Establishes Task Force on Prison Education. Requires task force to report to committees of Legislative Assembly by September 15, 2020. Sunsets on December 31, 2020. Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Authorizes court to include money award in criminal conviction of bribe giving or bribe receiving committed for purpose of admitting individual at public institution of higher education. Establishes Student Equity Fund and requires money award be placed in fund and used to provide academic scholarships, with preference given for students who are low income or first generation students. Requires each donor to public institution of higher education or foundation that receives donations on behalf of institution to indicate whether immediate family of donor is enrolled at institution. Requires institution to make publicly available on website, for each class year of enrolled students, percentage of students whose immediate family has donated to institution and total amount of dollars donated to institution by immediate family of students. Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission to develop statement summarizing potential criminal and civil consequences of attempting to use bribery to secure admission to public institution of higher education and to place statement on home page of Office of Student Access and Completion website.
Establishes Early Childhood Equity Fund. Authorizes Early Learning Division to make grants from fund for purpose of supporting culturally specific early learning, early childhood and parent support programs in this state and to promote capacity of culturally specific organizations to deliver programs . Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Requires school district to report on number of incidents during which students of classroom were removed from classroom because other student in classroom was acting in manner that would threaten to cause harm to student, to injure other person or to damage school property. Sunsets requirement on December 31, 2025. Directs school districts to identify number and type of injuries sustained by employees from students. ] Directs Department of Education to conduct study to investigate options for sharing best practices related to improving student behaviors. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2019.
Permits duplicate health benefit plan coverage for public employees. Deletes provision requiring Oregon Educators Benefit Board to use payment methodologies in self-insured health benefit plans offered by board that are designed to limit growth in per-member expenditures for health services to no more than 3.4 percent per year. Deletes provision requiring Oregon Educators Benefit Board to adopt policies and practices designed to limit annual increase in premium amounts paid for contracted health benefit plans to 3.4 percent. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Requires that lactation consultant complete continuing education related to cultural competency approved by Oregon Health Authority or International Board of Lactation Consultant Examiners. Requires person to obtain lactation consultant license in order to perform lactation consultation. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Establishes Dreamers Access Program to award student loans to eligible students with demonstrated financial need. Establishes maximum loan limits for undergraduate and graduate students. Provides that maximum amount of loan per student may not exceed $10,000 per academic year or aggregate total of $50,000. ] Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission to administer program by rule. Establishes Dreamers Access Program Fund. Continuously appropriates moneys to commission for purpose of awarding loans and administering program. Requires commission to file annual ] biennial report with Legislative Assembly stating mean and median dollar amount ] amounts of each loan awarded under program and number of students who received loan ] loans under program during previous biennium academic year ] , total number of students who received loan during previous biennium, total amount of moneys within fund, total amount of moneys appropriated or otherwise provided to fund during current biennium by Legislative Assembly and commission's annual administrative costs for administering program . Requires commission to file annual report with Legislative Assembly stating total amount of moneys within fund, total amount of moneys appropriated or otherwise provided to fund during current biennium by Legislative Assembly and commission's annual administrative costs for administering program. ] Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Grants higher property tax exemption for property of veterans with service-connected disabilities. Grants exemption for veteran's surviving spouse who remains unmarried. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.
Directs Secretary of State ] Department of Education to conduct audit of use of statewide summative assessment in public schools in this state. Requires Secretary of State ] department to submit report to Superintendent of Public Instruction and ] interim legislative committees no later than September 15, 2019 ] 2020 . Declares emergency, effective on passage.
Creates crime of unlawful storage of firearm. Punishes by maximum of 364 days' imprisonment, $6,250 fine, or both. Punishes second and subsequent convictions by maximum of five years' imprisonment, $125,000 fine, or both. Requires gun dealers to post notice concerning obligation to store firearms in safe manner. Prohibits sale, delivery or transfer of firearm to person convicted of unlawful storage of firearm for five-year period after conviction. Punishes unlawful sale, delivery or transfer by maximum of 364 days' imprisonment, $6,250 fine, or both.
