Bills in the 2024 Regular Session, Senate.
Aaron Woods
Sponsored
Became law1
Requires a disclosure of the use of synthetic media in campaign communications.
Out of committee1
Requires the Department of Transportation, in partnership with the Westside Express Advisory Committee, to study extending the Westside Express Service commuter line to Salem.
Carried from the House
Became law1
Establishes the Task Force on Artificial Intelligence.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 6
Establishes the Environmental Restoration Council.
Provides that an employer commits a Class A misdemeanor if the employer knowingly submits a false payroll report with the intent to decrease the employer's premium for workers' compensation insurance.
Requires an investor-owned utility that sells more than two million megawatt hours of electricity in a calendar year to report to and inform the Legislative Assembly of activities that the investor-owned utility has taken or is taking toward participating in a regional energy market.
Requires the Department of Human Services to convene a task force to analyze options available under federal law for a program that allows recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits to use the benefits for hot foods, including restaurant meals.
Increases certain exemptions from garnishment and execution.
Requires an original equipment manufacturer to make available to an owner of consumer electronic equipment or an independent repair provider on fair and reasonable terms any documentation, tool, part or other device or implement that the original equipment manufacturer makes available to an authorized service provider for the purpose of diagnosing, maintaining or repairing consumer electronic equipment.
Passed the Senate · 1
Prohibits discrimination when selecting textbooks, instructional materials, program materials or library books that are used in the public schools of this state.
Out of committee · 3
Establishes the Task Force on Compassionate Medical Release.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to certain institutions of higher education to expand the behavioral health workforce in Oregon.
Establishes the Task Force on Improving the Safety of Behavioral Health Workers.
In committee · 6
Modifies state greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals.
Appropriates moneys from the General Fund for distribution to the Family YMCA of Marion and Polk Counties for a social services resource center.
Removes from state law an exception that allowed for residential property owners to engage in housing discrimination based on certain protected characteristics in certain circumstances.
Repeals provisions related to the towed watersports program.
Authorizes the Department of Human Services to license adult foster homes serving up to seven residents if the home meets specified criteria and pays the appropriate fee.
Imposes a new tax on the gross proceeds from the sale of unprocessed timber harvested on private land in excess of 500 acres held in common ownership in this state.