Designates second Monday of October of each year as Indigenous Peoples' Day. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Directs Department of Transportation to waive fee for issuing, renewing or replacing identification card if person who is issued card is experiencing homelessness. Becomes operative January 1, 2022. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Requires State Parks and Recreation Department to develop, implement and periodically update plan for ] allow for installation and service of public electric vehicle charging stations in parking spaces that are part of facilities of state park system. Establishes Parks and Recreation Transportation Electrification Fund. Continuously appropriates moneys from fund to department to carry out plan. Authorizes Public Utility Commission to allow electric companies to recover costs from retail electricity consumers for prudent infrastructure measures to support transportation electrification if certain criteria are met.
Directs Housing and Community Services Department, in consultation with Department of Land Conservation and Development, Department of Environmental Quality, Department of Revenue and Oregon Business Development Department, to conduct comprehensive study of system development charges. Requires Housing and Community Services Department to submit, to interim legislative committees related to housing and economic recovery and prosperity, preliminary report no later than December 31, 2021, and final report no later than June 1, 2022. Requires city, county or special district that maintains public website to include certain information regarding system development charges in manner readily accessible to general public. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Prohibits law enforcement agency from releasing booking photo except in specified circumstances. Requires publish-for-pay publication to remove and destroy booking photo upon request within specified time period. Prohibits publication from charging fee for removal and destruction of certain booking photos. Provides that publication is liable for fees, costs and statutory damages for failure to remove and destroy photo as required.
Provides that public safety officer who represents that person is acting as employee or agent of public body is acting in scope of employment for purposes of Oregon Tort Claims Act. ] Increases damages limitations under Oregon Tort Claims Act for claims for acts or omissions of public safety officers. Provides for award of attorney fees. ] Provides that person may bring civil action for damages incurred as result of police officer's failure to report or intervene in misconduct. ] Expands statewide online database maintained by Department of Public Safety Standards and Training to include settlements of claims against police officers involving misconduct. Requires department to investigate settlements to determine if discipline is warranted. ] Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to establish program to award grants for restorative justice programs. Directs commission to report to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to judiciary concerning awarding of grants. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Directs Governor's Child Foster Care Advisory Commission to establish Child Welfare Equity Advisory Committee to advise commission and Department of Human Services regarding equitable provision of child welfare services. Requires commission to report recommendations of committee and steps taken by commission and department to implement committee's recommendations to interim committees of Legislative Assembly on or before September 1 of each even-numbered year. Directs Department of Human Services to provide staff support, including full-time equivalent policy analyst, for Governor's Child Foster Care Advisory Commission. Increases number of members on commission from 11 to 13. Modifies commission membership requirements. Directs Chief Justice of Supreme Court to appoint any member of commission who is representative of Judicial Department. Appropriates moneys to commission for purposes of Act. ].
Limits cost-sharing for health benefit plan coverage of insulin prescribed for treatment of diabetes.
Establishes Task Force on Student Success for Underrepresented Students in Higher Education. Directs task force to develop student success policy and funding proposals focusing on increasing likelihood of student success in higher education for students from populations that are underrepresented in higher education enrollment. Sunsets task force on December 31, 2023. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Directs Public Employees Retirement Board to study methods for allowing members of Public Employees Retirement System to certify that member will earn less than $30,000 in calendar year so that board does not credit employee contributions to employee pension stability account. ] Provides that, if monthly salary of member of individual account program of Oregon Public Service Retirement Plan does not exceed $3,333, instead of $2,500, Public Employees Retirement Board shall credit all employee contributions made by member to employee account and credit no employee contributions made by member to employee pension stability account.
