Bills in the 2021 Regular Session, House.
Marty Wilde
Sponsored
Became law8
Requires Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services to amend state building code to require that new construction of certain buildings include provisions for electrical service capacity for specified percentage of parking spaces.
Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to establish program to award grants for restorative justice programs.
Directs public university to report annually to Attorney General on university's use of outside counsel for legal matters.
Exempts certain types of voluntary service in uniformed service from five-year limit on eligibility for reemployment rights in private and public sectors.
Provides that, if Water Resources Commission or Water Resources Department denies stay of final order under certain circumstances and petitioner requests hearing on denial, court must hold hearing not more than 21 days after request is made and denial shall remain in effect until hearing has been held and court has issued decision concerning denial.
Requires State Parks and Recreation Department to allow for installation and service of public electric vehicle charging stations in parking spaces that are part of facilities of state park system.
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.
Defines "adult use cannabis item," "artificially derived cannabinoid," "delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol" and "total delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol" for statutes related to marijuana and industrial hemp.
Passed the House2
Directs Oregon Business Development Department to study impact of laws related to wetlands on economic development and to provide results of study in report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2022.
Imposes requirements on state agency that employs person at rate higher than rate for executives under compensation plan for state employees.
Out of committee5
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Long Term Care Ombudsman for purpose of providing public guardian and conservator services to veterans.
Directs Judicial Department to establish centralized veterans treatment court that counties may opt into beginning July 1, 2023.
Requires hospitals and long term care facilities to make available to patients, residents, staff and visitors plant-based meals and beverages.
Transfers oversight and regulation of medical marijuana processing sites and medical marijuana dispensaries from Oregon Health Authority to Oregon Liquor Control Commission.
Requires Oregon Liquor Control Commission to develop uniform standards for minor decoy operations to investigate persons delivering alcoholic beverages to consumers in this state for violations of laws prohibiting deliveries to minors.
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Modifies zero-emission and electric vehicle rebate programs to allow rebate for purchase or lease of electric farm tractor or repowering of farm tractor.
Modifies definition of "plug-in hybrid electric vehicle" for purposes of zero-emission and electric vehicle rebates.
Directs administrator of electric and zero-emission vehicle rebate program to conduct outreach efforts.
Directs Environmental Quality Commission to establish list of vehicles most likely to fail test of pollution control equipment.
Directs Department of Environmental Quality to provide interest-free loans to school districts, mass transit districts and transportation districts for purchase of electric buses and charging infrastructure for electric buses.
Requires diesel fuel that retail dealers, nonretail dealers and wholesale dealers sell or offer for sale in this state to contain at least five percent biodiesel during period that begins on October 2 of each year and ends on March 31 of following year and to contain at least 20 percent biodiesel during period that begins on April 1 and ends on October 1 of each year.
Establishes requirements for product stewardship program for solar photovoltaic energy systems.
Requires electric companies to expend any revenues from participation as credit aggregator or credit generator in clean fuels program on transportation electrification.
Requires electric companies and consumer-owned utilities to transfer no less than 20 percent of revenue from monetization of clean fuels credits to Public Purpose Fund Administrator.
Directs Public Utility Commission to conduct study related to renewable energy and to provide results of study in report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to energy no later than September 15, 2021.
Directs State Department of Energy to convene work group to develop program awarding grants for community energy resilience projects and implement program no later than January 1, 2023.
Directs Department of Transportation to study electric vehicles and per-mile road usage charge and to report its findings to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to transportation on or before September 15, 2022.
Establishes Interagency Science Review Panel on Pesticides within Oregon Health Authority.
Directs Higher Education Coordinating Commission to study funding mechanisms to support research and innovation missions of public universities.
Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission to provide grants to qualified public safety and healthcare employees to attend community colleges, public universities, or Oregon Health and Science University.
Prohibits student from enrolling in virtual public charter school located in school district in which student is not resident if student's resident school district or education service district offers appropriate online instruction.
Requires that providers of educational services to students of public charter school be employed by public charter school or by sponsor of public charter school.
Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission to adopt by rule additional minimum standards regarding source of tuition revenue for licensing of career schools and schools authorized to confer degrees.
Requires Oregon Health and Science University to transfer funds to Child Development and Rehabilitation Center to pay for costs of training provided to at least two fellows who are admitted to developmental-behavioral pediatric fellowship program.
Requires local correctional facility to contact primary health care provider of pretrial detainee within 72 hours of booking and ensure that detainee receives health care prescribed by provider.
Requires local correctional facility to contact primary health care provider of pretrial detainee within 72 hours of booking and ensure that detainee receives health care prescribed by provider.
Requires local correctional facility to provide to veteran who is in pretrial detention health care recommended by United States Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration.
Establishes Task Force on Lane County Houselessness.
Creates crime of operating aircraft in violation of authorizations, terms or conditions in Notice to Airmen.
Establishes procedure for person to bring action in name of state to recover civil penalties for violations of state law.
Permits party to domestic relations proceeding to use party's initials as party's designation.
Raises limitation on damages for torts of local public bodies to amount of limitation on damages for torts of state.
Directs Oregon State Bar to report to Supreme Court with recommendations of alternative means of admission to bar.
Directs State Court Administrator to study civil law and report to appropriate committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2022.
Conforms felony jury verdict statute with constitutional rule requiring guilty verdicts to be unanimous.
Allows owner of condemned property to require binding or nonbinding arbitration for claims without respect to amount in controversy.
Prohibits Department of Corrections from imposing certain limitations on calls between attorneys and attorney's in-custody clients.
Establishes process by which defense may request that prosecuting attorney consider mental health of defendant for purposes of plea offer.
Modifies crimes of official misconduct in the second degree and official misconduct in the first degree.
Establishes that certain statements and assertions set forth in legislative subpoena or other process used by Senate President, Speaker of House of Representatives or chair or vice chair of legislative committee are binding on court for purposes of enforcement of process.
Provides that law enforcement officer may euthanize wild animal that does not pose immediate danger to life or property only if law enforcement officer consults with licensed veterinarian before euthanizing wild animal or euthanizes wild animal in manner consistent with euthanasia guidelines established by rule by Oregon State Veterinary Medical Examining Board.
Requires person receiving property from decedent to use decedent's basis in property, not "stepped up" basis, for purposes of estate tax.
Removes ability for member of Legislative Assembly to appoint or employ relative or member of household on personal legislative staff unless relative or member of household serves as unpaid volunteer.
Modifies definition of "meeting" for purposes of public meetings law to state that meeting may occur without regard to location or stated purpose for which members of governing body convene.
Directs participating public employers in Public Employees Retirement System to make employer contributions to individual account program, or cash payments, of one percent of member's salary during certain periods, depending on funded status of system.
Limits amount public body may charge for public employee time for responding to public records request.
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.
Requires ballots returned by mail to be postmarked not later than date of election.
Prohibits portraits of candidates from being included in voters' pamphlets.
Requires public office holder or candidate for public office who uses campaign contributions for travel outside of Oregon to file statement on ORESTAR stating whether travel is for official duties or campaign purposes and identifying name and mailing address of any other persons paying for part of travel expenses.
Exempts from state preemption Josephine County measure that banned production or cultivation of genetically modified crops.
Requires person subject to requirement to obtain license under Oregon Securities Law to disclose to individual that person is not fiduciary if person is not subject to or has not assumed fiduciary duty with respect to individual.
Establishes Emergency Shelter Task Force.
Requires Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services to prescribe in appropriate specialty codes standards, safeguards and guidelines for incorporating fire prevention and fireproofing or fire resistance measures into construction, repair, renovation, rehabilitation, retrofitting or maintenance of buildings and other structures that are located in areas of this state that are subject to or susceptible to wildfires.
Directs Office of Emergency Management to study and make recommendations regarding workforce levels necessary to respond to emergencies.
Establishes Task Force on Rural Fire Protection District Community Development to study and develop recommendations for developing, enhancing or expanding ability of rural fire protection districts to facilitate community development efforts following natural disaster.
