Directs Office of Emergency Management and Oregon Homeland Security Council to develop and administer grant program to distribute emergency preparedness equipment to local governments and other recipients. Establishes Resiliency Grant Fund. Continuously appropriates moneys in fund to Office of Emergency Management. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
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Creates position of Veteran Volunteer Coordinator in Department of Veterans' Affairs and specifies responsibilities. Requires report to Legislative Assembly on or before September 15, 2020. Limits biennial expenditures from certain lottery moneys received by department for purpose of implementing and administering position. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Modifies civil penalties, license regulation and licensing fees for certain facilities regulated by Department of Human Services. Establishes Residential Care Quality Measurement Program and Quality Measurement Council within department to develop quality metrics for residential care facilities, require reporting of quality metrics by residential care facilities, provide reports to individual residential care facilities and compile aggregate information about quality of care in residential care facilities. Creates new license for conversion facilities. Requires department to develop and disseminate evidence-informed framework for accurately and equitably assessing residential care facility compliance or noncompliance with regulatory requirements. Requires department to administer residential care facility enhanced oversight and supervision program. Requires department to take one or more specified actions with respect to residential care facilities with poor performance on quality metrics. Requires department to utilize and share with residential care facilities, acuity-based staffing tool to evaluate level and type of direct care staffing based upon acuity of residents' needs. Requires direct care staff in residential care facility and caregivers in adult foster homes to complete training in dementia care that meets specified standards. Requires facilities and homes to dispense drugs to residents using form of packaging that reduces administration errors. Requires Oregon Medical Board to encourage licensed physicians to obtain continuing medical education in treatment of patients with Alzheimer's disease. Modifies provisions relating to evacuation of residents from adult foster home.
Reestablishes Task Force on Reentry, Employment and Housing. Requires report to Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2018. Sunsets task force on December 31, 2018. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Requires large employers in specified industries to provide new employee with estimated work schedule and to provide current employee with seven days' notice of employee work schedule. Extends work schedule notice period to two weeks effective July 1, 2020. Permits large employers in specified industries to maintain list of employees for work shift coverage in certain circumstances. Prohibits large employers in specified industries from scheduling work shifts that do not allow sufficient break time in between shifts unless employee earns 1.5 times scheduled rate of pay. Requires large employers in specified industries to pay penalty wage if employer changes scheduled shift with less than seven days' notice. Provides exception to penalty wage in certain circumstances. Requires large employers in specified industries to maintain records relating to compliance for three years. Makes unlawful employment practice for large employers in specified industries to interfere with employee rights or retaliate against employee for exercising rights granted to employee under Act. Allows for administrative or civil cause of action and statutory penalties for each violation. Repeals sunset of preemption of local government regulation of work schedules. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Provides that presumptive sentence for certain sex crimes is life imprisonment without possibility of release or parole if defendant has certain prior conviction at time of offense. Authorizes court to impose lesser sentence under rules of Oregon Criminal Justice Commission.
Directs certain agencies to allow informational materials about human trafficking to be posted at roadside rest areas. Establishes Department of Transportation Human Trafficking Awareness Fund. Establishes State Parks and Recreation Department Human Trafficking Awareness Fund.
Establishes Task Force on Student Mental Health Support. Directs task force to investigate mental health issues and substance abuse disorders among students, with emphasis on college recruitment, retention and completion and how issues and disorders differ across different communities in this state . Requires task force to submit report to interim committee of Legislative Assembly related to higher education no later than November 1, 2018. Sunsets December 31, 2018. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Designates Marionberry pie as official pie of Oregon.
Requires State Department of Agriculture to adopt rules governing posting of tax information by gas stations. Authorizes Director of Agriculture to impose civil penalty for violation of statute governing posting of tax information by gas stations.