Bills in the 2023 Regular Session, House.
Maxine Dexter
Sponsored
Became law3
Establishes Oregon Housing Needs Analysis in Oregon Department of Administrative Services.
Allows specified persons to distribute and administer short-acting opioid antagonist and distribute kits.
Amends Oregon Housing Needs Analysis and land use requirements for local governments related to urbanization.
Out of committee10
Establishes Harm Reduction Clearinghouse Project within Oregon Health Authority for purposes of purchasing in bulk harm reduction supplies for use by entities that serve populations vulnerable to overdose, infections or injuries due to opioid use and use of other controlled substances.
Establishes Aligning for Health Pilot Program, administered by Oregon Health Authority, to test alternative methods for payment for health care.
Requires Department of Human Services to provide financial support to nonprofits to provide affordable housing for college students.
Expands regular employment protections afforded for performance of legislative duties by members of Legislative Assembly by requiring employers, at option of member , to grant time off for less than full-day absence to member to perform legislative duties.
Directs Corrections Ombudsman to support Department of Corrections' continuous quality improvement efforts, and to provide report to Governor and committees or interim committees of Legislative Assembly detailing staffing and resources needed to fulfill powers and duties of office within six months of appointment of ombudsman.
Authorizes granting agency to prequalify nonprofit organization to receive block grants for purpose of providing goods and services in areas of critical need.
Requires Housing and Community Services Department to study homelessness.
Requires Housing and Community Services Department to study housing.
Establishes Community Information Exchange Board and specifies membership and duties.
Requires Housing and Community Services Department to provide grants for urban community housing supporting agricultural employees.
In committee21
Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission to conduct study to determine how to best address food insecurity for students enrolled in post-secondary institutions of education in this state.
Directs Department of Corrections to study ways to improve provision of medical care to adults in custody, and to provide results of study to interim committees of Legislative Assembly no later than December 31, 2024.
Directs Environmental Quality Commission to establish and implement indirect source review program.
Exempts from drug paraphernalia prohibitions pipes, fentanyl test strips and other harm reduction items.
Establishes commission to develop, maintain and oversee system for standardization of reporting opioid overdoses.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to develop and maintain public health campaign to educate Oregonians about illicit opioids.
Provides immunity from civil and criminal liability to school administrators, teachers or other school employees designated by school administrator who administer naloxone to pupils experiencing opiate overdoses.
Changes term "naloxone" to "short-acting opioid antagonist.".
Allows owner of publicly accessible building or facility to obtain from Oregon Health Authority kit including short-acting opioid antagonist and necessary medical supplies to administer short-acting opioid antagonist for use by members of public.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to establish process to receive and review health care profession scope of practice requests and impact statements.
Changes term "naloxone" to "short-acting opioid antagonist." Allows law enforcement officer, firefighter or emergency medical services provider to distribute multiple kits to specified individuals.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Patient Safety Commission for purposes of implementing program related to resolution of adverse health care incidents.
Requires coordinated care organizations to share claims and encounter data with provider regarding patients that provider contracts with coordinated care organization to serve.
Allows Oregon Health Authority to issue standing order to prescribe short-acting opioid antagonist and necessary medical supplies to administer short-acting opioid antagonist.
Requires annual registration and fee for each rental residential dwelling and vacation occupancy with Housing and Community Services Department.
Requires Housing and Community Services Department to study housing.
Requires Housing and Community Services Department to study housing.
Requires administrator of Oregon Prescription Drug Program to make bulk purchases of opioid reversal medications to distribute statewide to entities that serve vulnerable populations.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to Multnomah County for Earthquake Ready Burnside Bridge project.
Establishes Office of Health Care Affordability and transfers to office functions of Oregon Health Authority related to containment of health care costs.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to adopt rules to establish three-year harm reduction center pilot program to prevent opioid overdoses.
Carried from the Senate
Became law3
Prohibits food vendor from using polystyrene foam container in sales of prepared food.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to adopt rules allowing restaurants to allow consumers to fill consumer-owned container with food.
Prohibits Department of Human Services from using specified moneys received on behalf of child in care for maintenance costs.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 71
Modifies provisions relating to reproductive health rights.
Defines "undetectable firearm." Punishes manufacturing, importing, offering for sale or transferring undetectable firearm by maximum of 10 years' imprisonment, $250,000 fine, or both.
Establishes program within Apprenticeship and Training Division of Bureau of Labor and Industries to make grants to local service districts and local joint committees that develop and administer pilot projects for firefighter apprenticeship training.
Broadens public contracting preference for businesses that service-disabled veterans own to include all veteran-owned businesses.
Extends sunset from 2024 to 2034 on provisions allowing retired member of Public Employees Retirement System to be reemployed by participating public employer for unlimited number of hours without reduction in pension benefits.
