Directs Department of Education to make biennial transfer to Oregon Military Department from State School Fund for purpose of paying costs of educational services provided through programs operated by military department for at-risk youth. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2023.
Requires state agency that authorizes or funds, in whole or in part, installation of electric vehicle charging system located on customer's side of meter to require installing contractor or contractors to hold all legally required licenses and Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Training Program or equivalent training program certification, and one or more electricians who hold Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Training Program or equivalent training program certification to supervise or participate in installation. Requires state agency to require 25 percent of electricians who are present and working on installation to hold Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Training Program or equivalent training program certifications when installation is for electric vehicle charging port on customer's side of meter that will supply 25 or more kilowatts to vehicle. Becomes operative when 500 or more individuals in this state have completed Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Training Program and passed certification exam, or equivalent training program and certification exam. Requires Electrical and Elevator Board to approve Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Training Program, and consider equivalent training programs, as continuing education program. Requires board to review cost to take Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Training Program course and certification exam and ] track number of electricians who have signed up for and completed course and passed certification exam. Requires Bureau of Labor and Industries to establish program to reimburse individuals who successfully complete Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Training Program and pass certification exam, or equivalent training program and certification exam, for amount of cost of course and exam incurred by individual. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to bureau for purposes of payments of grants made under program established by bureau. ].
Provides ] Authorizes city or county to adopt five-year property tax exemption for newly constructed accessory dwelling unit, or newly converted duplex, triplex or quadplex, that is used as occupant's primary residence. Requires approval of affected taxing districts imposing majority of total combined rate of taxation on eligible property. Applies to property tax years beginning on or after July 1, 2024. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Directs Department of Education to develop and implement plan to establish and maintain statewide data system on education workforce in state and to convene steering committee to assist in development of business case for statewide data system . Prescribes requirements and uses of system. Requires department to convene steering committee related to data collection requirements. ] Directs Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to develop and implement plan to establish and maintain statewide portal for jobs in education. Requires each public education provider to ensure that each member ] encourage members of education workforce participates ] to participate in specified surveys related to education workforce and to ensure that members of education workforce have opportunity to participate in survey . Prescribes pay requirements for ] Authorizes school district to pay additional percentage of wage or salary or to pay one-time payment to licensed educators and classified school employees who provide significant special education support. Prescribes work hour requirements for classified school employees who provide significant special education support . Directs Department of Education to establish and maintain Safe School Culture Grant program to develop network of instructors certified in nonviolent crisis intervention methods. Prescribes reporting requirements related to program. Establishes just cause requirement for classified school employees related to dismissal, demotion and discipline. Establishes Task Force on Substitute Teachers. Prescribes membership and duties of task force. Sunsets task force on December 31, 2024. Establishes standards by which school district must classify substitute teaching assignment as temporary position. Requires school district to pay for training required for substitute teacher to apply for or be assigned to substitute teaching assignment. Allows teacher to provide services of substitute teacher only under written contract for employment entered into with school district, education service district or public charter school. Provides that substitute teacher is considered employee of district or school. Establishes retirement and benefit rights for certain substitute teachers. ] Directs department to conduct study and develop plan for implementation of statewide minimum salary schedule for education workforce. ] Directs Educator Advancement Council to conduct study on pay for student teachers. ] Establishes Task Force on Statewide Educator Salary Schedules. Prescribes membership and duties of task force. Sunsets task force on December 31, 2024. Allows moneys in Statewide Education Initiatives Account to be used for funding educator apprenticeships and mentorships. ] Directs department to develop and execute public relations campaign to promote public education professions. ] Allows certain retired teachers to convert teaching license into substitute teaching license without paying additional fees or additional requirements . Exempts retired person from certain limitations on employment if person is employed as licensed or classified staff member by school district or education service district. Sunsets exemption on July 1, 2029. ] Extends employment protections for school district superintendents to education service district superintendents. Exempts person from certain Central Background Registry requirements for child care if person has undergone criminal records check requirements related to school district employment or teacher licensure. Modifies duties of Educator Advancement Council to include administration of beginning teacher and administrator mentorship program. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2023.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Health Authority for certain biennial expenses. Limits biennial expenditures from fees, moneys or other revenues, including Miscellaneous Receipts, tobacco and marijuana tax receipts, beer and wine tax receipts, provider taxes and Medicare receipts, but excluding lottery funds and other federal funds, collected or received by authority for certain purposes. Limits biennial expenditures by authority from certain lottery moneys for certain purposes. Limits biennial expenditures by authority from certain federal funds for certain purposes. Authorizes specified nonlimited expenditures. Limits biennial expenditures from Public Employees' Revolving Fund and Oregon Educators Revolving Fund for benefit plan premiums and self-insurance. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2023.
