Oregon 2024 Regular Session All Bills (Page 7)

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Oregon 2024 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB4061

Introduced
2/5/24  
Refer
2/5/24  
Refer
2/16/24  
Refer
2/16/24  
The Act directs an agency to create a program related to elk damage. The Act establishes a fund for the program. The Act gives moneys to the agency for the program. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.8). Directs the State Department of Agriculture to establish an elk damage prevention and compensation pilot program. Establishes the Elk Damage Prevention and Compensation Fund in the State Treasury. Continuously appropriates moneys in the fund to the department for implementing the program. Sunsets the program and fund on January 2, 2030. Directs the department and the State Department of Fish and Wildlife to report on the program to committees or interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to natural resources on or before September 15, 2028. Appropriates moneys to the State Department of Agriculture for implementing the program. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. .
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Oregon 2024 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB4117

Introduced
2/5/24  
Refer
2/5/24  
Report Pass
2/14/24  
Engrossed
2/19/24  
Refer
2/19/24  
Report Pass
2/29/24  
Enrolled
3/4/24  
Passed
3/20/24  
Chaptered
3/25/24  
Allows OGEC and OGEC staff to give advice on the public meetings law. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.9). Authorizes the Oregon Government Ethics Commission to issue advisory opinions on the application of the public meetings law to actual or hypothetical circumstances. Authorizes the executive director of the commission to issue staff advisory opinions or written or oral staff advice on the application of the public meetings law to actual or hypothetical circumstances. Permits other commission staff to issue written or oral staff advice on the public meetings law. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2024 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB4157

Introduced
2/5/24  
Refer
2/5/24  
The Act makes district attorneys police officers under PERS. The Act lowers the age at which some police and firefighters can retire. The Act makes a new class of employees in PERS for people who work in hazardous positions. The Act allows those people to retire earlier with higher pensions. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Provides that district attorneys qualify as police officers under the Public Employees Retirement System. Lowers the normal retirement age for police officers and firefighters under the Oregon Public Service Retirement Plan. Establishes a new class of hazardous positions under the Public Employees Retirement System and provides increased retirement benefits to members employed in hazardous positions.
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Oregon 2024 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB4132

Introduced
2/5/24  
Refer
2/5/24  
Refer
2/12/24  
Refer
2/12/24  
Report Pass
3/1/24  
Engrossed
3/5/24  
Refer
3/5/24  
Report Pass
3/6/24  
Enrolled
3/6/24  
Passed
3/27/24  
Chaptered
3/28/24  
The Act makes ODFW, SFWC and DSL amend their marine reserve programs. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.8). Requires the State Department of Fish and Wildlife, the State Fish and Wildlife Commission and the Department of State Lands to implement the Ocean Policy Advisory Council recommendations to develop an adaptive management and social monitoring program to support marine reserves. Appropriates moneys to the State Department of Fish and Wildlife for the program. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2024 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1553

Introduced
2/5/24  
Refer
2/5/24  
Report Pass
2/16/24  
Engrossed
2/21/24  
Refer
2/21/24  
Refer
3/1/24  
Refer
3/1/24  
Report Pass
3/4/24  
Enrolled
3/5/24  
Passed
3/27/24  
Chaptered
3/28/24  
The Act changes the crime of interfering with public transportation. The Act makes using drugs on public transit a new way of committing the crime. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.5). Modifies the crime of interfering with public transportation to include the use of an unlawfully possessed controlled substance while in or on a public transit vehicle [or public transit station]. Punishes by a maximum of 364 days' imprisonment, a $6,250 fine, or both. Provides that the new manner of committing interfering with public transportation is a designated drug-related misdemeanor for purposes of supervision duty and funding.
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Oregon 2024 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB4071

Introduced
2/5/24  
Refer
2/5/24  
Refer
2/22/24  
Refer
2/22/24  
The Act makes a task force to look at health professional regulatory boards. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). [Digest: Tells health care boards to give short-term permission to work. Starts January 1, 2025. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7).] [Requires health professional regulatory boards to issue a temporary authorization to practice a health profession to eligible applicants within 10 days of receiving an application for licensure. Defines "health profession" and "health professional regulatory board."] Establishes the Task Force on Health Professional Licensing Modernization. Directs the task force to submit three reports to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health, on or before September 15, 2024, September 15, 2025, and December 15, 2025. Sunsets on December 31, 2025. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2024 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB4165

Introduced
2/5/24  
Refer
2/5/24  
Requires ODOT to prepare and submit a report on the changes in the law that are needed to balance costs between light and heavy cars and trucks. (Flesch Readability Score: 100). Requires the Department of Transportation to prepare and submit a report on the statutory changes necessary to balance transportation cost responsibility between light and heavy vehicles. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2024 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1516

Introduced
2/5/24  
Refer
2/5/24  
Refer
2/15/24  
Refer
2/15/24  
The Act creates the Ireland Trade Commission. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.7). Establishes the Ireland Trade Commission. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2024 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB4013

