Bills in the 2019 Regular Session, House.
Mike Nearman
Sponsored
In committee26
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.
Modifies advance directive law to clarify that health care representative's authority to withhold or withdraw certain treatments must be specified in writing by principal in separate section of advance directive.
Prohibits union security agreements between public employer and union.
Requires approval of certain collective bargaining and arbitration agreements by Legislative Assembly.
Directs Center for Health Statistics to enter name of parent on original record of live birth when paternity or parentage has been determined under certain circumstances.
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.
Allows public charter school to change sponsorship if charter is terminated.
Allows school on land zoned for exclusive farm use to expand to contiguous land owned by school.
Reduces interest rates chargeable on delinquent property tax payments and payable on property tax refunds.
Prohibits Attorney General from accepting funds from sources other than public bodies of this state to pay cost of employing assistants, temporary assistants, special legal assistants or private counsel to Attorney General.
Directs Department of State Lands to pursue methods to coordinate removal-fill permitting process with Department of Environmental Quality water quality certification process.
Classifies certain persons as resident persons for purpose of purchasing licenses, tags and permits issued by State Fish and Wildlife Commission.
Requires Oregon transparency website to contain itemized information about state agency advertising expenditures.
Directs Legislative Policy and Research Director to study methods for legislative oversight of administrative rules and report to appropriate committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2020.
Authorizes condemnation of certain property of federal government.
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.
Requires that statements made by certain witnesses to committee of Legislative Assembly be made under oath and therefore subject to crime of false swearing.
Deletes residential address of public body employee or volunteer exemption from public record disclosure.
Prohibits terms of collective bargaining agreement from requiring public employee who has withdrawn membership from labor organization from continuing to pay member dues or continuing to authorize public employer to deduct dues from salary of employee.
Appropriates funds to State Parks and Recreation Department to distribute to Oregon State Fair Council to fund assessment of fairground facilities and maintenance, improvement and enhancement of fairground facilities.
Prohibits employer from requiring that employee become or remain member of labor organization or pay dues, fees or other amounts in lieu of dues to labor organization as condition for or continuation of employment.
Requires Oregon Department of Administrative Services to reduce allotments to state agencies that report personnel positions that have remained vacant for continuous period of six months.
Removes requirement that person may not file small estate affidavit until 30 days after death of decedent.
Prohibits Attorney General from accepting funds from sources other than public bodies of this state to pay cost of appointing or employing assistants, temporary assistants, special legal assistants or private counsel to Attorney General.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 14
Modifies list of mandatory reporters of suspected child abuse to include animal control officers.
Requires city or county to issue residential building permits upon substantial completion of construction of public improvements in residential subdivisions.
Removing population requirement for affordable housing pilot program if no qualifying nomination is received for city with population under 25,000.
Requires district attorney to include sexual assault nurse examiner or hospital representative in sexual assault response team organized by district attorney to adopt protocols addressing response to sexual assault victims.
Eliminates mandatory inspection of onions.
Designates October 9 of each year as PANDAS/PANS Awareness Day.
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.
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.
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.
Expands transitional housing accommodations allowed inside urban growth boundary to include other structures.
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.
Allows political subdivision to convey real property to nonprofit, municipal or private corporation for purpose of providing broadband service.
Limits reasons counties may deny expansion of certain schools on land zoned for exclusive farm use.
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 · 13
Authorizes issuance of lottery bonds to finance acquisition and restoration of Willamette Falls navigation canal and locks.
Directs Department of Human Services to provide staff support, including full-time equivalent policy analyst, for Governor's Child Foster Care Advisory Commission.
Allows State Forester to order use of wildfire suppression personnel, equipment and services on federal lands within state borders.
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.
Extends sunset for property tax exemption for multiple-unit housing.
Revises requirements for membership on State Fish and Wildlife Commission.
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.
Requires Department of Veterans' Affairs, in its biennial agency request budget, to request certain level of funding.
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.
Requires that, to extent provided by Oregon Liquor Control Commission rules, if wine labeled with American viticultural area in Oregon is labeled with single grape variety as type designation, wine must meet specified content requirements.
