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D Oregon House · District 31

Rep. Brad Witt

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Total votes
3,542
all sessions
Attendance
97%
82 missed
Near the chamber average
With party
96%
of cast votes
Near the chamber average
Bipartisan score
2%
crosses aisle rarely
Near the chamber average
Sponsored
340
bills & resolutions
Lower than 79% of chamber peers
Committees
0
assignments
340 bills and resolutions

Sponsored bills

Total
340
Primary
117
Co-sponsor
223
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Primary HB 4152
Passed · Oregon House · Lead sponsor
Relating to meat.

Requires State Department of Agriculture to adopt rules governing inspection of wholly intrastate processing and sale of beef and lamb. ] Authorizes State Department of Agriculture to adopt rules establishing program of state inspection for processing and sale of meat products from amenable species, including but not limited to cattle and sheep. Authorizes department to adopt rules establishing program of state inspection for processing and sale of meat products from nonamenable species, as defined by department by rule.

Passed Mar 9, 2020 0 co-sponsors
Co-sponsor HB 4134
In committee · Oregon House · Co-sponsor
Relating to taxes paid by pharmacies; prescribing an effective date.

Prohibits pharmacy benefit manager from including in contract with network pharmacy term barring price increase to customer to offset estimated amount of corporate activity tax paid by pharmacy and attributable to sale of prescription drug. Applies to contracts entered into on or after January 1, 2021. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

In committee Mar 9, 2020 1 co-sponsor
Co-sponsor HB 4003
In committee · Oregon House · Co-sponsor
Relating to addressing disparities; prescribing an effective date.

Authorizes Housing and Community Services Department to provide grants, loans and technical assistance to organizations increasing homeownership program access to persons of color. Defines "persons of color." Authorizes expending Home Ownership Assistance Account funds for those purposes. Makes Oregon Housing Fund and subaccounts available to federally recognized Indian tribes that hold land in this state . Allows Department of Consumer and Business Services to require implicit bias training for mortgage loan originators. Requires Real Estate Commissioner to add implicit bias component to real estate licensing exam and continuing education credits by January 1, 2022. Requires Appraiser Certification and Licensure Board to add implicit bias component to education requirements for appraiser certification or licensure by January 1, 2022. Requires real estate licensee acting as buyer's agent to provide information to buyer regarding low-income home buyer opportunities. Establishes Joint Task Force on Addressing Racial Disparities in Home Ownership. Requires task force to report to interim committee of Legislative Assembly on or before December 1, 2020. Sunsets task force on February 1, 2021. Appropriates moneys to Housing and Community Services Department and Legislative Policy and Research Committee ] to administer Act. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

In committee Mar 9, 2020 1 co-sponsor
Co-sponsor HJR 202
Passed · Oregon House · Co-sponsor
Proposing amendment to Oregon Constitution relating to obligation of state to ensure access to health care.

Proposes amendment to Oregon Constitution establishing obligation of state to ensure every resident of state access to cost-effective, clinically appropriate and affordable health care. Requires state to balance obligation to ensure health care with funding of public schools and other essential public services. Refers proposed amendment to people for their approval or rejection at next regular general election.

Passed Mar 9, 2020 1 co-sponsor
Primary HB 4075
Passed · Oregon House · Lead sponsor
Relating to wildlife.

Prohibits person from conducting or participating in contest, competition, tournament or derby that has objective of taking coyotes for cash or prizes. Provides that prohibition does not apply to raffle conducted by nonprofit organization if organization does not award raffle prizes based on number, weight or size of coyotes taken. Punishes violation of prohibition by maximum fine of $2,000. Provides that person violating Act forfeits remains of coyote to State Department of Fish and Wildlife. Declares emergency, effective on passage. ].

Passed Mar 2, 2020 0 co-sponsors
Primary HB 2574
Signed into law · Oregon House · Lead sponsor
Relating to shellfish; and declaring an emergency.

Requires Department of Land Conservation and Development to establish electronic information system to ] receive, consolidate and organize public record information concerning shellfish mariculture in Oregon. Requires department to establish electronic system to store and share information concerning shellfish mariculture. Appropriates moneys to department for program for biennium beginning July 1, 2019. Requires State Department of Agriculture to administer and enforce program to regulate commercial mariculture of shellfish on tidelands owned by counties or port districts. Appropriates moneys to department for program for biennium beginning July 1, 2019. ] Requires State Department of Agriculture to hold preapplication conference with prospective applicant for cultivation of oysters, clams or mussels. Appropriates moneys to department for program for biennium beginning July 1, 2019. Requires State Department of Fish and Wildlife to establish and administer program for community outreach and instruction regarding opportunities for recreational harvesting of shellfish. Appropriates moneys to department for program for biennium beginning July 1, 2019. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2019.

Signed into law Aug 14, 2019 0 co-sponsors
Co-sponsor SB 770
Signed into law · Oregon Senate · Co-sponsor
Relating to statewide health care coverage; and declaring an emergency.

Establishes Task Force on Universal Health Care Commission ] charged with recommending to Legislative Assembly design of Health Care for All Oregon Plan, administered by Health Care for All Oregon Board to provide publicly funded, equitable, affordable, comprehensive and high quality health care to all Oregon residents. Specifies membership and duties of commission ] task force . Requires recommendations to be guided by specified values and principles. Prescribes requirements for plan design and items that commission ] task force must consider. Requires commission to first meet by November 1, 2019, and provide first report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to health by March 15, 2020. Requires commission ] members of task force to be appointed by May 31, 2020, and task force to submit to 2021 regular session of Legislative Assembly final recommendations by February 1, 2021, or report on work that remains to be completed ] for design of Health Care for All Oregon Plan and Health Care for All Oregon Board . Requires Oregon Health Authority to develop plan for Medicaid Buy-In program. Specifies elements that must be included in plan, to extent feasible. Requires authority to provide report to Legislative Assembly, no later than May 1, 2020, containing discussion of potential eligibility requirements for Medicaid Buy-In program or public option, options for targeting specified groups, recommendations for legislative changes necessary to implement plan and any federal approval that would be required to implement plan. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Signed into law Aug 8, 2019 1 co-sponsor
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