Oregon Senator Mark Meek [D]

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ORHB4160PassMakes 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...
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2024-03-28
Chapter 45, (2024 Laws): Effective date July 1, 2024.
ORSB1581PassThe Act makes an electric company report each year on the steps taken or being taken to be part of an energy market. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). Requires an investor-owned utility that sells more than two million megawatt hours of electricity i...
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2024-03-28
Effective date, January 1, 2025.
ORHB4147PassAuthorizes the use of stop arm cameras on school buses to record people who do not stop for bus safety lights. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Permits an education provider to have stop arm cameras on school buses for the purpose of recording perso...
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2024-03-28
Chapter 43, (2024 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2025.
ORSB1533PassTells the SOS to translate the voters' pamphlet into the 10 most common languages used in each county. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Increases, from 5 to 10, the number of the most commonly spoken languages in each county, other than English, tha...
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2024-03-28
Effective date, January 1, 2025.
ORSB1580PassThe Act would make it a crime for an employer to file a false payroll report to lower its workers' comp premium. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.1). Digest: The Act would make it a crime for an employer to report false data in order to lower its worker...
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2024-03-28
Effective date, March 27, 2024.
ORSB1520PassExempts awards from and legal fees paid in wildfire suits from income tax. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5). Digest: Exempts award from wildfire suit from income tax. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8).Ù Creates Oregon tax subtraction for amounts rece...
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2024-03-28
Effective date, June 6, 2024.
ORSB1596PassRequires 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...
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2024-03-28
Effective date, January 1, 2025.
ORSB1553PassThe 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...
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2024-03-28
Effective date, January 1, 2025.
ORSB1579PassThe 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...
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2024-03-28
Effective date, March 27, 2024.
ORHB4154Enroll
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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 fundÙ. Requires the Higher Education Co...
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2024-03-19
President signed.
ORHB4156Enroll
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The Act makes changes to crimes related to stalking. The Act also changes the definitions for stalking laws. The Act takes effect on July 1, 2024. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.3). Modifies definitions pertaining to stalking orders and stalking offen...
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2024-03-19
President signed.
ORSCR213PassHonors the life and memory of Ken Leisten. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.8). Recognizes and honors Specialist Ken "Kenny" Leisten (1984-2004) for his service to his country.
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2024-03-19
Filed With Secretary of State.
ORHB4134Enroll
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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).Ù Requires the ...
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2024-03-19
President signed.
ORHB4083Enroll
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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...
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2024-03-19
President signed.
ORHB4098Enroll
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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...
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2024-03-19
President signed.
ORHB4056Enroll
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The Act would require counties to set up a way to handle surplus proceeds from tax lien foreclosure sales. The Act would pause the transfer to counties of deeds to foreclosed property. The Act would make the Department of Revenue work with county tax...
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2024-03-19
President signed.
ORSB1585Enroll
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The Act requires DHS to set up a task force and come up with a plan for a program that allows people who receive SNAP aid to be able to use the aid to buy hot foods and hot foods that are ready to eat. The Act says who must be on the task force. The ...
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2024-03-13
Speaker signed.
ORSB1532Enroll
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Directs ODE to make a plan for the education of students who are immigrants. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Directs the Department of Education to develop and implement a statewide education plan for students who are asylum seekers, refugees or an...
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2024-03-13
Speaker signed.
ORSB1595Enroll
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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...
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2024-03-13
Speaker signed.
ORSB1545Enroll
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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 dest...
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2024-03-13
Speaker signed.
ORHB4137PassAllows 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...
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2024-03-12
Chapter 4, (2024 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2025.
ORHB4058PassThe Act adds laws about residential property wholesalers. The Act changes laws about real estate licensees. The Act adds new defined terms. The Act defines "future right to list contract" and states that a real estate licensee may not take certain ac...
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2024-03-12
Chapter 3, (2024 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2025.
ORHB4124FailThe 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...
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2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment.
ORSB1572FailThe 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...
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2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment.
ORSB1569FailThe 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...
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2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment.
ORSB1549FailExempts from state income tax up to $17,500 received by a person 62 years of age or younger as retirement pay or pension for service in the Armed Forces. The Act applies to tax years that start on or after January 1, 2024. The Act takes effect on the...
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2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment.
