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D Oregon House · District 45

Rep. Barbara Smith Warner

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Total votes
3,987
all sessions
Attendance
96%
136 missed
Near the chamber average
With party
98%
of cast votes
Near the chamber average
Bipartisan score
1%
crosses aisle rarely
Near the chamber average
Sponsored
228
bills & resolutions
Lower than 98% of chamber peers
Committees
0
assignments
228 bills and resolutions

Sponsored bills

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228
Primary
44
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Co-sponsor HB 4153
Signed into law · Oregon House · Co-sponsor
Relating to the promotion of media industries in Oregon; and declaring an emergency.

Directs Oregon Film and Video Office to establish Creative Opportunity Program to promote film, television, interactive, animation and media industries in Oregon. Dedicates two percent of moneys in Oregon Production Investment Fund to making payments to media industry entities for creation and funding of projects under program. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Signed into law Apr 1, 2022 1 co-sponsor
Primary HB 4107
In committee · Oregon House · Lead sponsor
Relating to impact statements; declaring an emergency.

Directs Legislative Policy and Research Director to study use of impact statements in legislative deliberations and to report findings to Legislative Policy and Research Committee on or before February 1, 2023. ] develop pilot racial and ethnic impact statement template containing specified items. Requires director, following conferral with Senate and House Interim Committees on Rules, to select six measures enacted during 2021 regular session, apply pilot template to all six measures and report findings, process and experience on preliminary basis to House Interim Committee on Rules. Permits director, following feedback provided by House Interim Committee on Rules, to modify template and then provide final impact statements and process report to Senate and House Interim Committees on Rules and to policy committees that had heard test measures during 2021 regular session. Requires director, following presentations to interim committees, to propose policy to Legislative Policy and Research Committee that describes content, objectives and form of racial and ethnic impact statements. Requires committee to deliberate on, modify where appropriate, and adopt policy. Requires director, for odd-numbered year regular sessions occurring in 2023 or later years, to prepare racial and ethnic impact statements on limited number of legislative measures within specified policy areas. Requires statements to be prepared in conformance with policy adopted by Legislative Policy and Research Committee. Requires director, following completion of 2023 regular session, to report to House Interim Committee on Rules on racial and ethnic impact statement process. Authorizes committee to consider applying impact statement process to additional policy areas, even-numbered year regular sessions, special sessions and meetings of Emergency Board. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die. ] Declares emergency, effective on passage.

In committee Mar 4, 2022 0 co-sponsors
Co-sponsor HB 4081
In committee · Oregon House · Co-sponsor
Relating to naloxone; prescribing an effective date.

Requires pharmacist who dispenses opioid prescription to offer prescription for naloxone, or similar drug, and information about naloxone under specified circumstances. Creates exceptions to requirement to offer prescription for naloxone or similar drug. Allows pharmacy, health care professional or pharmacist to distribute and administer drug similar to naloxone. Allows certain persons to administer, to individual experiencing opioid overdose, drug similar to naloxone that was not distributed to individual. Requires pharmacies to provide written notice that drug similar to naloxone is available at pharmacy. Requires health benefit plan to provide payment or reimbursement for naloxone prescription and dispensation by pharmacist. Becomes operative January 1, 2023. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

In committee Mar 4, 2022 1 co-sponsor
Co-sponsor HB 4113
Signed into law · Oregon House · Co-sponsor
Relating to occupational diseases of nonvolunteer firefighters.

Adds to cancers covered by rebuttable presumption of occupational disease for eligible nonvolunteer firefighters. Requires Workers' Compensation Management-Labor Advisory Committee to review material published by National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health related to cancers associated with nonvolunteer firefighters.

Signed into law Mar 3, 2022 1 co-sponsor
Co-sponsor HB 2344
Signed into law · Oregon House · Co-sponsor
Relating to labeling requirements for wipes; and prescribing an effective date.

Requires persons that have responsibility for or control over packaging and labeling disposable cleaning cloths or similar implements ] premoistened nonwoven disposable wipes with specified characteristics to comply with certain labeling requirements for product packaging. Punishes failure to comply with or violation of Act as unlawful trade practice under Unlawful Trade Practices Act. ] Permits city, county or special district that provides wastewater service to enforce compliance with Act by bringing action to recover civil penalty in specified amount. Requires city, county or special district to provide alleged violator with notice of violation. Becomes operative July 1, 2022. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Signed into law Sep 25, 2021 1 co-sponsor
Co-sponsor HB 3389
Signed into law · Oregon House · Co-sponsor
Relating to unemployment insurance; and prescribing an effective date.

