Rep. Carla Piluso

Requires law enforcement officers to meet with mental health professional.

Proposes amendment to Oregon Constitution establishing obligation of state to ensure every resident of state access to effective ] cost-effective , medically appropriate and affordable health care. Refers proposed amendment to people for their approval or rejection at next regular general election.

Establishes Veterans' Services Fund. Provides that fund is administered by Oregon Department of Administrative Services. Provides that 1.5 percent of net proceeds from Oregon State Lottery is deposited in fund. Continuously appropriates moneys in fund to provide services for benefit of veterans. Establishes Veterans' Department of Veterans' Affairs Dedicated Lottery Fund. Continuously appropriates moneys in fund to Department of Veterans' Affairs to provide services for benefit of veterans. Establishes Veterans' Housing and Community Services Department Dedicated Lottery Fund. Continuously appropriates moneys in fund to Housing and Community Services Department to provide services for benefit of veterans. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2017.

Authorizes State of Oregon to receive moneys pursuant to Volkswagen Environmental Mitigation Trust Agreement, deposit agreement moneys in Clean Diesel Engine Fund and use moneys to award grants for reducing emissions from school buses powered by diesel engines. Prohibits Department of Environmental Quality from awarding grants from agreement moneys for any other purpose without prior approval from Legislative Assembly by law. Adds grants and loans for replacements to permissible uses of moneys in Clean Diesel Engine Fund. Makes other modifications to provisions for grants and loans from fund for purpose of reducing emissions from diesel engines. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2017.

Establishes Willamette Falls Locks Commission as advisory body for issues relating to repair, reopening, operation, maintenance and future transfer of ownership of navigational canal and locks. Appropriates funds from General Fund to Higher Education Coordinating Commission for purposes of Act. Sunsets commission, program and account on December 31, 2023. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Requires school district board and public charter school governing body to adopt and implement policy that requires volunteers to undergo background check if district or school allows volunteers to have direct, unsupervised contact with school children. Allows governing body of private school to adopt and implement policy that requires volunteers to undergo background check if school allows volunteers to have direct, unsupervised contact with school children. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Modifies eligibility for Family Sentencing Alternative Pilot Program. Authorizes court to consider program eligibility as mitigating factor justifying downward departure probation sentence. Increases maximum period of short-term transitional leave for certain Department of Corrections inmates. Reduces, for crimes of theft in the first degree and identity theft, presumptive sentences and eliminates mandatory sentences when defendant has prior property crime convictions. Increases number of prior property crime convictions required for presumptive sentence for theft in the first degree and identity theft to apply. Authorizes supervisory authority to require person convicted of certain property crimes and sentenced to probation to receive high level of supervision. Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to establish program to award supplemental grant funds for county downward departure prison diversion programs. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to commission for deposit in Justice Reinvestment Account to fund supplemental grants. Appropriates moneys to Department of Justice for services for victims of domestic and sexual violence. Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to monitor downward departure prison diversion programs receiving supplemental grant funds and to study impact of Act on prison population, recidivism rates and public safety. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Requires health benefit plan coverage of specified health care services, drugs, devices, products and procedures related to reproductive health. Allows exemption for plans sold to religious employers. Requires Oregon Health Authority to implement program to reimburse costs of services, drugs, devices, products and procedures related to reproductive health provided to individuals who can become pregnant and who would be eligible for medical assistance if not for certain federal requirements. Prohibits discrimination in provision of health care coverage. Prohibits interference by public body in consenting individual's choice to terminate pregnancy. Prohibits public body's interference with health care provider terminating or assisting in termination of pregnancy of health care provider's patient, if health care provider is acting within scope of provider's license. Requires authority, in consultation with Department of Consumer and Business Services, to design program to provide statewide access to abortion coverage for Oregon residents enrolled in health benefit plans that do not cover abortion. Requires authority, in consultation with department, to implement program, to extent authorized by state law, if funding is available. Requires authority to report to Speaker of House of Representatives, President of Senate and interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to health on actions taken and recommendations for legislative changes to fully implement program. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Prohibits public body from disclosing specified information concerning person unless required by state or federal law. Prohibits public body from inquiring concerning person's citizenship or immigration status except as required by state or federal law or when determining benefit eligibility. Authorizes public body to decline to disclose information concerning person's citizenship or immigration status except as required by state or federal law or in certain other circumstances. Directs Attorney General to publish model policies for public bodies intended to limit, in manner consistent with state and federal law, immigration enforcement in public facilities. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Creates position of Veteran Volunteer Coordinator in Department of Veterans' Affairs and specifies responsibilities. Requires report to Legislative Assembly on or before September 15, 2020. Limits biennial expenditures from certain lottery moneys received by department for purpose of implementing and administering position. Declares emergency, effective on passage.