Oregon Representative Ben Bowman [D]

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State	Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
OR	HB4134	Pass	This Act makes OBDD give money to cities for infrastructure to support housing. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). [Digest: This Act makes DAS give money to cities for infrastructure to support housing. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4).] Requires the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-18 Chapter 103, (2024 Laws): Effective date April 17, 2024.
OR	SB1595	Pass	The Act increases some amounts that are protected from debt collectors. The Act changes some laws about bad debt collection methods. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.2). Increases certain exemptions from garnishment and execution. Modifies provisions re... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-11 Effective date, April 4, 2024.
OR	SB1503	Pass	The Act makes a task force on community safety and suicide prevention. The Act provides money for research on those topics. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.2). Establishes the Task Force on Community Safety and Firearm Suicide Prevention and requires t... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-11 Effective date, June 6, 2024.
OR	HB4151	Pass	The Act makes a small group to look at the youth behavioral workforce. (Flesch Readability Score: 77.8). Directs the System of Care Advisory Council to establish a subcommittee on the youth behavioral health workforce. Requires the subcommittee to su... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-10 Chapter 88, (2024 Laws): Effective date April 4, 2024.
OR	HB4098	Pass	The Act would create the CHIPS Child Care Fund. The Act would tell the Oregon Business Development Department to work with the Bureau of Labor and Industries to make a program to help fund child care. The Act would create a work group related to fund... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-10 Chapter 81, (2024 Laws): Effective date April 4, 2024.
OR	HB4154	Pass	Creates a fund to help the electronic chip industry. The Act becomes law 91 days after adjournment. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.8). Establishes the Semiconductor Talent Sustaining Fund [and subaccounts of the fund]. Requires the Higher Education Co... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-10 Chapter 89, (2024 Laws): Effective date June 6, 2024.
OR	HB4092	Pass	The Act requires the OHA to study how much money local mental health programs need to comply with state laws. The Act requires the OHA to contract with a certain council to work with a group of people who provide mental health and substance use treat... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-10 Chapter 80, (2024 Laws): Effective date April 4, 2024.
OR	HB4083	Pass	The Act tells the State Treasurer to stop investing moneys in companies that deal in thermal coal. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.1). Directs the Oregon Investment Council and the State Treasurer to make efforts to eliminate certain investments in the... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-10 Chapter 79, (2024 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2025.
OR	HB4149	Pass	The Act requires PBMs to be licensed and changes the definition of a PBM. The Act changes the way PBMs can audit drug stores. The Act requires PBMs to report certain information each year to DCBS. The Act makes changes to the way 340B drugs are cover... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-10 Chapter 87, (2024 Laws): Effective date April 4, 2024.
OR	HB4160	Pass	Makes change for how long a person is considered a student for an act to be sexual conduct. Changes law on July 1, 2024. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.7). Modifies the length of time by which a person is considered a student for purposes of determini... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Chapter 45, (2024 Laws): Effective date July 1, 2024.
OR	SB1596	Pass	Requires someone that makes electronic items for consumers to give on fair terms to those who look at, maintain or fix the items what they need to maintain or fix the items. Fair terms means, in part, giving independent people what they need on the s... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Effective date, January 1, 2025.
OR	HB4129	Pass	The Act requires OHA and DHS to contract with no more than two agencies to provide agency with choice services. The Act defines the services that must be provided and the rights of individuals who receive the services. The Act requires the OHA and DH... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Chapter 37, (2024 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2025.
OR	HB4113	Pass	The Act applies to insurers and other entities that pay for drugs for people who have insurance. The Act requires insurers and others to count toward any costs that an insured person must pay for their drugs, the amounts paid from coupons or by other... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Chapter 35, (2024 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2025.
OR	SB1571	Pass	The Act would require a disclosure of the use of AI or other similar technology in campaign ads. The Act would create a way to enforce the requirement and to impose a fine for violations. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Requires a disclosure of the... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Effective date, March 27, 2024.
OR	HB4146	Pass	The Act allows petitions for certain abuse court orders to be filed in the county in which the abuse occurred. The Act also changes an element of a crime related to violating privacy. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Reada... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Chapter 42, (2024 Laws): Effective date March 27, 2024.
OR	HB4043	Pass	The Act creates a new crime of interfering with an animal cruelty investigation. The Act makes certain changes to current animal cruelty laws. The Act allows a person who is banned from owning or living with an animal to ask to change the ban. (Flesc... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Chapter 30, (2024 Laws): Effective date June 6, 2024.
OR	SB1579	Pass	The Act creates a new fund for a current grant program that provides moneys for child abuse response programs. The Act directs DOJ to create a one-time grant program to expand access to services and supports from CACs. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.5... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Effective date, March 27, 2024.
OR	HB4080	Pass	States a state policy on offshore wind energy. Tells the state agency on energy to make a road map on standards for offshore wind energy. Makes a person involved in an offshore wind energy or port project meet certain labor and supply chain standards... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Chapter 31, (2024 Laws): Effective date March 27, 2024.
