Extends look-back period used to determine Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund solvency level from 10 years to 20 years. Provides that calendar years 2020 and 2021 may not be considered high benefit cost period for purposes of making determinations of solvency level of fund. Provides that employers' experience ratings used to determine 2020 unemployment insurance tax rates shall be used to determine rates for 2022, 2023 and 2024. Provides deferral of up to one-third of 2021 unemployment insurance taxes for employers whose tax rates increased by 0.5 percentage points or more from 2020 to 2021. Authorizes forgiveness of percentage of deferrable taxes according to tax rate increase brackets. Reduces fund adequacy percentages used to determine employer tax rate schedules. Broadens kinds of property that may be received for Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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Allows pharmacist to prescribe, dispense and administer preexposure prophylactic antiretroviral therapies and post-exposure prophylactic antiretroviral therapies. Directs State Board of Pharmacy to adopt rules. Requires health insurers to cover cost of drugs and therapies prescribed, dispensed and administered by pharmacists within their scope of practice and cover costs of services provided by pharmacist. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Establishes program to make forgivable loans to reimburse private owner or operator of brownfield for eligible costs incurred in completion of removal or remedial action at brownfield. Requires Oregon Business Development Department to consider means to encourage participation in reimbursable removal and remedial actions by minority-owned and woman-owned businesses and emerging small businesses. Requires department to submit report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to economic development setting forth recipients of forgivable loans and third parties with which recipients contracted to complete removal and remedial actions with respect to which forgivable loans were made. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Allows expanded practice dental hygienist to perform interim therapeutic restoration. Requires agreement between dentist and expanded practice dental hygienist to include expanded practice dental hygienist's scope of practice regarding interim therapeutic restorations. Defines "interim therapeutic restoration." Directs Oregon Board of Dentistry to adopt rules to establish educational and instructional requirements for interim therapeutic restoration and to approve applications from education providers for training courses that meet requirements. Requires certain expanded practice dental hygienists to complete approved training course. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to seek federal approval of amendment to state Medicaid demonstration project to permit coordinated care organizations to use portion of global budgets to improve health equity, improve overall health of community or enhance payments to providers who advance health equity or provide services improving overall health of community and to allow such expenditures to be counted as medical expenses for purposes of required medical loss ratio ] in coordinated care organization's base medical budget and in calculation of global budget and flexible spending for given year . Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Requires each county clerk to file annual report with Secretary of State identifying each voter who clerk moved to inactive status during previous calendar year and specifying reason for moving voter to inactive status. ] Prohibits moving voter to inactive status due to voter not voting or updating voter registration for any period of time. Reactivates any voter whose registration is currently inactive due to voter not voting or updating voter registration. Requires county clerk, if voter moved to inactive status due to name change or signature on return identification envelope not matching signature in voter registration record, to mail voter notification of reason for inactive status and information on how voter can reactivate voter registration between 60 and 70 days before date of both next ] each primary election and next ] general election. Requires county clerk to mail all currently inactive voters for whom county clerk has valid address voter notification of inactive status between 60 and 70 days before date of both 2022 primary election and 2022 general election. ] Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Requires homeowners associations and condominium associations to review governing documents and remove discriminatory language or certify the nonexistence of such language on or before December 31, 2023 ] 2022 . Provides a cause of action for enforcement. Sunsets January 2, 2026. ] Makes certain discriminatory language in governing documents void and unenforceable. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Authorizes Department of Human Services to award two-year grants to organizations that provide services to unaccompanied homeless youth and to organizations that operate host home projects for unaccompanied homeless youth. Sunsets grant programs on July 1, 2023. Requires department to submit reports on host home project grant program to interim committees of Legislative Assembly relating to housing, homeless youth services and high school education. Appropriates moneys to department for statewide assessment and grants. ] Increases certain General Fund appropriations to Department of Human Services for purposes of carrying out Act. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Allows Department of Consumer and Business Services to require implicit bias training for mortgage loan originators. Establishes Joint Task Force on Addressing Racial Disparities in Home Ownership. Requires task force to report to interim committee of Legislative Assembly on or before September 15, 2022. Sunsets task force on December 31, 2022. Appropriates moneys to Legislative Policy and Research Committee to compensate task force. ] Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Allows pharmacist or pharmacy technician to transfer drug containing pseudoephedrine without prescription to person who is at least 18 years of age and presents person's valid government-issued photo identification. Requires pharmacist or pharmacy technician, prior to transfer, to submit specified information into electronic system designed to prevent illegal transfer of drugs containing pseudoephedrine. Requires pharmacist or pharmacy technician to record specified information about transfer of drug containing pseudoephedrine. Specifies maximum amount of pseudoephedrine that person may receive without prescription. Establishes storage requirements for drug containing pseudoephedrine. Clarifies that measure does not apply to drugs transferred pursuant to prescription. Punishes violation by 364 days' imprisonment, $6,250 fine, or both. Becomes operative January 1, 2022. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.