Rep. Maxine Dexter

Directs Department of Transportation to create emergency contact information form and make form available for individuals to voluntarily provide emergency contact information for inclusion in individual's motor vehicle record for police officers to use, during or after emergency situations, to contact those listed. Directs department to conduct outreach program to educate applicants and general public about opportunity to include emergency contact information in motor vehicle record. Sunsets outreach program January 2, 2025.

Directs law enforcement unit to participate in National Use-of-Force Data Collection operated by Federal Bureau of Investigation. Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to analyze data from National Use-of-Force Data Collection and report annually to appropriate committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly on analysis. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Oregon Criminal Justice Commission and Department of Corrections for purposes of implementing provisions of Act.

Requires Secretary of State to conduct study and analyze best practices for financing electoral campaigns. Requires secretary to develop recommendations regarding most effective method for financing electoral campaigns in Oregon. ] Requires secretary to submit report to interim legislative committees detailing recommendations by September 15, 2022. ] Sunsets January 2, 2023. ] Requires ballots returned by mail to have postal indicator showing ballot was mailed not later than date of election and be received by county clerk not later than seven days after date of election. Moves quarterly election date from third Tuesday in September to fourth Tuesday in August. Allows county clerks to open and begin counting ballot upon receipt. Applies to elections held on or after January 1, 2022.

Requires Oregon Health Authority to establish and administer program to provide , through coordinated care organizations, palliative care services , and support provision of home- and community-based end of life care. Specifies eligibility, services and provider qualifications ] as determined by interdisciplinary team, to patients in their choice of residences .

Establishes Senior Emergency Medical Services Innovation Program in Department of Human Services to fund and monitor certain local public sector pilot projects related to emergency medical services for seniors. Sunsets January 2, 2027.

Requires Oregon Health Authority, upon receipt of federal approval, to assess fee on emergency medical services providers and use fee , interest, penalties assessed on providers and associated federal financial participation less any costs incurred by authority to administer program to reimburse emergency medical services providers for costs of emergency medical services transports. Authorizes Medicaid supplemental reimbursements to be paid in addition to reimbursements paid by coordinated care organizations for emergency medical services transports. Increases fees for licenses for ambulance services and ambulances. Becomes operative January 1, 2022. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Designates second Monday of October of each year as Indigenous Peoples' Day. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Directs Department of Transportation to waive fee for issuing, renewing or replacing identification card if person who is issued card is experiencing homelessness. Becomes operative January 1, 2022. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Regulates use of chemical incapacitants, kinetic impact projectiles , sound devices and strobe lights ] and sound devices by law enforcement agencies. Prohibits law enforcement agency from using proxy law enforcement agency to enact measures that court or statute has barred law enforcement agency from using. Prohibits law enforcement agency from acting in concert with another law enforcement agency to engage in misconduct barred by statute or court order. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Provides that local law regulating sitting, lying, sleeping or keeping warm and dry outdoors on public property that is open to public must be objectively reasonable as to time, place and manner with regards to persons experiencing homelessness. Creates affirmative defense to charge of violating such local law that law is not objectively reasonable. Creates cause of action for person experiencing homelessness to challenge objective reasonableness of such local law. Authorizes court to award attorney fees to prevailing plaintiff in such suit in certain circumstances. Declares emergency, effective on passage.