Requires owners of multifamily rental housing to offer right of first refusal to tenants who form tenant committee and membership entity.
Makes unlawful practice for employer or employment agency to advertise job, promotion or transfer opportunity without disclosing pay range and employment benefits in job posting. Requires employers to maintain certain employment records for each employee. Makes violation unlawful practice. Permits Commissioner of Bureau of Labor and Industries to assess civil penalty against employer or employment agency for violation. Makes employment agencies subject to prohibition against inquiries regarding salary history and past criminal convictions. Becomes operative on January 2, 2024. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Modifies Department of Justice crime victim compensation program. Directs Department of Justice to make payments directly to providers who perform strangulation examinations on victims of domestic violence.
Creates affirmative defense to crimes involving visual depiction or visual recording of sexually explicit conduct involving child when defendant and child are within specified age range and certain other circumstances exist.
Creates Commission for Indigenous Communities. Prescribes duties of commission. Directs Oregon Advocacy Commissions Office to provide administrative oversight to commission. Allows Governor to assign member of Racial Justice Council as liaison with commission. Allows commission to provide nominee for appointment to Environmental Justice Council. Requires Department of Education to consult with commission in development of certain academic content. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Permits court to consider evidence of abuse when determining amount of spousal support. Provides that party's conviction for abuse of other party constitutes substantial change of circumstances for purposes of modification of spousal support judgment.
Establishes state policy regarding natural climate solutions. Establishes Natural and Working Lands Fund and provides for transfer of moneys from fund to certain state agencies. Prescribes uses of moneys from fund and requires Oregon Global Warming Commission to report to legislature on uses of moneys from fund. Directs State Department of Energy and commission to prepare inventory, baseline, activity-based metrics and community impact metrics for net carbon sequestration and storage in natural and working lands and establish carbon sequestration and storage goals. Directs State Department of Energy, in coordination with commission, to study workforce training programs needed to support adoption of natural climate solutions and provide results to committees of Legislative Assembly related to environment no later than September 15, 2024. Authorizes commission to appoint natural and working lands advisory committee. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Modifies definition of "employment relations" to exclude standards, requirements or procedures relating to body-worn cameras for purposes of law enforcement officer collective bargaining. Prohibits labor organization that represents sworn law enforcement officers of law enforcement agency from negotiating over matters related to standards, requirements or procedures relating to body-worn cameras. Provides that such matters are prohibited subjects of bargaining.
Requires professional licensing boards to provide culturally responsive training to specified staff members, publish guidance on pathways to professional authorization for internationally educated individuals and waive requirement for English proficiency examination for specified internationally educated individuals. Prohibits Oregon Medical Board from imposing time limitation on completion of United States Medical Licensing Examination. Allows board to issue limited license to practice medicine to specified individuals for practice under supervision of other licensed physician. Establishes Internationally Educated Workforce Reentry Grant Program within Higher Education Coordinating Commission to award grants to local workforce development boards that contract with specified entities that provide eligible career guidance and support services to internationally educated residents of Oregon who are seeking to enter Oregon workforce in certain professions. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2023.
Proposes amendment to Oregon Constitution to enumerate examples of rights, the denial or abridgement of which would violate existing constitutional guarantee of equality of rights. Makes conforming change to repeal constitutional policy of marriage being between one man and one woman. Refers proposed amendment to people for their approval or rejection at special election held on same date as next regular general election.