Directs Office of Emergency Management to create and maintain roster of individuals available for temporary emergency-related work.
Prohibits cities from assessing off-site storm water charges against federal facilities under certain circumstances.
Requires Department of Environmental Quality to approve at least three businesses to provide water quality permit application review services.
Provides that telecommunicator qualifies as police officer under Public Employees Retirement System.
Requires that declarations and extensions of states of emergency under certain statutes be accompanied by written explanations.
Imposes surcharge based on amounts of forgiven loans received by corporate excise or personal income taxpayer through Paycheck Protection Program of Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.
Requires addition, in determination of Oregon taxable income, of amount of compensation above $1 million threshold paid by taxpayer to any individual and deducted as business expense.
Limits, for purposes of personal income taxation, availability of itemized deductions, using phaseout based on adjusted gross income of taxpayer.
Requires Public Utility Commission to identify and compile projected percentages of electricity sold by each electric company to retail electricity consumers in 2025, 2030 and 2035 that will be qualifying electricity, and provide information in report to appropriate interim committees of the Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2021.
Defines term "actional benefit." Expands bribery crimes to include when person offers, confers or agrees to confer, or solicits, accepts or agrees to accept, actional benefit for specified purposes.
Directs Oregon Liquor Control Commission to establish by rule process to register medical marijuana grow sites.
Directs Department of Revenue, Oregon Health Authority, Oregon Liquor Control Commission, State Department of Agriculture and Governor's office to consult with Oregon Cannabis Commission and other cannabis entities to develop plan to address issues related to regulatory authority over marijuana.
Provides that party or attorney may not move to disqualify judge in judicial district with three or fewer circuit court judges.
Directs Oregon Liquor Control Commission to study distilled spirits.
Modifies period for which alcohol manufacturer or wholesaler may lease or furnish equipment to retail licensee for special event.
Directs Oregon Liquor Control Commission to study wine.
Directs Oregon Liquor Control Commission to study regulation of alcohol.
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.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to study issues facing state government and report on results of study to committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2022.
Directs Oregon State Lottery Commission to study and make recommendations regarding improvements to operations of state lottery.
Establishes carpet stewardship program.
Requires nominating petition or declaration of candidacy and certificate of nomination to contain phone number and electronic mail address of candidate that cannot be from public body.
Prohibits person who has previously been expelled from Legislative Assembly from being appointed to fill vacancy in office of state Senator or state Representative.
Carried from the Senate
Became law3
Allows physician assistant to receive results of blood test of source person on behalf of certain person who, in performance of person's official duties, comes into contact with blood, bodily fluid or other potentially infectious material of source person.
Requires court, under certain circumstances, to appoint legal counsel for respondent or protected person in protective proceeding.
Provides alternative criteria for domestic water supply district located in area covered by major disaster declaration related to September 2020 wildfires to exercise powers of sanitary district.
Co-sponsored
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Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Department of Administrative Services to distribute to Oregon Community Foundation to provide grants to support emergency shelters.
Defines "emergency shelter." Requires local governments to allow siting of qualifying emergency shelters by qualifying entities notwithstanding land use laws and regulations.
Allows Department of Consumer and Business Services to require implicit bias training for mortgage loan originators.
Directs Oregon Health Authority, in collaboration with Department of Consumer and Business Services, to create implementation plan for public health plan to be made available to individuals and families in individual health insurance market and to small employers.
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.
Allows Indian tribe or airline that holds full on-premises sales license to negotiate with Oregon Liquor Control Commission purchase price of distilled liquor for specified sales.
Requires Lane County to approve planning application to make permanent certain temporary recreational vehicle parks or campgrounds providing transitional housing for wildfire victims.
Directs State Department of Fish and Wildlife to adopt by rule and administer program for authorizing voluntary projects for stream restoration and habitat improvement through construction of environmental restoration weirs.
Prohibits nonprofit hospital from requiring patient to apply for medical assistance before screening for or providing financial assistance.
