Bills in the 2023 Regular Session, House.
Lily Morgan
Sponsored
Became law5
Changes terms of members of board of property tax appeals from one year to two years.
Modifies penalties for throwing lighted material onto certain property.
Waives background check fee for employees and volunteers of certain respite service providers.
Increases penalties for possession of certain amounts of fentanyl.
Directs State Department of Agriculture, in consultation with Oregon Health Authority and Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission, to establish cannabis reference laboratory to support enforcement of cannabis regulation.
Passed the House1
Reduces penalties for crime of offensive littering in certain circumstances.
Out of committee10
Creates income or corporate excise tax credit for taxpayer that employs youth through Oregon Youth Employment Program.
Directs Department of State Lands, in consultation with State Department of Fish and Wildlife, to develop salmon credit pilot program to encourage voluntary restoration of salmonid habitat in Coquille and Coos watershed basins.
Requires Oregon Department of Administrative Services to conduct wage study and Department of Human Services to conduct workforce study to determine eligibility and enrollment case manager staffing levels needed to complete eligibility determinations within 45 days for individuals seeking enrollment in programs for all-inclusive care for elderly.
Requires Department of Consumer and Business Services to study approval standards for residential development.
Requires Department of Consumer and Business Services to enter into public contract to research and analyze administrative procedures for approving residential construction projects in this state and to develop recommendations, including recommendations for best practices, for reducing amount of time necessary for approval.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Justice for deposit into Oregon Domestic and Sexual Violence Services Fund.
Directs Oregon Department of Emergency Management to develop and implement program to award grants for fairgrounds used as emergency evacuation sites.
Directs Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission to establish annual registration program and labeling requirements for industrial hemp commodity or product that contains cannabinoids and is intended for human or animal consumption.
Requires Southern Oregon University, subject to appropriation of sufficient moneys, to address state's behavioral and mental health needs by materially increasing number of mental health practitioners who graduate in southern Oregon and teaching behavioral and mental health competencies through alternative academic pathways.
Establishes alternative process by which local government must approve application to develop housing on lands zoned to allow residential uses.
In committee79
Provides that any voter who has not updated residence portion of voter registration card in more than two years will become inactive elector.
Prohibits state agency from enforcing rules requiring vaccination against COVID-19.
Provides that state agency may not adopt rules without statutory authority.
Prohibits counties from allowing use of certain new dwellings on resource lands as vacation occupancies.
Allows recreational vehicle used to provide security of farm use to be sited on lands zoned for exclusive farm use.
Permits Electrical and Elevator Board to determine fitness of person who holds journeyman electrician license or equivalent license issued by governmental authority that regulates electrical trades in another state.
Limits standing in appeals of land use decisions or limited land use decisions to persons that reside or maintain business in or within 25 miles of boundary of local government or special district and appeared before decision maker in person at hearing if available.
Makes in-person voting on date of election, rather than vote by mail, standard method for conducting election.
Allows Health Licensing Office to issue authorization to person licensed to perform tattooing services to administer local anesthetic if person completes course approved by office and meets other requirements established by office.
Allows counties to authorize subdivision of land zoned for exclusive farm use or forest use into parcels no smaller than average size of county's lots and parcels of same type.
Redefines "historic home" to include dwellings built before 1974 for purpose of serving as accessory dwelling unit to home newly constructed on rural residential lands.
Provides that telecommunicator qualifies as police officer under Public Employees Retirement System.
Changes minimum contract price at which prevailing rate of wage applies to public works projects from $50,000 to amount Commissioner of Bureau of Labor and Industries specifies by rule.
Requires Housing and Community Services Department to study housing program eligibility for felons.
Prohibits Governor or state officer or agency from requiring lawful ongoing business concern to close or suspend operations during declared state of emergency or declared state of public health emergency.
Limits declaration of state of emergency to 30 days duration, unless extended by Legislative Assembly for additional 30 days.
Prohibits insurer from canceling or raising premiums on policies of fire insurance by more than three percent if insured's property is located within wildland-urban interface or insured's primary employment or economic or business activity is farming or resource extraction.
Provides that small forestland owner or owner's estate, heirs or devisees, that planted trees under reforestation requirements may harvest trees.
Prohibits Department of Justice from charging officers and agencies of state government for assistance rendered.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to establish and administer grant program to provide financial assistance to certain prospective adoptive families.
Requires parent or legal guardian of student to provide written permission prior to student participating in human sexuality education course.
Exempts from private transfer criminal background check requirement transfer of curio or relic firearm to person licensed as collector under federal law.
Requires voters to update signature in voter registration file at least once every eight years.
Requires ballots returned by mail to be received by date of election.
Provides that parent or legal guardian may be notified of minor's consent to treatment.
Ends automatic voter registration through Oregon Motor Voter.
