Bills in the 2021 Regular Session, House.
Karin Power
Sponsored
Became law6
Expands membership of Public Defense Services Commission from seven to nine members.
Expands eligibility for protected leave under Oregon Family Leave Act to all employees of covered employer during public health emergency unless employee was employed for fewer than 30 days prior to commencing leave or worked average of less than 25 hours per week in 30 days prior to commencing leave.
Authorizes Public Utility Commission to consider differential energy burden and other inequities of affordability in rates.
Prohibits law enforcement agencies from receiving certain military surplus equipment from federal government.
Removes "gender identity" from definition of "sexual orientation" in ORS 174.100 and creates standalone definition of "gender identity" in ORS 174.100.
Changes name of Early Learning Division to Department of Early Learning and Care.
Passed the House2
Requires landlord to allow dwelling to be used as family child care home.
Requires board of directors of publicly traded corporation to have specified proportion of female directors and directors who are members of underrepresented communities.
Out of committee3
Modifies definition of "global warming" to include certain aerosol air contaminants, including black carbon.
Requires that statewide land use planning goal relating to citizen involvement address participation and engagement for disadvantaged groups.
Directs Early Learning Division to develop plan to provide eligible children with equitable access to preschool that is high quality and that is culturally and developmentally responsive.
In committee12
Authorizes Public Utility Commission to allow electric companies to recover costs from retail electricity consumers for prudent infrastructure measures to support transportation electrification if certain criteria are met.
Makes program for payment of fee in lieu of property taxes imposed on property constituting solar project permanent.
Maintains indefinitely exemption from required disclosure of public records that are subject to lawyer-client privilege and public records exemption for privileged information.
Requires school district to adopt and implement policy concerning ownership rights to teacher-created intellectual property.
Removes entering or remaining unlawfully in or on public transit vehicle or public transit station as manner of committing crime of interfering with public transportation.
Requires Oregon Business Development Department to require certain recipients of economic development assistance from state funds to consider and plan for access to child care.
Requires state agencies to reduce public records request fees by 50 percent if request is made in public interest, and requires state agencies to entirely waive fees if public records request is in public interest and narrowly tailored.
Requires, on or after October 1, 2021, officials of public bodies to grant news media representatives access to scenes of emergencies or emergency police activity that are otherwise closed to public.
Modifies provisions relating to public records about public safety officers.
Removes kidnapping in the first degree and kidnapping in the second degree from definition of "sex crime" that triggers obligation to report as sex offender.
Requires 100 percent of electricity sold in 2035 and each subsequent calendar year to retail electricity consumers to be clean electricity.
Prohibits retail dealer, nonretail dealer or wholesale dealer from selling petroleum diesel for use in motor vehicle on or after specified dates.
Carried from the Senate
Became law4
Requires certain persons that service student loans in this state to obtain or renew license.
Establishes Public Records Advocate as independent office within executive department.
Requires State Department of Energy to prepare report identifying benefits, opportunities and challenges posed by development or expansion of regional transmission organization in this state.
Includes child care needs as reason employee may identify as limitation or change in employee's work schedule availability.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 46
Allows Department of Consumer and Business Services to require implicit bias training for mortgage loan originators.
Establishes temporary limitations on lenders' remedies for borrowers' failures to make payments on obligations secured by mortgages, trust deeds or land sale contracts for certain real property.
Requires retail electricity providers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with electricity sold to Oregon consumers to 80 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2030, 90 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2035 and 100 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2040.
Requires persons that have responsibility for or control over packaging and labeling premoistened nonwoven disposable wipes with specified characteristics to comply with certain labeling requirements for product packaging.
Requires approval from Department of Consumer and Business Services or Oregon Health Authority before any mergers, acquisitions, contracts or affiliations of health care entities and other entities if entities meet or exceed specified thresholds in average net patient revenue or in gross amount of premiums in preceding three fiscal years .
Provides that registered owner may request that registration card issued for vehicle include that owner, or person operating vehicle, may be deaf or hard of hearing.
Directs Governor's Child Foster Care Advisory Commission to establish Child Welfare Equity Advisory Committee to advise commission and Department of Human Services regarding equitable provision of child welfare services.
Prescribes requirements for reimbursement by Oregon Health Authority and coordinated care organizations of health services delivered using telemedicine.
Requires police officers to be trained in airway and circulatory anatomy and physiology and certified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Allows delivery of marijuana items, pursuant to bona fide orders, to consumers within city or county in which marijuana retailer is located and to consumers in cities or counties that have adopted ordinances allowing for delivery of marijuana items from adjacent cities or counties.
