides that when state agency is required by statute to mail notice to person, and agency has on file post office box address, agency must mail notice to post office box address.
Creates exception to prohibition on recording communications for person who records conversation during or regarding commission of offense against person.
Allows person taking certain nuisance game mammals to retain game meat if meat is offered to charitable organizations and refused.
Authorizes use of landowner damage tag on adjacent property with consent of owner of adjacent property.
Allows exclusion from taxable estate for value of interest in family-owned business.
Changes minimum contract price at which prevailing rate of wage applies to public works projects from $50,000 to amount that Oregon Department of Administrative Services determines by rule.
Provides that county is exempt from applicability of statute banning use of dogs to hunt or pursue cougars if voters approve county measure proposed by initiative petition or referred to people by governing body of county.
Establishes mandatory minimum sentence of 48 months' imprisonment for assault committed by correctional facility inmate against corrections officer.
Requires law enforcement officer to perform lethality assessment after making mandatory arrest for domestic assault.
Revises requirements for membership on State Fish and Wildlife Commission.
Authorizes State Fire Marshal to dispatch firefighting resources in response to fire or wildfire burning on unprotected property.
For urban renewal plan proposed on or after July 1, 2019, that includes public building project, requires concurrence of at least three of four taxing districts estimated to forgo most property tax revenue under proposed plan.
Allows municipality with building inspection program that includes administration and enforcement of electrical code to use contracted electrical inspectors.
Requires State Forester to carry out appraisal and sale of forest products on state-owned forestland damaged by wildfire.
Requires that state building code include provisions requiring installation of diaper changing station at place of public accommodation that undergoes new construction of public restroom.
Provides that person commits crime of harassment if person intentionally harasses or intimidates owner, employee or customer of licensed child care facility by repeatedly recording owner, employee or customer outside facility.
Imposes new requirements on pharmacy benefit managers registered in this state.
Adds requirement that communities be within same region that is used to determine required minimum wage to be considered comparable communities.
Requires State Department of Fish and Wildlife to produce four reports on elk populations and financial impacts of elk using private lands as range.
Increases fee for Pacific Wonderland registration plates.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to State Department of Agriculture for deposit in Wolf Management Compensation and Proactive Trust Fund.
Creates tax subtraction for crop loss due to fire.
Provides that property of company that is organized and located outside of this state and exclusively operates jet boat excursion business on boundary rivers of this state and not on rivers within this state is not subject to central assessment for purposes of property taxation.
Directs Board on Public Safety Standards and Training to require all police officers and certified reserve officers to be trained to recognize, investigate and report cases involving labor trafficking and sex trafficking of children and adults.
Directs Attorney General's Sexual Assault Task Force to study ways of preventing disclosure of personal medical information of sexual assault victims and report results to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to judiciary on or before September 15, 2020.
Creates crime of unlawful disclosure of information about victim of sexual assault or sex trafficking.
Directs Department of Justice, in consultation with Oregon District Attorneys Association and Oregon State Bar, to study rule and statutory changes to encourage prosecution of sex crimes and to report results to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to judiciary on or before September 15, 2020.
Requires Department of Environmental Quality to contract with independent third-party entity to provide technical assistance to municipalities on matters related to state and federal wastewater permitting requirements.
Carried from the House
Became law4
Clarifies receivership proceedings and reporting and notice requirements for residential properties that city or county determines are threat to public health, safety or welfare.
Directs Department of Education to coordinate with Oregon FFA Association to increase student achievement and improve college preparation and career placement for students enrolled in agricultural education courses.
Establishes programs within Housing and Community Services Department to provide loans to one or more nonprofit corporations to develop programs that support manufactured dwelling park preservation and affordability for tenants.
Provides that labor organization's charging certain employees reasonable fees and costs for representation that is unrelated to negotiation of collective bargaining agreement is not unfair labor practice.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 6
Allows listed eastern Oregon counties that undertake economic opportunity analysis to designate up to 50 acres outside urban growth boundaries for industrial and other employment uses notwithstanding statewide planning goals related to agriculture, forest use or urbanization.
Allows person issued disabled parking permit to park in parking space otherwise reserved for residents.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to design, implement and maintain voluntary statewide program to provide nurse home visiting services to families with infants up to six months of age.
