Bills in the 2023 Regular Session, Senate.
Tim Knopp
Sponsored
Became law4
Modifies provisions relating to sales of homemade foods.
Amends requirements relating to wildfire hazard mitigation for development of accessory dwelling units on lands zoned for rural residential use.
Prohibits lobbyist from serving as chairperson of interim committees or certain legislative work groups or legislative task forces.
Establishes Organized Retail Theft Grant Program.
Passed the Senate2
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.
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 committee4
Establishes pilot program to provide funding to school districts for purposes of increasing access to schools by homeless students and improving academic achievement of homeless students.
Establishes state policy that meaningful share of benefits from offshore wind energy development go to local and regional communities, ecosystems and environments and economies and that interconnection of offshore energy projects be carried out in manner that promotes electric grid reliability and resilience.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to State Parks and Recreation Department for planning and coordination to continue to develop, maintain or work toward completion of Oregon Coast Trail.
Restores tax credit allowed for qualified research activities at increased maximum credit amount.
In committee51
Prohibits public bodies and business affiliates of public bodies from requiring person to wear face covering or discriminating against person on basis of failure or refusal to wear face covering.
Prohibits individual from collecting and returning ballot of another individual, subject to specified exceptions.
Makes discrimination against individual based on vaccination history, individual's refusal to obtain vaccination or individual's failure to provide proof of immunity to communicable disease unlawful employment practice.
Requires Department of Education to transfer funds to school districts necessary to pay for school resource officers.
Establishes durational limits for states of emergency declared under certain statutes.
Provides that Oregon Health Authority and Department of Education may not adopt rules requiring immunization against COVID-19 as a condition of attendance in any school, children's facility or post-secondary institution of education.
Prohibits public bodies and private entities from requiring person to receive COVID-19 vaccination or to possess COVID-19 immunity passport, immunity pass or other evidence certifying COVID-19 vaccination or immunity status.
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.
Creates crime of controlled substances homicide.
Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to classify crime of felon in possession of a firearm as crime category 8.
Removes restrictions on district school board related to termination of superintendent.
Requires vision examination as part of evaluation before initially receiving special education.
Appropriates $50 million to State Forestry Department to fund increased forest thinning operations in specified wildfire-prone counties.
Removes requirement that State Forestry Department oversee development of statewide map of wildfire risk.
Provides, for purposes of ad valorem property taxation, frozen assessed value for homestead of individual at least 68 years of age, or person with disability, if homestead and individual would be eligible for homestead property tax deferral program but for fact that homestead is pledged as security for reverse mortgage.
Allows certain local governments to amend urban growth boundaries to include lands to be used for needed housing.
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.
Provides that, for estate of decedents dying on or after January 1, 2023, Oregon estate tax is not due unless value of Oregon taxable estate equals or exceeds $12.92 million.
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, 2024.
Creates crime of threatening to commit a terroristic act.
Requires State Forester to actively manage state forestlands to achieve and maintain low forest fuel load levels.
Requires person to review medical history and obtain written consent of parent or guardian before administering vaccine or immune product to child under 18 years of age.
Requires that all executive clemency actions by Governor be initiated by application and follow specified procedures.
Prohibits assessment of civil penalty or fine for violation of state occupational safety or health measure if no disease outbreak of COVID-19 occurred as result of violation.
Restores corporate excise tax credit allowed for qualified research activities.
Provides that person whose driving privileges are permanently revoked may request hearing to restore privileges after three years instead of 10 years, if revocation was imposed following conviction of felony driving while under influence or third or subsequent offense of driving while under influence.
Directs Department of Transportation to provide walk-in appointments for written driver license test.
Directs school district board to adopt child sexual abuse prevention instructional program that addresses sex trafficking of children.
Requires Deschutes County to approve certain applications to develop manufactured dwelling or recreational vehicle parks outside urban growth boundary.
Requires course instruction provided as part of health education curriculum to include information about human development from conception to birth.
Requires Public Utility Commission to study rate impacts associated with implementing reduction of greenhouse gas emissions required by House Bill 2021 (2021).
Allows recreational vehicle used to provide security of farm use to be sited on lands zoned for exclusive farm use.
Authorizes counties to identify lands that must be made available for industrial use.
Specifies that health professional licensee may not be required to have physical address in this state for eligibility for authorization to practice health profession.
Prohibits merchant service company or financing agency from retaining funds that are property of merchant for more than 10 calendar days unless merchant service company or financing agency allows merchant access to funds, including ability to withdraw funds, or merchant service company or financing agency pays merchant statutory rate of interest on balance of funds retained.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Health Authority for purpose of screening newborns for Duchenne muscular dystrophy under Northwest Regional Newborn Bloodspot Screening Program.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Education for State School Fund.
