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To contact me, please click here: Rep.CourtBoice@oregonlegislature.gov
Dear Friends and Neighbors,
On Thursday, March 7 the 82nd Legislative Session ended, or sine die, meaning "without a day" to meet again.
The short session went by quickly, with nearly 300 bills introduced and in the end 115 bills passed both chambers and have been sent to the Governor to sign. I've outlined below some highlights and bills of interest for the session.
Please note this will be the last legislative update from our office until after May 21. Due to Oregon campaign laws we are about to enter a blackout period where legislators are not allowed to use legislative newsletters during campaign season. You can follow me on Facebook where I will update with local events, town halls and meet and greets throughout House District 1.
The next legislative days will be May 29-31 and September 23-25 when I'll be back at the Capitol working to serve your best interests.
God Bless,
 Representative Court Boice
House District 1
Short Session bills I introduced:
HB 4142 Would restrict pretrial release for persons who commit a new felony sex crime while on pretrial release for a felony sex crime.
The last few years there has been an alarming trend across the country involving repeat offenders being let out on little or no bail. This is particularly concerning when they are victimizing children. To address a very narrow and specific subsection of defendants; those charged with trafficking or a sexual crime on a child, released on bail, and then committing yet another trafficking or sexual crime on a child while released on bail I introduced HB 4142. This despicable behavior is proof that the conditions of bail release are not sufficient to protect society from this individual and bail should therefore be denied.
HB 4143 Requests some entities to keep males and females apart for purposes of playing sports, spending time in prison or jail and using some bathrooms. It requires athletic organizations, institutions of higher education and school districts to designate athletic competitions according to biological sex. It would also prohibit individuals of one biological sex from competing in athletic competitions designated for the opposite biological sex. It would prohibit incarcerating adults in custody in an institution, facility or area that is designated for incarcerating adults in custody of the opposite sex.
Over one hundred years ago the 19th Amendment guaranteed women across this country the right to vote. Over fifty years ago Congress passed the bipartisan bill enacting Title IX which promoted opportunities for women in educational programs and activities funded by the federal government.
These measures forged by leaders from both political parties made great progress in the advancement of dignity and equality for women in America. Recently however, that progress has been threatened by some policy makers surrendering to the demands of a radical few pushing extreme gender ideologies. I would like to lead the push back by sponsoring legislation restoring reality surrounding gender.
Bills I was a chief sponsor of:
HB4120 Creates a grant program to help some people in custody with opioid addiction.
HB4147 Authorizes the use of stop arm cameras to record drivers who fail to stop for bus safety lights.
HJR203 Proposes amendment to the Oregon Constitution to provide that parents have the fundamental right to direct the upbringing, education and care of their children. Refers the proposed amendment to the people for approval or rejection at the next general election.
SB1561 Establishes the Environmental Restoration Council (Council) and several funds to invest and distribute money from the Monsanto Settlement Agreement.
SB1588 Sen. DBS’s bill to fix our hard drug problem by increasing penalties for some drug offenses and granting funds to counties for drug treatment.
SB1589 Sen. DBS’s election integrity bill. Makes voting in person the normal method for voting. Requires voters to show picture ID when voting or requesting a ballot.
SCR209 Honors Joanne Russell Verger.
HB 4002 or the Measure 110 Fix
HB 4002 was one of the high priority issues we can into session to discuss. It was a necessary bill and in the end we were able to recriminalization possession of hard drugs. The bill did not go far enough and there is still much work to do. It puts Oregon on a track to continue to work on the policies to end the problems Measure 110 has created.
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My remonstrance on the floor 15 days into session, when we still did not have any comprehensive bill move out of committee. |
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My testimony in committee on HB 4002 I speak about the drug addiction crisis which has lead to too many deaths and overdoses. Drug addiction and treatment is needed all over Oregon, including rural Oregonians. Rural areas often do not have the same access to treatment as urban areas. |
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REPRESENTATIVE BOICE WITH ODFW DIRECTOR CURT MELCHER AND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR DEBBIE COLBERT.
