Bills in the 2019 Regular Session, House.
Brad Witt
Sponsored
Became law5
Requires public employer to grant reasonable paid time to public employee who is designated representative to engage in certain activities.
Clarifies receivership proceedings and reporting and notice requirements for residential properties that city or county determines are threat to public health, safety or welfare.
Places civil forfeiture proceeds used to fund scholarship for children of deceased or disabled public safety officers in account established or designated by State Treasurer in Oregon 529 Savings Network, rather than in Oregon 529 College Savings Plan Subaccount.
Makes legislative findings regarding commercial cervid attractants as source of chronic wasting disease.
Increases maximum penalty for certain wildlife law offenses committed without culpable mental state to $2,000 fine.
Passed the House1
Amends residency requirements for purposes of licenses, tags and permits related to wildlife.
Out of committee5
Directs Oregon Military Department to issue grants to counties for purpose of hiring emergency management agency personnel.
Authorizes Department of Revenue to reimburse State Department of Agriculture, State Department of Energy and Water Resources Department for expenses incurred in administration and enforcement of activities related to cannabis.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board for purposes related to programs for grants from Oregon Agricultural Heritage Fund.
Extends sunset date of pesticide use reporting system.
Directs State Department of Fish and Wildlife to establish anti-poaching awareness program.
In committee11
Authorizes school district to allow firearm safety instruction on school property.
Requires that percentage of net lottery proceeds from sports betting games be applied against unfunded actuarial liability of Public Employees Retirement System.
Establishes Task Force on School Safety Features.
Directs education service districts to ensure that services of school behavioral health specialist are available to component school districts.
Establishes tax credit against personal income taxes for purchase of qualifying gun safes or locking mechanisms.
Requires Oregon Health Authority, in consultation with Department of Environmental Quality, to study manners in which state has authority to regulate use of asbestos in new products manufactured, sold or offered for sale in Oregon, and submit report on findings to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to environment and natural resources on or before September 15, 2021.
Directs Office of Emergency Management, in administering grants issued by federal State Homeland Security Grant Program, to eliminate restrictions on use of grant moneys and to distribute moneys to applicants using formula grant instead of competitive process.
Requires owners to register all-terrain vehicle, if vehicle is not otherwise registered in this state.
Requires Employment Relations Board to conduct study relating to public employers subject to public employee collective bargaining act and submit report of board's findings to interim committees of Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2021.
Creates crime of unlawful discharge of a firearm.
Increases maximum penalty for certain wildlife law offenses committed with culpable mental state to five years' incarceration, $125,000 fine, or both.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Directs Department of Transportation to erect and maintain roadside memorial signs for firefighters killed in line of duty.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 17
Allows farm tractors to operate on state highways that have speed limit or posted speed of more than 35 miles per hour.
Establishes Task Force on Access to Quality Affordable Child Care to study ways to increase use of and access to child care subsidies and to report recommendations to Legislative Assembly no later than December 31, 2020.
Directs Department of Education to coordinate with Oregon FFA Association to increase student achievement and improve college preparation and career placement for students enrolled in agricultural education courses.
Establishes Newborn Bloodspot Screening Advisory Board in Oregon Health Authority.
Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to conduct review of CASA Volunteer Programs and report results of review and make recommendations for legislation to Legislative Assembly.
Requires Department of Land Conservation and Development to receive, consolidate and organize public record information concerning shellfish mariculture in Oregon.
Expands types of entities that may receive grant from Farm-to-School Grant Program to purchase food produced or processed in state or to identify sources of foods or to process foods.
Establishes process for completing and filing report of death for person missing in wilderness or forested environment and believed to be deceased.
Requires long term care facilities, conversion facilities and residential care facilities providing care to six or more residents to adopt specified protocols and procedures regarding preventing and reporting disease outbreaks.
Limits guardian's authority to limit protected person's preferred associations with third parties.
Appropriates moneys to Department of Consumer and Business Services to contract with vendor to conduct demographic study of dental needs and geographic distribution of COFA citizens in this state and to issue request for information to gauge interest and determine capacity of dental care organizations to provide oral health care to COFA citizens.
Establishes Oregon Conservation and Recreation Fund.
Requires state agencies to post notice on agency website before restricting or closing site on state public lands where public may access lands for recreational use of floatable natural waterway.
Allows State Department of Fish and Wildlife to refuse or condition disclosure of information relevant to department ability to manage or protect described fish or wildlife species or individual members or populations of species.
Requires that for person who completes prior educational requirements to participate in Oregon Promise program while confined in correctional facility, six-month period to enroll in courses to participate in program begins after person is first released from correctional facility.