Requires Department of Human Services to study department's processes for delivering services to aging adults. Directs department to submit findings to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to human services not later than September 15, 2024. ] Sunsets January 2, 2025. ] Prohibits certain facilities that provide long term care from taking specified actions based in whole or in part on resident's actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression or human immunodeficiency virus status. Imposes new requirements on facilities that provide long term care, with respect to care of residents who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, Two Spirit, nonbinary or other minority gender identity or sexual orientation or who have human immunodeficiency virus. Permits Department of Human Services to impose civil penalties or take other administrative action for violation of provisions. Requires facility to ensure administrators and staff receive specified training. Requires entity that contracts with facility to provide services or supports to residents of facility to provide specified training to entity's staff persons. Excuses from compliance with requirements any requirement that is incompatible with professionally reasonable clinical judgment of management or staff of facility or with state or federal law. Requires training required for facilities be completed by Long Term Care Ombudsman, deputy ombudsmen and designees of ombudsmen. Establishes LGBTQIA2S+ subcommittee of Governor's Commission on Senior Services. Specifies membership and duties of subcommittee.
Directs Department of Human Services to provide specified services to individuals with brain injuries and to convene Brain Injury Advisory Committee. Requires department to report to Legislative Assembly during odd-numbered year regular sessions on services provided and number of individuals served. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Directs Department of Revenue to develop schedule allowing personal income taxpayers to voluntarily report taxpayers' self-identified race and ethnicity identifiers. Requires restricted access to collected data. Prohibits access to data by department collection and audit staff or by Internal Revenue Service. Prohibits use of data by tax practitioners and tax preparation software vendors for purposes other than preparing and filing of returns. Directs department to report annually, beginning in 2024, on development and implementation of data collection schedule to appropriate committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly related to information management and technology. Sunsets reporting requirement on January 2, 2029. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to adopt standards for types of data collected for all payer, all claims database that are consistent with standards adopted for collection of data on race, ethnicity, language, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity. Allows authority to charge fee for releasing information from database. Removes obsolete provisions related to individual shared responsibility provisions of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Modifies membership of Health Insurance Exchange Advisory Committee and sunsets requirement for authority to report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly on integration into authority of duties, functions and powers transferred from Department of Consumer and Business Services. Repeals COFA Premium Assistance Program. Replaces provisions related to Health Plan Quality Metrics Committee with provisions creating Metrics and Scoring Committee under Oregon Health Policy Board. Modifies duties of committee. Repeals metrics and scoring subcommittee. ] Beginning in reporting year 2025, requires metrics and scoring subcommittee of Health Plan Quality Metrics Committee to select, based on specified criteria, downstream health outcome and quality measures for coordinated care organizations from sets of core quality measures for Medicaid program published by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and at least four upstream health outcome and quality measures that focus on social determinants of health. Requires Oregon Health Authority to annually update health outcome and quality measures if necessary to conform to latest sets of core quality measures published by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Authorizes members of Public Health Benefit Purchasers Committee, Health Care Workforce Committee, Health Plan Quality Metrics Committee, Behavioral Health Committee and metrics and scoring subcommittee who are not members of Oregon Health Policy Board to receive compensation and actual and necessary travel and other expenses as prescribed by Oregon Health Authority by rule. Repeals requirement that initial assessment by coordinated care organization of child in custody of Department of Human Services be performed in accordance with metrics established by metrics and scoring subcommittee. Requires Oregon Health Authority to study coordinated care organization quality incentive program, develop recommendations for changes and report recommendations to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to health by September 15, 2024. Permits Oregon Health Authority to reimburse coordinated care organizations for health-related social needs services using methods other than global budgets. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to transition from healthcare.gov to state-based marketplace by November 1, 2026. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Requires students to complete one half-credit of higher education and career path skills and one half-credit of personal financial education as requirements for high school diploma. Directs State Board of Education to adopt academic content standards for higher education and career path skills and for personal financial education. Requires school districts and public charter schools to provide instruction in higher education and career path skills and personal financial education. Applies to high school diplomas awarded on or after January 1, 2027. Allows waiver of one year if certain conditions met.
Establishes Task Force on Organized Retail Theft. Directs task force to review existing issues of organized retail theft to determine changes to laws or policies to address issues or reduce organized retail theft. Sunsets on December 31, 2024. ] Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die. ] Establishes Organized Retail Theft Grant Program. Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to administer program. Appropriates moneys to commission for purposes of program.