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.
Requires extension to no later than December 31, 2026, of term for contract between Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organization.
Directs Department of State Fire Marshal to coordinate urban search and rescue function of this state.
Directs Department of Early Learning and Care to adopt standards and processes to reduce barriers that impede international early childhood professionals from entering early learning workforce in Oregon.
Prohibits acceptance of consideration for displaying human remains to public.
Requires Department of Corrections to establish doula program for pregnant and postpartum adults in custody at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility.
Creates right of action for person injured by paramilitary activity.
Requires Employment Relations Board to develop guidelines and procedures for authorizations designating bargaining representatives of bargaining unit to be prepared and signed electronically.
Requires hospitals to adopt policies and procedures to ensure provision of human immunodeficiency virus post-exposure prophylactic drugs or therapies following patient's possible exposure to human immunodeficiency virus.
Changes operative date from January 1, 2026, to effective date of Act, for law removing authority of Teacher Standards and Practices Commission from establishing and collecting fee from educator preparation provider based on number of license applications received by commission from provider or type of educator preparation programs offered by provider.
Requires that dental and vision are included in health benefits available to part-time faculty members.
Requires Department of Education to conduct study to identify best methodology for determining appropriate number of students on workload for certain school-based health practitioners.
Increases penalties for possession of certain amounts of fentanyl.
Modifies Department of Justice crime victim compensation program.
Directs Early Learning Council to adopt rules to establish eligibility for certain children to participate in Employment Related Day Care subsidy program.
Requires hospitals to establish professional and technical staff and service staff staffing committees, meeting specified criteria, to develop staffing plans, in addition to nurse staffing committee.
Prohibits pharmacy benefit manager from retroactively denying or reducing payment on claim after adjudication unless pharmacy and pharmacy benefit manager agree that payment was incorrect due to clerical error.
Directs Department of Land and Conservation and Development to convene work group to examine strategies for expanding early learning and care facilities in this state.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Justice for Crime Victim and Survivor Services Division, for distribution to eligible children's advocacy centers.
Expands and provides funding for coordinated crisis services system including 9-8-8 suicide prevention and behavioral health crisis hotline.
Provides that person that knows or consciously avoids knowing that another person is engaging in act or practice that violates laws that regulate telephone solicitations or use of automatic dialing and announcing devices and nonetheless provides substantial assistance or support for violation is liable for loss and subject to penalty to same extent as person that engaged in violation.
Expands Housing and Community Services Department ability to allow financing of certain affordable residential units within certain housing developments subject to limits established by Oregon Housing Stability Council.
Establishes requirements for approving recovery schools.
Authorizes governing body of public body to meet in executive session to consider matters relating to safety of governing body, public body staff and public body volunteers and to security of public body facilities and meeting spaces, and relating to cyber security infrastructure and responses to cyber security threats.
Creates Oregon tax subtraction for amounts of personal casualty loss that are barred from deduction on federal tax return because loss is not attributable to federally declared disaster.
Prohibits retail pet store from offering to sell or selling dogs or cats.
Requires hospitals to file certain reports showing demographics of hospitals' workforces with Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor and Industries for posting to Bureau of Labor and Industries' website.
Designates August 4 of each year as Bracero Program Day.
Requires insurer to offer 70 percent of coverage insured previously purchased for contents of residence to insured who holds policy of personal insurance without requiring inventory of loss if total loss of contents occurs as result of major disaster.
Allows conversion of building from commercial use to housing within urban growth boundary under certain conditions.
Directs Department of Transportation to waive fee for Fallen Hero roadside memorial highway sign if applicant is Gold Star Family member and funds are appropriated or otherwise made available to department for purpose of paying fees.
Directs Oregon Business Development Department to provide financial assistance to eligible applicants to pay for allowable costs related to early child care infrastructure activities.
Limits ability of insurers offering dental benefit to require reimbursement of claims by credit card or electronic funds transfer.
Directs State Board of Education to adopt rules that allow for reimbursement of school district expenses incurred for alternative transportation costs.
Requires school districts undertaking HVAC infrastructure improvements for which state and federal funds are made specifically available to expend such funds on certain activities aimed at improving indoor air ventilation quality in schools.
Limits terminations and rent increases for three years after tenants' housing is withdrawn from publicly supported housing.
Revises provisions relating to chemicals in children's products.
Establishes Oregon Disaster Response Assistance Matching Fund.
Identifies certain covered vendors.
Directs Department of Education to develop and implement statewide education plan for students who are Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander.
Limits improvements that landlord of manufactured dwelling park may require of tenant.
Makes permanent provisions conditionally allowing water right lease to split use of water between existing water right and in-stream water right within same year.
