Directs Oregon Medical Board and Oregon State Board of Nursing to adopt rules requiring practitioners to screen certain patients for pathogenic E. coli bacteria and report positive screening results to Oregon Health Authority. Becomes operative January 1, 2018. Takes effect 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Designates rescued shelter dogs as official state dog.
Requires health benefit plan coverage of specified health care services, drugs, devices, products and procedures related to reproductive health. Allows exemption for plans sold to religious employers. Requires Oregon Health Authority to implement program to reimburse costs of services, drugs, devices, products and procedures related to reproductive health provided to individuals who can become pregnant and who would be eligible for medical assistance if not for certain federal requirements. Prohibits discrimination in provision of health care coverage. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Repeals Department of State Lands leasing requirements for kelp harvesting. Requires State Department of Fish and Wildlife to adopt permit program by rule for small-scale commercial hand harvests of seaweed from ocean shores and tidal submerged lands. Requires department to consult with Department of State Lands and State Parks and Recreation Department before adopting rules. Allows State Department of Fish and Wildlife to enter into memorandum of agreement with Department of State Lands and State Parks and Recreation Department to assign sole responsibility for permitting to State Department of Fish and Wildlife when harvesting of seaweed would occur on ocean shores or over tidal submerged lands. Requires State Department of Fish and Wildlife to deposit moneys received from permit fees into Seaweed Harvest Permit Program Account. Continuously appropriates moneys in account to department for purposes of administering permit program.
Establishes University Research Fighting Fund to provide state moneys to public universities or Oregon Health and Science University when universities seek federal research grants. Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission to administer fund and establish process to determine which universities that request moneys should be awarded moneys from fund. Establishes criteria commission must use in awarding moneys from fund. Requires that no later than January 15 of each even-numbered year, Legislative Fiscal Officer shall report to Joint Interim Committee on Ways and Means on ending balance remaining following transfer of General Fund moneys to Oregon Rainy Day Fund. Requires that during each regular session held during even-numbered year, Legislative Assembly shall consider report and determine whether to transfer General Fund moneys to ensure University Research Fighting Fund has balance of $20,000,000. Establishes lower target for University Research Fighting Fund balance through biennium ending on June 30, 2023.
Establishes Oregon Public Places Are Safe Places Investment Fund. Continuously appropriates moneys in fund to Office of Emergency Management for implementation of strategies for identifying and developing staging areas for emergency response. Creates advisory committee within office to provide recommendations and advice regarding expenditures from fund.
Requires schools to instruct and drill students on survival after natural disaster. Requires Department of Education to develop age-appropriate curriculum relating to earthquake and tsunami safety. Requires school districts to implement curriculum. Permits school districts to opt out of implementation of curriculum.
Requires lobbyist statements filed with Oregon Government Ethics Commission to identify each bill or measure introduced before Legislative Assembly lobbyist lobbied on, whether lobbyist lobbied in favor of, in opposition to or for purpose of seeking amendments to bill or measure, each legislative topic that was not bill or measure that lobbyist lobbied on, each person or entity that hired lobbyist and how much moneys person or entity paid lobbyist. Exempts actions that did not influence, or attempt to influence, legislative action from being included in lobbyist statements. Requires commission to make newly required lobbyist information available in searchable format for review by public using Internet. Requires that information submitted as part of lobbyist statement is accurate on date it is filed. Permits lobbyist to amend lobbyist statement, without penalty, at any time before commission receives complaint, or proceeds on its own motion as if commission received complaint. Provides that commission may not fine lobbyist for mistakenly filing false or inaccurate information in lobbyist statements if it is first time lobbyist has done so in calendar year. Limits civil penalty for filing false or inaccurate information in lobbyist statement to not more than $500 per violation. Establishes Advisory Committee on Lobbying Transparency to advise and assist in development, design, testing and implementation of Internet website to make information contained in lobbyist statements available in searchable format to public.
Adds Oregon Volunteer Firefighters Association to list of entities eligible for individual income tax return checkoff contribution. Provides conditions for use of contributions. Applies to individual income tax returns for tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2017. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Requires Department of Education to develop and provide to public high schools written materials regarding apprenticeship opportunities. Requires public high schools to disseminate materials to students and to parents or guardians of students. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
