Prohibits employers from permitting , or ] requiring or suffering agricultural workers to work in excess of 40 ] certain maximum hours in one workweek unless workers are compensated for overtime hours worked. Phases in requirement over three calendar years. Authorizes Commissioner of Bureau of Labor and Industries to enforce wage claim regarding overtime pay for agricultural workers. Authorizes commissioner to assess civil penalty for willful violations of overtime pay requirements. Requires Oregon Business Development Department to develop and implement overtime compensation payment program to assist employers of agricultural workers in paying required overtime to workers. Establishes Agricultural Worker Overtime Account. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to department for deposit into account to carry out purposes of program. Sunsets program on January 2, 2026.
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Requires Land Conservation and Development Commission to make changes to statewide land use planning goals by December 31, 2026, to address climate justice by addressing climate change adaptation and mitigation and environmental justice for disadvantaged communities. ] Requires Department of Land Conservation and Development to establish environmental justice advisory committee. ] Requires commission to adopt interim climate justice standards for local government's use until meeting compliance with goal changes. Establishes deadlines for compliance with interim standards and changed goals. ] Establishes Climate Justice Planning Goals Fund. Appropriates moneys to fund. Continuously appropriates moneys in fund to commission for specified purposes. ] Sunsets interim standards on January 2, 2030. Sunsets goal amendment process after commission certifies adoption of goal. ] Requires that statewide land use planning goal relating to citizen involvement address participation and engagement for disadvantaged groups. Requires Land Conservation and Development Commission to amend goal by June 30, 2023, consistent with requirement. Establishes timelines for local governments to implement amended goal. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to commission for goal amendment and implementation. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Establishes BIPOC health care provider loan forgiveness program within Oregon Health Authority to provide loan repayment subsidies to BIPOC health care providers. Defines "BIPOC." Establishes BIPOC Health Care Provider Fund to carry out provisions of program. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Requires hospitals and long term care facilities to make available to patients, residents, staff and visitors plant-based meals and beverages. Prohibits hospitals from offering processed meats. Requires Department of Corrections to make available to adults in custody plant-based meals any time meals are served.
Expands eligibility for certain child care subsidy programs. Transfers rulemaking authority for programs from Department of Human Services to Early Learning Council. Directs council to adopt rules to implement changes to programs. Provides that when federal funds are involved, federal child subsidy program requirements control.
Requires Public Employees' Benefit Board and Oregon Educators Benefit Board to offer at least one integrated health benefit plan meeting specified requirements in 2023. Requires all health benefit plans offered by boards to be integrated plans meeting specified requirements beginning in 2026. Prohibits boards from imposing caps on reimbursement paid to providers in integrated health benefit plans. Expands membership of metrics and scoring subcommittee to include two representatives of public employees.
Modifies membership of State Marine Board. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Prohibits Department of Environmental Quality and State Department of Agriculture from issuing or renewing license or permit to allow construction or operation of new industrial dairy, addition to or expansion of existing industrial dairy or addition to or expansion of dairy that would cause dairy to become industrial dairy.
Requires 100 percent of electricity sold in 2035 and each subsequent calendar year to retail electricity consumers to be clean electricity. Accelerates deadline, to 2025, for electric companies to eliminate coal from electricity supply. Extends, to 2035, ad valorem property tax exemption for alternative energy systems. Requires systems constructed on or after January 1, 2022, to be constructed pursuant to project labor agreement to qualify for exemption. Removes electricity generated from direct combustion of municipal solid waste from qualifying electricity for purposes of renewable portfolio standards. Modifies requirements for community-based renewable energy projects.
Directs Department of Human Services to study and make recommendations on provisions of state law relating to adoption of Indian children. Requires department to submit report on findings to interim committee of Legislative Assembly by January 1, 2023. ] Incorporates certain provisions of federal Indian Child Welfare Act into Oregon laws relating to youth offenders adjudicated for status offenses and to voluntary adoptions. Enhances state protections for Indian children in certain situations. Authorizes juvenile court to approve tribal customary adoption as permanency option for wards who are Indian children. Modifies court process to determine whether there is reason to know child is Indian child. Makes technical corrections to child welfare laws involving Indian children. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.