Allows certain holders of temporary event licenses to sell specified alcoholic beverages for on and off-premises consumption at more than one location on licensed premises or have up to three premises licensed under single temporary sales license and operate for up to 30 days.
Prohibits homeowners associations from requiring application of pesticide on owner's property except as necessary for ecological or public health.
Requires notifications and process for allowing interested telecommunications providers to coordinate with Department of Transportation to include installation of underground infrastructure for provision of broadband as part of certain projects included in Statewide Transportation Improvement Program.
Requires Department of Consumer and Business Services to adopt rules to establish minimum standards and statewide consistency in electronic processes for reviewing plans, issuing permits and performing field inspections.
Expands crisis stabilization services, including crisis stabilization centers meeting criteria adopted by Oregon Health Authority by rule, short-term respite facilities, peer respite centers, behavioral health urgent care walk-in centers and crisis hotline center.
Directs Oregon Homeland Security Council to develop updated list of equipment for purposes of emergency preparedness equipment grant program.
Authorizes county with population of less than 15,000 to adopt property tax exemption for newly constructed single-family dwellings built and occupied as primary residences by individuals with annual taxable income of not more than $75,000 if filing separately or not more than $150,000 if filing jointly.
Authorizes Public Utility Commission to consider differential energy burden and other inequities of affordability in rates.
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 Oregon Health Authority to compile and annually post to website report on information reported to authority by coordinated care organizations regarding requests for prior authorization.
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.
Designates second Monday of October of each year as Indigenous Peoples' Day.
Requires Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to establish by rule standards and procedures for licensing of private security entities.
Repeals sunset on authorization to operate fixed photo radar on urban high crash corridors in City of Portland.
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.
Allows school districts to use moneys distributed from Student Investment Account for payment of student fees, costs and instructors of career and technical student organization programs.
Provides that juror may not be identified by name in court proceeding open to public.
Requires each public university and community college to prominently display mandatory fees charged.
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.
Requires governing body of public body, to extent reasonably possible, to make all meetings accessible remotely through technological means and provide opportunity for members of general public to remotely submit oral and written testimony .
Establishes Task Force on Student Success for Underrepresented Students in Higher Education.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to provide planning grants to 10 school districts or education service districts to evaluate need and develop plans for school-based health services.
Permits Office of Emergency Management to enter into agreement with nonprofit organization representing sheriffs under which organization is authorized to administer program to produce and sell outdoor recreation search and rescue cards.
Renames portion of Interstate 5, beginning in Albany and ending in Salem, to Atomic Veterans and Atomic Cleanup Veterans Memorial Highway.
Authorizes electric cooperative to use or allow for use of electric easement in provision of broadband services, subject to certain conditions and exceptions.
Prohibits moving voter to inactive status due to voter not voting or updating voter registration for any period of time.
Modifies CASA Volunteer Programs to direct Oregon Department of Administrative Services to contract with nongovernmental entity to serve as statewide coordinating entity for provision of court appointed special advocate services.
Increases temporarily, by $10 million annually, funds collected by electric companies for low-income electric bill payment and crisis assistance.
Establishes compensation schedule for Oregon Liquor Control Commission retail sales agents.
Directs State Department of Agriculture to establish grant program to fund upgrades to establishments expected to operate under program of state meat inspection, construction of new establishments expected to operate under program of state meat inspection and expansion of certain establishments that operate under program of federal inspection.
Allows temporary siting for up to 24 months of recreational vehicles on properties with dwellings that natural disasters have made uninhabitable.
Allows payment from Wage Security Fund to be made to wage claimant for wages earned and unpaid in event that Commissioner of Bureau of Labor and Industries has obtained judgment in action or has issued final order in administrative proceeding for collection of wage claim.
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.
Provides that certain employee of State Fire Marshal qualifies as firefighter for purposes of Public Employees Retirement System.
Requires each public university and community college to prominently display , or establish link to website that displays, estimated costs of all required course materials and directly related course fees for no less than 75 percent of total for-credit courses offered by public university or community college.