In committee · 53
Directs Department of Human Services to report information regarding prescription of psychotropic medications to children in foster care.
Prohibits assessment of penalty wage as remedy for allegation of certain wage and hour violations if employer did not remedy violation prior to employee's separation from employment.
Modifies list of entities for which links must be provided on Oregon transparency website.
Allows employer to pay 85 percent of minimum wage to agricultural employee under 21 years of age for initial 90 days of employment.
Abolishes annual one-hour change in time from standard time to daylight saving time and maintains Oregon on daylight saving time.
Directs Department of State Police to create and maintain list of states that recognize Oregon concealed handgun licenses and require demonstration of handgun competency to obtain license that is similar to requirement in Oregon.
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.
Authorizes Department of State Lands to perform work to acquire and restore operation of Willamette Falls navigation canal and locks.
Allows operator of motorcycle or moped to travel between lanes of traffic under certain conditions.
Caps total amount of assessments and reassessments for local improvements to three percent of real market value of local improvement to which assessments and reassessments relate.
Clarifies that for purposes of crime of coercion, person compels or induces another person to engage in conduct from which other person has legal right to abstain if person compels or induces woman to terminate woman's pregnancy.
Provides that hours worked by school marshal providing security in school do not count for purposes of limitations on reemployment of retired member of Public Employees Retirement System.
Establishes Foster Parent Ombudsman in Department of Human Services and prescribes duties.
Allows certain counties to adopt ordinance to impose tax on medical and recreational marijuana production.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to State Department of Agriculture for deposit in Wolf Management Compensation and Proactive Trust Fund.
Creates crime of threatening a mass injury event.
Requires health benefit plan, health care service contract and medical assistance coverage of pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcal infections and pediatric acute-onset neuropsychiatric syndrome.
Specifies that electricity generated by hydroelectric facility or other equipment that generates electricity through use of hydroelectric energy may be used to comply with renewable portfolio standard.
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.
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 licensed health care provider to provide vaccine information packet to patient to whom licensed health care provider administers vaccine.
Requires State Department of Fish and Wildlife to biennially report to Legislative Assembly regarding estimated change in wolf population.
Creates crime of misrepresenting an animal as an assistance animal.
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.
Establishes Oregon Youth Aging Out of Foster Care Task Force.
Creates income tax credit for foster parents.
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.
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 State Department of Fish and Wildlife to allow person meeting criteria to hunt game mammals using crossbow.
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.
Requires ultrasound at least 72 hours before abortion.
Prohibits person from soliciting or knowingly acquiring, receiving, transporting, implanting, processing, preserving, storing or accepting donation of human fetal tissue for purpose of transplanting the human fetal tissue into another person or animal under specified circumstances.
Provides that persons employed by participating public employers may not become members of pension program or individual account program of Oregon Public Service Retirement Plan on or after January 1, 2020.
Exempts from ad valorem property taxation first $150,000 of assessed value of dwelling provided by religious organization and occupied by organization's spiritual leader as primary residence and lot on which dwelling is situated.
Requires vehicle manufacturer to make available to owner of vehicle or independent repair provider on fair and reasonable terms any part, tool, service manual or other device, implement or information that vehicle manufacturer makes available to authorized repair provider for purpose of diagnosing, maintaining or repairing vehicle that vehicle manufacturer makes or supplies.
Authorizes self-service dispensing of Class 1 flammable liquids at retail dispensary.
Directs Department of Education to study insurance policies related to interns.
Directs State Board of Education to adopt by rule policy and process for criminal records checks of certain persons who are not employed by school districts but who may have direct, unsupervised contact with school children in two or more school districts.
Creates credit against income taxes for amounts paid by veteran as principal or interest on qualified education loans.
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.
Authorizes electric companies that are subject to renewable portfolio standards to offer to purchase qualifying electricity generated by certain hydroelectric facilities.
Requires health care practitioner to exercise proper degree of care to preserve health and life of child born alive after abortion or attempted abortion.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to take specified steps to ensure foster child's continued access to health care when foster child relocates to area not served by foster child's coordinated care organization.
Establishes TriMet Crash Advisory Committee.
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.