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BOICE ATTENDED THE OREGON DEPARTMENT OF FISH & WILDLIFE FULL 5 HOUR MEETING AT UMPQUA COMMUNITY COLLEGE ON THE 15TH
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 REPRESENTATIVE BOICE MAKES A VISIT TO THE ANNUAL OREGON LOGGERS CONFERENCE – DISTRICT 1 – TIMBER CAPITOL OF THE WORLD
 
Over the years many great Oregonians have served in the Legislature and other Public Offices, it was an honor this session to remember both Jackie Winters and Bill Bradbury.
Jackie Winters
Jackie was born in Topeka, Kansas in 1937, and moved to Portland in 1943. She attended Oregon State University and took classes on Intergovernmental Relations.
In 1969 she worked for Governor Tom Mccall and assistant to Governor Vic Atiyeh in 1979. In 1998 Jackie Winters was elected to the Oregon State Legislature as the state’s first African-American Republican. She was elected to the Oregon Senate in 2002 and served until 2019. Jackie passed away in 2019, and is terribly missed.
Bill Bradbury
Bradbury was elected to the Oregon House of Representatives from Curry and southern Coos County in 1980. He was elected to the Oregon State Senate in 1984, and served in the leadership posts of Senate majority leader in 1986, and senate president in 1993. He was then appointed by Governor John Kitzhaber to be Oregon Secretary of State in November 1999 and served in this position until 2009.
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Curry County Chamber Newsletter and Events
Coos Bay, North Bend and Charleston Chamber of Commerce and Events
Connect Douglas County Oregon (CDCO)
It is a great honor to meet with and attend Veteran events in the community and in Oregon. Thank you for your service and your sacrifice.
Vietnam War Memorial on the Oregon State Capitol Grounds Groundbreaking Ceremony is scheduled for March 29th
Meet at the Embracing Tree in Wilson Park near the corner of Cottage and State Streets for the ceremonial groundbreaking for Phase 1 of the Vietnam War Memorial on the Oregon State Grounds.
The ceremony will start at approximately 12:15 pm.
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After addressing the crowd at the annual Gold Beach Memorial Day Ceremony, my wife Britt got to visit with several honorees.
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Bills I signed onto as regular sponsor:
HB 4007 Creates Oregon personal income tax subtraction for any amount received in judgment or settlement of a civil action arising from wildfire. When people lose their home in a wildfire and receive a settlement, they should not have to pay income taxes on that settlement income!
HB 4013 This Act excludes glass wine containers from a law that tells producers to take steps to dispose of their packaging.
HB 4036 The Republican bill to recriminalize hard drugs. The bill stiffens penalties for drug dealers (Taylor’s Law), outlaws drug use in a public space, provides for mandatory drug treatment, and establishes a funding mechanism for treatment facility infrastructure.
HB 4037 States that health care workers may not alter a minor’s sex or refer the minor to another health care worker to alter the minor’s sex. The Act says that public funds may not be used to alter a minor’s sex. The Act says that health insurance policies may not pay to alter a minor’s sex.
HB4046 This Act allows rural residents to build an extra house for their families.
HB4048 Develops an alternative process to amend urban growth boundaries to include up to 150 net residential acres per city. Appropriates moneys to provide grants to local governments for housing law compliance.
HB4054 Tells certain entities to designate sports by gender. The Act forbids males from playing in female sports.
HB4055 Raises the exemption and filing thresholds for the Corporate Activity Tax from $1 Million to $5 Million.
HB4062 Rep. Cramer’s drug recriminalization bill.
HB4071 Creates a task force to look at health professional regulatory boards.
HB4073 Increases funding for the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force.
HB4082 Appropriates $50 million for a grant program to fund summer learning.
HB4084 Establish a pilot program in the Department of Education for students who are foster children.
HB4090 Prohibits the Energy Facility Siting Council from exercising jurisdiction over an energy facility that is sited entirely on federal land and is subject to review under the National Environmental Policy Act.
HB4094 Authorizes issuance of general obligation bonds to finance renovation or expansion of courthouses.
HB 4095 Requires a student to meet reading, writing and math standards before getting a diploma.
HB4099 Provides for an agreement between a developer and a local government that the collection of a System Development Charge will be deferred for 180 days. Establishes the Municipal Development Protection Fund and appropriates $10 Million so the Oregon Housing agency can use fund moneys as system development charge payments to local governments.
