Rep. Tawna Sanchez

Directs Department of Education to develop and implement statewide education plan for students who are Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander. Requires all statewide education plans to include strategies that provide for alignment with other statewide education plans. Directs Department of Education to evaluate and revise processes for collection of racial and ethnic data for purpose of developing and implementing statewide education plans. Declares emergency, effective March 9, 2022.

Establishes timeline for restrictions on sales of petroleum diesel for use in motor vehicles. Establishes timeline for restrictions on purchase of petroleum diesel for use in motor vehicles by public bodies. ] Directs State Department of Agriculture to suspend enforcement of restrictions if supply of renewable diesel is determined to be insufficient to meet anticipated demand. ] Directs State Forestry Department to study feasibility of converting lignocellulosic biomass derived from invasive tree species into renewable diesel feedstocks. ] Establishes Task Force on Renewable Diesel. Directs task force to study availability of renewable diesel, estimate current and future demand for diesel fuels, study incentives for increasing availability of renewable diesel and study implications of removing petroleum diesel from state marketplace. Sunsets January 2, 2023. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Directs Governor to designate corrections gender-responsive coordinator. Specifies qualifications and duties of coordinator. Directs Department of Corrections to provide coordinator with access to Coffee Creek Correctional Facility to carry out duties. Directs Oregon Department of Administrative Services to contract with organization to conduct assessment of facility in coordination with coordinator. Directs coordinator to create Gender-Responsive Advisory Council. Directs coordinator and council to conduct listening sessions concerning experiences of women and families in criminal justice system. Directs coordinator to provide report to Legislative Assembly during 2025 regular session ] no later than September 1, 2024, that includes summary of assessment, information from listening sessions and policy recommendations. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Amends requirements for residential landlords accepting applicant screening charge.

Increases distance from certain parts of public places and places of employment within which person may not smoke, aerosolize or vaporize inhalant from 10 feet to 25 feet. Creates exception for public places and places of employment that hold specified licenses issued by Oregon Liquor and Cannabis Commission.

Adds to cancers covered by rebuttable presumption of occupational disease for eligible nonvolunteer firefighters. Requires Workers' Compensation Management-Labor Advisory Committee to review material published by National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health related to cancers associated with nonvolunteer firefighters.

Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to convene advisory council to assist with recommendations related to health care standards in local correctional facilities. Requires commission to submit report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to judiciary on or before September 15, 2022. Sunsets January 2, 2023. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Directs Oregon Board of Dentistry to issue dental therapist license to qualified applicant. Prohibits unlicensed use of title "dental therapist" and practice of dental therapy. Provides exceptions to prohibition. Requires dental therapist to purchase and maintain liability insurance. Requires dental therapist to dedicate majority of practice to specified patient populations. Directs board to consult with dental therapists and dental therapist organizations in rulemaking. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Establishes program to make forgivable loans to reimburse private owner or operator of brownfield for eligible costs incurred in completion of removal or remedial action at brownfield. Requires Oregon Business Development Department to consider means to encourage participation in reimbursable removal and remedial actions by minority-owned and woman-owned businesses and emerging small businesses. Requires department to submit report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to economic development setting forth recipients of forgivable loans and third parties with which recipients contracted to complete removal and remedial actions with respect to which forgivable loans were made. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Requires Oregon Health Authority to seek federal approval of amendment to state Medicaid demonstration project to permit coordinated care organizations to use portion of global budgets to improve health equity, improve overall health of community or enhance payments to providers who advance health equity or provide services improving overall health of community and to allow such expenditures to be counted as medical expenses for purposes of required medical loss ratio ] in coordinated care organization's base medical budget and in calculation of global budget and flexible spending for given year . Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.