ORSB1591FailThe Act allows DHS to license adult foster homes with up to seven residents. The Act sets out the requirements for licensing an adult foster home with six or seven residents. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Authorizes the Department of Human Servic...
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2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment.
ORHB4050FailThe Act removes an exception to the state law concerning pay equity requirements. The Act changes the law to add to the list of factors that an employer can use as a reason for a pay differential. The Act becomes effective when the Governor signs it....
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2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment.
ORHJR202FailRequires a majority of the members of the House and the Senate to be present to take action. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.3). Proposes an amendment to the Oregon Constitution to require a majority of each house of the Legislative Assembly to be pres...
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2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment.
ORHB4131FailThe 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...
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2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment.
ORHB4140Enroll
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The Act tells DOJ to include in future budget requests amounts to fund various programs that help victims of crime. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.3). Digest: The Act gives money to the DOJ to fund ...
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2024-03-07
President signed.
ORSB1560FailThe Act creates the Task Force on Compassionate Medical Release. The Act directs the task force to submit a report to the legislature by December 31, 2024. The Act takes effect when it is signed by the Governor. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.3). Dige...
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2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment.
ORHB4112FailTells one of the state's agencies to make rules that say how the agency will buy products and services from companies that make clean energy technology. Lets the agency work with other government bodies to help create and keep jobs in this state. Cre...
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2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment.
ORHB4013FailThis 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 relat...
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2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment.
ORSB1586FailThe 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...
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2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment.
ORSB1559FailThis Act changes the state's greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals. The Act changes the term "global warming" to "climate change" in some laws. The Act declares an emergency and takes effect when it passes. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.4). Modifi...
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2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment.
ORSB1556FailThe Act requires ODOT to study a section of U.S. Highway 30. ODOT must make a report of the study and share its findings with the JCT. ODOT may start work on the study 91 days after sine die. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.9). Requires the Department ...
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2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment.
ORHB4158FailThe Act would give money to two state agencies to support some types of child care providers in this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5). Digest: The Act would give money to a state agency to help develop or improve child care in the state. (Fles...
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2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment.
ORHB4148FailThe Act directs an agency to expand programs related to wildlife illness. The Act directs an agency to perform a review. The Act directs an agency to establish a program for living with wildlife. The Act makes changes related to wildlife paths and ro...
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2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment.
ORHB4135FailThe 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 ...
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2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment.
ORSB1594FailThe Act creates the Task Force on Improving the Safety of Behavioral Health Workers. The Act says who must be on the task force and the duties of the task force. The Act creates a program in which OHA pays persons who run places that provide mental h...
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2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment.
ORHB4141FailThe Act decreases the rate of interest charged on delinquent property taxes. It takes effect on the 91st day after the end of session. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.2). Decreases the rate of interest charged on delinquent property taxes from 1.33 per...
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2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment.
ORHB4088FailThe Act directs hospitals to take actions with respect to the protection of hospital employees. The Act directs the OHA to administer a grant program. The Act takes effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.9). [Digest: The Act...
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2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment.
ORSB1590FailThe Act repeals laws related to boats and towed sports. The Act changes laws about boating safety education. The Act goes into effect 91 days after the session ends. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Repeals provisions related to the towed watersport...
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2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment.
ORSB1582FailThe 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...
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2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment.
ORHB4118FailMakes 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...
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2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment.
ORHB4046FailThis Act allows rural residents to build an extra house for their families. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Allows an occupying homeowner outside of an urban growth boundary to site one additional family dwelling unit on the tract of the home. Take...
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2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment.
ORSB1548FailFor the part of the state in the Pacific Time Zone, stops the one-hour change of time in the spring and fall of each year and keeps the zone at standard time year-round if CA and WA states do the same within 10 years. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.1)...
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2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment.
ORHB4090FailRemoves EFSC power over a project that makes clean power or is a power line, is only on U.S. lands and is reviewed under NEPA. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.0). Prohibits the Energy Facility Siting Council from exercising jurisdiction over or requiri...
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2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment.
ORHB4007FailExempts awards from and legal fees paid in wildfire suits from income tax. (Flesch Readability Score: 76.5). Creates an Oregon tax subtraction for amounts received in settlement of civil actions arising from wildfire. [Allows] Creates an Oregon [item...
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2024-03-07
In committee upon adjournment.
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