Sen. Mark Meek

Establishes Task Force on Psilocybin Health Equity. Directs task force to study issues related to equity and accessibility of psilocybin services. Requires task force to submit report to interim committee of Legislative Assembly related to human services, mental health and recovery not later than November 1, 2022. Sunsets task force on January 2, 2023. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Adds to cancers covered by rebuttable presumption of occupational disease for eligible nonvolunteer firefighters. Requires Workers' Compensation Management-Labor Advisory Committee to review material published by National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health related to cancers associated with nonvolunteer firefighters.

Requires Health Information Technology Oversight Council to convene one or more groups of stakeholders and experts to explore options to accelerate, support and improve secure, statewide community information exchanges. Requires council to provide to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to health and to human services draft report no later than September 15, 2022, and final report no later than January 31, 2023, on findings of stakeholder and expert groups and recommendations for legislative changes, if needed, to implement statewide health information and community information exchanges. Sunsets February 28, 2023. Declares emergency, effective on passage.

Requires persons that have responsibility for or control over packaging and labeling disposable cleaning cloths or similar implements ] premoistened nonwoven disposable wipes with specified characteristics to comply with certain labeling requirements for product packaging. Punishes failure to comply with or violation of Act as unlawful trade practice under Unlawful Trade Practices Act. ] Permits city, county or special district that provides wastewater service to enforce compliance with Act by bringing action to recover civil penalty in specified amount. Requires city, county or special district to provide alleged violator with notice of violation. Becomes operative July 1, 2022. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Exempts from construction taxes residential housing being constructed to replace residential housing destroyed or damaged by fire or other emergency event or situation. Applies to residential housing destroyed or damaged on or after January 1, 2020. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Directs Oregon Board of Dentistry to issue dental therapist license to qualified applicant. Prohibits unlicensed use of title "dental therapist" and practice of dental therapy. Provides exceptions to prohibition. Requires dental therapist to purchase and maintain liability insurance. Requires dental therapist to dedicate majority of practice to specified patient populations. Directs board to consult with dental therapists and dental therapist organizations in rulemaking. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Extends look-back period used to determine Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund solvency level from 10 years to 20 years. Provides that calendar years 2020 and 2021 may not be considered high benefit cost period for purposes of making determinations of solvency level of fund. Provides that employers' experience ratings used to determine 2020 unemployment insurance tax rates shall be used to determine rates for 2022, 2023 and 2024. Provides deferral of up to one-third of 2021 unemployment insurance taxes for employers whose tax rates increased by 0.5 percentage points or more from 2020 to 2021. Authorizes forgiveness of percentage of deferrable taxes according to tax rate increase brackets. Reduces fund adequacy percentages used to determine employer tax rate schedules. Broadens kinds of property that may be received for Unemployment Compensation Trust Fund. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Requires Oregon Health Authority to seek federal approval of amendment to state Medicaid demonstration project to permit coordinated care organizations to use portion of global budgets to improve health equity, improve overall health of community or enhance payments to providers who advance health equity or provide services improving overall health of community and to allow such expenditures to be counted as medical expenses for purposes of required medical loss ratio ] in coordinated care organization's base medical budget and in calculation of global budget and flexible spending for given year . Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Requires homeowners associations and condominium associations to review governing documents and remove discriminatory language or certify the nonexistence of such language on or before December 31, 2023 ] 2022 . Provides a cause of action for enforcement. Sunsets January 2, 2026. ] Makes certain discriminatory language in governing documents void and unenforceable. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Allows Department of Consumer and Business Services to require implicit bias training for mortgage loan originators. Establishes Joint Task Force on Addressing Racial Disparities in Home Ownership. Requires task force to report to interim committee of Legislative Assembly on or before September 15, 2022. Sunsets task force on December 31, 2022. Appropriates moneys to Legislative Policy and Research Committee to compensate task force. ] Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.