Requires health care providers to work with health care interpreters from health care interpreter registry operated by Oregon Health Authority to provide interpretation services. Requires health professional regulatory boards, Department of Human Services and authority to adopt rules to enforce requirement. Provides exceptions. Requires interpretation service companies to only employ or contract with health care interpreters listed on health care registry, subject to exceptions. Requires Oregon Council on Health Care Interpreters to develop and approve standards for testing, qualification and certification of certain health care interpreters. Requires authority to train and certify or qualify health care interpreters and maintain central registry of certified or qualified health care interpreters. Requires coordinated care organizations to work with health care interpreters listed on health care interpreter registry. Makes certain health care interpreters subject workers for purposes of workers' compensation benefits. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
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Declares venue of juvenile proceeding subject to waiver hearing to be county where alleged act was committed. Prohibits venue transfer unless court determines case may not be waived or state stipulates it will not request waiver. Authorizes certain youth offenders who are less than 20 years of age to be admitted to youth correction facility. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Directs Teacher Standards and Practices Commission to adopt standards for educator preparation programs relating to evaluations of teacher candidates.
Requires Board on Public Safety Standards and Training to ensure that police officers and certified reserve officers are trained to investigate, identify and report crimes motivated by prejudice based on perceived gender of victim.
Requires school or school district to offer lunches and breakfasts at no charge to student if school or school district meets requirements of special provisions of federal meal program or if student is from household with income that does not exceed 300 percent of federal poverty guidelines. Clarifies reimbursement rate to schools and school districts that offer breakfast or lunch at no charge to student. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2021.
Requires third-party food platform to enter into agreement with food place before arranging delivery of orders from food place or listing food place on application or website. ] Provides that third-party food platform may not take and arrange for delivery of order from food place without written consent of food place.
Authorizes electric utility ] cooperative to use or allow for use of electric easement in provision of broadband services , subject to certain conditions and exceptions . Provides process for property owner to bring action for damages if use in provision of broadband services results in expanded use of easement.
Directs Department of Corrections and Oregon Health Authority to establish healthcare navigator pilot program within Coffee Creek Correctional Facility. Directs department, in consultation with authority, to develop health assessment for persons entering facility. Establishes standards for provision of health care to persons in custody. Requires that person in custody be offered copy of medical records upon release. ] Establishes healthcare navigator positions for employment within Coffee Creek Correctional Facility. Specifies duties of healthcare navigators. Provides that healthcare navigator salaries are paid by Oregon Health Authority. Appropriates moneys to authority to fund positions. ] Establishes Task Force on Corrections Medical Care. Directs task force to conduct review of Department of Corrections medical care grievance process, medical care standards of care and adoption of electronic health records system. Directs task force to submit report and recommendation for prioritized list of medical care to Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2022. Directs Department of Corrections to regularly report to Legislative Assembly concerning health data ] medical care and health outcomes of persons in custody and results of survey of pilot program participants ]. Sunsets program ] task force and reporting requirement on June 30, 2023. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2021.
Requires Oregon Health Authority to provide funding to peer-run organizations in Portland metropolitan area, southern Oregon region , Oregon coast and eastern and central Oregon region to operate peer respite centers to provide peer respite services to individuals with mental illness or trauma response symptoms who experience acute distress, anxiety or emotional pain that may lead to need for higher level of care. Provides that at least one peer respite center receiving funding must participate in pilot project designed specifically to provide culturally responsive services to historically underrepresented communities. Requires Oregon Health Authority to adopt criteria for peer respite centers that receive funding and to monitor compliance. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Repeals ] Modifies statute authorizing law enforcement officers to command dispersal of unlawful assemblies and arrest participants who do not disperse. Removes requirement to go among persons unlawfully assembled and arrest persons. Authorizes arrest for unlawful activity constituting offense.