Oregon 2023 Regular Session All Bills
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Oregon 2023 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB837
Introduced
2/2/23
Refer
2/2/23
Failed
6/25/23
Requires State Department of Fish and Wildlife to operate program in southwest Oregon to control populations of species that prey on salmon. Requires State Department of Fish and Wildlife to operate program in southwest Oregon to control populations of species that prey on salmon.
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Oregon 2023 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB838
Introduced
2/2/23
Refer
2/2/23
Failed
6/25/23
Directs State Department of Fish and Wildlife, in consultation with Department of State Lands and State Parks and Recreation Department, to establish grant program for purpose of encouraging use of seaweed as feed for livestock. Directs State Department of Fish and Wildlife, in consultation with Department of State Lands and State Parks and Recreation Department, to establish grant program for purpose of encouraging use of seaweed as feed for livestock. Directs State Department of Fish and Wildlife, in consultation with Department of State Lands and State Parks and Recreation Department, to study potential for developing commercial seaweed production to produce feed for livestock. Directs State Department of Fish and Wildlife to present study in report to appropriate committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly on or before September 15, 2024. Appropriates moneys to State Department of Fish and Wildlife for purpose of funding grant program and study. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2023 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB839
Introduced
2/2/23
Refer
2/2/23
Refer
3/30/23
Refer
3/30/23
Failed
6/25/23
Directs State Forestry Department to establish pilot grant program for purpose of managing wildfire risk by promoting use of air curtains by persons that make biochar. Directs State Forestry Department to establish pilot grant program for purpose of managing wildfire risk by promoting use of air curtains by persons that make biochar. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to department for funding grant program. Sunsets grant program on June 30, 2025. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2023 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB84
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/11/23
Failed
6/25/23
Requires State Marine Board to study issues related to safe operation of motorboats. Requires State Marine Board to study issues related to safe operation of motorboats. Directs board to submit findings to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to judiciary not later than September 15, 2024. Sunsets January 2, 2025.
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Oregon 2023 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB840
Introduced
2/2/23
Refer
2/2/23
Failed
6/25/23
Requires State Department of Fish and Wildlife to allow person meeting criteria to hunt game mammals using crossbow. Requires State Department of Fish and Wildlife to allow person meeting criteria to hunt game mammals using crossbow.
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Oregon 2023 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB841
Introduced
2/2/23
Refer
2/2/23
Failed
6/25/23
Appropriates moneys to Housing and Community Services Department to replace manufactured dwellings in specified counties. Appropriates moneys to Housing and Community Services Department to replace manufactured dwellings in specified counties.
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Oregon 2023 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB842
Introduced
2/2/23
Refer
2/2/23
Refer
2/20/23
Refer
2/20/23
Failed
6/25/23
Changes expenditure limitation for grant to Port of Port Orford to biennium beginning July 1, 2023. Changes expenditure limitation for grant to Port of Port Orford for seafood hub redevelopment project] to biennium beginning July 1, 2023. Modifies purpose of grant. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2023.
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Oregon 2023 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB843
Introduced
2/2/23
Refer
2/2/23
Failed
6/25/23
Prohibits public body from disclosing to federal governmental entity information concerning firearm transfer or concealed handgun license. Prohibits public body from disclosing to federal governmental entity information concerning firearm transfer or concealed handgun license. Specifies exceptions.
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Oregon 2023 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB844
Introduced
2/2/23
Refer
2/3/23
Failed
6/25/23
Repeals statute authorizing civil suits challenging reasonableness of local laws regulating camping by persons experiencing homelessness. Repeals statute authorizing civil suits challenging reasonableness of local laws regulating camping by persons experiencing homelessness. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2023 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB845
Introduced
2/2/23
Refer
2/3/23
Failed
6/25/23
Modifies procedures required for binding arbitration for certain public employees. Modifies procedures required for binding arbitration for certain public employees. Requires arbitration to be conducted by three-person arbitration panel. Requires certain percentage of diverse arbitrators be included amongst list of potential arbitrators submitted to interested parties for consideration by Employment Relations Board. Requires parties to arbitration proceeding to submit last best offer package that includes parties' position on each unresolved subject matter item. Requires arbitration panel to select one position for each item and issue findings with respect to each finding.
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Oregon 2023 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB846
Introduced
2/2/23
Refer
2/3/23
Failed
6/25/23
Directs Metro to study rail corridors within Metro, including inventory of rail corridors and determination of feasibility of using rail corridors to carry passenger trains. Directs Metro to study rail corridors within Metro, including inventory of rail corridors and determination of feasibility of using rail corridors to carry passenger trains. Directs Metro to publish report on results of study no later than January 31, 2025.
