Bills in the 2017 Regular Session, House.
Knute Buehler
Sponsored
Became law3
Allows pharmacists to prescribe and administer injectable hormonal contraceptives and prescribe and dispense self-administered hormonal contraceptives.
Requires Department of Environmental Quality to carry out study and propose recommendations for single, coordinated process for parties to meet certain federal and state requirements for, and to obtain certain releases from liability for, cleanup of hazardous waste.
Requires Oregon Arts Commission to establish policies and procedures that ensure Arts Program considers regional differences in public access to, or opportunities for engagement in, arts and cultural development when determining eligibility for grant awards and that promote investment in communities where opportunities for engagement in arts and cultural development are limited.
Passed the House1
Modifies requirements relating to donating game meat to charitable organizations.
Out of committee8
Requires pharmacy to report deidentified information to prescription monitoring program upon dispensing prescribed naloxone.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to administer program to provide loans to hospitals for establishing new primary care residency programs.
Requires city to evaluate for inclusion in urban growth boundary agricultural land consisting predominantly of certain soil classifications with other first priority lands.
Allows school district and public charter school to implement nationally recognized high school assessments in mathematics, science or English if assessment complies with specified criteria.
Requires medical assistance coverage for insertion of long-acting, reversible contraceptive devices during hospital stay for labor and delivery.
Clarifies that blight includes existence of brownfields for purposes of urban renewal plans.
Allows school district and post-secondary institutions of education to apply for funding to form K-20 partnership.
Establishes Task Force on System Development Charges and specifies composition of task force membership.
In committee20
Provides that Director of the Oregon Health Authority may enter into agreements governing sharing and use of information reported to prescription monitoring program with regulatory authorities of other states that administer prescription monitoring programs.
Requires pharmacy to report de-identified information to prescription monitoring program upon dispensing prescribed naloxone.
Requires Housing and Community Services Department to take into account counties from which document recording or filing fees are charged and collected in making distributions from General Housing Account, Emergency Housing Account and Home Ownership Assistance Account.
Increases maximum amounts of corporate excise tax credits allowed for qualified research activities.
Requires state agencies to report findings of mandated five-year review of administrative rules to specified interim committees of Legislative Assembly.
Authorizes gun dealer to accept for safekeeping firearm surrendered by person or family or household member of person who is at risk of causing physical injury to self or others with firearm.
Directs Department of Justice to establish firearm safety and suicide prevention education program, to create or approve educational materials and to provide educational materials to gun dealers.
Permits cities to determine likelihood of development or redevelopment of land during review or evaluation of comprehensive plan or urban growth boundary expansion.
Requires prospective contractors to list in bid or proposal submitted in response to solicitation for public contract five individuals or entities to which prospective contractor contributed most money in connection with ballot measure or election to public office.
Establishes Task Force on Combating Independent Expenditures to conduct analysis and determine how to best form commission to combat independent expenditure advertisements by third party organizations in elections in this state, with emphasis on encouraging candidates to enter into agreements similar to People's Pledge.
Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission to conduct study and develop recommendations for establishing partnerships between public post-secondary institutions of education and public or private entities in this state.
Requires political advertising to include sponsor's name.
Establishes People's Primary election.
Requires Department of Revenue to establish program to identify taxpayers that are eligible for, but did not claim, earned income tax credit in preceding tax year and release to qualified nonprofit organization information that would enable qualified nonprofit organization to contact taxpayer, inform taxpayer of eligibility and assist taxpayer, if necessary, to apply for earned income tax credit.
Requires nongovernmental entity that enters into contract with Public Utility Commission for receipt of public purpose charge moneys to administer loan program whereby entity makes loans to public land bank authorities created by local governments for purposes of acquiring, rehabilitating, redeveloping, reutilizing or restoring brownfield properties.
Directs Housing and Community Services Department to establish Homeownership Grants for Grads Program to provide grants to individuals who are first-time home buyers and who have obtained post-secondary degrees.
Directs State Registrar of Center for Health Statistics to send to Department of Consumer and Business Services each calendar quarter names of children born in Oregon to residents of this state.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to establish program under which authority oversees establishment of kiosks for purpose of collecting from consumers and disposing of certain drugs.
Allows certain school districts to apply for grants for certain elementary schools to provide additional daily hour of English instruction if school performance on statewide summative assessment for English falls below specified levels.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to establish firearm safety and suicide prevention education program consisting of creation or approval of specified educational materials and provision of materials to gun dealers.