Establishes Task Force on Tribal Consultation and specifies task force membership.
Increases amount of scholarships that may be awarded by Higher Education Coordinating Commission to diverse teacher candidates.
Establishes Early Literacy Success Initiative.
Repeals provision specifying fiscal year end date for credit unions.
Requires Oregon Business Development Department to provide financial assistance to support broadband access, affordability and adoption.
Prohibits manufacturer from selling or offering to sell cosmetic developed through use of cosmetic animal test.
Authorizes Housing and Community Services Department to support replacement, reconstruction or rehabilitation of residential units damaged or destroyed by disaster and to support recovery of residents of such housing.
Modifies provisions of electronics recycling program.
Creates refundable child tax credit, calculated based on number of dependents of taxpayer that are qualifying children with respect to taxpayer and are under six years of age at close of tax year.
Requires pharmacy to report dispensation of prescription drugs classified in schedules II through V under federal Controlled Substances Act to electronic system established for monitoring and reporting prescription drugs when drug is prescribed and dispensed to individual for use by individual or individual's animal.
Repeals Department of Environmental Quality's dry cleaner environmental program.
Requires county clerk to replace recorded instrument with court-ordered version that redacts discriminatory language.
Provides that individuals who participate in certain on-the-job training programs are entitled to certain rights and protections concerning civil rights, discrimination and harassment as employees in employment relationship with employer.
Directs Housing and Community Services Department to provide report to appropriate interim committee of Legislative Assembly on department's financial support of dwelling units with certain accessibility features.
Allows affordable housing on lands zoned for commercial uses within urban growth boundaries.
Establishes Joint Task Force on Hospital Discharge Challenges.
Requires State Department of Energy to report on rate of heat pump technology adoption and to collaborate with designated state agencies to reduce barriers to home energy efficiency and resilience.
Expands landlord guarantee program to include landlords providing housing to tenants who have received rental assistance under specified rehousing initiative.
Requires 9-8-8 crisis hotline centers to have policies and train staff on serving firefighters and other first responders.
Prohibits landlords from terminating lease or taking other specified actions due to status of tenant as victim of bias crime.
Establishes Sexual Misconduct Survey Council.
Provides, for purposes of certain statutes relating to taking of predatory animals, that term "predatory animal" does not include beavers.
Directs schools or school districts to provide electronic communication to parents and guardians of students attending, and to school district employees employed at, school at which safety threat action occurred.
Directs State Department of Energy to establish program to provide assistance related to energy projects and activities to environmental justice communities.
Vetoed · 1
Establishes State Public Bank Task Force.
Passed both houses · 1
Establishes ranked choice voting as voting method for selecting winner of nomination for and election to offices of President of United States, United States Senator, Representative in Congress, Governor, Secretary of State, State Treasurer and Attorney General.
Passed the House · 1
Requires pharmacy benefit managers to be licensed by Department of Consumer and Business Services beginning January 1, 2024.
Out of committee · 36
Specifies property and funds of judgment debtor that are exempt from execution or garnishment.
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Business Development Department to distribute to Oregon cultural organizations in response to negative impact of COVID-19 pandemic on organization finances.
Creates Cultural Impact Program.
Directs Oregon Department Office of Emergency Management to administer grant program in support of projects to consolidate and modernize or upgrade public safety answering points.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Health Authority for costs related to increasing statewide capacity of licensed residential facilities serving individuals with substance use disorders or mental health concerns.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to issue grants to specified recipients.
Appropriates $30,000,000 to Department of Environmental Quality for deposit in Zero-Emission Incentive Fund.
Allows veterans to participate in Oregon Promise program if first enrolled in classes within 12 months after discharge from military.
Creates income tax credit for child care workers employed in rural areas.
Adds licensed mental health professionals, naturopathic physicians and pharmacists and certified medical laboratory scientists and medical laboratory technicians to types of providers eligible for tax credit allowed to rural medical care provider.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Health Authority to be used for specified purposes related to expanding behavioral health provider workforce.
Creates credit against income taxes for selling publicly supported housing to retain as affordable housing.
Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to establish, in collaboration with Department of Corrections, Family Preservation Project pilot program at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Health Authority for Oregon Medical Coordination Center.
Directs Oregon Department of Emergency Management to develop and implement program to award grants for fairgrounds used as emergency evacuation sites.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to establish grant program for purpose of distributing moneys to institutions of higher education and organizations that administer training programs to develop training and instructional programs that prepare students to enter into behavioral health workforce.
Requires Oregon Business Development Department and Housing and Community Services Department to provide grants and loans for housing.
Directs Department of Human Services to provide grants, support and technical assistance for resilience hubs and networks in Oregon.
