Digest: Creates a new state holiday to teach people about a heart disease that is common but is also not often diagnosed. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.6). Designates the fourth Wednesday in February of each year as Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Awareness Day. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
Digest: Directs ODE to fund summer learning programs and to study how to provide learning during nonschool hours. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Requires the Department of Education to establish and administer the Summer Learning Grant program. Establishes requirements of the program. Directs the department to study and propose recommendations to develop an initiative that addresses education disparities through increased summer and after-school learning opportunities. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
Digest: Allows a student who has finished an IB program to not have to meet some requirements for a high school diploma. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6). Directs the State Board of Education to adopt rules by which a student who has completed an International Baccalaureate program may satisfy certain requirements for a high school diploma in this state.
Digest: The Act funds cultural groups in Oregon. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.7). Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Business Development Department to distribute to Oregon cultural organizations in response to the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on organization finances. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
Digest: The Act tells the OHA to adjust its school-based health center grants for inflation. The Act tells the OHA to issue grants and take other actions to increase school-based health services. The Act authorizes lottery bonds for school-based health services. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.4). Directs the Oregon Health Authority to modify the amounts of grants for school-based health centers for inflation. Directs the authority to issue grants for the planning and operation of school-based health services. Directs the authority to develop and implement a program to issue grants to increase and improve school-based mental health services and substance use services . Directs the authority to study methods for providing or increasing reimbursement for mental health services delivered through school-based health centers. Authorizes the issuance of lottery bonds for school-based health center purposes.
Digest: The Act tells LPRO to work with a vendor to write a draft report about the results of two previous bills and send a final report to the LA before the start of the next session. (Flesch Readability Score: 62.1). [ Digest: The Act tells LPRO to study the results of SB 242 (2011). (Flesch Readability Score: 60.7). ] Directs the Legislative Policy and Research Director to conduct a procurement and enter into a contract with a qualified vendor to conduct a study on the impact of Senate Bill 242 (2011) and Senate Bill 270 (2013) on higher education in this state. Specifies the data to be identified in the study and requires the [ director ] vendor to analyze specified potential alternative governing models for public universities in this state. [ Authorizes the director to enter into contracts with public or private entities for purposes of the study. ] Requires the director to submit a final report to the relevant interim committees of the Legislative Assembly by [ September 15, 2025. ] November 30, 2024. [ Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. ] Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
Digest: The Act requires ODOT to study extending the WES commuter rail line to Salem. The Act creates an advisory committee to aid ODOT in its study. Requires ODOT to partner with the advisory committee as part of the process of conducting the study. Tells ODOT to use an IGA with the MWVCOG to provide staff support for the advisory committee. Tells ODOT to also conduct gap analysis of the data from an earlier ODOT rail study. ODOT must submit a report no later than December 1, 2024. Gives money to ODOT to pay for the costs of the study. The Act takes effect as soon as it is passed. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.2). [ Digest: The Act requires ODOT to study extending the WES commuter rail line to Salem. The Act creates an advisory committee to aid ODOT in its study. Requires ODOT to consult with the advisory committee as part of the process of conducting the study. ODOT must submit a report no later than December 1, 2024. Gives money to ODOT to pay for the costs of the study. The Act takes effect as soon as it is passed. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.4). ] Requires the Department of Transportation, [ after consulting ] in partnership with the Westside Express Advisory Committee, to study extending the Westside Express Service commuter line to Salem. Directs the department to delegate, through an intergovernmental agreement, with the Mid-Willamette Valley Council of Governments performance of administrative functions of the advisory committee. Directs the department, as part of the study, to conduct a gap analysis of the data components of the 2010 Rail Study undertaken by the department. Directs the department to submit findings to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to transportation not later than December 1, 2024. Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Department of Transportation for the study. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
Digest: The Act increases the sentence for making or having an object that makes counterfeit drugs. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.9). Increases the penalties for making, delivering or possessing an object that is used to render a drug into a counterfeit substance. Punishes by a maximum of five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
Digest: The Act gives money to OHA to pay for some of the costs of the program in which nurses visit families while a parent is pregnant and for two years after that. (Flesch Readability Score: 63.4). Appropriates moneys to the Oregon Health Authority for the costs of targeted case management services provided in the nurse home visiting services program for families during pregnancy and for two years after the pregnancy. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.
Digest: The Act creates a committee to review proposed measures that require a health plan to pay for a certain type of health service or a health service that is provided by a certain type of provider of health care. The committee must report the results of its review of each measure to the legislature. The LPRO director staffs the committee. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.6). Establishes the Health Insurance Mandate Review Advisory Committee, staffed by the Legislative Policy and Research Director, to meet during interims between sessions of the Legislative Assembly to review any proposed measure sponsored by or submitted to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to health if the measure requires health insurance policies to reimburse specified health care providers or to reimburse the cost of a specific service. Specifies the membership of the committee and the type of review that the committee must undertake. Requires the committee to produce a report of its findings on each proposed measure no later than January 15 of the year in which the measure may be introduced or 15 days after a review is requested, whichever is later. Requires the director to report to the Legislative Assembly, by December 31, 2026, on the work of the committee and recommendations for legislation. Sunsets June 30, 2027. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die.
