Bills in the 2019 Regular Session, House.
Gary Leif
Sponsored
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.
In committee6
Reduces notice period before towing vehicle from private property to 24 hours.
Directs Public Utility Commission to require electricity or natural gas utility to provide analog meter option for residential customers.
Requires county treasurer to distribute excess proceeds from sale of real property acquired by foreclosure of delinquent tax liens, or by exchange for land originally acquired by foreclosure of delinquent tax liens, to holders of liens unsatisfied at time of foreclosure and to property owner at time of foreclosure or any transferee or successor in interest of owner.
Requires vehicle dealer to submit notice of sale or transfer of vehicle to Department of Transportation if vehicle dealer sells vehicle to another vehicle dealer.
Directs Attorney General to study role of social media networking sites in facilitating sex trafficking crimes and to report results of study to interim committee of Legislative Assembly related to crime prevention not later than September 15, 2020.
Requires Department of State Lands to study possibility and potential consequences of making certain changes to implementation of laws regulating removal or fill activities as related to wetlands.
Carried from the Senate
Passed the Senate1
Allows development of parsonage on land where nonresidential place of worship is allowed use.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 16
Designates May of each year as ALS Awareness Month.
Modifies culpable mental state for crime of unauthorized use of a vehicle when person takes, operates, exercises control over or otherwise uses vehicle, boat or aircraft without consent of owner.
Transfers moneys from certain funds and accounts to General Fund for general governmental purposes.
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.
Increases rate of tax for emergency communications.
Requires State Department of Energy to adopt by rule program for providing rebates for purchase, construction or installation of residential and certain nonresidential solar electric systems and paired solar and storage systems.
Directs Department of Corrections, in cooperation with Oregon Criminal Justice Commission, to establish pilot program to provide legal services that assist women who are incarcerated at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility to reenter and reintegrate into local communities, to reduce womens' vulnerability to domestic violence and to obtain employment, housing services and other benefits.
Expands list of hospitals whose medical staff may qualify for specified income tax credit.
Modifies requirements for school to qualify as small high school for purposes of State School Fund distributions.
Allows student to wear dress uniform issued by Armed Forces of United States during high school graduation ceremony if certain conditions are met.
Establishes programs within Housing and Community Services Department to provide loans to one or more nonprofit corporations to develop programs that support manufactured dwelling park preservation and affordability for tenants.
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.
Increases maximum penalty for certain wildlife law offenses committed without culpable mental state to $2,000 fine.
Directs Department of Transportation to establish county safety corridor program.
Authorizes Long Term Care Ombudsman to hire up to 10 deputy ombudsmen.
Passed the House · 1
Allows counties to partition and rezone up to 200 acres of lands within Eastern Oregon Border Economic Development Region from exclusive farm use to residential uses.
Out of committee · 23
Establishes Local Government Technical Assistance Program within Housing and Community Services Department.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to administer program to provide matching grants to registered sobering facilities.
Appropriates moneys to State Forestry Department for 2019-2021 biennium to carry out integrated pest management program to combat Sudden Oak Death.
Appropriates moneys to Oregon Department of Administrative Services to increase size and diversity of group of court appointed special advocates.
Requires Oregon Business Development Department to prepare and report master plan for county fairground capital construction.
Repeals driving privilege suspension and eliminates imposition of driving privilege restrictions for failure to pay fine.
Establishes Oregon Hemp Commission.
Revises requirements for membership on State Fish and Wildlife Commission.
Establishes Homeownership Repair and Rehabilitation Program within Housing and Community Services Department to provide grants to entities providing financial assistance to persons in low income households for repair and rehabilitation of residences.
Provides funding to peer-run organizations in Portland metropolitan area, southern Oregon region and eastern and central Oregon region to operate peer respite centers to provide peer respite services to individuals with mental illness who experience acute distress, anxiety or emotional pain.
Establishes program within Housing and Community Services Department to provide supplementary loans to individuals for new energy efficient manufactured dwellings.
Establishes program within Housing and Community Services Department to provide grants for decommissioning and disposing of manufactured dwellings.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Human Services for development of gatekeeper programs to serve seniors and people with disabilities in local communities statewide.
Requires transportation network company that operates in this state to obtain license from Department of Transportation.
Increases percentage of federal earned income credit allowable as credit against Oregon personal income tax.
Prescribes notification requirements for school district upon receipt of report of act of harassment, intimidation, bullying or cyberbullying .
Directs Department of Human Services to establish and administer program to provide moneys for third-party child care for child in foster home.
Requires Department of Human Services to request in agency request budget and Governor to include in Governor's budget specified amount of General Fund moneys for distribution to centers for independent living.
Requires Department of Veterans' Affairs, in its biennial agency request budget, to request certain level of funding.
Modifies allocation formula for grants to regional assessment centers and community assessment centers.
Provides that bonds may be issued under Article XI-Q of Oregon Constitution if Chief Justice of Supreme Court determines that remodeling, renovation or expansion of court facilities is necessary or desirable.
Directs Department of Human Services to develop pilot program contracting with Yamhill County for provision of community-based child welfare services.
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 · 52
Establishes process of earned review for certain young offenders serving terms of imprisonment in custody of Oregon Youth Authority.
Allows Oregon Liquor Control Commission to enter into interstate agreements with agencies of other states for purpose of ensuring multistate enforcement of standards for wine consistent with standards of state where wine was produced.
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.