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
Encourages Oregonians to honor and remember those who have given their lives in military service in war at noon on 21st day of each month.
Requires coordinated care organization, Public Employees' Benefit Board and Oregon Educators Benefit Board to spend at least 12 percent of total medical expenditures on primary care by January 1, 2023.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 16
Provides definitions relating to comparable work for purposes of pay equity provisions.
Provides that portion of U.S. Highway 20 shall be known as Oregon Medal of Honor Highway.
Removes limitation on number of sobering facilities that may be registered with Oregon Health Authority.
Authorizes moneys in Mental Health Alcoholism and Drug Services Account to be used by counties to provide funding to sobering facilities.
Authorizes city or county to adopt ordinance or resolution granting exemption for newly rehabilitated or constructed multiunit rental housing.
Requires community health improvement plans adopted by coordinated care organizations and community advisory councils to focus on and develop strategy for integrating physical, behavioral and oral health care services.
Requires governing body of coordinated care organization to include representative from at least one dental care organization that serves members of coordinated care organization.
Requires hospital to adopt policy for release of patients from emergency department following treatment for behavioral health crisis.
Requires development of plan for Oregon Coast Trail.
Establishes Oregon Agricultural Heritage Fund and continuously appropriates moneys in fund to Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board.
Requires Oregon Health Policy Board, in collaboration with Office of Rural Health and Oregon Health and Science University, to conduct assessment of health care workforce needs in Oregon.
Creates Office of Outdoor Recreation within State Parks and Recreation Department.
Changes term "osteopath" to "osteopathic physician." Clarifies that doctors of osteopathic medicine practice medicine as physicians.
Exempts person serving in Oregon National Guard from requirement to enroll in community college courses within six months of attaining previous highest level of education in order to qualify for Oregon Promise grant, provided that person enrolls in community college courses within six months of completing initial active duty training.
Requires owner or operator of dam with high hazard rating to develop emergency action plan for dam.
Removes special training requirement from statutes governing prescribing, dispensing and distributing naloxone.
Passed the House · 1
Requires snowmobiles and certain all-terrain vehicles to cross highway at intersection or more than 100 feet from intersection.
Out of committee · 7
Specifies criteria for licensing of extended stay centers and requires Oregon Health Authority to adopt rules.
Authorizes issuance of bonds under Articles XI-G and XI-Q of Oregon Constitution to finance expansion of Oregon State University-Cascades campus.
Designates Act as Oregon First-Time Home Buyer Savings Account Act.
Increases, for purposes of tax credit allowed for crop donation, percentage of wholesale price allowed as amount of credit.
Allows taxpayer to direct portion of income tax refund to purpose of providing housing to low income persons.
Directs Oregon Health Authority to conduct evaluation related to behavioral health services provided to public school students.
Establishes refundable tax credit against income or corporate excise taxes for employers in specified industrial sectors for wages paid to employees at or below specified rate.
In committee · 15
Deletes requirement that pseudoephedrine be classified as Schedule III controlled substance.
Directs Land Conservation and Development Commission to study potential conversion to regional land use planning process.
Establishes Task Force on Public Boarding Schools.
Amends definition of "tourism-related facility" to include improvements to real property that have substantial purpose of supporting, promoting or accommodating tourism or tourist activities.
Allows employer to pay federal minimum wage to youth employee during employee's initial period of employment.
Modifies existing administrative rule review process to require legislative approval of newly adopted administrative rules in order for rules to take effect.
Requires transportation network company that operates in this state to obtain license from Department of Consumer and Business Services.
Permits individual to create family medical leave savings account with financial institution to pay or reimburse qualified beneficiary's wage loss during family medical leave of absence from work.
Directs State Registrar of Center for Health Statistics to send to State Treasurer each calendar quarter names of children born in Oregon to residents of this state.
Provides that projects that make water artificially available for ground water users from implementation of ground water recharge projects may be authorized as mitigation projects compliant with requirements related to Deschutes Scenic Waterway.
Establishes Age Three Through Grade Three Reading Initiative within Department of Education.
Transfers moneys from Oregon Medical Insurance Pool Account to Oregon Health Authority Fund for funding medical assistance.
Imposes tax on inhalant-form nicotine and inhalant delivery systems.
Transfers moneys from Oregon Medical Insurance Pool Account to Oregon Health Authority Fund for funding medical assistance.
Provides that outside compensation of employee of public university or community college is not included in employee's salary for purposes of Public Employees Retirement System.