Bills in the 2017 Regular Session, Senate.
Tim Knopp
Sponsored
Became law2
Encourages Oregonians to honor and remember those who have given their lives in military service in war at noon on 21st day of each month.
Permits contracting agency to include woody biomass energy technology, as alternative to green energy technology, in construction, reconstruction or major renovation of public building for which contracting agency must set aside 1.5 percent of contract price.
Passed the Senate1
Provides that machinery and equipment used to compress and bale harvested straw, hay, grass or other plants for purpose of storage or shipment is tangible personal property exempt from ad valorem property taxation.
Out of committee4
Changes calculation of final average salary for purposes of Public Employees Retirement System to use five years of salary instead of three years, for salary paid on and after January 1, 2018.
Redirects employee contributions made by member of system from individual account program to account to be used to pay for member's pension or other retirement benefits accrued on or after January 1, 2018.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Higher Education Coordinating Commission for Office of Community Colleges and Workforce Development for Oregon Employer Workforce Training Program, local workforce investment boards and Oregon Youth Conservation Corps.
Establishes State Transportation Donation Fund.
In committee83
Eliminates option of members of individual account program of Public Employees Retirement System to receive distributions as installment payments upon retirement.
Requires Secretary of State to conduct audit of State Forestry Department expenditures or obligations of certain allocations of lottery moneys for purposes related to federal forestlands.
Creates crime of intentionally administering marijuana item to body of person who is under 18 years of age.
Prohibits public body from using cell-site simulator device to obtain or use personal electronic data or personal electronic metadata unless public body obtains consent or pursuant to search warrant or established warrant exception.
Directs Department of Veterans' Affairs to establish employment bridge program for veterans seeking to obtain certain professional and occupational licenses.
Increases threshold under which school district may receive additional State School Fund moneys for student eligible for special education.
Adjusts manner in which attendance is calculated for purposes of State School Fund distributions.
Requires that at least 25 percent of Oregon Opportunity Grant moneys be awarded to students committed to majoring in science, technology, engineering or mathematics fields.
Requires person to complete eight or more hours of community service before start of each term and to meet regularly with mentor provided by Office of Student Access and Completion in order to maintain eligibility to receive Oregon Promise grant.
Directs Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to conduct study on methods for encouraging public school teachers and administrators to apply for and attain certification through national professional organization for teaching standards.
Requires health care practitioner, before administering vaccination to child, to obtain informed consent from parent of child or, if child is emancipated or has reached age of majority, from child.
Requires health care practitioner, before administering vaccination to child, to provide written notice of each vaccination that child is required to receive as condition of attending school or children's facility in this state and of each exemption to that requirement.
Requires agency to provide notice listing outside persons involved in proposed rulemaking.
Voids agency rules filed with Secretary of State on or after effective date of Act and before January 1, 2018.
Modifies existing administrative rule review process to require legislative approval of newly adopted administrative rules in order for rules to take effect.
Specifies that new or increased fees adopted by state agency do not become effective unless approved by Legislative Assembly by law.
Requires each state agency to report monthly to Oregon Department of Administrative Services and Legislative Fiscal Officer information about agency's proposed and final rules.
Requires state agencies to provide notice of intended action to adopt, amend or repeal rule to Joint Committee on Ways and Means in addition to policy committees.
Requires court to decide questions of law de novo in proceedings for judicial review of agency actions.
Directs Secretary of State to appoint inspectors general to review spending of certain entities and identify inappropriate costs.
Provides that Department of Justice may not enter into settlement agreement that provides for settlement payments owing to state to be paid to third party.
Disconnects minimum salary for members of Legislative Assembly from state minimum wage increases.
Discontinues provisions requiring taxpayers, for Oregon tax purposes, to add to federal taxable income amount equal to federal deduction for qualified production activities income.
Reduces personal income tax rates for certain taxpayers by modifying income tax brackets.
Establishes personal income tax credit of $250 per dependent child.
Restores availability of tax credit for employment-related child care expenses and extends credit sunset.
Creates credit against income taxes for amounts paid as interest on qualified education loans.
Changes method by which surplus "kicker" refunds are made to personal income taxpayers from tax credit to refund payment.
Creates credit against income tax for taxpayers with not more than 100 employees that create 10 or more new jobs during tax year.
Creates income tax credit for capital improvements to business facilities or homes that are commenced prior to later of September 1, 2017, or effective date of Act.
Establishes personal income tax credit for contributions to charitable organizations.
Increases threshold for estimated cost at which construction project sites must provide sanitary facilities by changing amount that triggers requirement from $1 million to $2 million.
Allows local government meeting certain requirements of statewide land use planning goal relating to economic activity to waive requirements of goals as necessary to establish and maintain five-year supply of shovel-ready employment sites.