Renames Office of Emergency Management as Oregon Department of Emergency Management.
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.
Allows pharmacist to prescribe, dispense and administer preexposure prophylactic antiretroviral therapies and post-exposure prophylactic antiretroviral therapies.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to establish and administer program to provide, through coordinated care organizations, palliative care services, as determined by interdisciplinary team, to patients in their choice of residences.
Modifies amount of compensation paid to members of state boards and commissions.
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.
Directs Department of Transportation to waive fee for issuing, renewing or replacing identification card if person who is issued card is experiencing homelessness.
Establishes Task Force on Corrections Medical Care.
Removes "gender identity" from definition of "sexual orientation" in ORS 174.100 and creates standalone definition of "gender identity" in ORS 174.100.
Establishes civil cause of action for improper disclosure of personal information.
Changes name of Early Learning Division to Department of Early Learning and Care.
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.
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.
Requires parents of child who is deaf or deafblind or who is hard of hearing to be provided information about relevant services and placements offered by school district, education service district, regional programs and Oregon School for the Deaf whenever individualized family service plan or individualized education program is developed, revised or reviewed.
Amends definition of "manufactured dwelling park" to include parks with certain prefabricated structures.
Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to convene advisory council to assist with recommendations related to health care standards in local correctional facilities.
Directs education employer to provide materials and assistance to eligible employees concerning public service loan forgiveness program.
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 every public education provider to provide both tampons and sanitary pads at no cost to students.
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.
Directs Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to adopt standards for educator preparation programs relating to evaluations of teacher candidates.
Allows nurse to discuss medical use of marijuana with patient.
Establishes goal of planning for development of up to three gigawatts of floating offshore wind energy projects within federal waters off Oregon Coast by 2030.
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Establishes Sound Forestry Practices Subaccount and Family Forestlands Subaccount as subaccounts of State Forestry Department Account.
Requires landlord to allow dwelling to be used as family child care home.
Revises provisions relating to chemicals in children's products.
Allows owner of reservoir located on specified property within Big Butte Creek drainage area to register reservoir with Water Resources Department.
Modifies membership of State Marine Board.
Prohibits person from conducting or participating in contest, competition, tournament or derby that has objective of taking coyotes for cash or prizes.
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Directs Water Resources Department to provide staff support to work through complex water basin issues and help implement agency priorities in priority water basins.
Authorizes Oregon Liquor Control Commission to allow marijuana producer and marijuana processor to establish internal inventory tracking systems to track by batch production and processing of marijuana.
Directs Oregon Liquor Control Commission to establish by rule process to register medical marijuana grow sites.
Appropriates moneys to Department of Human Services for transition services for current foster children and former foster children.
Permits adopted former foster children to have amount of tuition and all fees waived if attending defined institutions of higher education for purposes of pursuing initial undergraduate degree.
Amends apprenticeship statutes to permit establishment of firefighter apprentice program.
Directs State Department of Agriculture to advance design of cannabis business certification program.
Requires that statewide land use planning goal relating to citizen involvement address participation and engagement for disadvantaged groups.
Increases formula weight for students in poverty families for purposes of State School Fund distributions.
Adds five members to Task Force on School Safety.
Establishes Organ Donor Registry and Public Awareness Fund.
Requires owner or possessor of firearm to secure firearm with trigger or cable lock, in locked container or in gun room except in specified circumstances.
Prohibits transfer of firearm by gun dealer or private party if Department of State Police is unable to determine whether recipient is qualified to receive firearm.
Directs State Court Administrator to study trauma-informed procedural justice and report on results of study to appropriate committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2023.
Extends and modifies tax credits for donations for individual development accounts.
Directs Department of Education to award grants to wildfire-impacted school districts in amounts to cover any decreases in State School Fund distributions and Student Investment Account distributions resulting from decreases in average daily membership, as compared to 2019-2020 school year, that are caused by wildfires.
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.
Prohibits Department of Justice from charging officers and agencies of state government for assistance rendered.
