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All 16,020 Active 0 In committee 13,419 Passed 580 Signed 3,916 Failed 203

signed · Oregon · House Apr 18, 2024

HB 4134: Relating to housing; declaring an emergency.

Digest: This Act makes OBDD give money to cities for infrastructure to support housing. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). [ Digest: This Act makes DAS give money to cities for infrastructure to support housing. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). ] Requires the [ Oregon Department of Administrative Services ] 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. Requires cities receiving grants to provide reports to the Oregon Business Development Department. Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Business Development Department. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

signed · Oregon · Senate Apr 11, 2024

SB 1521: Relating to care for vulnerable individuals; declaring an emergency.

Digest: The Act requires DHS to contract with at least one organization to provide a new type of service to people who hire personal support workers. The Act makes changes to the statutes about agency with choice service providers. The Act requires DHS to contract with at least one agency providing agency with choice services by January 1, 2026. The Act makes a place that houses and takes care of people who are elderly or who have disabilities use a certain tool. The tool makes sure that the place has enough staff to meet the needs of the people who live there. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.3). [ Digest: The Act requires DHS to contract with at least one organization to provide a new type of service to people who hire personal support workers. ] [ The Act makes changes to the statutes about agency with choice service providers. Requires DHS to contract with at least one agency providing agency with choice services by January 1, 2026. ] [ The Act changes the way that DHS makes a place that houses and takes care of people who are elderly or who have disabilities use a certain tool to make sure that the place has enough staff to meet the needs of the people who live there. ] [ The Act requires that some people must be licensed to help children in DHS custody to stay out of temporary lodging. The Act says that those people do not have to be licensed until 1/1/25. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.4). ] Requires the Department of Human Services to contract with at least one organization by July 1, 2024, to provide enhanced supports to employers of personal support workers and describes the supports that must be provided by the organization. Specifies the minimum requirements for agencies to be endorsed by the department to provide agency with choice services and requires the department to contract with at least one organization to provide agency with choice services by January 1, 2026. Prohibits specified acts by agencies that employ staff to provide direct support professionals. Requires the Oregon Health Authority to hire one additional position for the authority's Medicaid [ fraud ] program integrity unit. Modifies the enforcement by the Department of Human Services of the requirements for residential care facilities to use acuity-based staffing tools to ensure sufficient staffing levels to meet residents' scheduled and unscheduled needs at all times. [ Requires that certain providers of placement safety or crisis supports for children in the custody of the department be licensed as child-caring agencies. Specifies that certain providers of care or services to children are not child-caring agencies. Delays licensing requirement for certain providers of placement safety or crisis supports to children until January 1, 2025. Permits the department until December 31, 2024, to continue contracting with certain providers of placement safety and supports even though they are unlicensed. ] Extends deadline from January 1, 2026, to January 1, 2027, for residential training homes and adult foster homes licensed before July 1, 2026, to install automatic sprinkler systems. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

signed · Oregon · Senate Apr 11, 2024

SB 1552: Relating to education; declaring an emergency.

Digest: Makes many changes to the education laws of this state. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7). Establishes a youth advisory group. Prescribes the membership and duties of the group. Directs the Department of Education to establish a work group to develop standards for the group. Directs the department to develop a plan for the collection of course-level completion and grade data for all public school students in grades 6 through 12. Directs the Higher Education Coordinating Commission to establish a direct admissions program for community colleges and public universities. Directs the Legislative and Policy Research Director to conduct a study on the Quality Education Model and the state's system of financing public education for kindergarten through grade 12. Changes the entity that makes determinations related to the Oregon Opportunity Grant program to the commission. Requires that the manner by which the commission determines the state share under the program be done by rule. Modifies calculations of funding for the Youth Corrections Education Program and the Juvenile Detention Education Program. Directs the department to establish a target funding level for programs. Authorizes the department to transfer moneys from the Statewide Education Initiatives Account for the purpose of meeting the target funding level. Expands the authority of the commission to enter into contracts or agreements for Oregon's Open Educational Resources (OER) Program. Clarifies the requirements for school district policies related to short-acting opioid antagonists. Modifies the membership requirements of the Educator Advancement Council, the scope of duties of the council and the requirements of certain grants awarded by the council. Directs the commission to convene a work group to conduct a study related to evidence-based corequisite student support models. Allows an applied baccalaureate degree program or Bachelor of Science: Nursing degree program to be eligible for funding from the Community College Support Fund. Clarifies the eligibility of part-time faculty members at a public institution of higher education to receive employee-only health care benefits. Directs the commission to conduct a study related to the forestry workforce. Exempts from public meetings laws meetings of certain subcommittees of the Transfer Council. Allows a person, prior to beginning an education, a training or an apprenticeship program for an occupational or a professional license, to petition a licensing board, a commission or an agency for a determination as to whether a criminal conviction will prevent the person from receiving the license. Specifies laws that are applicable to approved recovery schools. Clarifies the applicability of just cause provisions to classified school employees. Modifies payment requirements for substitute teachers. Repeals sections related to the repealed Early Success Reading Initiative. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

signed · Oregon · Senate Apr 11, 2024

SB 1557: Relating to services to individuals who are under 21 years of age; declaring an emergency.

