Rep. Maxine Dexter

Prohibits termination of commercial tenancy for nonpayment if outstanding rent balance does not exceed rent deposit. ] Sunsets January 2, 2023. ] Extends grace period for repayment of nonresidential rent between April 1, 2020, and September 30, 2020, until September 30, 2021, for certain tenants. Declares emergency, effective on passage ] March 31, 2021 .

Renames Office of Emergency Management as Oregon Department of Emergency Management. Establishes department as independent state agency. Directs department to carry out certain functions related to regional and statewide emergency response and preparedness. Transfers Oregon Emergency Response System from Department of State Police to Oregon Department of Emergency Management, operative July 1, 2025. Renames office of State Fire Marshal as Department of the State Fire Marshal and establishes department as independent state agency, operative July 1, 2023. Transfers Oregon Homeland Security Council to Office of Governor. Adds members to and modifies duties of commission. Establishes Emergency Preparedness Advisory Council to facilitate policy recommendations related to catastrophic disaster. Sunsets council on January 2, 2030. Establishes Local Government Emergency Management Advisory Council to provide advice and recommendations to Oregon Department of Emergency Management regarding department's emergency preparedness and response functions. Sunsets council on January 2, 2030. Establishes task force to make recommendations as to whether State Fire Marshal should be made independent state agency or housed within existing state agency, operative immediately. Directs task force to report recommendations by February 1, 2022. Becomes operative on July 1, 2022, except as specified. Appropriates moneys from General Fund and increases certain expenditure limitations for various state agencies to carry out provisions of Act. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Directs school districts to provide age-appropriate instruction in oral health as part of health education curriculum. Requires Oregon Health Authority to accept claims for reimbursement of costs related to care coordination surrounding school-based oral health services. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Temporarily removes condition for being deemed "unemployed" that individual's weekly remuneration for part-time work must be less than individual's weekly unemployment insurance benefit amount. Restores condition for weeks beginning on or after January 2, 2022. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Prohibits remote sales of inhalant delivery systems. Defines "inhalant delivery system." Substitutes "21 years of age" for "the legal minimum purchase age." Requires tobacco retailer to obtain local license if operating in jurisdiction with local license requirement.

Establishes civil cause of action for improper disclosure of personal information. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Requires each public university and community college to prominently display total ] , or establish link to website that displays, estimated costs of all required course materials and directly related course fees for no less than 75 percent of total for-credit courses offered by public university or community college. Establishes how cost information must be displayed, secured and aggregated. Requires each public university and community college to provide annual report to ] , by December 31, 2023, Higher Education Coordinating Commission to submit report to Legislative Assembly detailing how each public university and community college is ensuring detailing ] compliance with requirement.

Requires approval from Department of Consumer and Business Services or Oregon Health Authority before any mergers, acquisitions, contracts or affiliations of health care entities and other entities if entities had $25 million or more ] meet or exceed specified thresholds in average net patient revenue or in gross amount of premiums in preceding three fiscal years or net patient revenue of $10 million or more ]. Specifies exceptions and procedures. Requires Oregon Health Policy Board to establish criteria for approval by authority of mergers, acquisitions and affiliations based on specified factors. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die. ].

Modifies CASA Volunteer Programs to direct Oregon Department of Administrative Services to contract with nongovernmental entity to serve as statewide coordinating entity for provision of court appointed special advocate services. Appropriates moneys to Court Appointed Special Advocate Fund for CASA Volunteer Program and for distribution to Oregon CASA Network for court appointed special advocate training programs. ] Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Requires agency to appoint advisory committee to represent interests of persons likely to be affected by proposed rule. ] Provides that advisory committees appointed by agency as part of rulemaking must represent interests of persons and communities likely to be affected by rule. Requires agency to include in notice of rulemaking statement identifying how adoption of rule will affect racial equity.