Provides that statutes providing for Oregon Retirement Savings Plan create contract between State of Oregon and participants in retirement plan providing that contributions to retirement plan may not be combined with moneys contained in Public Employees Retirement Fund.
Requires agencies to estimate costs borne by businesses and industrial sectors to comply with proposed rules.
Requires agency to include comparative analysis of costs and benefits of rule in notice of proposed rulemaking.
Allows paid sick leave to be counted as fringe benefit for purpose of prevailing rate of wage.
Excludes sick leave pay from definition of "payroll" for purpose of workers' compensation calculations.
Authorizes local government to expedite inclusion within urban growth boundary of land dedicated to needed housing.
Allows rural county with no population growth, and other local governments in county, to adopt comprehensive land use plan without complying with statewide land use planning goals.
Authorizes local government to adopt exception to statewide land use planning goal for use that will create 10 or more new full-time jobs for which salary or wage is 400 percent or more of federal poverty guidelines for family of four.
Authorizes local government to adopt exception to statewide land use planning goal for use that will create five or more new full-time jobs for which salary or wage is 400 percent or more of federal poverty guidelines for family of four.
Creates income tax credit for taxpayers that expand workforce with positions that pay above average wage by 10 percent or more in tax year.
Allows local governments planning for employment sites required by statewide land use planning goals to waive requirements of goals to establish and maintain five-year supply of shovel-ready employment sites.
Authorizes local government to adopt exception to statewide land use goal without demonstrating that statutory standards for exception have been met for use that is necessary for employer of 10 or more employees under specified circumstance.
Authorizes local government to adopt exception to statewide land use planning goal for use that will create 50 or fewer new full-time jobs for which salary or wage is 400 percent or more of federal poverty guidelines for family of four.
Increases, for purposes of tax credit allowed for crop donation, percentage of wholesale price allowed as amount of credit.
Allows governing body of local government to address land use emergency by waiving goal, without taking exception, to take land use action or limited land use action.
Modifies provisions related to inclusion of needed housing within urban growth boundaries.
Modifies process for determining need for buildable land to meet estimated need for housing.
Creates Sunset Advisory Committee.
Directs Oregon Business Development Department, in collaboration with Department of Consumer and Business Services, to conduct study regarding state regulation of businesses and persons engaged in occupations.
Establishes Oregon Universal Savings Account Board to create and maintain Oregon Universal Savings Account Program.
Establishes Joint Interim Legislative Committee to Review Economic Development Programs in Oregon.
Authorizes Oregon Business Development Department to make grants to small counties to provide assistance in obtaining affordable Internet access.
Establishes Joint Legislative Committee to Review Agency Regulation of Oregon Businesses.
Requires agency to cite to publicly available scientific evidence for cost of compliance effect on small businesses reported in notice of intent to adopt, amend or repeal rule.
Requires state agency to report to Governor and Governor to include in budget report total cost of compliance to public and small businesses of agency's rules.
Requires state agencies to carry out delegated duties in least costly manner.
Authorizes local governments to expedite inclusion within urban growth boundary of land dedicated to needed housing.
Removes minimum requirements for cost and employment terms for qualifying investment contract.
Requires State Forester to actively manage state forestlands to achieve and maintain low forest fuel load levels.
Establishes tax credit for reforestation of commercial forestland following loss from catastrophic fire event.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to State Forestry Department for Federal Forest Health Program.
Requires State Forester to manage state forestlands to provide for timber sales each year in amount that equals or exceeds 125 percent of 2014 timber sales amount.
Prohibits State Fish and Wildlife Commission from using license, tag and permit revenue to fund activities related to wolf management.
Requires annual timber harvest on state forestlands to equal or exceed specified percentage of annual amount of harvestable timber expected to be grown on state forestlands.
Allows landowner to file claim for payment with State Forestry Department if fire originating on state forestland spreads to commercial forestland.
Adds status as peace officer or firefighter to list of characteristics of victim of crimes of intimidation in the second degree and intimidation in the first degree.
Sets limit on taxes due on homesteads of seniors living on fixed income equal to total amount of taxes due for property tax year preceding first property tax year for which relief allowed.
Allows person to provide instruction in noncore course without teacher license.
Establishes standards and requirements for community classrooms.
Makes resident uniformed services hunting license free.
Requires Governor to review terms of Good Neighbor Authority Agreement.
Establishes Oregon Health Savings Account program in office of State Treasurer to enable Oregon taxpayers to reduce taxable income by making contributions to program that reimburses taxpayers' qualified medical expenses.
Prohibits permanent rule from being in effect for longer than six years.
Allows brewery-public house licensee to also hold off-premises sales license.