Provides that labor organization's charging certain employees reasonable fees and costs for representation that is unrelated to negotiation of collective bargaining agreement is not unfair labor practice.
Allows professional licensing board to issue nonrenewable temporary authorization to spouse of member of Armed Forces of United States stationed in Oregon and who holds eligible out-of-state authorization to provide occupational or professional service.
Passed the House · 2
Restricts limitation on award of noneconomic damages to claims in actions for wrongful death.
Provides that diagnostic services are compensable under workers' compensation law after industrial accident or occupational disease has been determined to be compensable and if diagnostic services are reasonable and necessary to identify nature or extent of medical condition that may be related to industrial accident or occupational disease.
Out of committee · 12
Creates Task Force on Extending the Westside Express Service Commuter Line to Salem.
Authorizes issuance of lottery bonds to finance acquisition and restoration of Willamette Falls navigation canal and locks.
Provides that Water Resources Commission has certain amount of time to enforce general or special standards related to well construction activities.
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Department of Administrative Services to increase size and diversity of group of court appointed special advocates.
Expands eligibility for Women, Infants and Children Program nutrition assistance to mothers of children up to 12 months of age, paid for with state funds.
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to Association of Oregon Counties to obtain and manage contracted services for provision of technical assistance and information for private landowners to facilitate compliance with certain requirements related to replacement or repair of tide gates, with priority given to tide gates with opening size of four feet or smaller.
Directs Department of Human Services to deduct expenses for medically necessary guardianship services from recipient's income when calculating eligibility for assistance provided by Oregon Supplemental Income Program.
Permits duplicate health benefit plan coverage for public employees.
Authorizes Oregon Business Development Department to award matching grants to membership organizations and business accelerators in outdoor gear and apparel industry.
Imposes assessment on large employers with employees who receive or who have minor children who receive certain types of public assistance in this state, in amount equal to public assistance paid.
Appropriates moneys to fund engineering and design work necessary for adding bicycle and pedestrian lane to Bridge of the Gods.
Requires certain state agencies and colleges at Oregon State University to conduct certain studies on opportunities for greenhouse gas sequestration by and emissions reductions from activities related to Oregon's natural and working lands and in Oregon's forest products, agricultural and building materials industries, transportation sector and electricity sector.
In committee · 19
Creates income tax credit for operation costs of housing for agricultural workers.
Exempts from property taxation property consisting of machinery, equipment, tools, implements or fixtures used primarily in agricultural or horticultural activities or animal husbandry, regardless of whether property is considered real property, and adds such property to definition of "tangible personal property." Adds farming tools and implements to tax-exempt personal property and adds preparing farm crops for shipping as tax-exempt use of personal property.
Renames Port of Newport as Oregon International Port of Newport.
Authorizes Department of State Lands to perform work to acquire and restore operation of Willamette Falls navigation canal and locks.
Expands potential recipients of levee project grants to include any public body.
Authorizes issuance of $10 million in lottery bonds for deposit in Levee Project Subaccount to be used for any purpose for which funds in subaccount may be used.
Directs State Board of Education to adopt by rule complaint process to report school district policy in violation of state law prohibiting harassment, intimidation, bullying and cyberbullying.
Allows political canvassing by manufactured dwelling or floating home facility tenants.
Provides that persons representing or speaking on behalf of certain taxpayers may be subject to sanction by either house of Legislative Assembly if they make false statement or misrepresentation to legislative official concerning tax liability or tax consequences of law or proposed law.
Requires original equipment manufacturer to make available to owner of digital electronic equipment or independent repair provider on fair and reasonable terms any part, tool, service manual or other device, implement or information that original equipment manufacturer makes available to authorized repair provider for purpose of diagnosing, maintaining or repairing digital electronic equipment that original equipment manufacturer makes or supplies.
Clarifies meaning of "because of age" in employment discrimination law.
Provides that certain hearsay statements related to certain sex crimes are not inadmissible in evidence even though declarant is available as witness.
Requires manufacturer to disclose in any advertisement for prescription drug wholesale price in Oregon of prescription drug.
Directs Housing and Community Services Department to conduct study to estimate amount of additional homeless shelter capacity necessary in each county and cost of building or acquiring such capacity.
Creates credit against income taxes for amounts paid by veteran as principal or interest on qualified education loans.
Requires reporting of physical sexual harassment by legislative officials and registered lobbyists.
Establishes Oregon Cash Depository Corporation as independent public corporation and prescribes corporation's purposes and powers.
Establishes TriMet Crash Advisory Committee.
Exempts receipts from sales of certain agricultural products from commercial activity subject to corporate activity tax.