Provides person with privileges and legal defenses available to person with Oregon concealed handgun license if person is licensed to carry concealed handgun by another state, or city or county in another state.
Undoes provisions of Senate Bill 762 (2021). .
Appropriates moneys out of General Fund to State Fire Marshal for distribution to Illinois Valley Fire District for purposes related to district's water supply and treatment of sewage.
Requires Department of Environmental Quality to study both requirements related to subsurface and alternative sewage disposal systems that create barriers to siting and construction of accessory dwelling units in areas outside urban growth boundary and solutions to eliminate barriers.
Prescribes information that district school board must ensure is provided on school district's website related to courses of study offered by school district.
Directs Department of Human Services to administer program to provide financial assistance to prospective adoptive families to cover costs associated with adoption that are not paid for or reimbursed by public funds or commercial insurance.
Provides that fire chief, or representative of fire chief, of county may extinguish uncontrolled fire found to be burning in unprotected area.
Creates subtraction from federal taxable income for amounts received as grants related to preventing wildfire.
Abolishes Commission on Statewide Law Enforcement Standards of Conduct and Discipline.
Requires State Forestry Department to study wildfire.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to develop, implement and administer program to support consumer engagement efforts aimed at increasing and optimizing consumer involvement in planning and decision-making surrounding the access to, and the delivery of, behavioral health services in this state.
Establishes process and requirements for establishing education savings accounts.
Repeals Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act of 2020 (Ballot Measure 110 (2020)) and provisions related to decriminalization of possession of drugs, creation of Oversight and Accountability Council and grants and funding for Behavioral Health Resource Networks to provide drug treatment.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to develop and maintain electronic system to collect information about administration of naloxone or other specified drugs, and deaths resulting from opioid overdose.
Requires Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission to study cannabis.
Prohibits public employer from making deduction from salary or wages of public employee to pay dues, fees or other assessments to labor organization.
Modifies definition of "property" for purposes of arson and reckless burning crimes.
Repeals requirement to secure firearm in specified circumstances.
Requires Oregon Department of Emergency Management to study emergency communications infrastructure.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to Josephine County for emergency infrastructure improvements to Josephine County fairgrounds.
Reduces notice period before removal of homeless individuals from established camping site to 24 hours.
Requires state agency or political subdivision of State of Oregon that possesses or controls real property within wildland-urban interface, or adjacent to privately owned real property within wildland-urban interface, to take certain actions to prevent wildfire.
Provides that Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services may apply requirement to include provisions for electrical service capacity for charging electric vehicles only to commercial buildings under private ownership.
Prohibits state agency from enforcing rules adopted as result of state of emergency related to COVID-19.
Directs Governor, when vacancy occurs in office of Superintendent of State Police, to establish advisory committee for appointment of new superintendent.
Prohibits discrimination in places of public accommodation on basis of person's medical history.
Requires Legislative Revenue Officer to study incentives for development of affordable and workforce housing.
Requires State Forestry Department to study recovery after wildfire.
Requires governing body of public body, when meeting in executive session at which news media is allowed to attend, to provide means for media to attend through telephone or other electronic or virtual means.
Allows governing body of city or county to adopt reasonable regulations on industrial hemp operations in area subject to jurisdiction of city or county.
Bars creditors' claims against decedents' estates if no petition for appointment of personal representative or small estate affidavit is filed within 18 months following decedent's date of death.
Allows State Forester to order use of wildfire suppression personnel, equipment and services on federal lands within state borders.
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.
Repeals Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act of 2020 (Ballot Measure 110 (2020)) and provisions related to decriminalization of possession of drugs, creation of Oversight and Accountability Council and grants and funding for Behavioral Health Resource Networks to provide drug treatment.
Directs district school boards to adopt procedures for notifying parents of specified information.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to City of Grants Pass to build water plant.
Repeals single-use checkout bag prohibitions.
Repeals provisions prohibiting food and beverage providers from providing single-use plastic straws to consumers except upon request.
Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to award noncompetitive grants through Illegal Marijuana Market Enforcement Grant Program to Department of State Police for specified purposes related to unlawful marijuana cultivation or distribution operations.
Prohibits discrimination in places of public accommodation on basis of person's medical history.
Allows city to expand its urban growth boundary, or to require Metro to expand its urban growth boundary, in order to include land designated as urban reserve that supports workforce housing and commercial development supportive of workforce housing if certain conditions are met.
Requires Department of Education, in collaboration with certain other agencies, to establish criteria for recognizing student internship programs.
Prohibits abortion unless health care provider first determines probable gestational age of unborn child, except in case of medical emergency.
Requires health professional regulatory board to issue authorization by endorsement to qualified applicant within 30 days of date health professional regulatory board receives application.
