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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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Co-sponsor HB 2591
Signed into law · Oregon House · Co-sponsor
Relating to school-based health center grants; and declaring an emergency.

Allows mobile school-based health centers to qualify for safety net grants from Oregon Health Authority. ] Requires Oregon Health Authority to provide planning grants to 10 school districts or education service districts to evaluate need and develop plans for school-based health services. Requires authority to provide funding to operate school-based health center or school nurse model at conclusion of two-year planning process. Requires authority to develop requirements for up to three school districts or education service districts to receive grants for planning for and operation of mobile school-linked health centers. Requires authority to award grants to three school-based health centers to operate pilot projects to expand student access to mental and physical health care services through use of telehealth. Specifies requirements. Extends sunset on current program for school planning grants and technical assistance from January 2, 2026, to January 2, 2028. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2021.

Signed into law Sep 25, 2021 1 co-sponsor
Co-sponsor HB 2298
Signed into law · Oregon House · Co-sponsor
Relating to voluntary stream restoration; and declaring an emergency.

Directs State Department of Fish and Wildlife to adopt by rule and administer program for authorizing voluntary projects for stream restoration and habitat improvement through construction of environmental restoration weirs. Exempts authorized projects from removal-fill permit. Exempts authorized projects from fish passage requirements in certain circumstances. Authorizes department to require fish passage as part of authorized project in certain circumstances. Authorizes department to require modification of environmental restoration weirs if found to adversely impact transportation infrastructure or planned transportation infrastructure. Authorizes department to require third-party monitoring of authorized projects. Provides that certain riparian work as part of authorized project is not subject to riparian management requirements under Oregon Forest Practices Act. Requires department to adopt rules establishing program in time for rules to become operative no later than one year after effective date of Act. Requires department to submit, no later than December 31, 2027, report to interim committees related to environment and natural resources of Legislative Assembly on extent and impact of program. Requires department to submit, no later than September 15, 2032, report to interim committees related to environment and natural resources of Legislative Assembly on assessments of conditions of qualifying streams affected by authorized voluntary projects and make recommendations for legislation. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Signed into law Sep 25, 2021 1 co-sponsor
Co-sponsor HB 2927
Signed into law · Oregon House · Co-sponsor
Relating to emergency management; and declaring an emergency.

Renames Office of Emergency Management as Oregon Department of Emergency Management. Establishes department as independent state agency. Directs department to carry out certain functions related to regional and statewide emergency response and preparedness. Transfers Oregon Emergency Response System from Department of State Police to Oregon Department of Emergency Management, operative July 1, 2025. Renames office of State Fire Marshal as Department of the State Fire Marshal and establishes department as independent state agency, operative July 1, 2023. Transfers Oregon Homeland Security Council to Office of Governor. Adds members to and modifies duties of commission. Establishes Emergency Preparedness Advisory Council to facilitate policy recommendations related to catastrophic disaster. Sunsets council on January 2, 2030. Establishes Local Government Emergency Management Advisory Council to provide advice and recommendations to Oregon Department of Emergency Management regarding department's emergency preparedness and response functions. Sunsets council on January 2, 2030. Establishes task force to make recommendations as to whether State Fire Marshal should be made independent state agency or housed within existing state agency, operative immediately. Directs task force to report recommendations by February 1, 2022. Becomes operative on July 1, 2022, except as specified. Appropriates moneys from General Fund and increases certain expenditure limitations for various state agencies to carry out provisions of Act. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Signed into law Sep 25, 2021 1 co-sponsor
Co-sponsor HB 3178
Signed into law · Oregon House · Co-sponsor
Relating to unemployment; and declaring an emergency.

Temporarily removes condition for being deemed "unemployed" that individual's weekly remuneration for part-time work must be less than individual's weekly unemployment insurance benefit amount. Restores condition for weeks beginning on or after January 2, 2022. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Signed into law Sep 25, 2021 1 co-sponsor
Co-sponsor HB 2738
Signed into law · Oregon House · Co-sponsor
Relating to court appointed special advocates; and declaring an emergency.

Modifies CASA Volunteer Programs to direct Oregon Department of Administrative Services to contract with nongovernmental entity to serve as statewide coordinating entity for provision of court appointed special advocate services. Appropriates moneys to Court Appointed Special Advocate Fund for CASA Volunteer Program and for distribution to Oregon CASA Network for court appointed special advocate training programs. ] Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Signed into law Sep 25, 2021 1 co-sponsor
Primary HB 3152
Signed into law · Oregon House · Lead sponsor
Relating to wildlife inspection stations.

Authorizes State Department of Fish and Wildlife to operate wildlife inspection stations for purposes of preventing spread of infections or infestations harmful to wildlife or of furthering wildlife management efforts. Requires operator of vehicle transporting taken wildlife or parts of taken wildlife to stop when arriving at wildlife inspection station. Makes failure to stop at wildlife inspection station when required Class A violation subject to maximum fine of $2,000.

Signed into law Sep 25, 2021 0 co-sponsors
Primary HB 3273
Signed into law · Oregon House · Lead sponsor
Relating to booking photos.

Prohibits law enforcement agency from releasing booking photo except in specified circumstances. Requires publish-for-pay publication to remove and destroy booking photo upon request within specified time period. Prohibits publication from charging fee for removal and destruction of certain booking photos. Provides that publication is liable for fees, costs and statutory damages for failure to remove and destroy photo as required.

Signed into law Sep 25, 2021 0 co-sponsors
Co-sponsor SB 759
Signed into law · Oregon Senate · Co-sponsor
Relating to collective bargaining rights of legislative employees.

Directs Legislative Administrator ] presiding officers of each house of Legislative Assembly to represent legislative department in collective bargaining negotiations with legislative department employee bargaining units. Permits presiding officers to delegate collective bargaining responsibility to chief negotiator. Clarifies that only state agencies within executive department are to be represented by Oregon Department of Administrative Services in collective bargaining negotiations.

Signed into law Aug 20, 2021 1 co-sponsor
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