Sen. Janeen Sollman

Digest: Makes quota guidelines for some warehouse workers. Not following this Act is a reason to make a claim to BOLI. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.7). Creates rules and standards for warehouse employees' quota requirements. Creates an exemption for certain employers who are subject to a collective bargaining agreement that meets certain criteria. Establishes a procedure through Bureau of Labor and Industries if employers violate the Act. Provides that an employer's failure to comply with requirements shall subject the employer to civil penalties. Modifies certain biennial appropriations made from the General Fund to the Bureau of Labor and Industries.

Digest: The Act creates a new fund for a current grant program that provides moneys for child abuse response programs. The Act directs DOJ to create a one-time grant program to expand access to services and supports from CACs. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.5). [ Digest: The Act creates a new fund for a current grant program that provides moneys for child abuse response programs. The Act directs DOJ to create a one-time grant program to expand access to services and supports from CACs. The Act creates a task force to audit how this state has complied with Karly's Law and to study other matters related to services provided to victims of child abuse. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.3). ] Establishes the Children's Advocacy Center Fund. Provides that the Legislative Assembly shall appropriate sufficient moneys to the fund that are necessary to fully fund the existing grant program to establish, maintain and support children's advocacy centers and regional children's advocacy centers, and to support county child abuse multidisciplinary teams. [ Appropriates moneys to the Department of Justice out of the General Fund for the existing grant program. ] Directs the Department of Justice to develop and administer a one-time grant program to expand access to services and supports provided by children's advocacy centers and regional children's advocacy centers. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Justice out of the General Fund for the grant program. [ Establishes the Task Force on County Child Abuse Multidisciplinary Teams to audit Oregon's compliance with Karly's Law, to study and provide proposals for optimal funding rates for children's advocacy centers and to identify barriers to access to child abuse multidisciplinary teams and children's advocacy centers. Requires the task force to report findings and recommendations to the interim committees of the Legislative Assembly related to human services on or before December 3, 2024. Sunsets the task force January 2, 2026. Appropriates moneys to the Department of Justice out of the General Fund for purposes of the task force. ] Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

Digest: The Act allows petitions for certain abuse court orders to be filed in the county in which the abuse occurred. The Act also changes an element of a crime related to violating privacy. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.4). [ Digest: The Act allows petitions for certain abuse court orders to be filed in the county in which the abuse occurred. The Act also changes the elements of two crimes related to violating privacy. The Act goes into effect when the Governor signs it. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.4). ] Provides that a petition for a Family Abuse Prevention Act order, Elderly Persons and Persons with Disabilities Abuse Prevention Act order or sexual abuse restraining order may be filed in the county in which the abuse occurred. Removes the requirement that a disclosed image be identifiable for purposes of the crime of unlawful dissemination of an intimate image. [ Modifies the crime of invasion of privacy in the second degree to include the recording of a person who is dressing, undressing, bathing or toileting in an area in which the person has a reasonable expectation of privacy. ] Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

Digest: The Act creates new crimes concerning visual displays of animal abuse. The Act creates exceptions to the new crimes. The Act amends related animal cruelty laws. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6). Criminalizes the creation of a visual recording of aggravated animal abuse. Punishes by a maximum of five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both. Creates the crime of encouraging aggravated animal abuse in the first degree. Punishes by a maximum of 364 days' imprisonment, $6,250 fine, or both. Creates the crime of encouraging aggravated animal abuse in the second degree. Punishes by a maximum of six months' imprisonment, $2,500 fine, or both. Establishes certain exceptions to the new crimes. Establishes certain changes related to a prohibition against possession of the same genus or domestic animal against which a crime was committed or involved.

Digest: The Act would make it a crime for an employer to file a false payroll report to lower its workers' comp premium. (Flesch Readability Score: 69.1). [ Digest: The Act would make it a crime for an employer to report false data in order to lower its workers' comp premium. (Flesch Readability Score: 65.2). ] [ Creates the crime of fraudulent misrepresentation by an employer to an insurer of certain employee-related data with the intent to decrease the employer's workers' compensation insurance premium. Punishes by a maximum fine of $125,000 plus specified forms of restitution. ] Provides that an employer commits a Class A misdemeanor if the employer knowingly submits a false payroll report with the intent to decrease the employer's premium for workers' compensation insurance. Punishes by a maximum of 364 days' imprisonment, a $6,250 fine, or both. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

Digest: Directs ODE to fund summer learning programs and to study how to provide learning during nonschool hours. (Flesch Readability Score: 60.1). Requires the Department of Education to establish and administer the Summer Learning Grant program. Establishes requirements of the program. Directs the department to study and propose recommendations to develop an initiative that addresses education disparities through increased summer and after-school learning opportunities. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.

Digest: Allows a student who has finished an IB program to not have to meet some requirements for a high school diploma. (Flesch Readability Score: 64.6). Directs the State Board of Education to adopt rules by which a student who has completed an International Baccalaureate program may satisfy certain requirements for a high school diploma in this state.

Digest: The Act allows for some doctors or people like doctors to be told when a patient overdoses on a drug. (Flesch Readability Score: 68.0). Authorizes the Oregon Health Authority or a third party to provide electronic notification to a practitioner in certain circumstances when the practitioner's patient has a fatal or nonfatal overdose. Limits the use and retention of practitioner information. Takes effect on the 91st day following adjournment sine die. Sunsets January 1, 2028.

Digest: The Act tells the OHA to adjust its school-based health center grants for inflation. The Act tells the OHA to issue grants and take other actions to increase school-based health services. The Act authorizes lottery bonds for school-based health services. (Flesch Readability Score: 66.4). Directs the Oregon Health Authority to modify the amounts of grants for school-based health centers for inflation. Directs the authority to issue grants for the planning and operation of school-based health services. Directs the authority to develop and implement a program to issue grants to increase and improve school-based mental health services and substance use services . Directs the authority to study methods for providing or increasing reimbursement for mental health services delivered through school-based health centers. Authorizes the issuance of lottery bonds for school-based health center purposes.

Digest: Gives money to a state agency to give to some colleges to help train more mental health workers. (Flesch Readability Score: 71). Appropriates moneys from the General Fund to the Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to certain institutions of higher education to expand the behavioral health workforce in Oregon. Declares an emergency, effective on passage.