Rep. Rachel Prusak

Requires coordinated care organization, health care provider or health insurer to collect from patient, client or member data on race, ethnicity, preferred spoken and written languages, disability status, sexual orientation and gender identity. Establishes civil penalty for violation. Requires Oregon Health Authority to establish data system for receipt and storage of specified data. Requires authority to report every two years, beginning on June 1, 2022, on collection of data to appropriate interim committees of Legislative Assembly. Directs authority to administer grant program to provide funding to support safe data collection by specified organizations. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Renames Health Care for All Oregon Children program as Cover All People program and expands eligibility to adults who would qualify for Medicaid-funded state medical assistance program but for their immigration status. Allows Oregon Health Authority to restrict eligibility to specific categories or groups of individuals to stay within legislative appropriation for this biennium. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Authorizes tax collector in county covered by state of emergency declared by Governor due to fire or act of God, or authority of Governor under Emergency Conflagration Act, who knows or has reason to believe property has been destroyed or damaged by fire or act of God to prorate taxes imposed on property. Combines provisions for proration of taxes for property destroyed and property damaged by fire or act of God. Provides new computation for proration of taxes for property other than specially assessed property. Applies to property tax years beginning on or after July 1, 2020. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Directs medical examiner or medical-legal death investigator to report suspected suicides involving ] deaths of decedents 24 years of age or younger to local mental health authority if district medical examiner, assistant district medical examiner, pathologist or designee of district medical examiner reasonably believes manner of death was suicide . Directs Oregon Health Authority to develop statewide suicide post-intervention protocol. Authorizes cross-reporting between local mental health authorities. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Permits Office of Emergency Management to enter into agreement with nonprofit organization representing sheriffs under which organization is authorized to administer program to produce and sell outdoor recreation search and rescue cards. Establishes requirements for agreement. Provides that organization may use revenues from program only to reimburse administrative costs and expenses, to reimburse county sheriffs' offices for certain costs relating to search and rescue and to issue grants for search and rescue purposes. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

States legislative findings about racism and public safety. Requires Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to create uniform background checklist and standardized personal history questionnaire for use by law enforcement units in hiring public safety officers. Provides that law enforcement unit may not be required to use checklist and questionnaire for purposes of hiring corrections officers until July 1, 2023. Directs law enforcement units to adopt policies that set standards for speech and expression by police officers and reserve officers. Requires employers to provide employment information to law enforcement units for purpose of hiring public safety officers. Exempts law enforcement units from prohibition on employer access to personal social media accounts.

Requires each public university and community college to prominently display mandatory fees charged. Requires each public university and community college to provide annual report to Higher Education Coordinating Commission detailing compliance with requirement.

Clarifies permissibility of disposition of human bodies by alternative authorized processes including alkaline hydrolysis and natural organic reduction. Clarifies authority of State Mortuary and Cemetery Board to license and regulate alternative disposition facilities. Defines "alternative disposition facility." Extends immunity from liability for reducing remains pursuant to written agreement to alternative disposition facilities. Extends requirement for further instructions as to final disposition of cremated remains to remains reduced by alternative disposition facilities. Extends exemption from execution, appropriation for public purpose and taxation to lands held for purposes of alternative disposition facility. Extends privilege by nonprofit corporations organized for cemetery or crematory purposes to nonprofit corporations with reduction purposes. Permits nonprofit corporations with reduction purposes to provide moneys to irreducible fund with interest and income devoted exclusively to preservation and improvement of grounds, buildings and property. Extends ability of nonprofit corporations organized for cemetery or crematory purposes to sell land unsuitable for corporation's purpose to nonprofit corporations with reduction purposes. Extends interment and cremation recordkeeping requirements to reduction. Extends type of funeral expenses recoverable as victim compensation for compensable crimes to expenses related to reduction. Extends incorporated city's right to acquire, own, maintain and operate cemeteries and crematoria to acquiring, owning, maintaining and operating other authorized facilities for disposition of human remains. Becomes operative July 1, 2022.

Requires media production companies seeking reimbursement under Oregon Production Investment Fund programs to perform certain actions related to diversity, equity and inclusion with respect to production for which reimbursement is sought.

Requires Oregon Business Development Department to distribute moneys in Oregon Rural Capacity Fund to Oregon's Economic Development Districts for purpose of assisting rural jurisdictions to apply for and administer grants and other forms of funding available from any source. Requires rural jurisdictions to use funding solely to attain staffing and capacity necessary for workforce, infrastructure, economic and community development. Directs department to develop policy for assistance program and determine amount of moneys for distribution to districts. Requires districts to file quarterly reports with department about assistance given to rural jurisdictions. Requires department to submit annual reports about assistance program to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to economic development. Establishes Oregon Rural Capacity Fund and continuously appropriates net moneys in fund to department for distribution to districts. Appropriates moneys to department for purposes related to operation of program for assistance to rural jurisdictions. Declares emergency, effective on passage.