Bills in the 2018 Regular Session, House.
Duane Stark
Sponsored
In committee2
Allows facility providing therapy or counseling that incorporates activities utilizing nonclinical setting to be established in area zoned for exclusive farm use if certain conditions are met.
Prohibits performance of late-term sex-selective abortion.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Provides that person commits crime of strangulation if person knowingly impedes normal breathing or circulation of another person by applying pressure to chest of other person.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 9
Makes calculation of projected future earning potential of plaintiff that takes into account race or ethnicity of plaintiff inadmissible in civil action.
Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission to provide grants to qualified members of Oregon National Guard to attend community colleges or public universities.
Modifies description of types of interscholastic activities in which homeschooled students and students who attend public charter schools must be allowed to participate if students are in any grade from kindergarten through grade eight.
Modifies laws related to vehicular hit and run.
Modifies definition of "property services contractor" for purposes of employment law.
Gives hemp research program currently operated by State Department of Agriculture name of Oregon Industrial Hemp Agricultural Pilot Program.
Modifies definitions, exceptions and affirmative defenses applicable to offense of driving a motor vehicle while using a mobile electronic device.
Allows county governing body, upon remand of matter from Land Use Board of Appeals to county, to have planning commission or hearings officer conduct hearing and make decision regarding lands designated under statewide planning goal addressing agricultural lands or forestlands.
Provides specific procedure for petitioning for removal of personally discriminatory restrictions from title of real property.
Out of committee · 3
Requires Department of Human Services to use savings in temporary assistance for needy families program to increase amount of cash grants or to make additional investments in JOBS program.
Directs Department of Environmental Quality and State Forestry Department to study opportunities for state actions to promote carbon sequestration and to include in study consideration of regional approaches for reducing greenhouse gas emissions through carbon sequestration.
Modifies retirement plan options of persons elected or appointed as statewide elected officials or judges.
In committee · 3
Prohibits abortion unless physician has first determined probable post-fertilization age of unborn child, except in case of medical emergency.
Allows credit against net income taxes for portion of eligible costs of newly constructed single-family dwelling that sells for price affordable to household with annual income at or below 120 percent of area median income.
Expands prohibition against retroactive rulemaking by Department of Revenue to prohibit department from adopting or amending rule to require change in tax treatment of item.