Rep. Pam Marsh

Limits authority of school district to become member of voluntary organization that administers interscholastic activities unless organization implements policy that prohibits discrimination based on race, color or national origin ] equity focused policies that meet certain requirements . Clarifies meaning of race to include natural hair, hair texture, hair type and protective hairstyles for purposes of prohibited discrimination under antidiscrimination statutes. Clarifies that valid dress code or policy may not have disproportionate adverse impact on members of protected class to extent that is greater than impact on persons generally.

Requires Oregon Health Authority to provide grants to cities or funding to county community mental health programs to operate mobile crisis intervention teams and provide other behavioral health supports. ] Directs authority to convene work group to study and evaluate methods for continuing to fund mobile crisis intervention teams and other behavioral health supports. ] Expands crisis stabilization services, including crisis stabilization centers meeting criteria adopted by Oregon Health Authority by rule, short-term respite facilities, peer respite centers, behavioral health urgent care walk-in centers and crisis hotline center. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to authority to provide funding to county community mental health programs to establish and maintain mobile crisis intervention teams. Requires authority, no later than January 1, 2022, to report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to mental or behavioral health, recommendations on policies and legislative changes, if any, needed to implement National Suicide Hotline Designation Act of 2020 and establish statewide coordinated crisis services system. Specifies information that must be included in report. Limits liability of 9-8-8 coordinated crisis services system to conduct that is willful or wanton. Prohibits blocking delivery or forwarding to public safety answering point of 9-8-8 coordinated crisis services system information. Makes number identifications and subscriber information received by 9-8-8 coordinated crisis services system confidential and not subject to public disclosure unless specified criteria are met. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2021.

Renames Office of Emergency Management as Oregon Department of Emergency Management. Establishes department as independent state agency. Directs department to carry out certain functions related to regional and statewide emergency response and preparedness. Transfers Oregon Emergency Response System from Department of State Police to Oregon Department of Emergency Management, operative July 1, 2025. Renames office of State Fire Marshal as Department of the State Fire Marshal and establishes department as independent state agency, operative July 1, 2023. Transfers Oregon Homeland Security Council to Office of Governor. Adds members to and modifies duties of commission. Establishes Emergency Preparedness Advisory Council to facilitate policy recommendations related to catastrophic disaster. Sunsets council on January 2, 2030. Establishes Local Government Emergency Management Advisory Council to provide advice and recommendations to Oregon Department of Emergency Management regarding department's emergency preparedness and response functions. Sunsets council on January 2, 2030. Establishes task force to make recommendations as to whether State Fire Marshal should be made independent state agency or housed within existing state agency, operative immediately. Directs task force to report recommendations by February 1, 2022. Becomes operative on July 1, 2022, except as specified. Appropriates moneys from General Fund and increases certain expenditure limitations for various state agencies to carry out provisions of Act. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Designates May 22 of each year as Crater Lake National Park Day. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Prohibits remote sales of inhalant delivery systems. Defines "inhalant delivery system." Substitutes "21 years of age" for "the legal minimum purchase age." Requires tobacco retailer to obtain local license if operating in jurisdiction with local license requirement.

Provides that, if Water Resources Commission or Water Resources Department denies stay of final order under certain circumstances and petitioner requests hearing on denial, court must hold hearing not more than 21 days after request is made and denial shall remain in effect until hearing has been held and court has issued decision concerning denial. Provides that enforcement of final order that regulated off use of water in favor of determined claim, in-stream water right held by state agency or water right held by, or held in trust for, federally recognized Indian tribe ] senior existing water right of record or senior determined claim may only be stayed on appeal if petition for review is served on commission or department and proof of service is filed with court. Provides that, if commission or department receives service of petition that relates to water right or determined claim held by, or held in trust for, federally recognized Indian tribe ], not more than five business days after receiving service, commission or department must send petition to person or federally recognized Indian tribe that made call for water not more than five business days after receiving service ].

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.

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

Removes option to elect, for uninsured motorist coverage, coverage limits that fall below coverage limits applicable to personal injury protection benefits. ] Specifies order in which coverage under motor vehicle insurance policies, other than insured's primary policy, applies to compensate for bodily injury or death of insured. ] Includes motor vehicle used as public or livery conveyance within definition of private passenger motor vehicle for purposes of requiring personal injury protection benefits under motor vehicle liability policy. ] Requires transportation network company and taxi company to provide motor vehicle liability insurance policy with personal injury protection benefits to each driver who operates personal motor vehicle in affiliation with transportation network company or taxi in affiliation with taxi company. Specifies that personal injury protection benefits must, at all times during which driver operates personal motor vehicle in affiliation with transportation network company or taxi in affiliation with taxi company, cover driver of personal motor vehicle or taxi, any passengers that occupy personal motor vehicle or taxi and pedestrians that are struck by personal motor vehicle or taxi. Permits insurer to exclude from motor vehicle liability insurance policy for private passenger motor vehicle any coverage, including personal injury protection benefits, for loss or injury that occurs while driver is operating private passenger motor vehicle to provide transportation services for compensation in affiliation with transportation network company. Specifies exclusions for personal injury protection benefit coverage.

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.