Establishes annual salary paid to members of Legislative Assembly as annual salary, as determined on monthly basis, for November 2016.
Modifies provisions relating to Public Employees Retirement System.
Establishes that decisions related to immunizations are personal health care decisions and that immunizations may not be mandated as condition of employment unless required by federal law.
Requires insurers offering health benefit plans to provide coverage for abuse-deterrent opioid analgesic drug products.
Directs Department of Education to conduct feasibility study to determine viability of establishing public boarding school.
Permits city or county to adjust property line through progression of property line adjustments that incorporates further adjustments of adjusted properties.
Carried from the House
Became law3
Provides that portion of U.S. Highway 20 shall be known as Oregon Medal of Honor Highway.
Authorizes Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to disburse moneys from National Board Certification Fund for reimbursement of certain costs related to national board certification of teachers.
Requires Oregon Arts Commission to establish policies and procedures that ensure Arts Program considers regional differences in public access to, or opportunities for engagement in, arts and cultural development when determining eligibility for grant awards and that promote investment in communities where opportunities for engagement in arts and cultural development are limited.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 17
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.
Requires institutions of higher education to provide to each applicable student information detailing amount of education loans received, amount of tuition and fees student has paid to institution, estimate of total payoff amount of education loans student has received , estimate of amount student will have to pay each month to service loans and percentage of borrowing limit student has reached for each type of federal loan.
Makes evidence about sexual behavior or predisposition inadmissible in civil proceeding except under certain circumstances.
Limits school district's ability to require students to participate in abbreviated school day program.
Directs Early Learning Division to support Relief Nursery programs statewide.
Permits health care provider to disclose protected health information of inmate of correctional facility to physician of employee of correctional facility or Oregon Corrections Enterprises who is exposed to bodily fluids of inmate if exposure is substantial and inmate has tested positive for HIV, hepatitis B or C or other communicable disease.
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 sexual assault victims and persons assisting sexual assault victims from arrest or prosecution for offense related to purchase or possession of alcoholic beverage by person under 21 years of age if evidence of offense was obtained because of contact with law enforcement agency or emergency medical services to report assault or obtain assistance.
Requires medical assessment provider or law enforcement officer to contact victim advocate and make reasonable efforts to ensure that victim advocate is present and available at medical facility.
Considers children who are foreign exchange students and who are residing in Oregon in dormitory operated by school district to be residents of school district for school purposes.
Expands provisions establishing privilege for and confidentiality of certain communications and records of certified advocate at qualified victim services program to include program administered by tribal government.
Designates third Friday in September of every year to be Oregon POW/MIA Recognition Day.
Designates August 7 of each year as Oregon Purple Heart Recognition Day.
Creates process by which certain persons who practice profession related to enforcing or providing for public health and safety and who, in performance of official duties, come into contact with blood, bodily fluid or other potentially infectious material of another person may petition court for order compelling testing of other person for communicable disease.
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
Requires certain persons to not drive in far left lane unless passing.
Out of committee · 5
Requires video transmissions of executive department and legislative department to be closed-captioned for access by hearing-impaired persons.
Designates Act as Oregon First-Time Home Buyer Savings Account Act.
Establishes Oregon Deaf, Deaf-Blind and Hard of Hearing Program within Department of Human Services.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Health Authority for Senior Farm Direct Nutrition Program and Women, Infants and Children Farm Direct Nutrition Program.
Allows personal income and corporate excise taxpayers to subtract from taxable income amounts paid as principal of or interest on qualified education loans, if borrower is taxpayer or spouse, or dependent or employee of taxpayer.
In committee · 11
Authorizes court to order, at request of victim, special condition of probation restricting location of person's residence if person released on probation following conviction for felony stalking crime.
Requires employee of certain premises who holds service permit to make report if employee has reasonable belief that sex trafficking is occurring at premises or that minor is employed as performer at premises in manner violating Oregon Liquor Control Commission rules.
Removes provisions providing for automatic enrollment of employees in Oregon Retirement Savings Plan.
Creates crime of patronizing a trafficked child.
Requires hospital with emergency department to perform sexual assault medical assessment, and collect sexual assault forensic evidence kit, upon request by victim.
Exempts certain transferees from private firearm transfer criminal background check requirement.
Directs Department of Justice to conduct study on creating bill of rights for sexual assault survivors and to report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to judiciary on or before February 1, 2018.
Establishes Oregon Empowerment Scholarship Program for purpose of providing options in education to students of this state.
Specifies that new or increased fees adopted by state agency do not become effective unless approved by Legislative Assembly by law.
Expands scope of investigations of abuse of persons with mental illness that may be conducted by Department of Human Services.
Declares policy of state to use zero-based budgeting in developing biennial budget plan.