Bills in the 2017 Regular Session, House.
Julie Parrish
Sponsored
Became law1
Directs Health Licensing Office to issue license to engage in practice of art therapy to qualified applicant.
Passed the House1
Allows candidate to submit both signatures on petition and payment of fee to receive space in voters' pamphlet.
Out of committee5
Directs Housing and Community Services Department to establish pilot program to provide housing for low-income seniors on school district property.
Establishes medical assistance eligibility for individuals under age 26 who have aged out of foster care in Oregon or another state.
Permits tax exempt landowner to develop affordable housing units on rural residential land with county approval.
Establishes Veterans' Services Fund pursuant to constitutional amendment approved in Ballot Measure 96 (2016).
Enrolls specified public employees in coordinated care organizations.
In committee56
Directs Housing and Community Services Department to develop and implement pilot program to provide certain community college students with affordable housing and services.
Allows elector with inactive registration to activate registration by signing and providing mailing address on initiative or referendum petition.
Provides that language-based computer coding may satisfy any world language requirements in public schools and second language requirements in community colleges and post-secondary institutions of education.
Provides that student whose legal residency is not in school district is considered resident of school district if student completed highest grade offered by public charter school located in school district.
Creates subtraction from taxable income for payment of interest on principal of loans used to attend institution of higher education in Oregon to obtain degree.
Creates tax credit for educational expenses paid for special needs student attending private school or public school charging tuition.
Establishes Oregon Empowerment Scholarship Program for purpose of providing options in education to students.
Allows public charter school to change sponsorship if charter is terminated.
Removes sunset on authority of institution of higher education to sponsor public charter school.
Provides funding for instruction of talented and gifted children based on amount per student.
Allows parents to submit petition to school district board to transform school that is in bottom 20 percent of schools of state.
Requires sponsor of public charter school to pay school amount per ADMw that is equal to amount received by sponsoring school district or by school district where public charter school is located.
Provides that certain grants and distributions of moneys must be awarded directly to public charter school, or must be transferred to public charter school in amount equal to general purpose grant distribution percentage or based on other agreement.
Allows person to teach certain courses in schools without being licensed by or registered with Teacher Standards and Practices Commission if certain requirements are met.
Directs Department of Transportation to create program by which certain persons may apply for reduction or waiver of moneys owed to department.
Prohibits public employer from agreeing to pay or provide retirement benefit to member of Public Employees Retirement System other than payments required or provided for in statutes governing retirement benefits of members of system.
Sets limit on taxes due on homesteads of seniors with federal adjusted gross income not exceeding 150 percent of federal poverty level equal to total amount of taxes due for property tax year preceding first property tax year for which relief is allowed.
Requires that Legislative Administrator develop request for proposals to purchase mapping software to establish maximally compact congressional and legislative districts for 2021 redistricting.
Provides that if incumbent state Senator or state Representative files nominating petition or declaration of candidacy and then withdraws petition or declaration, other candidates may file for office not later than 70 days before date of primary or 14 business days after date of incumbent's withdrawal, whichever is later.
Requires all information provided as part of candidate's statement for voters' pamphlet to be true.
Establishes Task Force on Voter Inactivation and Voter Registration Maintenance.
Exempts claims based on conduct that constitutes child abuse, or conduct that constitutes knowingly allowing, permitting or encouraging child abuse, from notice requirement of Oregon Tort Claims Act.
Exempts funding or other assistance provided to public official to obtain basic emergency medical training from definition of "gift" subject to annual $50 limit.
Provides for payment of program expenses of study abroad program for eligible students.
Increases per-gallon aircraft fuel taxes.
Requires Department of Human Services to operate pilot project, subject to approval by United States Department of Agriculture, to prohibit purchase of foods of minimal nutritional value, as defined by United States Department of Agriculture, using Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.
Allows certain students who have not received high school diploma to attend community college and to use moneys that would have paid for public school to be paid for books, tuition and fees.
Directs Department of Transportation to remove high occupancy vehicle lane restrictions on Interstate 5 in Portland.
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.
Includes false statements made to legislative committee by certain persons in crime of unsworn falsification.
Eliminates $100 transaction limit before details of expenditures or contributions must be reported and made public.
Directs court to award damages of $10,000 for each violation in action involving false statement of material fact relating to candidate, political committee or measure.
Directs Housing and Community Services Department and Oregon Housing Stability Council to seek, obtain and renew waivers of certain federal rental subsidy and assistance payment requirements to increase availability of payments under federal rent subsidy program.
Directs State Board of Education to adopt standards requiring certain persons employed by public schools to have valid certification in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first aid.
Repeals sunset on provisions that allow students whose legal residence is not within school district to attend school in district as resident if student receives written consent.
