Sen. Janeen Sollman

Requires Department of Education to conduct study to identify best methodology for determining appropriate number of students on workload for certain school-based health practitioners. Directs department to submit findings to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to education not later than September 15, 2023 ] January 5, 2024 . Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2023.

Requires school districts to make available to students of school district specified informational surveys and to provide parents and guardians with notice and opportunity to review survey before it is administered. Allows parents or guardians to decline to have their children participate in survey, and allows students to decline to participate in survey or decline to answer individual questions of survey. Directs Superintendent of Public Instruction to convene advisory committee to explore options for expanding or revising education accountability framework.

Directs Oregon State University Extension Service to collaborate with Department of Education for purpose of identifying and collecting student data relevant for maintenance of outdoor school programs.

Aligns implementation date of academic content standards for Holocaust and genocide studies with implementation date of academic content standards for ethnic studies. Directs Department of Education to provide professional development to ensure that school districts are able to offer instruction that meets academic content standards related to Holocaust, genocide and ethnic studies. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2023.

Directs Department of Human Services to provide specified services to individuals with brain injuries and to convene Brain Injury Advisory Committee. Requires department to report to Legislative Assembly during odd-numbered year regular sessions on services provided and number of individuals served. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Requires students to complete one half-credit of higher education and career path skills and one half-credit of personal financial education as requirements for high school diploma. Directs State Board of Education to adopt academic content standards for higher education and career path skills and for personal financial education. Requires school districts and public charter schools to provide instruction in higher education and career path skills and personal financial education. Applies to high school diplomas awarded on or after January 1, 2027. Allows waiver of one year if certain conditions met.

Establishes Task Force on Organized Retail Theft. Directs task force to review existing issues of organized retail theft to determine changes to laws or policies to address issues or reduce organized retail theft. Sunsets on December 31, 2024. ] Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die. ] Establishes Organized Retail Theft Grant Program. Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to administer program. Appropriates moneys to commission for purposes of program.

Establishes requirements for approving recovery schools. Prescribes standards and funding provisions related to approved recovery schools. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2023.

Requires hospitals to establish professional and technical staff and service staff staffing committees, meeting specified criteria, to develop staffing plans, in addition to nurse staffing committee. Prescribes methods for resolving disputes arising in development of staffing plans. Establishes minimum nurse-to-patient staffing ratios for direct care registered nurses and provides exceptions. Imposes penalties for failure to adopt hospital staffing plans or to comply with staffing plans or requirements for development of staffing plans. Requires Oregon Health Authority to post staffing plans to authority's website and to establish method for filing complaints through authority's website regarding hospital's failure to adopt or to comply with staffing plans. Establishes mechanism for employees or exclusive representatives of employees of hospitals to seek enforcement by Bureau of Labor and Industries of rules adopted by bureau regarding meal periods and rest periods. Prescribes complaint process. Adds enforcement tools for authority to enforce nurse staffing requirements. Prohibits imposition of new provisions regarding civil penalties for violations occurring before June 1, 2025. Restricts to specified provisions authority's statutory authorization to adopt rules related to hospital staffing. Declares emergency, effective September 1, 2023.

Modifies allocation formula for grants to children's advocacy centers. Establishes Child Abuse Assessment Account within State Treasury for purpose of grant program for children's advocacy centers. Authorizes Child Abuse Multidisciplinary Intervention Program to reallocate undistributed moneys to specified organizations. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Justice for purpose of funding grant program. Limits biennial expenditures by department for grant program from Child Abuse Assessment Account. ] Modifies authority of Advisory Council on Child Abuse Assessment to deposit contributions to Child Abuse Multidisciplinary Intervention Account and Child Abuse Assessment Account. ] Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die. ] Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Justice for Crime Victim and Survivor Services Division, for distribution to eligible children's advocacy centers. Declares emergency, effective on passage.