Introduced
2/5/24  
Refer
2/5/24  
Report Pass
2/15/24  
Engrossed
2/20/24  
Refer
2/21/24  
This Act excludes glass wine containers from a law that tells producers to take steps to dispose of their packaging. The exclusion lasts for one year. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5). [Digest: This Act tells the DEQ not to enforce certain laws related to wine packaging. The Act sunsets on July 1, 2026. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.2).] [Prohibits the Department of Environmental Quality from enforcing the provisions of the producer responsibility program applicable to wine packaging.] [Sunsets on July 1, 2026.] Excludes glass wine containers from definition of "covered product" under producer responsibility law until July 1, 2026. Directs Environmental Quality Commission to amend material-specific collection targets for glass. Directs producer responsibility organization to charge one-time fee to members that are producers of glass wine containers. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2024 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1565

Introduced
2/5/24  
Refer
2/5/24  
Refer
2/15/24  
Refer
2/15/24  
The Act requires the DHS to pay parents to provide in-home care for minor children with disabilities. The Act requires DHS to seek out all means to get federal matching funds from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to pay for the care. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4). [Digest: The Act requires the DHS to pay for a certain number of hours of in-home care for minor children with disabilities. The Act requires DHS to seek out all means to get federal matching funds from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to pay for the care. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.6).] Requires the Department of Human Services to pay [for] parents to provide attendant care services for children with developmental disabilities who have very high behavioral health needs or very high medical needs. [Requires the department, for children in each category, to pay for no less hours of attendant care services for a child than for the average attendant care hours utilized by the children in the same category and to supplement underutilized hours by paying the child's parent to provide the services.] Directs the department to seek any federal funding available for attendant care services no later than [April 1, 2024] January 1, 2025. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2024 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB4135

Introduced
2/5/24  
Refer
2/5/24  
The Act creates the crime of threatening a mass injury event and directs the CJC to report certain data to the legislature about the new crime. The Act prohibits the possession of a gun by a person convicted of the new crime. The Act takes effect on the 91st day after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.3). Creates the crime of threatening a mass injury event. Punishes by a maximum of 364 days' imprisonment, $6,250 fine, or both, upon the first offense, and five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both, upon second and subsequent offenses. Prohibits the possession of a firearm by a person convicted of threatening a mass injury event. Punishes by a maximum of 364 days' imprisonment, $6,250 fine, or both. Provides that threatening a mass injury event constituting a misdemeanor is treated as a felony for purposes of supervision duties and funding. Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to report to the legislative assembly concerning specified data related to threatening a mass injury event charges. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2024 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB4068

Introduced
2/5/24  
Refer
2/5/24  
Refer
2/12/24  
Refer
2/12/24  
Allows a school district to receive more money for special education when costs are high. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.8). [Digest: Prescribes process for DAS to prepare a budget for funding the State School Fund. Requires budgets of school districts be made public. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.4).] [Directs the Oregon Department of Administrative Services to prepare a tentative budget for the funding of the State School Fund. Requires the department to form a committee for the purpose of preparing the tentative budget. Prescribes factors to be considered by the committee.] [Requires school districts to provide a financial summary to the Department of Education. Directs the department to withhold from a school district State School Fund payments if the unappropriated ending fund balance and reserves for the general fund of the school district exceeds the beginning fund balance of the general fund of the school district by a specified percentage. Requires the department to make public information related to the financial summaries.] Allows High Cost Disabilities Account moneys to be distributed to school districts that have a community impact that causes disproportionately high costs associated with the provision of special education and related services. Takes effect on July 1, 2024.
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Oregon 2024 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1545

Introduced
2/5/24  
Refer
2/5/24  
Report Pass
2/28/24  
Engrossed
3/4/24  
Refer
3/4/24  
Report Pass
3/6/24  
Enrolled
3/6/24  
Passed
4/4/24  
Chaptered
4/11/24  
The Act would grant a property tax break to destroyed homes that were rebuilt after the 2020 wildfires. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Authorizes a county to allow a homestead rebuilt by the same owner on the same lot to replace the homestead destroyed by the September 2020 wildfires to have a specially assessed value equal to the destroyed homestead's real market value for the 2020-2021 property tax year, to the extent of the square footage of the destroyed homestead. Provides that the specially assessed value continues until the earliest of the date on which the rebuilt homestead is no longer the owner's principal dwelling, is rented to another person for any duration or is transferred to new ownership. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Oregon 2024 Regular Session

Oregon Senate Bill SB1540

Introduced
2/5/24  
Refer
2/5/24  
Requires PRAC to study public records fees and submit findings. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Requires the Public Records Advisory Council to study fees charged for public records requests. Directs the council to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to rules not later than September 15, 2026.
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Oregon 2024 Regular Session

Oregon House Bill HB4052

Introduced
2/5/24  
Refer
2/5/24  
Certain horse racing companies pay a fee to the Oregon Racing Commission. Currently a portion of the fee goes to the General Fund. The Act provides that portion must be spent by the ORC for horse and jockey safety. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.5). Provides that portion of payments made to the Oregon Racing Commission by Multi-Jurisdictional Simulcasting and Interactive Wagering Totalizator Hubs must be expended for purposes related to equine and jockey safety instead of being transferred to the General Fund.