Establishes Prosperity 1,000 Pilot Program to provide career coaching, occupational training and job placement services for at least 1,000 low-income job seekers residing in areas of concentrated poverty.
Modifies allocation formula for grants to children's advocacy centers.
Directs University of Oregon to conduct Oregon child abuse prevalence study and to submit report regarding study to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to human services.
Directs court to consider, when determining aggravation in imposition of criminal sentence, evidence that defendant committed crime during emergency, evacuation while emergency in effect, or within one year after emergency ceases, provided that emergency is related to natural disaster and defendant took advantage of circumstances related to emergency, evacuation or recovery from emergency.
Establishes Oregon Public Places Are Safe Places Investment Fund.
Establishes Oregon Disaster Response Assistance Matching Fund.
Requires certain government officials and management employees to complete education on incident command, National Incident Management System and emergency response.
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.
Establishes product stewardship program for household hazardous waste.
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.
Directs Governor to designate corrections gender-responsive coordinator.
Requires marijuana testing laboratory employee to obtain worker permit from Oregon Liquor Control Commission.
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.
Establishes shared-equity homeownership pilot program within Housing and Community Services Department.
Requires Department of State Lands to consider potential risks in entering into agreements for authorized use of submerged and submersible lands and allows department to require risk mitigation or insurance.
Directs Oregon Business Development Department to develop and implement program to award grants to operators of movie theaters closed to public due to public health restrictions related to COVID-19.
Establishes State Gambling Task Force.
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Authorizes City of Unity to operate photo radar.
Instructs Oregon State University Extension Service to establish certain new positions related to organic production and maintain certain existing position related to organic production.
Requires Department of Human Services to contract with nonprofit organization to implement and administer program to assist recipients of supplemental nutrition assistance in purchasing locally grown fruits and vegetables from farmers' markets, farm share sites and retail outlets that participate in program.
Allows State Department of Agriculture to enter into agreement with law enforcement agency to enable law enforcement agency to assist department in carrying out certain inspections of industrial hemp.
Transfers duties, functions and powers related to administering federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act and workforce development matters from Higher Education Coordinating Commission to Bureau of Labor and Industries.
Modifies requirements for enforceable noncompetition agreement.
Requires agency to include in rulemaking notice statement identifying how adoption of rule will affect racial equity.
Allows persons convicted of felony to register to vote, update voter registration and vote in elections while incarcerated.
Modifies CASA Volunteer Programs to direct Oregon Department of Administrative Services to contract with nongovernmental entity to serve as statewide coordinating entity for provision of court appointed special advocate services.
Requires health benefit plan and health care service contract coverage of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections and pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome.
Provides that victim of sexual assault or domestic violence crime has right to obtain law enforcement records relating to crime.
Requires district attorney to, upon request, provide to sexual assault victim opportunity to review case file within district attorney's office.
Directs Housing and Community Services Department to establish and maintain uniform rental application system.
Allows person employed by health care facility to practice surgical technology if person is enrolled in or has completed specified apprenticeship program.
Establishes Foster Parent Ombudsman in Department of Human Services and prescribes duties.
Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to conduct study on criminal sentencing outcomes and present report on findings to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to judiciary on or before September 15, 2022.
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 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.
Provides that student who legally entered United States under Compact of Free Association treaty between United States and Republic of Palau, Republic of the Marshall Islands or Federated States of Micronesia and who has not previously established residence in any state or territory of United States other than Oregon qualifies for exemption from nonresident tuition and fees at public universities and is eligible to receive state and university scholarships or other financial aid.
Directs school districts to identify at least one school employee for every 250 students to act as disciplinary mediator.
Directs Oregon Military Department to study and make recommendations regarding military leave from public employment.
Directs Higher Education Coordinating Commission to study and make recommendations regarding Oregon Youth Corps.
Modifies requirements for motor vehicle exhaust systems.
Provides that licensed optometrist may perform specified ophthalmic surgery procedures.
Allows person to bring action to compel compliance related to school sexual harassment policies.
Provides that maximum loading weight of motorboat must be less than 4,000 pounds to obtain towed watersports motorboat certificate.
