Bills in the 2021 Regular Session, House.
Bill Post
Sponsored
Became law3
Renames portion of Interstate 5, beginning in Albany and ending in Salem, to Atomic Veterans and Atomic Cleanup Veterans Memorial Highway.
Allows pharmacist or pharmacy technician to transfer drug containing pseudoephedrine without prescription to person who is at least 18 years of age and presents person's valid government-issued photo identification.
Authorizes emergency medical services providers to provide emergency transportation for treatment to police dogs injured in line of duty, provided that such transportation does not interfere with emergency transportation of humans.
Vetoed1
Establishes regulations for kratom products, including testing standards, labeling requirements and minimum age for sale.
Passed the House1
Exempts dog training facilities from state structural specialty codes.
In committee10
Allows third party to provide alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption at certified smoke shop.
Limits ability of Director of Department of Revenue to terminate agreement to allow taxpayer to pay tax in installment payments.
Requires tax court magistrate to hear taxpayer appeals of collections actions brought by Department of Revenue.
Modifies safe haven law to allow parent to anonymously leave infant in newborn safety device.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to establish grant program for purpose of making grants to entities that provide services related to encouraging and assisting pregnant persons in carrying their pregnancies to term.
Creates credit against income taxes for amounts paid by veteran as principal or interest on qualified education loans.
States explicitly that voter's political party affiliation may be changed only by voter.
Requires insurer in policy against risk of loss to property to provide that insurer include, at request of first-party claimant, amount of claimant's deductible in demand when exercising subrogation rights under policy, that insurer share proportionately with claimant proceeds of settlement or judgment and that insurer may not deduct expenses from proceeds unless insurer retains outside attorney, in which case insurer may deduct pro rata amount for expenses of retaining attorney.
Permits affiant of small estate affidavit to move court in motion to compel delivery of digital assets for order under Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act (2015).
Establishes limits on where cannabis may be processed.
Carried from the Senate
Vetoed1
Allows operator of motorcycle to travel between lanes of traffic under certain conditions.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 10
Exempts certain types of voluntary service in uniformed service from five-year limit on eligibility for reemployment rights in private and public sectors.
Excludes from meaning of "communication," for purposes of central assessment for property taxation, services of television and radio stations licensed by Federal Communications Commission that use primarily earth-based transmitters to broadcast programming via radio waves to television or radio receivers that use indoor or outdoor antennas for reception.
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.
Establishes Willamette Falls Locks Authority as public corporation.
Exempts from construction taxes residential housing being constructed to replace residential housing destroyed or damaged by fire or other emergency event or situation.
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.
Renames Office of Emergency Management as Oregon Department of Emergency Management.
Establishes civil cause of action for improper disclosure of personal information.
Requires mental health care provider who assesses minor to be at imminent and serious threat of attempting suicide to disclose relevant information to parent, guardian or other individuals to engage in safety planning.
Requires, if certain conditions are met, Department of Land Conservation and Development to approve City of Bend's expansion of urban growth boundary to include specified lands and allows department to approve other land use regulations for those lands.
Passed the House · 1
Allows production of food in planned community by lot owners and their tenants.
Out of committee · 3
Directs Office of Emergency Management to conduct annual multidisciplinary, all-hazards emergency response exercise.
Requires certain government officials and management employees to complete education on incident command, National Incident Management System and emergency response.
Removes requirement that amount of net proceeds from Oregon State Lottery allocated to County Fair Account not exceed $1.53 million annually.
In committee · 33
Requires that declarations and extensions of states of emergency under certain statutes be accompanied by written explanations.
Prohibits abortion unless health care provider has first determined probable gestational age of unborn child, except in case of medical emergency.
Provides that licensed optometrist may perform specified ophthalmic surgery procedures.
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.
Directs State Department of Agriculture to establish state grades and standards of quality and identity for unpasteurized butter.
Sets forth certain requirements related to the permitting and siting of broadband infrastructure.
Prohibits Oregon Transportation Commission from establishing toll on Interstate 205.
Limits liability for certain claims for damages arising out of acts or omissions taken during COVID-19 emergency period in reasonable compliance with government guidance related to COVID-19.
Makes private citizen immune from civil or criminal liability arising from good faith acts made in connection with fighting wildfire.
Requires health care practitioner to exercise proper degree of care to preserve health and life of child born alive after abortion or attempted abortion.
Limits Governor's ability to exercise authority conferred on Governor during declared state of emergency to no more than 60 days' duration, unless Legislative Assembly authorizes continued state of emergency.
Prohibits insurer from restricting provider from allowing insured to pay provider directly for services instead of using insurance coverage.
Increases rate of privilege tax imposed on Oregon motor vehicle dealers upon retail sale of taxable motor vehicle and rate of use tax imposed on storage, use or other consumption in this state of taxable motor vehicle purchased at retail.
Directs Office of Emergency Management to create and maintain registry of persons able and willing to provide services related to emergency response.
Requires health care facilities, health care providers, local public health authorities and public and private safety agencies to maintain capacity, including sufficient amounts of certain supplies, to continue in normal operation for 120 days at 25 percent mortality rate.
Appropriates moneys to Department of State Police, for State Fire Marshal, for personnel costs related to Oregon Safety Assessment Program (OrSAP).
Directs Office of Emergency Management to create and maintain database for flagging of known or suspected hazardous locations during emergency.
Directs Oregon Business Development Department to establish program to create Oregon Critical Emergency Preparedness Stockpile to ensure robust stock of emergency supplies and equipment.
Imposes surtax on income tax liability.
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.
Requires coordinated care organization drug outlets to dispense seven-day supply of prescription drug to veteran with disability, at no cost to veteran, if veteran is unable to obtain prescription drug through United States Department of Veterans Affairs.
Requires public post-secondary institutions to grant 12 academic credits to veterans who have served two or more years on active duty.
Provides that veteran must provide evidence of eligibility for veterans' preference in public employment at time of application for civil service position.
Directs Department of Veterans' Affairs to establish and administer program to acquire and manage residential properties for benefit of veterans who are experiencing, or are at risk of experiencing, housing instability.
Creates crime of criminal defamation of a servicemember.
Increases allowable size of temporary signs on private property.
Limits types of restrictions that Governor may impose on certain businesses during state of emergency related to COVID-19 pandemic.
Requires each public school to provide full-time, in-person classroom instruction during 2021-2022 school year.
Directs Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services to repeal all permanent rules adopted by director in connection with addressing COVID-19 public health emergency in all Oregon workplaces.
Prohibits public body from issuing COVID-19 vaccine passport.
Prohibits public institution of education or educational employee from requiring, compelling, coercing or otherwise directing student to acknowledge, affirm, declare, confess, state or in any way act in accordance with belief that any race, ethnicity, color, sex, gender, religion or national origin is inherently superior or inferior to another, that individual may be discriminated against or treated in different manner on basis of individual's membership in particular group or classification, or that any individual, by virtue of individual's membership in particular group or classification, endorses, benefits uniquely from or is inherently responsible for actions that other individuals with membership in same group or classification have taken.
Requires Department of Consumer and Business Services to develop and implement program to make return-to-work incentive payments to employees.