Establishes Task Force on Age Discrimination. Directs task force to identify and evaluate impacts of age discrimination in workplace and report to interim committees relating to business and labor. Sunsets December 31, 2021. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Increases surcharge for cultural registration plate.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to design program to import wholesale prescription drugs from Canada. Specifies conditions and requirements. If authority estimates program would produce substantial cost savings for Oregon consumers, requires authority to seek federal approval and, with federal approval, to implement program. Authorizes administrator of Oregon Prescription Drug Program to contract with pharmacy benefit manager and to establish state-managed wholesale or retail drug distribution or dispensing system. Modifies duties of Task Force on the Fair Pricing of Prescription Drugs and extends sunset on task force. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Prohibits spending moneys of State of Oregon or of public body on or for benefit of industry-recognized apprenticeship programs. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Authorizes Bureau of Labor and Industries to conduct inquiries and investigations, including criminal records checks, to determine whether employer and any employees of employer have adequate character and fitness to employ minors in compliance with provisions relating to employment of minors. Requires Commissioner of Bureau of Labor and Industries to adopt rules no later than January 1, 2021. Requires submission of attestation form before bureau may issue annual employment certification to employer. Authorizes commissioner to deny, revoke or refuse to issue employment certification and impose civil penalty if employer falsifies or misrepresents information in attestation form or permits employee who is required to report as sex offender to have direct contact with minor who is employed by employer. Allows minor who is employed by employer and who claims to be aggrieved by employer's failure to comply with requirements to file civil action. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Directs Oregon Liquor Control Commission to establish Cannabis Social Equity Program to provide discounted recreational marijuana licensure fees and other support to program participants. ] Becomes operative January 1, 2021. ] Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die. ] Establishes Task Force to Promote Social Equity in the Cannabis Industry. Directs task force to identify barriers to entry in cannabis industry, recommend investments in communities impacted by marijuana criminalization and recommend solutions, including legislation for cannabis social equity program. Sunsets December 31, 2020. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Requires city that provides disability or retirement system for firefighters and police officers by ordinance or charter that is not subject to workers' compensation law to apply provisions requiring presumption that condition or impairment of health is occupational disease that results from employment if firefighter took physical examination upon gaining or during employment that failed to reveal evidence of occupational disease that existed before employment. Requires that city's denial of claim for compensation for occupational disease must be on basis of clear and convincing medical evidence that condition or impairment of health is unrelated to employment. Establishes that time limitations for filing claim are one year from date claimant first discovered or should have discovered occupational disease, one year from date claimant becomes disabled or is informed by physician that claimant is suffering from occupational disease or one year from date that worker's beneficiary first discovered or reasonably should have discovered that cause of worker's death was occupational disease.
Directs State Department of Agriculture to administer Oregon Hemp State Program for production, processing and sale of hemp. Changes term "industrial hemp" to "hemp." Requires department to conduct criminal records check of applicants for licensure to grow hemp. Allows department to identify and require by rule licensure for other activities related to hemp. Directs department to establish by rule requirements for shipment manifest for commercial hemp shipments. Becomes operative October 31, 2020. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Directs Office of Emergency Management to establish and administer voluntary Oregon outdoor recreation search and rescue card program. ] Establishes Oregon Search and Rescue Fund. Continuously appropriates moneys in fund to office to reimburse county sheriffs for search and rescue activities and to administer and support county search and rescue grant program. ] Directs office to establish county search and rescue grant program to distribute moneys to counties for equipment, training and educational outreach. ] Permits Office of Emergency Management to enter into agreement with nonprofit organization representing sheriffs under which organization is authorized to administer program to produce and sell outdoor recreation search and rescue cards. Establishes requirements for agreement. Provides that organization may use revenues from program only to reimburse administrative costs and expenses, to reimburse county sheriffs' offices for certain costs relating to search and rescue and to issue grants for search and rescue purposes. Declares emergency, effective on passage. ] Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Removes ] Narrows requirement that grants for certain student transportation costs be prioritized for school districts that did not receive public moneys in previous school year for same student transportation costs. Appropriates moneys for grants. Takes effect July 1, 2020.