Establishes COFA Dental Program in Oregon Health Authority to provide dental care to low-income citizens of Pacific Islands in Compact of Free Association who reside in Oregon and lack access to affordable dental coverage.
Requires producers to form or join extended producer responsibility programs for packaging, food serviceware and printing and writing paper.
Requires private landowner to agree or decline to negotiate if water utility requests to negotiate acquisition by purchase or agreement of conservation easement, for purpose of protecting drinking water, over real property owned by private landowner.
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.
Requires agency to include economic impact on coordinated care organizations, including cost of compliance effect, in statement of fiscal impact required before agency adopts, amends or repeals administrative rule.
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.
Requires Secretary of State or county clerk, rather than filer, to designate argument filed for publication in voters' pamphlet as either supporting or opposing ballot measure.
Requires that any voting machine or vote tally system approved by Secretary of State must be compatible with elections conducted by ranked-choice voting and any other form of voting that is authorized under Oregon Constitution and has been used within previous 10 years in any federal, state or local election in United States.
Requires ballots returned by mail to be postmarked not later than date of election.
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.
Removes general prohibition on limiting times, places or amounts of taking of predatory animals.
Provides that maximum loading weight of motorboat must be less than 4,000 pounds to obtain towed watersports motorboat certificate.
Requires voter registration cards and electronic voter registration system to include option for person to identify race, ethnicity and preferred language of person.
Modifies start date for calculating one-year duration of certain protective orders if court continues or modifies order more than 30 days after original order date.
Requires employers of employees who engage in outdoor work activities to take certain actions to mitigate employee's risk of exposure to unhealthy air quality from wildfire smoke.
Requires sentencing court to consider as mitigation evidence defendant was subjected to domestic abuse that was significant factor in criminal behavior.
Directs Bureau of Labor and Industries to study and make recommendations for establishing child care apprenticeship programs to expand child care workforce.
Modifies definition of radioactive waste for purposes of regulation by State Department of Energy.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to award grant moneys to eligible school-based health center pilot projects to expand access to health care services and improve health and education outcomes for students through telehealth.
Prohibits taking of beavers on federally managed public land, in waters of this state as waters flow through federally managed public land or in pond, lake or water storage facility on federally managed public land.
Provides, for purposes of certain statutes relating to taking of predatory animals, that terms "predatory animal" and "rodent" do not include beavers.
Authorizes reserve officers sponsored by law enforcement unit to pay for training as police with cash and G.I. Bill education benefits.
Directs Department of Veterans' Affairs to develop and implement grant program to provide funding to Oregon counties for veterans' courts.
Appropriates moneys to Bureau of Labor and Industries for purposes of program to inform veterans about trade careers and connect veterans with apprenticeship opportunities.
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 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.
Requires statement of economic interest to include certain information about sources of income for business in which public official or candidate, or member of household of public official or candidate, is officer, holds directorship or does business under if source of income has legislative or administrative interest and 10 percent or more of total gross annual income of business comes from that source of income.
Prohibits candidate or principal campaign committee of candidate from expending campaign moneys for professional services rendered by certain businesses required to be listed on candidate's statement of economic interest.
Provides that it is unlawful for governmental authority or agent to engage in pattern or practice that deprives persons of rights, privileges or immunities.
Provides that public safety officer who represents that person is acting as employee or agent of public body is acting in scope of employment for purposes of Oregon Tort Claims Act.
Requires school districts to ensure that students for whom out-of-school suspensions or expulsions have been imposed receive specified services during suspensions or expulsions.
Requires Department of Revenue to submit to Legislative Revenue Officer information from Oregon tax returns about certain corporations doing business in Oregon.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to adopt rules requiring infants to be screened to detect certain diseases.
Establishes state policy that career and technical education is provided through seamless system that begins at secondary school level and progresses to post-secondary career and technical education institutions, community colleges and apprenticeship programs.
Grants authority to Public Employees Retirement Board to waive or alter certain statutory requirements during state of emergency.
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.