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.
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Requires health benefit plan coverage of health services necessary to combat disease outbreak or epidemic. Requires Public Health Director to convene task force to make recommendations relating to improved health insurance coverage for students and use of vaccinations during public health emergencies. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Requires Oregon Health Policy Board, in collaboration with Office of Rural Health and Oregon Health and Science University , to conduct assessment of health care workforce needs in Oregon. Requires board to collect data from and about health care providers to evaluate effectiveness of financial incentive programs in increasing access to health care providers in rural and medically underserved areas of state. Requires board to allocate moneys in Health Care Provider Incentive Fund, based on workforce assessment and data collected, to provide health care provider incentives and loans or grants to communities to implement plans for addressing unmet health care workforce needs of communities. Removes sunset on Scholars for a Healthy Oregon Initiative. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
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.
Expresses intent of Legislative Assembly that, when Legislative Assembly approves increases in funding of services provided by residential training facilities or residential training homes, wages and benefits paid to direct support professionals be increased at comparable rate. Requires residential training facilities and residential training homes licensed by Department of Human Services to submit annual staffing data to reporting survey organization. Increases licensure fees for residential training homes and adult foster homes serving individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities. Updates terminology.
Creates offense of selling tobacco products or inhalant delivery systems to person under 21 years of age. Punishes violation by fine. Specifies that manager or other person who supervises retail sale of tobacco products or inhalant delivery systems commits offense if person is acting within course and scope of person's employment and person has supervisory authority over person who makes sale. Specifies that owner of business that sells tobacco products or inhalant delivery systems at retail commits violation if sale occurs at business. Raises minimum age at which person may purchase tobacco products and inhalant delivery systems to 21 years of age. Adjusts certain other requirements related to tobacco products and inhalant delivery systems to reflect raised minimum age. Applies to conduct occurring on or after January 1, 2018. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Directs Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to study expenditure of public moneys on alcohol and drug treatment and report results to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to judiciary on or before September 15, 2019. Appropriates moneys from General Fund to commission for purposes of study and report. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Creates process by which certain persons who practice profession related to enforcing or providing for public health and safety and who, in performance of official duties, come into contact with blood, bodily fluid or other potentially infectious material of another person may petition court for order compelling testing of other person for communicable disease. Requires court to order testing upon showing that circumstances create probable cause to conclude that petitioner's contact with source person constitutes direct contact with blood, bodily fluids or other potentially infectious materials of person, and that contact is capable of transmitting communicable disease. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Amends Oregon Promise program to remove prohibition on awarding more than $10 million in grants per fiscal year. Makes requirement that person participating in program pay $50 per term in tuition payable by reducing amount of grant awarded, instead of requiring separate payment by person. Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission to determine prior to start of fall term each academic year whether sufficient moneys exist to award grant to each person who qualifies. Permits commission to limit eligibility to receive grant based on expected family contribution. Permits commission to decrease total amount of grant awarded or increase amount person must pay for each term person receives grant if at any time commission determines that insufficient moneys exist to provide grant to each person who was awarded grant. Permits commission to at any time reduce or eliminate any limitation on eligibility imposed by commission due to shortage of moneys. Allows person to continue to qualify for program if, after being awarded grant, person enters into service with career and technical student organization relating to agriculture or farming that is approved by Department of Education before attending community college. Exempts person serving in Oregon National Guard from requirement to enroll in community college courses within six months of attaining previous highest level of education in order to qualify for Oregon Promise grant, provided that person enrolls in community college courses within six months of completing initial active duty training. Allows commission, upon showing of significant hardship, to waive requirement that in order to qualify for program person start attending classes at community college within six months after person completed previous highest level of education. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Directs Department of Education to assist school districts and education service districts in funding school nursing services. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2017.