Prohibits clerk of court, or any other person designated by magistrate to take security, from accepting security from bail fund.
Extends automatic voter registration in certain circumstances.
Increases statute of limitations for first degree sex crimes to 20 years after commission of crime or, for minor victim, any time before victim attains 30 years of age, whichever occurs later.
Requires Public Employees Retirement Board to study approaches to lowering employer contribution rate paid by charter schools under Public Employees Retirement System.
Separates possession, delivery and manufacture of fentanyl from general controlled substance offense statute into separate statutes.
Specifies that new or increased fees adopted by state agency do not become effective unless approved by Legislative Assembly by law.
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.
Modifies timelines and requirements for when school district makes determination whether to give approval for student to enroll in virtual public charter school not sponsored by school district.
Authorizes Department of Early Learning and Care to acquire ownership of, or enter into contract with public or private entity to use, up to three approximately one-quarter-acre parcels in Deschutes County to develop commercial-grade buildings suitable to function as child care facilities.
Sets $100 cap each year on sum of contributions that can be received by candidate or committee in cash from any source.
Carried from the House
Became law2
Identifies certain covered vendors.
Modifies definitions to allow for publication of legal notices in digital newspaper.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 13
Requires students to complete one half-credit of higher education and career path skills and one half-credit of personal financial education as requirements for high school diploma.
Directs Oregon Business Development Department to develop grant and loan program to support businesses applying for financial assistance under Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors for America Act of 2022 (P.L. 117-167).
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.
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.
Requires health benefit plan and health care service contract coverage of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections and pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome.
Directs county juvenile department to ensure that specified youth or adjudicated youth receives sex trafficking screening.
Modifies abbreviated school day program requirements.
Expands types of prior convictions that increase offense level for crime of public indecency.
Creates crime of sexual abuse by fraudulent representation.
Directs Department of Education to make biennial transfer to Oregon Military Department from State School Fund for purpose of paying costs of educational services provided through programs operated by military department for at-risk youth.
Modifies crimes related to involuntary servitude and human trafficking.
Allows residential landlord and tenant to agree to provide written notices by electronic mail and allow landlord to refund moneys by electronic means.
Passed the Senate · 1
Requires Department of Education to conduct study to determine how to integrate instruction on identification and prevention of sex trafficking into academic content standards.
Out of committee · 2
Establishes income tax credit for volunteer firefighters.
Establishes Oregon Memory Net pilot project to provide opportunity for primary care providers to refer for memory assessment at neurologic clinic patients showing signs of cognitive decline or impairment but who have not been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease or other forms of dementia.
In committee · 29
Creates Oregon personal income tax subtraction for amounts received for renting out room in taxpayer's home.
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.
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.
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.
Creates Oregon personal income tax subtraction for child care expenses paid by taxpayer during tax year.
Increases exempt amount and filing threshhold for purposes of corporate activity tax.
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 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.
Requires insurer, pharmacy benefit manager, Public Employees' Benefit Board, Oregon Educators Benefit Board and health care service contractor to count payments made by or on behalf of enrollee for costs of certain prescription drugs when calculating enrollee's contribution to out-of-pocket maximum, deductible, copayment, coinsurance or other cost-sharing for drugs.
Provides that lack of verbal or physical resistance does not by itself constitute lack of consent or inability to consent in determination of whether sexual act is consensual.
Modifies definition of "sexual contact" for purposes of Oregon Criminal Code.
Prevents local governments from prohibiting natural gas use in or availability for new or existing residential or commercial buildings.
Requires that court award damages for cost of replanting to plaintiff prevailing against federal government or contractor in action for injury to private land arising from fire originating on federal forestland.
Provides that small forestland owner that planted trees under reforestation requirements may harvest trees.
Directs Department of Environmental Quality to notify Attorney General if air quality index readings for area of state reach 250 or higher during seven consecutive days and cause is believed to be wildfire originating on lands owned by United States.
Provides that operator may require person who engages in sport, fitness or recreational activity in various ways to release operator from claims for ordinary negligence.
Establishes COFA Food Assistance Program to provide nutrition assistance to COFA citizens who would qualify for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits but for their immigration status and who have incomes at or below federal poverty guidelines.
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.
Extends sunset date of enterprise zone program.
Expands attorney fee award for prevailing applicants to include any person developing needed housing whose approval is appealed to Land Use Board of Appeals.
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.
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.
Expands Address Confidentiality Program to include victims of child abduction.
Requires that sex offender risk assessment methodology take into consideration specified information.
Defines "victim" for purposes of release of sex offender information by Department of State Police.
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.