Bills in the 2019 Regular Session, Senate.
Dallas Heard
Sponsored
Became law1
Provides that State Landscape Contractors Board may not issue to person holding endorsement as residential or commercial general contractor limited or specialty license that meets certain criteria.
Passed the Senate1
Allows development of parsonage on land where nonresidential place of worship is allowed use.
Out of committee5
Expands exemption from limitations on employment of retired members of Public Employees Retirement System employed by certain law enforcement and correctional agencies.
Authorizes issuance of general obligation bonds under Article XI-Q of Oregon Constitution for construction of veterans' home in Roseburg, Oregon.
Excludes portion of revenue received from federal forest reserves when calculating Local Revenues for purpose of State School Fund distributions.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Department of Administrative Services for distribution to Curry Health District for emergency room in Curry Medical Center.
Repeals exemption for seafood processors from overtime requirements applicable to persons employed in canneries, driers and packing plants.
In committee5
For purposes of unemployment insurance law, modifies exclusion from definition of "employment" for individuals making sales of consumer goods or services in home or otherwise than in permanent retail establishment.
Expands crime of assault in the third degree to include physical injury to health care worker performing official duties.
Provides that person applying for license to act as plumber, electrician, landscape professional or contractor is not required to possess high school diploma, modified diploma or equivalent or degree from post-secondary institution.
Requires sellers of manufactured dwellings on rented spaces to provide property disclosure statements, in prescribed form, to prospective purchasers.
Eliminates requirement that children under two years of age be secured in car seat that is rear-facing.
Carried from the House
Became law5
Directs Teacher Standards and Practices Commission, Department of Education and Office of Child Care to make specified evaluations to increase number of educators in Eastern Oregon Border Economic Development Region who are available to teach courses in secondary math and science and in career and technical education programs.
Requires counties to approve establishment of dwellings in conjunction with farm use on high-value farmland for cranberry farm operator meeting $40,000 annual income standard.
Establishes process for completing and filing report of death for person missing in wilderness or forested environment and believed to be deceased.
Requires State Forestry Department to report biennially to committee of Legislative Assembly regarding outcomes from all projects pursued in state under Good Neighbor Authority Agreement .
Directs each covered manufacturer of covered drugs that are sold within this state to develop and implement drug take-back program for purpose of collecting from individuals and nonbusiness entities covered drugs for disposal.
Passed the House1
Specifies that when two or more county commissioners are elected for one county at same election and one is elected to fill vacancy, commissioner filling vacancy shall hold office for two years.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 8
Allows listed eastern Oregon counties that undertake economic opportunity analysis to designate up to 50 acres outside urban growth boundaries for industrial and other employment uses notwithstanding statewide planning goals related to agriculture, forest use or urbanization.
Permits community colleges to offer applied baccalaureate degree programs under specified conditions and upon receiving approval from Higher Education Coordinating Commission.
Requires Land Use Board of Appeals to award local governments and applicants their expenses and attorney fees against petitioners if affirming local government's approval of publicly supporting housing.
Repeals crime of unlawfully transporting hay.
Requires local governments to allow single-family dwellings within urban growth boundary of city with population greater than 25,000 in residential lots platted and zoned for such uses.
Requires school districts to provide instruction about Holocaust and genocide beginning with 2020-2021 school year.
Declares purpose of Critical Incident Review Teams.
Modifies allowed and prohibited uses of restraint of students by public education programs.
Passed the Senate · 2
Grants higher property tax exemption for property of veterans with service-connected disabilities.
Modifies definitions of "primary care" and "total medical expenditures" for purpose of reports on spending for primary care by insurance carriers, Public Employees' Benefit Board, Oregon Educators Benefit Board and coordinated care organizations.
Out of committee · 8
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Higher Education Coordinating Commission for Oregon Institute of Marine Biology at University of Oregon.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Higher Education Coordinating Commission for agricultural experiment station and branch stations, Oregon State University Extension Service and Forest Research Laboratory programs of Oregon State University.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Youth Development Division to provide grants to certain community-based youth development programs.
Requires city to expand its urban growth boundary to include land designated as urban reserve that supports workforce housing and commercial development supportive of workforce housing if urban services are or can be made available.
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.
Extends sunset for property tax exemption for low income rental housing.
Directs Public Employees' Benefit Board and Oregon Educators Benefit Board to establish pilot program allowing public employees to obtain health services from coordinated care organizations.
Requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to report to Department of Consumer and Business Services total amount of money spent on patient assistance programs, information on financial assistance provided to pharmacies, government agencies and advocacy organizations and total amount of financial incentives paid to each pharmacy benefit manager.
In committee · 10
Increases enrollment percentage at which student must receive approval from school district before enrolling in virtual public charter school.
Establishes education savings account program.
Establishes criteria for determining existence or lack of new ground water use impairment or interference with water right having earlier priority date.
Authorizes public schools to provide firearm safety and accident prevention class to all students in first grade.
Creates crime of patronizing a trafficked child.
Allows public body to disclose to federal immigration authority information about person convicted of violent crime.
Allows personal income taxpayers to subtract from taxable income amounts paid as principal of or interest on qualified education loans, if borrower is taxpayer, spouse or dependent of taxpayer.
Requires school district to make information about functions and programs of school district available at school district's office and on school district's website.
Requires health care practitioner to exercise proper degree of care to preserve health and life of child born alive after abortion or attempted abortion.
Authorizes municipalities to use independent contractors as building officials.