Digest: The Act requires the OHA to take certain steps to make sure that certain people who are under 21 years of age receive the services and supports that they qualify for. The Act requires the OHA and DHS to make sure that children and youth who are served by both agencies get the services they need from both agencies. The Act says that, if a court orders the OHA to provide certain services to a youth, the order does not commit the youth to the OHA or change the youth's guardian. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.5). Requires the Oregon Health Authority to ensure that all children or youth who are eligible for home or community-based services receive the services to which they are entitled. Requires the authority and the Department of Human Services to adopt rules to facilitate cross-agency coordination to support multi-system involved children and youth. Specifies minimum requirements for the rules. Requires the authority to investigate the services and supports that are provided, through the K plan, to children and youth to enable the children or youth to avoid placements in institutional settings. Requires the authority to report specified data and recommendations on the authority's investigation to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health care and human services by October 1, 2024. Prohibits the denial of mental health assessment, treatment or services to individuals on the basis that the individuals have intellectual or developmental disabilities. Requires the authority to review and amend, as needed, current administrative rules and contracts to ensure that individuals under 21 years of age have access to specified services. Requires the authority and the Department of Education to develop strategies and recommendations for leveraging federal funds to provide certain school-based services and submit a report to the Legislative Assembly by October 1, 2024. Modifies provisions regarding the assessment of a youth's fitness to proceed in a juvenile delinquency proceeding. Clarifies that an order directing that a youth receive restorative services does not commit the youth to the custody of the Oregon Health Authority or alter the youth's guardianship. Limits when a youth may be removed from a current placement to a new placement to receive restorative services. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

signed · Oregon · Senate Apr 11, 2024

SB 1561: Relating to the administration of moneys received from the Monsanto settlement; declaring an emergency.

Digest: This Act creates a council and funds to distribute and invest money from a legal settlement. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.6). Establishes the Environmental Restoration Council. Directs the council to establish programs to distribute moneys from the Monsanto settlement. Establishes the Oregon Environmental Restoration Fund. Establishes the State Agency Program Fund. Establishes the Disproportionately Impacted Community Fund. Establishes the Tribal Nation Natural Resource Program Fund. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

signed · Oregon · Senate Apr 11, 2024

SB 1503: Relating to public health; prescribing an effective date.

Digest: The Act makes a task force on community safety and suicide prevention. The Act provides money for research on those topics. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.2). Establishes the Task Force on Community Safety and Firearm Suicide Prevention and requires the task force to report to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health care. Appropriates money for research on gun violence and suicide prevention ordered by the task force. Sunsets on December 31, 2026. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

signed · Oregon · Senate Apr 11, 2024

SB 1585: Relating to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits; prescribing an effective date.

Digest: The Act requires DHS to set up a task force and come up with a plan for a program that allows people who receive SNAP aid to be able to use the aid to buy hot foods and hot foods that are ready to eat. The Act says who must be on the task force. The Act requires DHS to take steps to carry out the program. (Flesch Readability Score: 87). Requires the Department of Human Services to convene a task force to analyze options available under federal law for a program that allows recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits to use the benefits for hot foods, including restaurant meals. Specifies the membership of the task force. Requires the department to implement the program on a statewide basis or as a pilot program. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

signed · Oregon · Senate Apr 11, 2024

SB 1562: Relating to state financial administration.

Digest: The Act raises the maximum amount of money that can be held in a reserve fund. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.2). [ Digest: The Act raises the amount of money that is put in a reserve fund every two years. It raises the maximum amount of money that can be held in the reserve fund. (Flesch Readability Score: 74.2). ] [ Increases the maximum amount of the biennial transfer to the Oregon Rainy Day Fund. ] Increases the cap on amounts held in the Oregon Rainy Day Fund.

signed · Oregon · Senate Apr 11, 2024

SB 1532: Relating to statewide education plans.

Digest: Directs ODE to make a plan for the education of students who are immigrants. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.7). Directs the Department of Education to develop and implement a statewide education plan for students who are asylum seekers, refugees or any other immigrant.

signed · Oregon · Senate Apr 11, 2024

SB 1595: Relating to protections from debt collection; declaring an emergency.

Digest: The Act increases some amounts that are protected from debt collectors. The Act changes some laws about bad debt collection methods. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.2). Increases certain exemptions from garnishment and execution. Modifies provisions relating to unfair debt collection practices. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

signed · Oregon · Senate Apr 11, 2024

SB 1545: Relating to the assessment of rebuilt homesteads; prescribing an effective date.

Digest: The Act would grant a property tax break to destroyed homes that were rebuilt after the 2020 wildfires. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6). Authorizes a county to allow a homestead rebuilt by the same owner on the same lot to replace the homestead destroyed by the September 2020 wildfires to have a specially assessed value equal to the destroyed homestead's real market value for the 2020-2021 property tax year, to the extent of the square footage of the destroyed homestead. Provides that the specially assessed value continues until the earliest of the date on which the rebuilt homestead is no longer the owner's principal dwelling, is rented to another person for any duration or is transferred to new ownership. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.

signed · Oregon · House Apr 10, 2024

HB 4059: Relating to brassica production in the Willamette Valley Protected District; declaring an emergency.

Digest: The Act keeps limits on producing canola in certain areas. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.5). [ Digest: The Act keeps limits on producing canola in certain areas. The Act makes certain changes to the limits. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 70.4). ] Extends the sunset on provisions relating to limits on Willamette Valley Protected District canola production to January 2, 2028. [ Changes the definition of "canola." Provides that isolation distances must equal or exceed customary isolation distances. ] Declares an emergency, effective on passage.