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Oregon 2023 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB847
Introduced
2/2/23
Refer
2/3/23
Refer
4/10/23
Refer
4/10/23
Failed
6/25/23
Allows affordable housing on lands zoned for commercial uses within urban growth boundaries. Freezes tax assessed value for certain new residential construction for five property tax years. Applies to tax years beginning on or after July 1, 2023.] Allows residential uses] affordable housing on lands zoned for commercial uses within urban growth boundaries. Limits Land Use Board of Appeals' review of approved middle income developments and allows board to accept additional evidence upon which to review such approvals. Sunsets January 2, 2028.] Allows local governments to extend decision-making period for application to develop residential structures within urban growth boundary or to reconsider land use decision for development of residential structures. Makes permanent requirements that local governments allow siting of certain emergency shelters, conditioned upon latest estimates of percentage of individuals experiencing homelessness. Awards attorney fees for successful appeal of local government's denial] certain appeals of emergency shelter application. Becomes operative on passage. Expands definition of "residential homes" and "residential facilities" that local governments must approve under same standards as other residential uses. Allows attorney fees for certain applicants whose approval is appealed.] Requires Department of Consumer and Business Services to update Oregon Structural Specialty Code to allow additional single-exit residential occupancies. Exempts certain affordable housing from Oregon Planned Community Act. Restricts local governments' ability to regulate condominium form of ownership. Requires cities or counties to accept funding letters to affordable housing developers as sufficient assurances needed to approve subdivision plat. Exempts certain affordable housing projects from requirement to pay prevailing rate of wage.] Requires local governments to allow certain single-room occupancies in residential zones. Amends definitions of "middle housing" and] definition of "needed housing" to include single room occupancies. Requires all] more cities to allow duplexes on certain lands zoned to allow single-family dwellings. Updates deadlines for compliance by affected cities. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Land Conservation and Development to provide grants to affected cities. Adds Metro and special districts to surplus real property reporting requirements.] Provides process and form by which associations may amend declarations and bylaws of planned community or condominium to remove unlawfully discriminatory provisions. Extends until December 31, 2024, deadline by which associations must review declarations and bylaws. Becomes operative on passage. Allows Public Utility Commission to allow public utility to sell or convey real property for affordable housing. Becomes operative January 1, 2024, except as otherwise provided. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
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Oregon 2023 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB848
Introduced
2/2/23
Refer
2/3/23
Refer
4/12/23
Refer
4/12/23
Failed
6/25/23
Extends provision relating to indemnification provisions in construction agreements to all types of damages. Extends provision relating to indemnification provisions in construction agreements to all types of damages. Provides that extent of obligation of person providing certain services to defend, indemnify or hold harmless another may be determined only after person's liability or fault is determined by adjudication or alternative dispute resolution or otherwise resolved by mutual agreement.] Provides that public body may not include certain provisions relating to payment of defense costs in contract with person providing architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, photogrammetric mapping, transportation planning, land surveying services or related services.
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Oregon 2023 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB849
Introduced
2/2/23
Refer
2/3/23
Refer
3/16/23
Refer
3/16/23
Failed
6/25/23
Requires professional licensing boards to provide culturally responsive training to specified staff members, publish guidance on pathways to professional authorization for internationally educated individuals and waive requirement for English proficiency examination for specified internationally educated individuals. Requires professional licensing boards to provide culturally responsive training to specified staff members, publish guidance on pathways to professional authorization for internationally educated individuals and waive requirement for English proficiency examination for specified internationally educated individuals. Prohibits Oregon Medical Board from imposing time limitation on completion of United States Medical Licensing Examination. Allows board to issue limited license to practice medicine to specified individuals for practice under supervision of other licensed physician. Establishes Internationally Educated Workforce Reentry Grant Program within Higher Education Coordinating Commission to award grants to local workforce development boards that contract with specified entities that provide eligible career guidance and support services to internationally educated residents of Oregon who are seeking to enter Oregon workforce in certain professions. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2023.
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Oregon 2023 Regular Session
Oregon Senate Bill SB85
Introduced
1/9/23
Refer
1/11/23
Refer
4/10/23
Refer
4/10/23
Refer
5/30/23
Refer
5/30/23
Report Pass
6/13/23
Engrossed
6/20/23
Refer
6/20/23
Report Pass
6/21/23
Enrolled
6/21/23
Passed
7/27/23
Chaptered
8/3/23
Passed
8/3/23
Makes certain changes concerning water quality permits for confined animal feeding operations. Makes certain changes concerning water quality permits for confined animal feeding operations. Authorizes State Department of Agriculture to issue nutrient application permits. Requires persons that apply for water quality permits for certain confined animal feeding operations to submit water supply plans. Makes certain changes to exemption from certain water laws for stockwatering. Sunsets changes on September 15, 2027. Requires Department of Environmental Quality to report on findings of United States Environmental Protection Agency study relating to confined animal feeding operations to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to agriculture not more than 180 days after study is finalized. Establishes certain requirements concerning land use compatibility statements related to proposed confined animal feeding operations. Authorizes governing body of city or county to require setback or buffer between proposed confined animal feeding operation and adjacent land parcels in specified circumstances. Appropriates moneys to State Department of Agriculture and Department of Environmental Quality for purposes related to permitting and report. Declares emergency, effective on passage.