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.
Creates family and medical leave insurance program to provide employee who is eligible for coverage with portion of wages while employee is on family and medical leave or military family leave. Requires employer and employee contributions to fund program. Allows self-employed individuals and tribal government employers to opt into program. Directs Director of Department of Consumer and Business Services to determine contribution amounts and weekly benefit amounts. Establishes Family and Medical Leave Insurance Fund and continuously appropriates moneys in fund to Department of Consumer and Business Services for purposes of Act. Protects eligible employee's position of employment with employer while employee is on leave if employee has been employed with employer for minimum of 90 days before commencing leave. Prohibits employer from retaliating against employee who invokes program and from interfering with employee rights under program. Establishes right of employee for civil action for certain employer violations. Amends Oregon family leave law to allow for leave after employee has been employed for 90 days with employer and to extend length of leave taken for bereavement. Directs department to administer collection of, and reporting requirements for, payroll contributions. Requires director to work with other agencies and promulgate rules for administration of program. Establishes requirements for director to submit initial report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2021. Beginning September 15, 2022, requires director to report to committees on September 15 of every even-numbered year thereafter. Requires department to conduct study regarding implementation of program with regard to self-employed individuals and tribal governments opting into program. Becomes operative on January 1, 2021. Provides that eligibility provisions and provisions related to elective coverage for self-employed individuals and tribal governments become operative on January 1, 2023. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to design and, with federal approval, implement ] program to import wholesale prescription drugs from Canada. Specifies conditions and requirements. If authority estimates program to produce 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. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Directs Department of Human Services to provide reimbursements for transportation expenses incurred on behalf of foster child if expenses are related to child's continuing participation in extracurricular activities child engaged in prior to child's placement in foster home or child-caring agency.
Designates April of each year as Arab-American Heritage Month.
Disallows, for purposes of personal income taxation, mortgage interest deduction for residence other than taxpayer's principal residence , unless taxpayer sells residence or actively markets residence for sale . Phases out allowable deduction for interest for principal residence based upon income. Disallows deduction for principal residence above threshold amount. Establishes Oregon Housing Opportunity Account. Transfers amount equal to estimated increase in revenue attributable to restrictions on deduction of mortgage interest to accounts in Oregon Housing Fund ] account . Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2019. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Requires certain medical and residential facilities ] hospitals and long term care facilities to make available to patients and residents plant-based meals when necessary to accommodate medical, religious, cultural or ethnic needs, preferences or requests . Requires Department of Corrections to make available to inmates plant-based meals any time meal is served .
Requires one member of State Board of Education to be engaged in teaching as licensed teacher. Declares emergency, effective on passage. ].
Prohibits long term care facilities, residential facilities, adult foster homes, child care facilities, child-caring agencies, foster homes, youth care centers, youth offender foster homes or other entities that are licensed, certified or registered to provide care to children, youth, individuals with disabilities or older adults from interfering with good faith disclosure of information by employees or volunteers about abuse or mistreatment of individuals cared for by entity, violations of state or federal laws or other practice that threatens health and safety of individuals cared for by entity, to regulatory agencies, law enforcement authorities, persons acting on behalf of individual and other specified individuals. Makes interfering with disclosure of information specified in Act unlawful employment practice.
Prohibits use of hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas exploration and production. Sunsets January 2, 2030 ] 2025 . Declares emergency, effective on passage.