Directs Department of Human Services to establish pilot program in certain counties for continued placement of children or wards in specified child-caring agencies providing short-term assessment and stabilization services.
Requires Department of Revenue to study tax credits for employer-provided housing.
Amends income eligibility requirements for various housing programs and land use regulations.
Removes requirement that State Forestry Department oversee development of statewide map of wildfire risk.
Requires State Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology to adopt rules requiring licensed person to inform prospective purchaser of hearing aids about specified hearing aids.
Increases reimbursement rates to providers of traffic safety education courses.
Establishes Shelter Plus program to provide temporary shelter and wraparound social and medical services to individuals discharged from hospitals who do not have appropriate housing in which to recover.
Expands types of employers for purposes of occupational disease presumptions of certain employees.
Restores criminal penalties for possession of controlled substance offenses to level prior to enactment of Drug Addiction Treatment and Recovery Act of 2020 (Ballot Measure 110 (2020)) when person has been previously cited for Class E violation for possession of controlled substance.
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
Instructs State Forestry Department to endeavor to partner with federal agencies to undertake certain activities in federal forests related to fire prevention and request that federal agencies fund portions of activities.
Modifies crimes related to involuntary servitude and human trafficking.
Passed the Senate1
Prescribes information related to courses of study offered by school district that district school board must ensure is provided on school district's website.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 17
Aligns criteria for alteration, restoration or replacement of dwellings on lands zoned for forest use consistent with criteria applicable to dwellings on lands zoned for farm use.
Instructs State Fire Marshal to establish Rural Structural Fire Protection Review Committee to review certain provisions concerning structural fire protection and report on review and related recommendations to one or more relevant committees or interim committees of Legislative Assembly on or before September 15, 2024.
Requires Department of Corrections to establish doula program for pregnant and postpartum adults in custody at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility.
Removes one member who has degree of Doctor of Medicine and adds one member who is physician assistant to membership of Oregon Medical Board.
Authorizes State Department of Agriculture to issue public applicator licenses and public trainee certificates to employees of federally recognized Indian tribes for purposes of pesticide application on lands other than Indian country.
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.
Defines terms.
Provides that use of serial electronic written communication or use of intermediaries to communicate may constitute meeting of governing body subject to public meetings law if other specified conditions are satisfied.
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.
Clarifies area of leg to which definition of "podiatry" applies.
Modifies requirements for health insurance coverage of hearing-related items and services.
Requires Department of Education to conduct study to examine possibility of creating high school equivalency diploma and submit report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to education.
Clarifies process of Senate confirmation of members of State Fish and Wildlife Commission.
Authorizes peace officer to issue investigative subpoena or request order from circuit court for information regarding missing individual if specified standards are met.
Repeals provision specifying fiscal year end date for credit unions.
Requires 9-8-8 crisis hotline centers to have policies and train staff on serving firefighters and other first responders.
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.
Out of committee · 10
Grants certain immunities to children's advocacy centers and to employees and designated agents of children's advocacy centers.
Removes requirement that amount of net proceeds from Oregon State Lottery allocated to County Fair Account not exceed $1.53 million annually.
Allows marijuana producer, marijuana wholesaler, marijuana processor or marijuana retailer to use motion detection camera system at licensed premises.
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.
Requires individual and group health benefit plans and benefit plans offered by Public Employees' Benefit Board and Oregon Educators Benefit Board to reimburse services provided by naturopathic physicians within scope of their practice if services are reimbursed when provided by licensed physicians.
Adds nursing assistant or nurse to types of providers who are eligible for income tax credit allowed to rural medical providers.
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.
Modifies conditions of eligibility for tax credit allowed to rural medical care provider.
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.
Requires schools to have wireless panic alert device in each classroom of each school building.
In committee · 62
Increases penalties for assault committed against parks and recreation employees.
Repeals corporate activity tax.
Provides that county court or board of county commissioners has authority to fill vacancy in office of district attorney, rather than Governor.
Limits pretrial release of defendants charged with felony or Class A misdemeanor to security release.
Expands crime of assault in the third degree to include causing physical injury to person working in hospital while worker is performing official duties.
Requires Department of Education to transfer funds to school districts necessary to pay for school resource officers.
Increases expenditure threshold for exemption of municipal corporation from audit requirement.
Modifies estate tax brackets to provide additional estate tax exclusion of $1 million.
Establishes procedure for charging aggravated version of offense when defendant commits felony after receiving commutation.
Requires that pardon, commutation and remission actions by Governor be initiated by application and follow specified procedures.
Increases exempt amount and filing threshhold for purposes of corporate activity tax.
Prohibits insurance company from considering map of wildfire risk when determining insurance rate.
Provides that person that voluntarily fights wildfire on private forestland is not civilly liable for injury to person or property resulting from good faith firefighting efforts.
Establishes education savings account (ESA) program.