Appropriates moneys to State Parks and Recreation Department for outreach and development of educational signs warning public about natural dangers of ocean beaches.
Directs State Board of Forestry, pursuant to joint rules adopted by State Board of Forestry and State Land Board, to establish pilot project for county management of certain Elliott State Forest Lands.
Requires State Department of Fish and Wildlife to operate program in southwest Oregon to control populations of species that prey on salmon.
Allows certain counties to adopt ordinance to impose tax on medical and recreational marijuana production.
Authorizes State Treasurer to issue Article XI-Q general obligation bonds to finance construction and improvement of courthouses.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to establish or contract for establishment of statewide mental health crisis support access line to facilitate specified services for individuals experiencing behavioral health crises.
Establishes Emergency Department Boarding Pilot Project in Oregon Health Authority.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to community colleges and community college service districts for various purposes.
Requires at least 50 percent of total annual amount of all civil penalties imposed by Environmental Quality Commission or Department of Environmental Quality for violations of water quality rules or standards to be deposited in Waterway Enhancement Fund.
Modifies intake conditions for motorized suction dredge in motorized in-stream placer mining.
Exempts equipment run on recirculating water systems from ban on in-stream placer mining in salmonid habitat.
Requires State Board of Forestry to transfer ownership of former county forestland back to county, upon request, if former county forestland is 10 percent or less of all former county forestland owned by board.
Requires State Department of Fish and Wildlife to biennially report to Legislative Assembly regarding estimated change in wolf population.
Removes sunset on provisions that allow certain nonresident students to attend public schools as resident students for purposes of State School Fund distributions.
Prohibits Department of Human Services from disclosing records and reports related to child abuse investigations to certain entities unless court finds report of abuse is founded.
Prohibits retail pet store from selling or offering to sell dog, cat or rabbit acquired from source other than animal shelter or rescue organization.
Establishes Oregon Youth Aging Out of Foster Care Task Force.
For purposes of qualifying for enterprise zone benefits, expands definition of "eligible business firm" to include business firm engaged in providing services to general public as medical clinic, health care facility, substance abuse treatment provider or alcohol or drug rehabilitation center.
Provides that certain hearsay statements related to certain sex crimes are not inadmissible in evidence even though declarant is available as witness.
Requires counties to develop community mental health action plans to identify and address mental health concerns.
Allows public employee who is eligible for public employee health benefit plan coverage to be paid employer contribution for enrolling in public employee health benefit plan of family member if public employee resides in county with population of 40,000 or less.
Creates income tax credit for attendance by taxpayer dependent of private school, home school or virtual public charter school.
Extends by five years certain provisions that allow nonresident students to attend public schools as resident students for purposes of State School Fund distributions.
Exempts collection, storage or use of diffuse surface water from falling rain, melting snow or other precipitation from requirement to obtain water right permit or certificate.
Requires Oregon transparency website to contain itemized information about state agency advertising expenditures.
Provides that employee of public employer is liable to employer for wages paid to employee during period of administrative leave if employee was placed on leave as result of allegation that employee engaged in criminal conduct and if employee is thereafter convicted of crime by reason of conduct.
Provides that Oregon estate tax is imposed only on estates of decedents dying on or before December 31, 2018.
Requires that information concerning sex offenders convicted of certain offenses be released on website maintained by Department of State Police.
Requires Department of Human Services to complete investigations regarding applications for certificates to operate foster homes for care of children under 21 years of age no later than 120 days after department receives application.
Requires State Department of Fish and Wildlife to allow person meeting criteria to hunt game mammals using crossbow.
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.
Modifies crime of promoting prostitution to include knowingly recruiting, persuading or encouraging, or attempting to recruit, persuade or encourage, another person to engage in prostitution.
Authorizes local officials to determine whether residential properties subject to ongoing foreclosure or forfeiture proceedings are abandoned.
Prohibits person from performing or attempting to perform abortion if abortion is because of sex of unborn child.
Allows student subjected to substantiated act of harassment, intimidation, bullying or cyberbullying to request transfer to another school.
Prohibits abortion unless physician has first determined probable post-fertilization age of unborn child, except in case of medical emergency.
Extends statute of limitations for certain sex crimes.
Increases total amount allowed in tax year to all taxpayers as tax credits for donations to fiduciary organizations for distribution to individual development accounts.
Creates tax credit for workers at child care facilities rated three stars or higher with quality rating and improvement system.
Creates credit against income taxes for amounts paid by veteran as principal or interest on qualified education loans.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to disclose to district attorney and law enforcement agencies addresses of marijuana grow sites in county over which district attorney and law enforcement agencies have jurisdiction.
Requires specified mental health providers to report to law enforcement patient expression of intent to kill or seriously injure others if patient is likely to carry out intent and has ability to carry out intent.
Creates aggravated version of certain sex offenses.
Establishes Rural System Development Charges Program within Housing and Community Services Department to pay system development charges for rural affordable multifamily housing.
Requires reporting of physical sexual harassment by legislative officials and registered lobbyists.
Requires health care practitioner to exercise proper degree of care to preserve health and life of child born alive after abortion or attempted abortion.
Allows resident serving, or who has served, in Armed Forces of United States to obtain free licenses for hunting, angling or shellfish.
Exempts receipts from sales of certain agricultural products from commercial activity subject to corporate activity tax.
Exempts receipts from sales of basic necessities from commercial activity subject to corporate activity tax.