Sen. Kathleen Taylor

Requires Secretary of State to randomly select for examination accounts of political committees. Requires that examinations occur four times per calendar year and determine whether committee accurately and timely complied with filing requirements during three months immediately preceding examination. Permits Secretary of State or Attorney General, upon reasonable suspicion of violation, to examine accounts of person, political committee or petition committee being investigated as result of elector filing complaint alleging violation of election law or rule. Permits Attorney General, during investigation of election complaint, to issue subpoena to compel production of relevant documents or information.

Directs Board on Public Safety Standards and Training to require all police officers and certified reserve officers to be trained to recognize, investigate and report cases involving labor trafficking and sex trafficking of children and adults.

Authorizes Public Utility Commission to consider differential energy burden and other inequities of affordability in rates. Authorizes public utilities to enter agreements to provide financial assistance for organizations to represent in regulatory proceedings before commission interests of low-income residential customers and residential customers that are members of environmental justice communities. Establishes Office of the Low-Income and Environmental Justice Advocate within commission. Authorizes office to intervene in certain proceedings. Requires Low-Income and Environmental Justice Advocate to convene advisory group to advise office in discharge of duties. Requires office to report on activities of office to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to energy no later than December 1, 2021. Directs commission to establish public process for investigating ways to address and mitigate , through nonbypassable means, differential energy burdens on classes of electric company ] public utility customers and other inequities of affordability and environmental justice . Requires commission to report findings to interim committees of Legislative Assembly related to energy and business no later than September 15, 2020 ] incorporate findings into commission's 2020 report to Environmental Justice Task Force and Governor . Sunsets public process January 2, 2021.

Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Department of Education for Title IX enforcement and compliance, sexual harassment prevention and gender discrimination prevention. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2019.

Clarifies meaning of "because of age" in employment discrimination law. Designates as unlawful employment practice for employer to seek age of applicant prior to making conditional offer of employment and to include certain words or phrases in job application that suggest or imply age preferences. Permits employer to observe terms of bona fide seniority system that does not require employee to retire at certain age. Allows person to bring civil action alleging certain types of employment discrimination under disparate impact or disparate treatment theory of proof. Requires additional award of liquidated damages to prevailing plaintiff in civil action alleging age discrimination.

Requires ballots returned by mail to be postmarked not later than Saturday before date of election. Requires county clerks to announce status of tally of ballots received after election date on third and eighth calendar days after date of election. Applies to elections held on or after January 1, 2020.

Changes name of Oregon Global Warming Commission to Oregon Climate Change Commission. Requires commission to appoint executive director. Appropriates moneys to commission for purposes related to executive director of commission. Modifies certain duties of commission and of certain nonvoting members of commission. Modifies certain duties of certain agencies of state government with regard to duties of commission.

Requires personal income taxpayer to add to federal taxable income amount of federal tax savings resulting from investment services partnership income being treated as net capital gain and taxed at lower rate on personal income taxpayer's federal return. Applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2020. Takes effect on 91st day following adjournment sine die.

Requires Higher Education Coordinating Commission to design question allowing each student to identify whether student is parent or person acting as parent or legal guardian that will be placed on all forms used ] one or more forms used on annual basis to collect demographic information by public post-secondary institutions of education. Requires each public post-secondary institution of education to make data available to commission. Requires commission to establish format and time frame for collection and reporting of demographic data, to evaluate public post-secondary institution of education compliance with collecting and providing data and to report to each regular session of Legislative Assembly on status of collecting and providing data.

Expands purposes for which physical restraint may be used on students. Declares emergency, effective July 1, 2019.