HB4102 States that the Natural and Working Lands Fund consists of moneys appropriated to the fund by the Legislative Assembly and moneys deposited in the fund from any other public or private source.
HB4106 Directs the State Forester to sell timber at the harvest level and to establish sustainable harvest levels for harvesting timber on state forestland and develop a timber inventory model to inform sustainable harvest levels.
HB4107 Provides that compensation for loss or injury to livestock or working dogs under the wolf depredation compensation and financial assistance grant program must be based on certain multipliers of fair market value.
HB4108 Requires a health care worker who is present when a child is born alive after an abortion to give the same level of care as if the child was born alive after a normal birth. Requires a health care practitioner to ensure that a child born alive is transported to a hospital.
HB4111 Makes all farm machinery tax exempt. Removes the requirement that farm machinery and equipment be tangible personal property for the purposes of exemption from property taxation.
HB4114 Permits a police officer to take a person who is publicly intoxicated or under the influence of controlled substances, but who is not incapacitated, to their dwelling or, if the person is unable to identify a dwelling, to a treatment facility or sobering facility.
HB4115 The measure clarifies who is and is not a supervisory employee for purposes of labor representation and collective bargaining for certain personnel employed at correctional institutions, mental hospitals, law enforcement, emergency communications, and the Criminal Justice Division of the Oregon Department of Justice.
HB4128 Would give money to cities to produce water infrastructure for new houses and would give money to a state agency to carry out a law related to water wells.
HB4132 Directs the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife to partner with the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission, the State Land Board, and relevant state agencies to develop an adaptive management plan for Oregon’s marine reserves and a collaborative process that incorporates social monitoring data into policy decisions.
HB4134 Requires the Oregon Business Development Department to provide grants to cities for specified infrastructure projects that will benefit housing developments that will make at least 30 percent of the dwelling units affordable to workforce income households.
HB4137 Directs the State Board of Education to adopt rules by which a student who has completed an International Baccalaureate program may satisfy certain requirements for a high school diploma in this state.
HB4138 Allows the OLCC to issue temporary service permits.
HB4139 Excludes new hospitals providing inpatient psychiatric services, inpatient rehabilitation services or inpatient or outpatient substance use treatment and new long term care facilities from requirement to obtain a certificate of need from the Oregon Health Authority.
HB4141 Decreases the rate of interest charged on delinquent property taxes from 1.33 percent per month to 1.33 percent per year.
HB4146 Allows petitions for certain abuse court orders to be filed in the county in which the abuse occurred.
HB4156 Modifies definitions pertaining to stalking orders and stalking offenses. Increases penalties for the crimes of stalking and violating a court's stalking protective order in certain circumstances. Punishes by a maximum of 10 years' imprisonment, $250,000 fine, or both.
HB4160 Extends the time, from 90 days after graduation from high school or leaving school, to one year after graduation from high school or leaving school, in which a person is considered a “student” for laws requiring reporting, investigation, and disclosures about a school employee, contractor, agent, or volunteer engaging in sexual conduct with a student.
HB4161 Increases the number of students who can attend a virtual public charter school, requires school districts to participate in open enrollment, and creates education savings accounts for students.
HJM201 Urges Congress to continue full and unequivocal support of the State of Israel in Israel's war against Hamas.
SB1536 Prohibits an abortion unless a health care provider first determines the probable gestational age of the unborn child, except in the case of a medical emergency.
SB1548 Abolishes the annual one-hour change in time from standard time to daylight saving time and maintains the Pacific Time Zone, if California and Washington make the same change within the next 10 years.
SB1555 The Senate bill to recriminalize hard drugs and create a new diversion program.
SB1556 Directs ODOT to conduct a study of the segment of U.S. Highway 30 that lies between milepost 49 and milepost 94, to determine deficiencies, to develop a plan for improving the segment to a state of good repair, and to provide a cost estimate for those improvements.
SB1579 Creates a special fund in the State Treasury for advocacy centers that support children who have been abused.
SB1581 Requires an investor-owned utility to report to the Legislative Assembly annually on steps taken or being taken to participate in a regional energy market.
SB1590 Repeals the towed watersports program.
SB1591 Allows DHS to license adult foster homes with up to seven residents.
SCR213 Honoring Specialist Ken "Kenny" Leisten (1984-2004) for his service to his country.
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