Oregon Representative Ken Helm [D]

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State	Bill	Status	Summary/Title	Last Action
OR	SB1561	Pass	This Act creates a council and funds to distribute and invest money from a legal settlement. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Establishes the Environmental Restoration Council. Directs the council to establish programs to distribute moneys from the ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-11 Effective date, April 4, 2024.
OR	HB4115	Pass	The Act modifies a defined term under PECBA. The Act restricts the makeup of certain collective bargaining units. The Act takes effect as soon as it is passed. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.4). [Digest: The Act modifies a defined term under PECBA. (F... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-10 Chapter 84, (2024 Laws): Effective date April 4, 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	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	HB4156	Pass	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... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-10 Chapter 90, (2024 Laws): Effective date July 1, 2024.
OR	HB4111	Pass	The Act makes all farm machinery tax exempt. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.1). Removes the requirement that farm machinery and equipment be tangible personal property for the purposes of exemption from ad valorem property taxation. Takes effect on th... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-04-10 Chapter 83, (2024 Laws): Effective date June 6, 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	HB4084	Pass	Creates a program for the education of students who are foster children. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). Directs the Department of Education to establish and administer a pilot program for students who are foster children. Sunsets the plan June 30,... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Chapter 33, (2024 Laws): Effective date March 27, 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	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	SB1581	Pass	The 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Effective date, January 1, 2025.
OR	HB4147	Pass	Authorizes 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Chapter 43, (2024 Laws): Effective date January 1, 2025.
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	HB4132	Pass	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 Ocea... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 Chapter 38, (2024 Laws): Effective date March 27, 2024.
OR	SB1580	Pass	The 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 worke... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-28 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	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	SB1567	Pass	The Act tells an agency to take actions on water in the Walla Walla River Basin. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Directs the Water Resources Department to take certain actions related to the Walla Walla Water 2050 Strategic Plan. [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-25 Effective date, January 1, 2025.
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	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	HB4114	Fail	The Act changes current laws about where police may take a person who is in public while on drugs or drunk. The Act expands how long a person may be held after being given an opioid reversal drug. (Flesch Readability Score: 71.7). Permits a police of... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment.
OR	SB1577	Fail	The Act tells LPRO to study more options for AVR and to tell the Legislature what they found out before the 2027 session. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). [Digest: The Act allows people to register to vote when they apply for college. The Act tells ... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment.
OR	HB4097	Fail	The Act changes the process for setting aside offense convictions and dismissals and contempt findings. The Act makes some of the same changes for setting aside GEI judgments. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.7). [Digest: The Act changes the process for... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment.
OR	HB4049	Fail	This Act directs OSU to study PFAS in biosolids that are spread on farm fields that do not produce crops for human food. The Act directs OSU to submit a final report by Sept. 1, 2027. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.0). [Digest: This Act directs OSU to... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment.
OR	HB4112	Fail	Tells 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment.
OR	HB4148	Fail	The 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment.
OR	SB1559	Fail	This 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... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment.
OR	SB1556	Fail	The 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 ... [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	HB4128	Fail	The Act would give money to cities to produce water infrastructure for new houses in this state. The Act would give money to a state agency to carry out a law related to water wells. The Act would tell a state agency to create updated information abo... [Detail][Text][Discuss]	2024-03-07 In committee upon adjournment.
OR	HB4088	Fail	The 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... [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.