Provides that if person reports commission of person felony to emergency communications system or law enforcement agency, evidence of prostitution obtained as result of making report may not be used against person in prosecution for prostitution or attempted prostitution.
Requires research facilities that use dogs or cats for laboratory research to offer dogs or cats no longer used for research for adoption prior to euthanasia.
Authorizes city or county to adopt property tax exemption in amount not to exceed $300,000 of assessed value of principal place of residence used by homeowner to rent space in residence through public or nonprofit home share program to individuals seeking such space.
Passed the Senate · 1
Grants higher property tax exemption for property of veterans with service-connected disabilities.
Out of committee · 16
Extends sunset for tax credit for crop donation.
Requires health benefit plan, other than employer-sponsored plan, that covers cost of pregnancy care and childbirth to cover cost of pregnancy care and childbirth for enrollee who is surrogate.
Expands potential recipients of levee project grants to include any public body.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Higher Education Coordinating Commission for agricultural experiment station and branch stations, Oregon State University Extension Service and Forest Research Laboratory programs of Oregon State University.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Business Development Department for distribution to certain entities for purposes of building entrepreneurial capacity in rural regions of this state, developing regional assets to support entrepreneurial growth and building network of statewide resources to leverage and accelerate access to resources regardless of location.
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.
Directs Department of Education to provide reimbursements for vision screenings of students to person that provided vision screening.
Authorizes issuance of $10 million in lottery bonds for deposit in Levee Project Subaccount to be used for any purpose for which funds in subaccount may be used.
Authorizes issuance of Article XI-Q bonds to finance seismic and life safety improvements to State Capitol building and grounds.
Requires Department of Human Services to contract with nonprofit organization to implement and administer program to assist recipients of supplemental nutrition assistance in purchasing locally grown fruits and vegetables from farmers' markets, farm share sites and retail outlets that participate in program.
Exempts retired member of Public Employees Retirement System from limitations on reemployment if member is reemployed as teacher by school district or education service district.
Establishes Task Force on Forest Health Enhancement to develop recommendations for certain forest-related activities.
Requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to report to Department of Consumer and Business Services total amount of money spent on patient assistance programs, information on financial assistance provided to pharmacies, government agencies and advocacy organizations and total amount of financial incentives paid to each pharmacy benefit manager.
Appropriates funds to Oregon Department of Administrative Services to distribute to State Fair Council to fund assessment of fairground facilities and deferred maintenance, improvement and enhancement of fairground facilities.
Requires health benefit plans, state medical assistance program, Public Employees' Benefit Board and Oregon Educators Benefit Board to pay for standard fertility preservation services for covered individual who will undergo medical treatment that is likely to result in iatrogenic infertility.
Appropriates moneys to Higher Education Coordinating Commission for purposes of prison education programs.
In committee · 15
Prohibits performance of late-term sex-selective abortion.
Allows county with no population growth, and city within county with no population growth, to adopt exception to any statewide land use planning goal for certain purposes, with exceptions.
Appropriates to Department of Education for deposit in High School Graduation and College and Career Readiness Fund amount prescribed to be deposited under High School Graduation and College and Career Readiness Act (Ballot Measure 98 (2016)).
Directs Oregon Broadband Advisory Council to study issues related to expansion of broadband capacity and access.
Allows counties in eastern Oregon with population less than 50,000 to approve land use applications on certain nonresource, rural lands for industrial or commercial uses that are inconsistent with zoning of such lands.
Establishes TriMet Crash Advisory Committee.
Establishes criteria for determining existence or lack of new ground water use impairment or interference with water right having earlier priority date.
Provides protections for person who refuses to participate in procedure related to abortion or physician-assisted suicide if refusal is based on person's ethical, moral or religious convictions.
Creates crime of patronizing a trafficked child.
Allows public body to disclose to federal immigration authority information about person convicted of violent crime.
Allows personal income taxpayers to subtract from taxable income amounts paid as principal of or interest on qualified education loans, if borrower is taxpayer, spouse or dependent of taxpayer.
Requires school district to make information about functions and programs of school district available at school district's office and on school district's website.
Establishes investigatory procedures for reports of suspected sexual conduct.
Requires party to nominate between three and five qualified persons to fill vacancy when vacancy occurs in partisan elective statewide office and individual last elected to office was affiliated with major political party.
Requires health care practitioner to exercise proper degree of care to preserve health and life of child born alive after abortion or attempted abortion.