Prohibits expenditure of legislative branch funds to support partisan caucus offices.
Allows major political party to maintain status until number of members falls below 2.5 percent of total number of registered electors in state.
Establishes Task Force on Public Boarding Schools.
Creates income tax credit for donating capital asset to publicly funded educational program.
Provides credit against personal income taxes for costs associated with growing produce.
Requires public bodies to establish public records retention schedules that require minimum three-year retention of public records.
Exempts from taxation amounts received from sale of real property to nonprofit corporation or housing authority.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Education for seismic needs assessments in 27 school districts in which seismic needs assessments have not been conducted.
Eliminates filing fees for complaints, petitions, answers and other first appearances in Oregon Tax Court.
Removes certain exemptions that State Treasurer has from Public Contracting Code.
Adds murder of certified reserve officer and murder of reserve officer to definition of aggravated murder.
Appropriates moneys to State Forestry Department during 2017-2019 biennium for activities related to Clackamas Forestry Product Cooperative Project.
Prohibits former member of Legislative Assembly from taking position as public official in state government and receiving salary for performance of duties as public official within one year after ceasing to be member.
Modifies funding mechanism for public employees' health care benefit to avoid excise tax under Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Permits minor political parties to choose to nominate candidates as part of state-sponsored primary election.
Permits certain candidates, in lieu of paying fee required for inclusion in written voters' pamphlet, to pay Secretary of State fee of $25 for electronic display and distribution of voters' pamphlet statement or portrait.
Requires public body to make available online all records of deliberations of meeting held by electronic communication within seven days of date of meeting.
Provides that cities and counties may seek reimbursement for construction on arterial highways under certain circumstances.
Requires Secretary of State to conduct study to determine best method for adopting use of multimember legislative districts in this state.
Establishes retirement benefits payable under Oregon Public Service Retirement Plan to persons who establish membership in Public Employees Retirement System on or after effective date of Act.
Carried from the Senate
Became law2
Establishes Willamette Falls Locks Commission as advisory body for issues relating to repair, reopening, operation, maintenance and future transfer of ownership of navigational canal and locks.
Establishes procedures for petitioning for and issuing Certificate of Good Standing.
Vetoed1
Reestablishes Task Force on Reentry, Employment and Housing.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 14
Provides definitions relating to comparable work for purposes of pay equity provisions.
Modifies purposes for which school districts may receive grants to pay for costs incurred by school districts to purchase food produced or processed in state.
Provides for one-time, decreased vehicle registration fee for former prisoners of war.
Designates month of May of each year as Williams Syndrome Awareness Month.
Allows nonimmigrant authorized to enter United States under Compact of Free Association to be law enforcement officer.
Creates alternative process for persons seeking to change name on vital record for purpose of affirming gender identity.
Directs Department of Education to convene advisory group to develop statewide ethnic studies standards for adoption into existing statewide social studies standards for public kindergarten through grade 12.
For purposes of determining which public buildings must comply with existing requirement to display Oregon State flag and National League of Families' POW/MIA flag, expands definition of "public building" to include all other county, municipal, school district and special district buildings upon which or near which it is customary and suitable to display United States flag.
Creates position of Veteran Volunteer Coordinator in Department of Veterans' Affairs and specifies responsibilities.
Requires school district board and public charter school governing body to adopt and implement policy that requires volunteers to undergo background check if district or school allows volunteers to have direct, unsupervised contact with school children.
Requires Department of Human Services to seek waiver of federal requirements in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in order to allow recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance to receive advance installment payments of tax credit for dependent care expenses.
Establishes Task Force on Assessments of Children Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing.
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.
Out of committee · 4
Establishes Task Force on Addressing Racial Disparities in Home Ownership.
Increases, for purposes of tax credit allowed for crop donation, percentage of wholesale price allowed as amount of credit.
Appropriates moneys to Housing and Community Services Department and Department of Land Conservation and Development to employ two full-time equivalent employees to perform services relating to increasing availability of affordable housing.
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 · 11
Deletes requirement that pseudoephedrine be classified as Schedule III controlled substance.
Requires law enforcement agencies to adopt policies on responding to officer-involved domestic violence incidents.
Provides that governing body of county shall be nonpartisan board of five commissioners elected by people of county.
Excludes certain Portland employers from sick leave requirements if employer is located in Portland on temporary or seasonal basis and has permanent location outside city.
Creates refundable credit against personal income taxes for housing rental payments.
Authorizes members of Legislative Assembly to donate up to 10 percent of member salary to charitable organizations that member identifies.
Requires hospital to have protocol to ensure that law enforcement agency is notified within seven days of collection of sexual assault forensic evidence kit and that kits are stored for no less than 60 days after collection.
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.
Revives tax credit for loss of limb function.