Expands crime of assault in the third degree to include causing physical injury to utility worker while worker is performing official duties.
Modifies personal income tax brackets.
Establishes income tax credit for sheriff's deputies employed in rural counties.
Defines "dangerous to self or others" for purpose of taking person with mental illness into custody.
Authorizes civil commitment of person with substance use disorder who meets criteria for civil commitment of person with mental disorder.
Requires practitioner to query electronic prescription monitoring system with respect to patient prior to issuing to, or renewing for, patient prescription for certain prescription drugs.
Permits counties to elect to increase number of voting booths available at primary and general elections in order to provide all electors with option of using easily accessible voting booth to cast ballot.
Allows district school board to enter into agreement with superintendent for payment in lieu of 12 months' notice required when superintendent's employment is terminated without cause.
Removes restriction on distribution of Student Investment Account moneys to virtual public charter schools.
Exempts receipts from sales of agricultural, floricultural, horticultural, viticultural or food products from commercial activity subject to corporate activity tax.
Provides that, before undertaking wildlife management activity involving aircraft, State Department of Fish and Wildlife must notify private landowners over whose land aircraft will fly, under specified circumstances.
Modifies provisions establishing civil action for property owner or occupier if person or public body flies unmanned aircraft system over property without permission.
Requires person that receives state financial incentive for development of renewable energy generation facility to maintain nameplate capacity of facility for period of at least 25 years.
Requires district school board or higher education governing board that adopts policy limiting possession of firearms by concealed handgun licensees on school grounds to install metal detectors at entrances to buildings subject to policy.
Requires sentencing court to order person convicted of drunk driving offense that resulted in death of victim to pay restitution to surviving child of victim in form of child maintenance.
Modifies criteria requiring Department of Human Services to file petition to terminate parental rights to include child or ward who has been removed from parent's home three times or who has been in substitute care for aggregate of 36 months.
Directs Department of Human Services to consider placement of child or ward with previous substitute care providers, if applicable.
Prohibits transitional housing accommodations near schools.
Prohibits health insurers and pharmacy benefit managers from restricting coverage of physician-administered prescription drugs that are obtained by nonparticipating pharmacies.
Prohibits specified practices by insurers and pharmacy benefit managers in reimbursing cost of prescription drugs.
Permits minors 16 and 17 years of age to operate power-driven machinery in certain circumstances.
Provides that Oregon estate tax is imposed only on estates of decedents dying on or before January 1, 2023.
Removes limitation on percentage of students in school district who may enroll in virtual public charter school not sponsored by school district without first receiving approval from school district.
Reduces lot size of rural residential lots on which accessory dwelling units may be sited.
Reduces lot size of rural residential lots on which accessory dwelling units may be sited.
Prohibits local governments from including lands used for golf courses in inventory of buildable lands for purposes of urban planning.
Expands all-terrain vehicle highway access routes to include county roads.
Increases exempt amount and filing threshold for purposes of corporate activity tax.
Increases exempt amount and filing threshold for purposes of corporate activity tax.
Prohibits abortion in this state after 39th week of gestation.
Prohibits abortion in this state after 38th week of gestation.
Prohibits late-term abortions in this state except in medical emergency or to terminate pregnancy resulting from rape or incest.
Prohibits abortion in this state after 37th week of gestation.
Prescribes sentence of 58 to 130 months' imprisonment if person convicted of unlawful delivery of controlled substance that results in death of another person from use of controlled substance.
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 health benefit plan coverage of donated human breast milk for infant if prescribed by licensed medical professional.
Directs school districts to give parents, guardians and district residents equitable access to instructional materials for purpose of reviewing and examining materials.
Requires public schools to take special care to ensure that instruction and assessments are provided in neutral and objective manner.
Changes requirements for members of State Fish and Wildlife Commission.
Directs Department of Education to conduct study to identify sources of funding to pay for costs of establishing secure, single point of entry for each public school.
Directs Department of Education to conduct study to identify costs and possible funding sources to improve school safety.
Directs Department of Education to conduct study related to hiring retired police officers to provide security in public schools.
Authorizes county to adopt ordinance concerning Ballot Measure 114 (2022) providing that law enforcement agency with jurisdiction entirely within county is not required to act as firearm purchase permit agent, and permit is not required for transfer of firearm from transferor within county to county resident.
Directs agencies of state government to revoke remote work arrangements that were put in place due to COVID-19 pandemic.
Creates Oregon tax subtraction for amounts received in settlement of civil action arising from wildfire.
Provides that person is automatically qualified to obtain permit to purchase firearm if person holds valid concealed handgun license.
Allows owner of property outside urban growth boundary to site additional dwelling on property for occupancy by relative of owner.
Exempts rehabilitation facilities from requirement to obtain certificate of need.