Extends look-back period used to determine Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund solvency level from 10 years to 20 years. Provides that calendar years 2020 and 2021 may not be considered high benefit cost period for purposes of making determinations of solvency level of fund. Provides that employers' experience ratings used to determine 2020 unemployment insurance tax rates shall be used to determine rates for 2022, 2023 and 2024. Provides deferral of up to one-third of 2021 unemployment insurance taxes for employers whose tax rates increased by 0.5 percentage points or more from 2020 to 2021. Authorizes forgiveness of percentage of deferrable taxes according to tax rate increase brackets. Reduces fund adequacy percentages used to determine employer tax rate schedules. Broadens kinds of property that may be received for Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Signed into law Sep 25, 2021 1 co-sponsor
Primary HB 2544
Signed into law · Oregon House · Lead sponsor
Relating to homeless youth; and prescribing an effective date.

Authorizes Department of Human Services to award two-year grants to organizations that provide services to unaccompanied homeless youth and to organizations that operate host home projects for unaccompanied homeless youth. Sunsets grant programs on July 1, 2023. Requires department to submit reports on host home project grant program to interim committees of Legislative Assembly relating to housing, homeless youth services and high school education. Appropriates moneys to department for statewide assessment and grants. ] Increases certain General Fund appropriations to Department of Human Services for purposes of carrying out Act. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Signed into law Sep 25, 2021 0 co-sponsors
Co-sponsor HB 2021
Signed into law · Oregon House · Co-sponsor
Relating to clean energy; and prescribing an effective date.

Requires retail electricity providers to reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with electricity sold to Oregon consumers to 80 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2030, 90 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2035 and 100 percent below baseline emissions levels by 2040. Requires electric companies to develop clean energy plans and electricity service suppliers to report information for meeting clean energy targets. Directs Department of Environment Quality to determine amount of emissions reduction necessary for each retail electricity provider to meet clean energy targets. Limits cumulative rate impact for compliance to six percent of annual revenue requirements. Permits performance incentive for early compliance. Requires electric company that files clean energy plan to convene Community Benefits and Impacts Advisory Group with input from stakeholders who represent interests of customers and affected entities and communities. Requires electric company to file biennial report with Public Utility Commission that assesses community benefits and impacts of electric company. Directs State Department of Energy to convene work group to examine opportunities to encourage development of small scale and community-based renewable energy projects and report findings to interim committee of Legislative Assembly no later than September 30, 2022. Sunsets December 15, 2022. Permits electric company, if agreed to and in coordination with government, to provide program of rates or charges to serve retail electricity consumers that covers costs of electricity generated from renewable energy resources or nonemitting energy resources or paired with unbundled renewable energy certificates. Defines "government." Requires electricity service suppliers to publicly disclose aggregated energy supply mix and associated emissions of power sources. Establishes contractor labor standards in construction or repowering of large-scale projects. Defines "large-scale project." Prohibits Energy Facility Siting Council from issuing site certificate for new generating facility that produces energy from fossil fuels unless facility generates only nonemitting electricity. Prohibits council from approving amendment of site certificate for generating facility in manner that would increase carbon dioxide emissions from operation of generating facility. Creates grant program within State Department of Energy to provide grants to Indian tribes, public bodies and consumer-owned utilities to plan or develop community renewable energy projects. Establishes Community Renewable Investment Fund within State Treasury for purposes of grant program for community renewable energy projects. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Community Renewable Investment Fund. Increases, from eight percent to 10 percent by 2030, requirement that aggregate electrical capacity of all electric companies be composed of electricity from small-scale renewable energy projects or facilities using biomass. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Signed into law Sep 25, 2021 1 co-sponsor
Primary HB 2992
Signed into law · Oregon House · Lead sponsor
Relating to payments to members of certain public entities; and prescribing an effective date.

Modifies amount of compensation paid to members of state boards and commissions. Requires state boards or commissions to pay compensation and expenses to certain members with adjusted gross income below certain threshold. Provides that members may decline to accept compensation or reimbursement. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Signed into law Sep 25, 2021 0 co-sponsors
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