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R Oregon Senate · District 5

Sen. Dick Anderson

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Total votes
2,718
all sessions
Attendance
98%
39 missed
Higher than 83% of chamber peers
With party
89%
of cast votes
Near the chamber average
Bipartisan score
8%
crosses aisle rarely
Higher than 83% of chamber peers
Sponsored
264
bills & resolutions
Near the chamber average
Committees
8
assignments
264 bills and resolutions

Sponsored bills

Total
264
Primary
136
Co-sponsor
128
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Primary HB 2001
Signed into law · Oregon House · Lead sponsor
Relating to housing; and declaring an emergency.

Establishes Oregon Housing Needs Analysis in Oregon Department of Administrative Services. Requires cities outside Metro to plan for housing needs as allocated by analysis. Requires Metro to adopt similar methodology to allocate housing needs to cities within Metro. Requires Housing and Community Services Department to develop housing production dashboard and housing equity indicators. Allows Department of Land Conservation and Development to audit, and to enter into housing acceleration agreement with, certain cities that are not adopting or implementing housing production strategies or that are lowest performing as measured by dashboard and indicators. Allows department to seek, and Land Conservation and Development Commission to issue, specific enforcement orders for certain continued noncompliance by cities in addressing housing. Amends land use requirements for local governments related to urbanization, including by requiring cities to measure and plan for development-ready lands, requiring Metro to adopt housing coordination strategy and allowing cities outside of Metro to adopt rural reserves. Requires commission to adopt or amend implementing rules. Modifies emergency housing assistance program and state homeless assistance program to provide services and assistance to school-aged children experiencing or at risk of experiencing homelessness. Modifies eligibility requirements for applicants for grants from homeless youth services enhancement program and host home project program. Makes programs permanent. Requires Housing and Community Services Department to provide grants or loans for modular housing and components. Sunsets January 2, 2026. Requires Oregon Facilities Authority to provide financing for infrastructure and predevelopment costs for moderate income housing. Sunsets January 2, 2026. Requires residential landlords to extend notice periods for terminations of tenancy based on nonpayment of rent and to include additional notices. Requires landlords and clerk to also include notice with summons for nonpayment of rent. Postpones dates for first appearance and trial for evictions based on such termination notices. Requires landlord to attest to belief that tenant who is absent at first appearance remains in possession of premises before default eviction judgment. Requires public bodies and grantees to inform tenants and landlords regarding rental assistance applications. Requires courts to annually set aside and seal certain inoperative residential eviction judgments. Requires State Department of Agriculture to provide grants to improve certain existing agriculture workforce housing. Sunsets January 2, 2026. Allows certain moneys appropriated to Housing and Community Services Department for use in Oregon Balance of State Continuum of Care to be spent under emergency procurement authority. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Housing and Community Services Department, Oregon Department of Administrative Services, Land Conservation and Development Commission, Oregon Facilities Authority and State Department of Agriculture for purposes of Act. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Signed into law Apr 6, 2023 0 co-sponsors
Primary HB 4026
Signed into law · Oregon House · Lead sponsor
Relating to state moneys for school districts impacted by wildfires; and declaring an emergency.

Directs Department of Education to award grants to wildfire-impacted school districts in amounts to cover funding decreases resulting from decreases in district average daily membership, as compared to 2019-2020 school year, that are caused by wildfires. Sunsets on July 1, 2025. Establishes School Stabilization Subaccount for Wildfire-impacted School Districts for purpose of awarding grants. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Signed into law Apr 1, 2022 0 co-sponsors
Primary HB 4123
Signed into law · Oregon House · Lead sponsor
Relating to coordinated homeless response systems; and declaring an emergency.

Requires Oregon Department of Administrative Services to provide grants for certain coordinated homeless response systems. Requires response systems to report annually to Housing and Community Services Department, Oregon Housing Stability Council and interim committee of Legislative Assembly. Sunsets January 2, 2025. Appropriates moneys for specified response system grants. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Signed into law Apr 1, 2022 0 co-sponsors
Co-sponsor SB 1560
Signed into law · Oregon Senate · Co-sponsor
Relating to noncitizens.

Updates statutory references to individual who is not citizen or national of United States to replace "alien" with "noncitizen." Directs state agencies to use "noncitizen" in rules and regulations to reference individual who is not citizen or national of United States and to update rules and regulations that use "alien" to use "noncitizen." Authorizes agencies to amend rule without prior notice or hearing for purpose of changing term or phrase in order to conform with change made by law. Makes nonsubstantive changes.

Signed into law Apr 1, 2022 1 co-sponsor
Co-sponsor HB 4145
In committee · Oregon House · Co-sponsor
Relating to incubation boxes for salmonids; declaring an emergency.

Requires State Department of Fish and Wildlife to establish and operate fish incubation box program for rearing of salmonids on suitable waterways in coastal areas of southern Oregon. Requires department to report to interim committee of Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2023, regarding establishment and operation of program. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to department for program purposes. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

In committee Mar 4, 2022 1 co-sponsor
Co-sponsor HB 4084
In committee · Oregon House · Co-sponsor
Relating to persons with mental illness; prescribing an effective date.

Specifies evaluation that must be conducted when person is taken into hospital or nonhospital facility because person has mental illness and is in need of treatment. Requires court order for conditional release or assisted outpatient treatment to contain provisions to ensure person receives necessary support services upon release. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

In committee Mar 4, 2022 1 co-sponsor
Co-sponsor HB 4148
In committee · Oregon House · Co-sponsor
Relating to salmonid habitat restoration; prescribing an effective date.

Directs Department of State Lands, in consultation with State Department of Fish and Wildlife, to establish salmon credit program to encourage voluntary restoration of salmonid habitat and allow persons to meet compensatory mitigation obligations. Establishes Salmon Credit Trust Fund. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

In committee Mar 4, 2022 1 co-sponsor
Primary HJR 206
In committee · Oregon House · Lead sponsor
Proposing amendment to Oregon Constitution relating to limitations on gubernatorial emergency powers.

Proposes amendment to Oregon Constitution to limit ability of Governor to declare emergency or to exercise powers under declaration of emergency to only those powers granted by law and to 30 days' duration. Authorizes county governing bodies in counties subject to declaration of emergency to extend declaration of emergency in up to 30-day increments and to reduce powers that may be exercised under declaration of emergency in their respective counties. Refers proposed amendment to voters for their approval or rejection at next regular general election.

In committee Mar 4, 2022 0 co-sponsors
Co-sponsor HB 4085
In committee · Oregon House · Co-sponsor
Relating to treatment of minor children; prescribing an effective date.

Permits parent or guardian to admit child, with or without child's consent, to inpatient treatment facility or program licensed by Oregon Health Authority or Department of Human Services for certain mental, emotional, behavioral health or substance use disorder treatment. Requires initial assessment and periodic reviews supporting necessity of inpatient treatment. Prohibits facility or program from declining to admit child solely based on child's unwillingness to consent to admission. Provides process for child who is 14 years of age or older to request review of admission decision. Directs licensing agency to adopt rules for review of admission decision. Creates exceptions. Directs department, in consultation with authority, to make written materials available regarding resources for families seeking mental, emotional or behavioral health treatment, or substance use disorder treatment, for minor children. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

In committee Mar 4, 2022 1 co-sponsor
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