OR	HB4127	Pass	Makes quota guidelines for some warehouse workers. Not following this Act is a reason to make a claim to BOLI. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7). Creates rules and standards for warehouse employees' quota requirements. Creates an exemption for certain... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Chapter 36, (2024 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2025.
OR	HB4136	Pass	The Act changes the laws about when a nurse has to have a license and gives money to Lane County to pay for same-day health care. (Flesch Readability Score: 73.0). [Digest: The Act changes the laws about nurse licenses, gives money to Lane County to ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Chapter 39, (2024 Laws): Effective date March 27, 2024.
OR	SB1553	Pass	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 incl... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Effective date, January 1, 2025.
OR	HB4104	Pass	Creates a new state holiday to teach people about a heart disease that is common but is also not often diagnosed. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Designates the fourth Wednesday in February of each year as Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Awareness Day.... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-25 Chapter 13, (2024 Laws): Effective date March 20, 2024.
OR	HB4119	Pass	The Act adds protections for payments related to student athletes. The Act declares an emergency. The Act becomes law when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.7). Enhances the protections for post-secondary institutions of education,... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-25 Chapter 15, (2024 Laws): Effective date March 20, 2024.
OR	HB4082	Pass	Directs ODE to fund summer learning programs and to study how to provide learning during nonschool hours. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Requires the Department of Education to establish and administer the Summer Learning Grant program. Establishe... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-18 Chapter 6, (2024 Laws): Effective date March 12, 2024.
OR	HB4137	Pass	Allows a student who has finished an IB program to not have to meet some requirements for a high school diploma. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6). Directs the State Board of Education to adopt rules by which a student who has completed an Internation... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-12 Chapter 4, (2024 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2025.
OR	SCR204	Pass	Honors the life and memory of Bill Bradbury. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.2). In memoriam: Bill Bradbury, 1949-2023. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-08 Filed With Secretary of State.
OR	HB4124	Fail	The Act funds cultural groups in Oregon. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.7). Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Business Development Department to distribute to Oregon cultural organizations in response to the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment.
OR	SB1572	Fail	The Act requires ODOT to study extending the WES commuter rail line to Salem. The Act creates an advisory committee to aid ODOT in its study. Requires ODOT to partner with the advisory committee as part of the process of conducting the study. Tells O... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment.
OR	HB4096	Fail	The Act allows FFLs to enter into agreements to hold guns for safety. The Act also directs OHA to develop a firearm safety pamphlet. The Act takes effect on the 91st day after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.9). Authorizes a federal firearms ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment.
OR	SB1569	Fail	The Act requires the Oregon Health Plan to pay for certain health services for people with mental deficits. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Requires medical assistance reimbursement of cognitive assessment and care planning for recipients who exper... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment.
OR	HB4131	Fail	The Act funds matching deposits for IDA accounts. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.2). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Housing and Community Services Department for the purpose of making matching deposits into individual development acc... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment.
OR	HB4105	Fail	The Act gives money to OHA to pay for some of the costs of the program in which nurses visit families while a parent is pregnant and for two years after that. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Health Authority for th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment.
OR	HB4144	Fail	The Act increases the sentence for making or having an object that makes counterfeit drugs. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Increases the penalties for making, delivering or possessing an object ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment.
OR	HB4155	Fail	The Act would require a study of how the state can help lower infrastructure and housing costs. The Act would require the agency doing the study to submit a report to the legislature by mid-September. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Directs the Ore... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment.
OR	SB1586	Fail	The Act changes the state law that prohibits housing discrimination. The Act removes an exemption from the law. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.4). Removes from state law an exception that allowed for residential property owners to engage in housing di... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment.
OR	HB4125	Fail	The Act tells LPRO to work with a vendor to write a draft report about the results of two previous bills and send a final report to the LA before the start of the next session. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). [Digest: The Act tells LPRO to study th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment.
OR	HB4118	Fail	Makes BOLI study on-the-job training programs for youth. Makes BOLI submit reports on the findings of the study. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 67.4). Directs the Bureau of Labor and Industries to cond... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment.
OR	HB4135	Fail	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 ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment.
OR	HB4091	Fail	The Act creates a committee to review proposed measures that require a health plan to pay for a certain type of health service or a health service that is provided by a certain type of provider of health care. The committee must report the results of... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment.
OR	HB4070	Fail	The Act tells the OHA to adjust its school-based health center grants for inflation. The Act tells the OHA to issue grants and take other actions to increase school-based health services. The Act authorizes lottery bonds for school-based health servi... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment.
OR	HB4130	Fail	Stops people in charge of companies that do medical work from running both the company and other business that does work that is not medical work. Stops the people in charge from hiring, firing or telling medical workers when and how to do their jobs... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 At President's desk upon adjournment.
OR	HCR203	Pass	Honors the ways Oregon and Taiwan have worked together over the years. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Reaffirms the State of Oregon's commitment to its relationship with Taiwan. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-06 Filed with Secretary of State.