Modifies provisions of Department of Transportation wildlife-vehicle collision program.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Transportation to cover costs associated with Fallen Hero roadside memorial signs and veterans' recognition registration plates for biennium beginning July 1, 2023.
Requires pharmacy benefit managers to annually report specified information to Department of Consumer and Business Services, including costs and rebates of prescription drugs for enrollees.
Establishes Community Green Infrastructure Grant Program.
Authorizes Department of Justice to assist victims of domestic violence and sexual assault with housing needs.
Authorizes Higher Education Coordinating Commission to award "Hunger Free Campus" designation to public universities and community colleges that demonstrate required actions taken to combat hunger.
Prohibits distributing, selling, attempting to sell or allowing to be sold flavored inhalant delivery system product or flavored tobacco product in this state.
Creates residential property wholesaler registration.
Requires schools to have wireless panic alert device in each classroom of each school building.
Establishes Health Insurance Mandate Review Advisory Committee to review , at request of chair or vice chair of committee of Legislative Assembly related to health, proposed legislative measure, legislative concept or amendment that requires health insurer or health care service contractor to reimburse cost of specified procedure or provider and to produce report analyzing specified anticipated effects of coverage or lack of coverage of treatment or service proposed.
Establishes Rural System Development Charges Program within Housing and Community Services Department to pay system development charges for rural affordable multifamily housing.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to disburse to Oregon Health and Science University funds to support entity established within Oregon Health and Science University that advocates for improved maternal and neonatal outcomes.
Creates income or corporate excise tax credit for investment in affordable housing, available to taxpayer eligible for federal low-income housing credit, and allocated by Housing and Community Services Department.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Business Development Department to be used for Economic Equity Investment Program created under chapter 103, Oregon Laws 2022 (Enrolled Senate Bill 1579).
Requires Housing and Community Services Department to report to Legislative Assembly on homeownership disparities by September 15 of each even-numbered year.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to support homeownership and fair housing.
Directs Housing and Community Services Department by rule to establish and implement pilot program through which department cooperates with qualified lending institutions to provide 100 percent financing for residential property purchases to persons who qualify for special purpose credit programs.
Expresses commitment of Legislative Assembly to support specified bridge projects through investments of specified amounts.
In committee · 18
Establishes limits on campaign contributions that may be accepted by candidates and political committees.
Prohibits person under 21 years of age from possessing firearms with specified exceptions.
Authorizes governing bodies of certain public entities that own or control public building to adopt policy, ordinance or regulation or precluding affirmative defense for possession of firearms in public building and adjacent grounds by concealed handgun licensees.
Requires Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organization to pay reasonable per diem rate for patient whose discharge from hospital is delayed due to circumstances beyond hospital's control.
Requires State Treasurer to exit from certain carbon-intensive investments, subject to fiduciary duties.
Modifies membership of Oregon Transportation Commission.
Provides that any agreement related to providing ultra-high-speed ground transportation in this state must include service to Eugene.
Directs Department of Transportation to work with Washington State Department of Transportation and British Columbia Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure to develop plans to operate and fund rail transportation.
Clarifies meaning of "because of age" in employment discrimination law.
Directs Public Utility Commission to require person or municipality that manages, operates, owns or control pipeline facilities for transmission or distribution of hazardous substance or material by pipeline to mail residences within 500 feet of pipeline annual notice with certain information and, in event of pipeline leak, to provide update on efforts to fix pipeline leak and mitigate spillage every 24 hours and, when pipeline leak is fixed, to update on cleanup efforts every seven days.
Directs Environmental Quality Commission to adopt standards prohibiting engine exhaust and evaporative emissions from new small nonroad engines beginning January 1, 2026, unless a later date is required by federal Clean Air Act.
Prohibits operating boat carrying child under 16 years of age unless child is wearing properly sized and secured personal flotation device.
Prohibits pharmacy benefit manager, after adjudication of and payment on claim for reimbursement of prescription drug, from recouping reimbursement paid except as part of routine audit, or from imposing retroactive fee on basis that was not determined when claim was adjudicated.
Requires governing board at each public university to include graduate student as voting member if university has more than 400 graduate students or if graduate students comprise more than 15 percent of total student body.
Establishes Universal School Meal Account for purpose of reimbursing school districts for certain costs incurred in providing federally reimbursable meals.
Requires most outdoor lighting fixtures on public lands or constructed for projects receiving state funds to use certain shielded lighting fixtures.
Authorizes Multnomah County to form master plan and service district regarding bridges that span Willamette River.
Requires original equipment manufacturer to make available to owner of consumer electronic equipment or independent repair provider on fair and reasonable terms any documentation, tool, part or other device or implement that original equipment manufacturer makes available to authorized service provider for purpose of diagnosing, maintaining or repairing consumer electronic equipment.