Bills in the 2017 Regular Session, House.
Teresa Alonso Leon
Sponsored
Became law3
Requires each community college and public university to establish process for recommending, and providing oversight for implementation of, cultural competency standards for institution and institution's employees.
Permits Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services to develop and implement system that provides loan counseling to consumers who borrow from payday loan lenders and title loan lenders.
Prohibits public body from disclosing specified information concerning person unless required by state or federal law.
Out of committee1
Establishes Task Force on Family Engagement in Education.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 20
Provides definitions relating to comparable work for purposes of pay equity provisions.
Directs Legislative Counsel to prepare open government impact statement for measures that affect disclosure, or exemption from disclosure, of public records.
Requires each post-secondary institution of education to provide Higher Education Coordinating Commission with number of Oregon high school graduates from each school district enrolled at institution and graduation rate at institution for Oregon high school graduates from each school district.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to establish grant program through which individual who is homeless may obtain certified copy of individual's record of live birth at reduced cost or free of charge.
Requires Oregon Health Authority and Department of Consumer and Business Services to make available online written materials about options available to breast cancer patients for insurance coverage of breast reconstruction surgery, breast prostheses and breast forms.
Expresses intent of Legislative Assembly that, when Legislative Assembly approves increases in funding of services provided by residential training facilities or residential training homes, wages and benefits paid to direct support professionals be increased at comparable rate.
Establishes official name of open resources program as "Oregon's Open Educational Resources (OER) Program." Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission to regularly convene faculty, staff and librarians from public universities and community colleges for purpose of coordinating program in specified manner .
Directs Department of Education to convene advisory group to develop statewide ethnic studies standards for adoption into existing statewide social studies standards for public kindergarten through grade 12.
Prohibits public university, community college or Oregon-based private university or college to use threat or imposition of student discipline or other sanction to influence decision of victim of alleged incident of sexual assault, domestic violence or stalking regarding whether to report alleged incident or participate in investigation or adjudication of alleged incident.
Requires school district board and public charter school governing body to adopt and implement policy that requires volunteers to undergo background check if district or school allows volunteers to have direct, unsupervised contact with school children.
Prohibits state contracting agency from entering into public contract with prospective contractor that has not certified that prospective contractor has policy and practice of preventing sexual harassment, sexual assault and discrimination against members of protected classes of workers.
Permits city to authorize planning commission or hearings officer to conduct hearings and make final decisions on applications for amendments to city comprehensive plan map.
Requires Oregon Health Policy Board, in collaboration with Office of Rural Health and Oregon Health and Science University, to conduct assessment of health care workforce needs in Oregon.
Requires Department of Human Services, in collaboration with other agencies, to adopt rules related to prescription of psychotropic medications to elderly persons and persons with disabilities.
Modifies definition of "labor contractor" to include property services contractor.
Requires Department of Education to develop and provide to public high schools written materials regarding apprenticeship opportunities.
Modifies civil penalties, license regulation and licensing fees for certain facilities regulated by Department of Human Services.
Directs State Chief Information Officer to appoint Chief Data Officer to maintain web portal for publication of data of state agencies.
Requires health benefit plan coverage of specified health care services, drugs, devices, products and procedures related to reproductive health.
Removes special training requirement from statutes governing prescribing, dispensing and distributing naloxone.
Passed the House · 5
During first nine months of occupancy, prohibits landlord from terminating month-to-month tenancy within 60 days of receiving from tenant request for repairs to correct certain building, health or housing code violation or unhabitable condition.
Requires employers with 100 or more employees to provide 60 days' notice to employees and certain officials before ceasing operations, relocating or ordering mass layoff involving 50 or more employees.
Requires lobbyist statements filed with Oregon Government Ethics Commission to identify each bill or measure introduced before Legislative Assembly lobbyist lobbied on, whether lobbyist lobbied in favor of, in opposition to or for purpose of seeking amendments to bill or measure, each legislative topic that was not bill or measure that lobbyist lobbied on, each person or entity that hired lobbyist and how much moneys person or entity paid lobbyist.
Enacts Interstate Compact for Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote.
Authorizes court to award retail customers of vehicle dealers statutory damages under certain circumstances.
Out of committee · 5
Establishes Task Force on Addressing Racial Disparities in Home Ownership.
Establishes Office of Oregon Ombudsmen to provide administrative services and support to Office of the Long Term Care Ombudsman, Office of the Residential Facilities Ombudsman, Office of the Foster Parent Ombudsman, Office of the Foster Child Ombudsman and Office of the Oregon Public Guardian .
Requires Oregon Health Authority to convene work group to advise and assist in implementing targeted outreach and marketing for Health Care for All Oregon Children program.
Establishes subtraction from personal income taxes for amounts that taxpayers pay in student loan interest.
Creates family and medical leave insurance program to provide covered employee with portion of wages while on family medical leave or military leave.
In committee · 16
Repeals prohibition on city or county ordinance or resolution controlling rent charged for rental of dwelling unit.
Requires health benefit plan coverage of specified health care services, drugs, devices, products and procedures related to reproductive health.
Directs Higher Education Coordinating Commission to establish, by rule, process to ensure that each applicable student at institution of higher education is provided annually with, during student orientation, counseling services that set forth estimate of amount of education loans received, estimate of total amount of education loans student will owe at graduation and estimate of amount student will have to pay each month to service loans.
Prohibits state contracting agency from entering public contract with contract price that exceeds $100,000 with contractor that discriminates in providing benefits against employee or employee's dependent on basis of employee's or dependent's actual or perceived gender identity, including identification as transgendered.
Authorizes Oregon Innovation Council to make grants to small businesses for seed and start-up capital and gap funding to create and support invention, innovation and economic development in rural areas of state.
Allows person who is at least 16 years of age to register to vote.
Establishes Ranger Program within Oregon Youth Conservation Corps.
Renames crime of interfering with an assistance, a search and rescue or a therapy animal to interfering with an assistance, a search and rescue or a therapy animal in the second degree.
Requires person that engages in business as vehicle repair shop to obtain certificate from Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services.
Increases from $40,000 to $100,000 amount of bond or letter of credit that certain vehicle dealers are required to purchase.
Creates income tax credit for investment in community gardens and food banks.
Modifies law regarding requirement that public employer grant preference to veteran or disabled veteran in selection process for civil service position.
Directs Department of Education to identify and adopt procedures for reporting and collecting data related to acts of harassment, intimidation or bullying and acts of cyberbullying.
Requires Legislative Assembly to provide translator services free of charge, in order to facilitate witness participation in hearings or informal meetings with one or more members of Legislative Assembly, or as required by federal Americans with Disabilities Act.
Requires member of Legislative Assembly who has relative or member of household receiving salary for serving on member's personal legislative staff to file statement with Oregon Government Ethics Commission naming each such relative or member of household and stating amount of money each relative or member of household receives in salary.
Directs Department of Human Services to accomplish various objectives to improve skills of and provide ongoing support for child welfare services employees.