Requires long term care facilities, conversion facilities and residential care facilities providing care to six or more residents to adopt specified protocols and procedures regarding preventing and reporting disease outbreaks. Requires facilities to have designated individual with specialized training to be responsible for carrying out infection prevention and control protocols. Requires Department of Human Services, in coordination with Oregon Health Authority, to communicate regularly with facility administrators regarding best practices and protocols and to notify facilities of elevated risk of disease outbreak in facility's community. Requires administrators and certain employees of facilities and adult foster homes to be trained in preventing and containing disease outbreaks and reporting disease outbreaks. Requires long term care facilities, conversion facilities and residential care facilities providing care to six or more residents to have inspection by department of kitchen and other areas where food is prepared to ensure compliance with health and sanitation laws. Requires Long Term Care Ombudsman to notify licensing agency about any disease outbreak reported to ombudsman by residents or identified by ombudsman and to train designees on how to identify and report disease outbreaks. Applies to licenses issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2021.
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Requires Oregon Health Authority to provide planning grants to 10 school districts or education service districts to evaluate community needs for school-based health services. Requires authority to provide operating funds to at least six school-based health center medical sponsors to open state-certified school-based health centers in grantee school districts or education service districts. Permits authority to provide operating funds to up to four school districts or education service districts to implement five-year pilot projects testing approaches to providing school-based health services as alternatives to school-based health centers. Directs authority to work with federal agency and stakeholders to secure increased federal funding for school-based health centers. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Establishes COFA Dental Program in Oregon Health Authority to provide dental care to low-income citizens of Pacific Islands in Compact of Free Association who reside in Oregon and lack access to affordable dental coverage. Specifies eligibility requirements for program and duties of authority in administering program. ] Appropriates moneys to Department of Consumer and Business Services to contract with vendor to conduct demographic study of dental needs and geographic distribution of COFA citizens in this state and to issue request for information to gauge interest and determine capacity of dental care organizations to provide oral health care to COFA citizens. Requires department to report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to health, no later than April 15, 2020, findings of study and cost of administering program to provide oral health care to COFA citizens residing in this state. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Requires that for person who completes prior educational requirements to participate in Oregon Promise program while confined in correctional facility, six-month period to enroll in courses to participate in program begins after person is first released from correctional facility. Authorizes Higher Education Coordinating Commission to waive requirement that person enrolled in program must enroll in sufficient number of credit hours to be considered at least half-time student, under specified circumstances.
Expands membership of Justice Reinvestment Program Grant Review Committee. Specifies requirements for grant applications. Modifies manner in which grant applications are reviewed and grant funds distributed. Modifies criteria to be taken into account when appointing members of Oregon Criminal Justice Commission. Directs commission to assess extent to which each county is reducing racial and ethnic disparities in correctional population. Directs chairperson of commission to create advisory committee for commission. Directs commission to provide report, with recommendations from advisory committee on how commission can increase equity in allocation of public safety funds, to Governor and to subcommittee of Joint Committee on Ways and Means with authority over commission's budget no later than September 15, 2020. Appropriates moneys to commission for research into increasing equity in allocating Justice Reinvestment Program funds.
Requires Department of Human Services to award grants to refugee resettlement agencies to provide specified services to refugees. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to department to award grants. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2019.
Requires Department of Human Services to administer temporary assistance for needy families program consistent with federal regulations and to provide specified types of assistance. Makes permanent certain provisions governing temporary assistance for needy families program. Authorizes department to provide assistance with tuition and fees associated with enrollment at educational institution for recipient who enrolls in educational institution as allowable work activity. Allows families to receive ] department to provide post-TANF aid to employed families for up to 12 months after losing eligibility for TANF due to employment or increased hours of work. Adjusts punctuation in statute. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Authorizes governing body of county with population of more than 570,000 to set maximum dollar amount of $25,000 or more, or dollar amount adopted by county, for total assessed value of all of taxpayer's manufactured structures taxable as personal property, below which such manufactured structures are not subject to ad valorem property taxation for assessment year. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Transfers from Department of Human Services to Oregon Community Foundation responsibility for administering Fairview housing trust. Transfers unexpended balance of moneys in Community Housing Trust Account to Oregon Community Foundation for purpose of providing housing to individuals with intellectual disabilities or other developmental disabilities or providing financial assistance to housing or care providers that provide community housing to individuals with intellectual disabilities or other developmental disabilities . Requires Oregon Council on Developmental Disabilities to appoint advisory committee to advise and consult with Oregon Community Foundation in making expenditures of moneys transferred to foundation from Community Housing Trust Account. Requires Oregon Community Foundation to annually report to department balance remaining of moneys transferred and uses for expenditures of funds. Requires foundation to repay to department moneys used for unauthorized purpose.
Establishes Oregon Conservation and Recreation Fund. Appropriates fund moneys to State Department of Fish and Wildlife for carrying out activities serving to protect, maintain or enhance fish and wildlife resources in Oregon. Establishes Oregon Conservation and Recreation Advisory Committee to review department policies regarding use of fund moneys and make recommendations regarding use of fund moneys for implementing and administering department activities. Provides for transferring specified amount of moneys ] Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Emergency Board for allocation to department for purposes of Oregon Conservation and Recreation Fund for biennium beginning July 1, 2019. Makes release of appropriation by board to department contingent on deposit into fund of equal amount of moneys from sources other than federal or state government. Abolishes fund July 1, 2021, and transfers available fund moneys to General Fund. Sunsets related activities and advisory committee January 2, 2022. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2019.