Increases state transient lodging tax rate and provides for transfer of moneys attributable to increase to county in which taxes were collected. Requires transferred moneys to be used exclusively for affordable housing in county. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Establishes Statewide School Safety and Prevention System. Specifies functions of system. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2019.
Modifies allocation formula for grants to regional assessment centers and community assessment centers. Establishes Child Abuse Assessment Account within State Treasury for purpose of grant program for assessment centers. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Justice for purpose of funding program. Modifies authority of Advisory Council on Child Abuse Assessment to deposit contributions to Child Abuse Multidisciplinary Intervention Account and Child Abuse Assessment Account. Directs Department of Human Services to distribute $1 million to Center for Prevention of Abuse and Neglect to conduct Oregon Child Abuse Prevalence Study. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Human Services for distribution. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Education for purposes of developing curricula and providing educator training for instructional requirements that relate to child sexual abuse prevention, human sexuality education, teen dating violence and domestic violence, and similar instructional requirements that relate to child safety. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2019.
Redefines crime of aggravated murder. Reclassifies current manners of committing aggravated murder as murder in the first degree. Renames crime of murder to murder in the second degree. Specifies penalties. Specifies procedures for persons already sentenced to death to be resentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Requires all candidates for partisan office, regardless of political party affiliation or nonaffiliation, to appear on same unified primary election ballot, with two candidates receiving most votes advancing to general election ballot. Refers Act to people for their approval or rejection at next regular general election held throughout this state.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to establish or contract for establishment of statewide mental health crisis support access line to facilitate specified services for individuals experiencing behavioral health crises. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Requires that , to extent provided by Oregon Liquor Control Commission rules, if wine labeled with American viticultural area in Oregon is labeled with single grape variety as type designation, wine must meet specified content requirements. Authorizes Oregon Liquor Control Commission to exempt wine varieties or American viticultural areas from requirement. ] Requires commission to make requirements applicable to wine with labels identifying Willamette Valley viticultural area and American viticultural areas wholly or partly within Willamette Valley viticultural area. Creates exception. Requires commission to classify certain grape varieties as exempt from content requirements. Authorizes commission to exempt additional grape varieties by rule. Prohibits identifying Pinot noir as exempt grape variety. Establishes content requirement for wine from exempt grape varieties. Establishes default content requirement for wines not subject to other content requirements. Applies ] Makes content requirements applicable to wine labeled on or after January 1, 2023. Imposes revised content requirements for wine bottled on or after January 1, 2030. Requires commission to appoint advisory committee. Sunsets advisory committee January 2, 2030 ] 2023 . Requires commission to adopt rules establishing penalty schedule for labeling requirement. Creates exception to civil penalty. Requires adoption of initial rules in time to take effect January 1, 2023. Repeals rule adoption requirement January 2, 2023 ] 2024 . Requires commission to report to interim committee of Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2020, regarding advisory committee recommendations and status of commission rule adoption proceedings. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Directs Department of Human Services to deduct expenses for medically necessary guardianship services from recipient's income when calculating eligibility for assistance provided by Oregon Supplemental Income Program. Describes expenses for medically necessary guardianship services to include court-approved fees, costs and expenses incurred by recipient, including expenses for guardian services necessary for guardian to provide informed consent to medical treatment on recipient's behalf and, in certain situations, fees and costs incurred by recipient initiating protective proceeding. Requires notice of motion to approve expenses for medically necessary guardianship services to be provided to department. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Requires health outcome and quality measures adopted by Health Plan Quality Metrics Committee to include hospital measures and to be applied to health benefit plans sold in this state, not to only health benefit plans sold through health insurance exchange or covering public employees. ] Requires insurers offering health benefit plans in this state to use health outcome and quality measures adopted by committee in insurers' quality assessment program. ] Requires Oregon Health Policy Board, no later than January 1, 2021, to align statewide strategic plan for collection and use of health care data with health outcome and quality measures adopted by committee. ] Renames Health Plan Quality Metrics Committee of Oregon Health Policy Board to Health Quality Metrics Committee and expands membership to include member with expertise in oral health and dental care, member representing rural hospitals and member representing insurers that offer health benefit plans to small employers. Changes terminology from "health outcome and quality measures" to "measures of health outcomes and health care quality." Extends application of measures of health outcomes and health care quality to health benefit plans and hospital services.
Modifies annual salaries of judges of Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, circuit courts and Oregon Tax Court. Provides that, beginning on July 1, 2021, annual salaries of judges may not be less than specified percentage of annual salary of judge of United States District Court. Eliminates provision connecting salaries of members of Legislative Assembly and circuit court judges. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