Directs Department of Transportation to waive driving privilege reinstatement fee if driving privileges were suspended for certain traffic offenses.
Designates second Monday of October of each year as Indigenous Peoples' Day.
Requires school or school district to offer lunches and breakfasts at no charge to student if school or school district meets requirements of special provisions of federal meal program or if student is from household with income that does not exceed 300 percent of federal poverty guidelines.
Authorizes Department of Human Services to award two-year grants to organizations that provide services to unaccompanied homeless youth and to organizations that operate host home projects for unaccompanied homeless youth.
Establishes Willamette Falls Locks Authority as public corporation.
Limits cost-sharing for health benefit plan coverage of insulin prescribed for treatment of diabetes.
Prohibits moving voter to inactive status due to voter not voting or updating voter registration for any period of time.
Requires each community college and public university to hire benefits navigator to assist students in determining eligibility and applying for federal, state and local benefits programs.
Establishes Healthy Homes Program within the Oregon Health Authority to provide grants to entities to provide financial assistance to low income households and landlords.
Requires city that provides disability or retirement system for firefighters by ordinance or charter that is not subject to workers' compensation law to apply provisions requiring presumption that condition or impairment of health is occupational disease that results from employment if firefighter took physical examination upon gaining or during employment that failed to reveal evidence of occupational disease that existed before employment.
Renames Office of Emergency Management as Oregon Department of Emergency Management.
Regulates use of chemical incapacitants, kinetic impact projectiles and sound devices by law enforcement agencies.
Limits authority of school district to become member of voluntary organization that administers interscholastic activities unless organization implements equity focused policies that meet certain requirements.
States legislative findings about racism and public safety.
Allows pharmacist to prescribe, dispense and administer preexposure prophylactic antiretroviral therapies and post-exposure prophylactic antiretroviral therapies.
Extends grace period for repayment of nonresidential rent between April 1, 2020, and September 30, 2020, until September 30, 2021, for certain tenants.
Directs Department of Transportation to ensure that membership of advisory committees reflects racial and ethnic and ability composition of Oregon.
Requires Board on Public Safety Standards and Training to ensure that police officers and certified reserve officers are trained to investigate, identify and report crimes motivated by prejudice based on perceived gender of victim.
Requires Secretary of State to create and make publicly available list of five most common languages spoken, other than English, by residents of state and of each county.
Establishes civil cause of action for improper disclosure of personal information.
Modifies statute authorizing law enforcement officers to command dispersal of unlawful assemblies and arrest participants who do not disperse.
Limits exemption from rent increase limits for landlords renting under government programs reducing rents.
Provides that local law regulating sitting, lying, sleeping or keeping warm and dry outdoors on public property that is open to public must be objectively reasonable as to time, place and manner with regards to persons experiencing homelessness.
Increases time that written notice must be posted before removal of homeless individuals from established camping site.
Directs Department of Transportation to create emergency contact information form and make form available for individuals to voluntarily provide emergency contact information for inclusion in individual's motor vehicle record for police officers to use, during or after emergency situations, to contact those listed.
Requires coordinated care organization, health care provider or health insurer to collect from patient, client or member data on race, ethnicity, preferred spoken and written languages, disability status, sexual orientation and gender identity.
Modifies crime of interfering with a peace officer or parole and probation officer.
Temporarily removes condition for being deemed "unemployed" that individual's weekly remuneration for part-time work must be less than individual's weekly unemployment insurance benefit amount.
Prohibits law enforcement agency or public body from denying services, benefits, privileges or opportunities to certain individuals on basis of federal civil immigration actions, inquiring about individual's citizenship status without connection to criminal investigation or providing information about individual in custody to federal immigration authority.
Requires insurer that provides coverage for full replacement costs of damaged or destroyed property to allow insured not less than 12 months within which to repair, rebuild or replace damaged or lost property or, if damage or loss to property occurred in location subject to declaration of emergency and damage or loss is directly related to emergency, not less than 24 months.
Prohibits law enforcement agency from releasing booking photo except in specified circumstances.
Requires every public education provider to provide both tampons and sanitary pads at no cost to students.
Renames Health Care for All Oregon Children program as Cover All People program and expands eligibility to adults who would qualify for Medicaid-funded state medical assistance program but for their immigration status.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to seek federal approval of amendment to state Medicaid demonstration project to permit coordinated care organizations to use portion of global budgets to improve health equity, improve overall health of community or enhance payments to providers who advance health equity or provide services improving overall health of community and to allow such expenditures to be counted as medical expenses in coordinated care organization's base medical budget and in calculation of global budget and flexible spending for given year.
Authorizes Department of Environmental Quality to require certain information related to history of compliance with environmental quality laws from applicant for license or permit.
Extends look-back period used to determine Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund solvency level from 10 years to 20 years.
Passed the House · 2
Revises provisions relating to chemicals in children's products.
Modifies membership of State Marine Board.
Out of committee · 15
Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to establish program to award grants for restorative justice programs.
Establishes pilot program to promote and support positive student mental and behavioral health by using trauma-informed approaches that are culturally responsive.
Adds Reach Code to state building code as specialty code and gives power of administration and interpretation of Reach Code to Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services.
Establishes Organ Donor Registry and Public Awareness Fund.
Requires Land Conservation and Development Commission to adopt rules no later than July 1, 2022, by which county may justify exception to statewide land use planning goals for development of renewable energy facilities .
Establishes Small Donor Elections Program to enable candidates for office of state Representative and state Senator to receive 6-to-1 match on small dollar donations.
Allows otherwise qualified individual to claim earned income tax credit under individual taxpayer identification number in lieu of Social Security number.
Extends sunset of pilot program for provision of legal services to adults in custody serving sentences at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility.
Repeals abolishment of Oregon Conservation and Recreation Fund.
Establishes Task Force on Age Discrimination.
Provides that part-time faculty member at public institution of higher education who qualifies for health care benefits will pay 10 percent of insurance premiums for employee coverage.
Establishes Equity Investment and Accountability Board and Equity Investment and Accountability Office within office of Governor to provide equity oversight of cannabis industry in this state.
Directs State Department of Fish and Wildlife to prepare report concerning Oregon's current framework for preventing, monitoring and responding to zoonotic disease.
Provides for nonprofit organization that addresses and executes worker relief to serve as fiscal agent to award grants to organizations to provide services related to immigration matters through universal representation program.
Directs Judicial Department to establish Family Treatment Court Program in certain counties to improve outcomes in child welfare cases resulting from parent's or caregiver's alleged substance use disorder.
In committee · 20
Prohibits member of Legislative Assembly who is absent and unexcused when Legislative Assembly is in session from receiving salary, per diem or expense reimbursement, and imposes fine of $500 per day of unexcused absence.
Expands health benefit plan coverage of childbirth and pregnancy-related health care expenses.
Expands eligibility for certain child care subsidy programs.
Places limits on certain restrictions by local governments, planned communities and condominiums on use of property for child care facilities.
Provides that licensed optometrist may perform specified ophthalmic surgery procedures.
Expands presumptive cause of occupational disease for covered nonvolunteer firefighters to include any cancer that may result from exposure to substances that nonvolunteer firefighter is routinely exposed to in course of employment as nonvolunteer firefighter.
Provides that stated percentage of revenue from state transient lodging tax be transferred to Oregon Conservation and Recreation Fund.
Establishes ranked choice voting as voting method for selecting winner of nomination for and election to nonpartisan state offices and county and city offices except where home rule charter applies.
Permits person who will be 17 years old on date of primary election and 18 years old on date of general election to vote at primary election for candidates of major political party with which person is affiliated if major political party has adopted rule to this effect.
Adds lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender to definition of "minority individual" for purposes of providing public contracting opportunities to minority-owned businesses in this state.
Requires original equipment manufacturer to make available to owner of originated equipment or independent repair provider on fair and reasonable terms any part, tool, documentation or other device or implement that original equipment manufacturer makes available to authorized repair provider for purpose of diagnosing, maintaining or repairing originated equipment.
Requires Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services to amend state mechanical, heating and ventilating code to require use of current best available technology for filtering outside air admitted into buildings and to require that all outside air admitted into buildings passes through filtration technology during periods in which air outside building poses significant risk of harm to health or safety of occupants of building.
Requires sentencing court to consider as mitigation evidence defendant was subjected to domestic abuse that was significant factor in criminal behavior.
Modifies definition of radioactive waste for purposes of regulation by State Department of Energy.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Higher Education Coordinating Commission for Community College Support Fund for distribution to community colleges and community college service districts.
Establishes Task Force on Personal Delivery Devices.
Provides that discovery of victim's actual or perceived gender, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation does not constitute reasonable explanation for extreme emotional disturbance for purposes of affirmative defense to murder in the second degree.
Establishes limits on campaign contributions that may be accepted by candidates and political committees.
Requires Department of Consumer and Business Services to develop and implement programs to make one-time payments directly to certain workers as incentive payments to return to work or as worker retention payments for workers who were frontline essential workers during first year of COVID-19 pandemic.
Declares racism as public health crisis in this state.